Lubyanka Criminal Group

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Lubyanka Criminal Group is a book by Alexander Litvinenko and Alexander Goldfarb about the alleged transformation of the Russian Security Services into a criminal organization.

In the book, the authors claim that Russian president Vladimir Putin and other FSB officers have been involved in organized crime, including covering up drug traffic from Afganistan.

According to The Moscow Human Rights News Agency Prima-News, the book was withdrawn from sales in Russia by request from the FSB [1]. In response, the authors had withdrawn from their copyright. The book can be freely printed and reproduced by anyone [2]. "By banning the book for the first time since the Soviet times, FSB threw down a challenge to the society", said Alexander Goldfarb, close friend of Alexander Litvinenko, and the executive director of International Foundation for Civil Liberties who made a contract for the distribution of that book.

[edit] The book

• A. Litvinenko and A. Goldfarb. Lubyanka Criminal Group (Russian) GRANI, New York, 2002. ISBN 978-0-9723878-0-4.
• А. Литвиненко Лубянская преступная группировка 2002 (Full text in Russian)

[edit] Reviews of the book

• The FSB as a criminal grouping by Andrei Antonov
• "Terrifying, gripping and instructive" — Viktor Suvorov, author of "Icebreaker".
• "Litvinenko eloquently depicts that what was long considered to be the "sword and shield" of the Communist Party is in reality a huge criminal mechanism," — former Soviet prisoner of conscience Vladimir Bukovsky.