Russian Security Service News

Greenpeace say that Russian authorities are holding 30 of their activists on board the protester's vessel 'Arctic Sunrise' after their attempt to board a Gazprom drilling rig in the Pechora Sea. [The detention] comes after officials from the Russian security service FSB, armed with guns and knives, abruptly stormed the ship using a helicopter and ropes. Once on the ship, they rounded up our activists and ordered them into the mess. It was a swift and aggressive follow-up to the…

Rear Adm. Arthur E. Brooks, Commander Seventeenth Coast Guard District, receives Lt. Gen. A. A. Lebedev, Commander Northeast Border Directorate of the Federal Security Service of Russia, and his delegation in Anchorage Monday, April 9, 2007. The delegation will be working with their U.S. Coast Guard counterparts through the week to discuss the continued exchange of relevant information and joint operations on the Maritime Boundary Line and in the Pacific Ocean. The Russian Security Service ship Vorovsky conducted joint exercises with the Coast Guard Cutter Chase Monday and is now moored in Kodiak for an official visit.