Chapter 949: The President Who Was a Spy "The Last 6 Hours to Ask for Monthly Tickets"

"At 9 pm, the Kremlin held a grand reception to celebrate the victory of the 1944 Patriotic War. Fan Wubing and Shen Ying also attended. Several girls of similar age gathered with Shen Ying.

Shen Ying also impressed Fan Wubing. She spoke German very fluently, not to mention English. She also learned a little Russian and Italian. She could even handle a language as talkative as French for a while. It really made Fan Wubing proud. The female translator of the Chinese Embassy in Russia who was following him said to Fan Wubing with some emotion that she had never seen a girl as outstanding as Shen Ying.

"Ha, my wife, Fan Wubing, must be different from others. "Fan Wubing was sitting in a corner of the hall with a glass of red wine in his hand, watching Shen Ying chatting with the girls, and communicating with the people in the embassy about the various situations in Russia in the recent period.

From the embassy staff, Fan Wubing learned that Putin was not sworn in as president until May 7, the day before he came to Moscow. In the third presidential election of the Russian Federation on March 26, he won more than half of the votes, exceeding the legal number of votes, and was elected as the third president of Russia." At the presidential inauguration ceremony held in the Kremlin in Moscow, the capital of Russia, Putin stepped onto the red carpet of St. George Hall for the first time.

From a legal perspective, Putin was just acting as president before, and now he is the newly-minted president of Russia.

"Recently, there have been continuous assassination attempts against Putin." The intelligence attaché of the embassy whispered to Fan Wubing, "The Russian Federal Security Service has just thwarted an assassination attempt against Putin.

At around 8 pm on May 7, intelligence officers captured a 24-year-old Tajik in an apartment near Moscow's Red Square. The man's apartment was filled with guns and ammunition, including a sniper rifle and a Kalashnikov automatic rifle, and the Red Square was overlooked from the apartment window.

Just three hours after he was arrested, Putin went to Red Square to give a speech to celebrate his victory in the presidential election. For an experienced sniper, Putin at this time could easily become a target for sniping.

The director of the Russian Federal Security Service also said at a press conference yesterday that Russian security forces had thwarted several terrorist attacks during the presidential campaign and on the day of the election, but did not provide specific details.

Faced with multiple assassination threats, the responsibility of protecting Putin fell on the Presidential Guard, who is known as a super bodyguard.

Since Putin was a senior intelligence officer and had a keen eye on security protection, he was very concerned about the safety of Putin. He is very familiar with the president and believes that a tall tree attracts the wind. Therefore, the conditions for selecting his personal bodyguards are that they should be tall and strong but not too conspicuous and have ordinary looks.

Putin's guards basically include entourage and black-clad men. The former are closest to the president, usually wearing plain clothes, equipped with a 9mm pistol and a bulletproof shield to protect the president. Other guard members usually wear black clothes and are called black-clad men. Each member of the guard is equipped with the most advanced weapons and equipment and communication tools.

The presidential motorcade usually consists of four cars, one is the president's special car, two are escort cars, The other one is a communication vehicle. The presidential car is bulletproof and also has special devices that can detonate explosives within a range of fifty to one meter.

The president's driver has also received special training and is said to be able to drive with one hand and shoot at targets hundreds of meters away with the other hand. It can be said that Putin's bodyguards are equipped with sophisticated weapons and communication equipment.

"In fact, in January, the authorities found 40 kilograms of explosives divided into three metal boxes on a road that Putin must take when returning home from the Kremlin.

Putin was placed in a water pipe near the highway. Chechen rebels once threatened to kill Putin in retaliation for the Russian army's attack on Chechnya." The military attaché introduced to Fan Wubing, "When Putin attended the CIS summit in Ukraine a while ago, the Russian authorities' security department also obtained intelligence from overseas channels, which dismantled the conspiracy to assassinate Putin and arrested several Chechen men and suspects from Middle Eastern countries. "

According to statistics from Russian media, Putin has successfully avoided at least eight assassination attempts recently, all thanks to effective prevention.

Although Putin himself disdains assassination rumors, as long as there is assassination intelligence, the Federal Security Service responsible for protecting his safety will be on high alert.

Due to work reasons, the staff of the Security Service often deal with active journalists when performing their tasks. Their task is to prevent journalists and others from getting too close to the protected person.

As a direct agency of the Kremlin, the Federal Security Service inherited the system designed by the Ninth Bureau of the KGB during the Soviet period. The presidential protection system consists of the Presidential Security Service, the Kremlin Guard and the Presidential Guard.

