Anatoly Trofimov (Russian: Анато́лий Васи́льевич Трофи́мов, Anatoliy Vasilyevich Trofimov, 1940 — April 10, 2005) was a retired deputy director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who was assassinated in April 2005 by unidentified gunmen while driving near his north Moscow home. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Events 879 - Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks. 1407 - the lama Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation ( FSB) ( Russian: ФСБ Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Federalnaya AssassiNation is the sixth album by Krisiun, released in 2006 on Century Media. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Trofimov's wife was also in the car and later died from wounds received during the attack; their four-year-old daughter was also present but survived.
As a deputy head of the Soviet KGB investigation department, Trofimov supervised all cases of dissidents including Sergei Kovalyov, Gleb Yakunin, Alexei Smirnov, and Yuri Orlov. KGB ( Transliteration of "КГБ" is the Russian abbreviation of Committee for State Security ( Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty Sergei Adamovich Kovalev (also spelt as Sergey Kovalyov; Сергей Адамович Ковалёв b Gleb Palych Yakunin (Глеб Павлович Якунин born March 4 1934) is Russian priest and Dissident who fought for the Freedom Yuri Feodorovich Orlov (Юрий Орлов born August 13, 1924) is a prominent nuclear Physicist, a former Soviet Dissident He was later FSB deputy director and head of service for the Moscow region until 1997, when he was fired by Boris Yeltsin after an examination by federal accountants into "gross violations and flaws in his work". Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin () (1 February 1931 23 April 2007 was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999 According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, Tromifov had led the investigation into an illegal slush fund operated by Yeltsin's election campaign. Kommersant ( Cyrillic: Коммерса́нтъ (which literally translates as "The Businessman" is a commerce-oriented newspaper published in Slush fund is a colloquial term which has come to mean an auxiliary monetary account or a reserve fund
In April 2006, a British MEP for London, Gerard Batten, (UKIP) told the European Parliament that Trofimov had warned defected FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko that there were many KGB agents among Italian politicians and that Romano Prodi, the centre-left Italian Prime Minister and former President of the European Commission, was "our man in Italy". A Member of the European Parliament ( English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Union 's legislative body the European Parliament. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Gerard Batten (born March 27, 1954 in London) is a Member of the European Parliament for London for the United Kingdom Independence The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, ˈjuːkɪp The European Parliament ( Europarl or EP) is the only directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (Алекса́ндр Ва́льтерович Литвине́нко ( 30 August 1962 – 23 November 2006 Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest (born 9 August 1939 is an Italian politician and statesman He served as President of the Council of Ministers (prime minister of Italy twice from 17 May In Italy, the Prime Minister of Italy (officially the President of the Council of Ministers, Italian Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri) is the country's The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive branch of the European Union. According to Brussels-based newspaper the EU Reporter on 3 April 2006, "another high-level source, a former KGB operative in London, has confirmed the story". Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. [1]
Litvinenko, who knew Trofimov personally, told the media that he believed Trofimov's killing was a political assassination, and that Trofimov had opposed both the Chechen War and the earlier appointment of Vladimir Putin as FSB chief. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (; born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia was the second President of Russia Litvinenko himself later died under mysterious circumstances in November 2006.
References
- ^ Donnelly, Cillian (April 3, 2006). Prodi Accused Of Being Former Soviet Agent. EU Reporter. Retrieved on 2006-11-21. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem.
External links
- Former FSB General, Wife Shot Dead in Moscow - Mosnews. com
- Slain Russian officer's wife dies - BBC News
- Alexander Stille, "The secret life of Mario Scaramella" - Slate. com, Dec. 11, 2006. Alexander Stille is the author of The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi, Penguin Books, 2006.
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