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She confirmed that Russian ] was ] agent DROZDOV. This has also been reported by ] and dissident priest ] who was given access to KGB archives. <ref name="Andrew"> ] and ], ''The ]: The KGB in Europe and the West'', Gardners Books (2000), ISBN 0-14-028487-7 </ref> <ref name="Albats"> Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. ''The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future.'' 1994. ISBN 0-374-52738-5.</ref> She confirmed that Russian ] was ] agent DROZDOV. This has also been reported by ] and dissident priest ] who was given access to KGB archives. <ref name="Andrew"> ] and ], ''The ]: The KGB in Europe and the West'', Gardners Books (2000), ISBN 0-14-028487-7 </ref> <ref name="Albats"> Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. ''The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future.'' 1994. ISBN 0-374-52738-5.</ref>


==Russian scandal== ==Activism==
Yevgenia Albats confronted a journalist Anna Arutunian on air of ]. Arutiunian wrote an article in ] highly critical of ] after the latter was shot to death. Arutiunian wrote that Politkovskaya was more an activist than a journalist and that her articles were full of "inaccuracies".<ref> By Anna Arutunyan, ], №39, 2006.</ref>
Yevgenia Albats, who was relatively unknown by the general public journalist, stirred nation-wide anger and rebuke when she publicly ] and in a brusque and rude way critisized journalist Anna Arutunian on the air of ] station for writing a critical article about ].<ref name="Kashin">http://www.vz.ru/columns/2006/10/26/54497.html Vzgliad:business newspaper, Pavel Kashin "Absolute Albats"</ref> <ref name="Gexogen">http://polithexogen.ru/info/38854.html PolitGexogen - The most blasting news. Elena Kalashnikova. "Boorishness as an ideology"</ref> In a couple of days, users of Russian Internet were preparing flashmob entitiled "''Albats - get out of the air''". <ref name="Kashin">http://www.vz.ru/columns/2006/10/26/54497.html Vzgliad, business newspaper, Pavel Kashin "Absolute Albats", October 26, 2006</ref> Expert, Pavel Kashin wrote satiric article in which he mentioned that Higher School of Economics professorship was earned by Albats by the apparatchik talent of its rector Jaroslav Kuzmonov, which means Albats haven't earned this title for the actual research or contributions.<ref name="Kashin">http://www.vz.ru/columns/2006/10/26/54497.html Vzgliad, business newspaper, Pavel Kashin "Absolute Albats", October 26, 2006</ref>

Government-supported media mounted a campaign entitled "''Albats - get out of the air''". An observer for the magazine ] Pavel Kashin claimed that Albats fraudulently obtained her Higher School of Economics professorship with the help of rector Jaroslav Kuzmonov.<ref name="Kashin"> by Oleg Kashin, business newspaper Vzgliad, October 26, 2006 (in Russian)</ref><ref name="Gexogen"> by Yelena Kalashnikova (in Russian)</ref>


==References== ==References==

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Yevgenia Albats (Template:Lang-ru; born 1956) is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer, and radio host.

Life

She graduated from the Department of Journalism of Moscow State University in 1980. She received the Golden Pen Award in 1989. She was a fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University in 1993.

In 2004 Albats received her PhD degree in political sciences from Harvard University. She is currently a Professor in the Moscow Higher School of Economics and works at the radio station Echo of Moscow. She also writes for Moscow Times. She was a columnist for the government owned Izvestia newspaper.

She was a researcher on KGB subjects, assigned by the Russian Parliament in 1991 to examine the archives after the Soviet coup attempt of 1991.

Some of her findings

Evgenia Albats described collaboration of American Senator Edward Kennedy with KGB that has been established through Western financier and KGB agent David Karr. In 1992, she published an article in Izvestia quoting documents from KGB archives that Karr was “a competent KGB source” who ‘‘submitted information to the KGB on the technical capabilities of the United States and other capitalist countries.”

She cited KGB correspondence about money payments to Rajiv Gandhi and his family This is consistent with Mitrokhin archives which described how suitcases with KGB money traveled to Indira Gandhi office.

She confirmed that Russian Patriarch Alexius II was KGB agent DROZDOV. This has also been reported by Vasili Mitrokhin and dissident priest Gleb Yakunin who was given access to KGB archives.

Activism

Yevgenia Albats confronted a journalist Anna Arutunian on air of Echo of Moscow. Arutiunian wrote an article in The Moscow News highly critical of Anna Politkovskaya after the latter was shot to death. Arutiunian wrote that Politkovskaya was more an activist than a journalist and that her articles were full of "inaccuracies".

Government-supported media mounted a campaign entitled "Albats - get out of the air". An observer for the magazine Expert Pavel Kashin claimed that Albats fraudulently obtained her Higher School of Economics professorship with the help of rector Jaroslav Kuzmonov.

References

  1. Bureaucrats and the Russian transition: The politics of accommodation, 1991-2003. PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2004. - 343 p.
  2. The Spies Who Stayed Out in the Cold, The New York Times, by Glenn Garelik, November 27, 1994
  3. Senator Edward Kennedy Requested KGB Assistance With a Profitable Contract for his Businessman-Friend, Izvestia 24 June 1992, 5.
  4. ^ Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future. 1994. ISBN 0-374-52738-5.
  5. Can Corrupt Politicians Preserve Freedom?, by Rajinder Puri (it claims that KGB chief Victor Chebrikov in December 1985 had sought in writing from the CPSU, "authorization to make payments in US dollars to the family members of Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, namely Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Ms Paola Maino, mother of Sonia Gandhi." )
  6. ^ Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, Gardners Books (2000), ISBN 0-14-028487-7
  7. Journalist Murder a Conundrum By Anna Arutunyan, The Moscow News, №39, 2006.
  8. "Full Albats" by Oleg Kashin, business newspaper Vzgliad, October 26, 2006 (in Russian)
  9. "Boorishness as an ideology" by Yelena Kalashnikova (in Russian)

Her books

  • Bureaucrats and Russian Transition: Politics of Accommodation. Harvard University Press, 2004.
  • Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future. 1994. ISBN 0-374-18104-7.

External links

English

Russian

Some of her articles (English)

Articles about her

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