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i’m talking, of course, for the beer, hello, old man, here’s the topic for you for august, railway troops, capacities, bases, number of carriages, hugs and see you soon, i’m afraid if i say that i was in london, i still intend6 it turns out that he worked, he received an excellent education and was a talented correspondent, worked in leading russian publications, kommersant and vedomosti newspapers, and made a dizzying career. at the age of 30 he was appointed to the post of adviser to the head of the roscosmos corporation, but this is in the past, now he a prisoner serving a twenty-two year sentence for treason. all this is about ivan safronov. the young man, unexpectedly for his relatives, friends, and, it seems, himself, found himself drawn into a detective spy story with an unpleasant ending. in this program we will try to talk about what ivan safronov was accused of, how
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he lives now, why he doesn’t agree with the verdict, only we have the materials of the criminal case classified until recently and an interview with an investigator of the federal service the security of russia, so what did ivan safronov get involved in, and what foamy secrets did he pass on to western intelligence officers in beer bars. we took over this case and conducted our own investigation. these shots spread around the world without any attraction. on july 7, 2020, ivan safronov, then still an adviser to the director of roscosmos, was detained.
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when he left his house on nizhegorodskaya street in moscow. an employee of a state corporation was getting ready for work. a service mercedes with a personal driver was waiting for him. coming out of the entrance, safronov was blocked employees of the federal security service of russia. the officers took him by the arms and escorted him to the gray one. then there was an arrest , then a trial, it went on for more than a year behind closed doors, it was known that the former correspondent and ex-official safronov was accused of high treason, this whole story remained the subject of speculation and...
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mysterious theories, because the details of the investigation were behind the scenes. with seven seals, our program tried to find out the details for a long time, sent dozens of requests, finally received answer. today, the case of ivan safronov was partially declassified in our studio by the head of the first department of the investigative department of the fsb of russia, alexander chiban. like when you started a criminal case against ivan safronov? the investigative team included the best investigators from the first department, as well as the military department. intelligence of the fsb of russia.
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the criminal case was investigated for 19 months. msafronov betrayed not only his country. he betrayed his profession because he actually used the work of a journalist to commit crimes. according to the investigation, the publication’s special correspondent , merchant ivan safronov, worked for two intelligence agencies at once, the czech one in the person of martin larysh.
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and the german one, whose representative is considered to be demuri voronin. foreign intelligence agents were especially interested in the activities of the russian armed forces. specifically. i was interested in what units of our troops are there, the branch of troops, where this branch of troops comes from, in what quantity, what weapons, who commands these troops, where they are actually located now, to assemble such this kind of information was not difficult for ivan safronov, it was not for nothing that experts called him one of the most famous and quoted journalists in russia, the main...
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the first proposals, the first assignments for safronov, according to the investigation, were sent by the prague boss, and at the same time the recruiter of the capital journalist was a czech citizen, martin laris. martin larysh is the curator of ivan safronov. martin laris is a representative of the czech intelligence service called the directorate of communications and information, this is an analogue of the service foreign intelligence. since the czech republic joined nato in 1999 , the intelligence services of all nato countries have begun to carry out not only reconnaissance missions in the interests of their own country, but also missions in the interests of the nato bloc. at first glance, both
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demuri voronin and martin larysh did not arouse suspicion. the first is a political scientist, the head of a consulting agency, the second is a journalist. both are company people with a well- spoken tongue and a never-ending sense of humor. never anything bad about them just think, what kind of special agents should actually be in order to understand the history of ivan safronov’s treason, let’s go back a few years. ivan safronov was born in moscow, graduated from the faculty of journalism, higher school of economics in 2010 , got a job in a merchant, here the young man was well known, his father ivan safronov, the eldest, colonel of the missile forces , retired, worked for many years as a military
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observer in this publication , he covered the activities of the military-industrial complex, the space industry, and also wrote about military-technical cooperation of russia. on march 2, 2007, safronov sr. was found dead near his home in moscow on taganka. according to investigators, he fell out of the window. ivan safronov, the youngest, followed in his father’s footsteps and often used his old acquaintances as sources. he felt like a fish in water, as they say, he felt great, he occupied his niche , the main thing he had was this. sources of information that his father passed on to him by inheritance; his father’s entourage helped him both to obtain sources and information. safronov’s publications were sharp and topical, for example, this one is about the disaster of a dry superjet at sheremetyevo. just 2 days after the tragedy, ivan
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writes with great confidence that what happened was most likely a mistake by the pilots. posting such an article even before the official conclusions, the consequences for the editors are always determined. but the newspaper’s management completely trusted ivan safronov’s sources. here's another article. the author talks in detail about india's possible purchase of two dozen domestic mig-29s. the amount is given upcoming contract. here safronov compares the cost of a domestic aircraft with a similar french fighter. obviously, without special training and consultation in the relevant structures. it is impossible to understand such questions. ivan safronov came to the attention of the russian special services back
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in 2012 after the publication of an article in the kommersant-vlast magazine: a scorched boat. it provided details of the fire on the nuclear submarine yekaterinburg. in the murmansk region, could have such information a man who was close to the highest officials, then a number of articles about rockets and space, he found time to... commit a crime, moreover, he used the work of a journalist, a businessman's newspaper, as an excuse to extract information, but the fsb officers were in no hurry to detain the journalist; they needed to thoroughly find out all the connections of safronovo. in april 2019 , a scandalous publication appeared on the pages of the merchant about possible changes in the highest echelons of power. ivana fired from the newspaper, this decision was made by the shareholder of the publishing house.
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sofronov spent the next year on the payroll, and in may 2020 he suddenly received the position of advisor to roscosmos general director dmitry rogozin on information policy. as far as we know, ivan himself was very pleased with the appointment. company car, status, salary - everything is top notch. advisor to the head of roskos. detained, we showed this footage at the beginning of our program, the footage flew around the world,
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that’s right, a minibus, there are people in masks standing, and ivan, confused in handcuffs, that’s exactly how he reacted to hello, hello, fsb, they detained him. they made sure that they had no dangerous objects on them, introduced themselves, sofronov did not offer any resistance, he calmly obeyed and proceeded to the car. an investigation began; the first episodes of accusations against ivan safronov concerned his connection with martin larysh. the young people met on social networks. the initiative belonged to the czech. here is a fragment of the beginning of their correspondence. materials. criminal case. dear ivan, martin larisch is bothering you. i work
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as a correspondent for the czech press in moscow. now i’m preparing an article about the radar station in gabala. and i wanted to ask you if you have time next week to meet and discuss this issue. thank you, best regards, martin. good afternoon, can we meet? yes, better in the morning on tuesday or wednesday. great, can i get in touch with you? after a short correspondence, the young people agreed on a rendezvous, the security services controlled all meetings. sofronov's first meetings with larysh, however, did not take place in an ordinary cafe restaurant, but on the territory of a certain czech house owned by the czech embassy, ​​with a closed entrance. a czech pub, you could call it that, well, in fact it was a meeting place. agents, residents of the czech intelligence , do you think they were there, these meetings were recorded
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inside this place, well, i think, where there are special services, everything is necessarily recorded there, yeah, it was impossible for an ordinary citizen to enter there, it was impossible for an fsb officer to enter there , i could only go there exclusively a representative of the czech embassy, ​​a citizen of the european union could enter there, what exactly was the conversation about? over a glass of beer , the truth is unknown, only one thing is clear: martin larysh managed to charm the moscow journalist. according to fsb officers, such gatherings over a glass of foamy drink soon became a regular occurrence, and each time the czech asked ivan , for example, to learn about certain aspects of activities in the space industry.
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main intelligence directorate of the general staff, further more, according to operatives, a curious czech, was interested in literally everything related to the armed forces of the russian federation, any seemingly inconspicuous detail attracted him, he was interested in volumes, quantities, types, types, he was interested in all this, it was supplied under
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international military treaties, which in fact, well, were classified. for certain forces, then the stage came to conduct a ground operation, so the details of all these operations were classified at one time, according to the fsb, martin larysh understood that sofronov - a very good source, and he is on his hook, but constant meetings could well arouse suspicion, and cech chose to leave
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russia, now, according to operational data, he was in charge of journalists. remotely, and transmitted the task through the so-called cryptocontainer. cryptocontainer is a program for very in-depth encryption of information. how vanya remembered all these numbers , the combination never remembered this password, there was no need to remember it. an encrypted package arrived, the package was called, well, let’s say 325, so 325 was indicated. page in roy's book medvedev, this is an english-language book , which both representatives of the czech intelligence and ivan safron had in electronic form, so this figure meant the page number in this book, it was enough to open this book, the first line, four, every four pairs of characters are divided certain signs,
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if i’m not mistaken, there was an asterisk, a hash mark, a dog, something, and that’s how the password was formed. ivan sofronov, apparently, was confident in his invulnerability and believed that all the data from his computer was reliably classified, but this was completely not this way. here is video footage of his interrogation. ever used.com? don't cook yet. it seemed that ivan was crushed, it seems that his combination failed, now for the first time we are showing fragments of some of the tasks that martin larysh gave to the capital’s journalist, from the materials of the criminal case. hello, old man, here
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is a topic for you for august, can you please send s3 deliveries before august 20th. details about deliveries: will the syrian army be supplied directly, in what time frame, how many complexes, where they will be located. i i think it would be nice to go around the island and from a logistical point of view it would be better to fly to palermo on the seventeenth, take your swimming trunks with you, we’ll finally go swimming in the sea. hold on, dear, i’m looking forward to meeting you when we drink beer or wine, hugs. we continue to study the case materials. here comes a new request. hi dear! how are you? has spring finally arrived? still wondering where we should meet? late may, early june, normal, after your dre. or then at the end of june i can too. think, say: look, right here i propose again three topics for you, take a look and
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confirm if everything is ok for you? on the territory of which countries will the exercises and fraternal military exercises take place? 2019. military bases in central asia. russia allegedly plans to build another base in the south of kyrgyzstan. can you confirm if this is real? railway troops, capacities, bases, number of cars. hugs and see you soon. apparently, larysh enjoyed communicating with his moscow friend. a fragment of a touching congratulation. let's look further. old man, dear, i inela, congratulations on your happy birthday. we wish you success , love and health, may your dreams come true, may your plans come true, remember that abroad misses you, so... celebrate well, and see you soon, when we, too, i hope, will celebrate your birthday, so hugs and kiss, further in the program, how much was paid
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to ivan safronov, representatives of western intelligence services, we determined the minimum amount of about 80 thousand euros, how the german spy demuri voronin contacted a famous journalist, i found him because i... i read in the merchant there were articles and only at us, former adviser to the head of roscosmos, convicted ivan safronov comments for the first time on his criminal case. the first episode is built on years of surveillance. watch the continuation of the exciting investigation of eduard petrov immediately after a short advertisement on the russia-24 tv channel. deposit-the best interest in savings is a simple way to profitably invest money online,
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vtb. i demand that the banquet be continued. ryaba - fabulously tasty. i think my grandfather is hiding something. fireworks, turn on the new year's light. lights the lights. a magic staff, grandpa, and we have something tasty at home, we can conjure something, he can
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do magic, snowman courier, it’s proven, my grandfather - santa claus. on new year's eve , everyone can create miracles, from the bottom of their hearts , for those around them. happy new year, wizards. and here is how safronov himself describes the scene of meeting larysh. ivan safronov’s apartment has long been under close surveillance and wiretapping by counterintelligence officers.
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the amount is about 80 thousand euros, which safronov received during the period of cooperation with larysh. the amount is impressive, and according to the fsb, sofronov received cash during numerous visits to european union countries. suddenly, suddenly, he became very often travel abroad, mainly to the czech republic, and these trips are tourist trips, as stated, for 1-2 days, and visas were issued to him at the embassy? according to the fsb, ivan safronov had to involve a loved one in the work, how to withdraw money, you need to withdraw money, you need to
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withdraw it, so.
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i say, damn, i had it with myself, it’s a pushover, stupid, i’m crazy, judging by this recording, ivan safronov’s girlfriend understood well, the journalist is collecting secret information, okay, make him a pusher, i’ll catch him too, so that...
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