The salary of the presidential bodyguard is twice as high as that of serving in other troops, and there are 30 days of vacation every year. However, to enter this special group, one must go through layers of elimination. The first condition is to be absolutely loyal to the president, be a decent person, and have no criminal record; secondly, one must be a Slav, be over 8 meters tall, and be between 20 and 35 years old; and thirdly, one must be proficient in various fighting techniques, be able to drive in abnormal environments, and be able to identify various poisons.

The law grants the Federal Security Service a wide range of powers. For example, in order to conduct secret activities and protect the personal safety of the protected objects, the Federal Security Service personnel can access anyone's files, use any department's houses and transportation, enter any place without hindrance, and requisition the cars of organizations and individuals. The organization of the Security Service, the activity strategy, methods and means are not within the scope of supervision by the Procuratorate.

When Putin appears in public, there will be at least four layers of protection around him.

The first layer is the president's personal bodyguards, usually several burly men who wear headsets and carry briefcases that can be used as armored shields.

These people cover the president physically, and with their large numbers and powerful looks, they deter assassins. The second layer of protection is plainclothes mixed in the crowd. They have no characteristics, which makes it easy to act secretly. If necessary, they will even make physical contact with suspicious people to determine whether they are hiding weapons. The third layer of protection is the guards standing around the crowd, who intercept bad guys who try to squeeze to the president. The fourth level of protection is the farthest from the president. They are snipers lying in ambush on the roof, ready to eliminate anyone who threatens the president's personal safety.

Putin's bodyguards always carry two things. One is a 9mm pistol, which can fire 40 times a minute, penetrate armored vests within 50 meters, and penetrate cars within 100 meters. The second is pockets and briefcases, which are actually folding bulletproof shields.

In addition, since Putin is the number one target of assassination by Chechen terrorists, the presidential agents are even equipped with heavy firepower weapons such as rocket launchers in case of emergency.

While Fan Wubing and his friends were chatting here, Putin was summarizing the national defense work in the past six months. He believed that the national defense work was extremely difficult in the nearly six months since he took over the presidency, but there was great progress. However, the current situation of the army and its leadership was not commensurate with the various Q standards and the tasks facing Russia.

When talking about the anti-terrorist operation against Chechnya, Putin said that the main force of the militants had been destroyed, but all the militants needed to be eliminated. The anti-terrorist operation should be carried out to the end, and the focus should be shifted to solving economic problems, which is the focus of future work.

At the same time, he also revealed that in the anti-terrorist activities in Chechnya in the past six months, the Russian Ministry of Defense sacrificed more than 600 people. For comparison, 30,000 people die in road traffic accidents in Russia every year, and fires take more than 100,000 lives every year. Despite this, Putin believes that the loss of personnel in Chechnya is extremely heavy, and victory should not be won at all costs. Combat losses must be reduced, and most of the losses are caused by low professional standards.

He also talked about the main task of the army is to implement strategic containment and prevent aggression. The army and navy should be prepared in all strategic directions to quell all military conflicts and aggression. He emphasized that the army should use the latest weapons and methods, and systematically equip new weapons and technical equipment. However, Russia is currently lagging behind in battlefield communications, automation, intelligence systems and other aspects.

Putin also expressed dissatisfaction with the military's financial problems. He believed that the scale of financial appropriations should be determined in the current year and distributed according to expenditure items, but the current system for distributing military allowances was too old and inefficient. He criticized the Ministry of Finance and ordered them to immediately introduce a new mechanism to ensure the payment of allowances, converting the in-kind allowances issued to soldiers into wages and monetary allowances paid from the federal budget, and said that a special working group would be responsible for this matter.

"Is this person very powerful?" Fan Wubing expressed his views while listening to the translator's instant notification of Putin's speech.

"In fact, for our intelligence personnel, it is more difficult to deal with such an alternative president." The military attaché said to Fan Wubing helplessly.

Fan Wubing nodded. He could certainly understand the difficulties of the embassy staff. In fact, the embassy is an intelligence center stationed abroad, and the military attaché is the person in charge of specific intelligence activities. But for Putin, he himself is a master of special agents, so some work is not easy to carry out.

▲But it's good that everyone is helpless against President Ross, which is not a bad thing for us, because no one can see through him, so it is difficult for Russia and the West to form a relatively solid diplomatic relationship. As China has a traditional culture, it is obviously more likely to see this situation. "Fan Wubing said to the military attaché.

Since the other party is more difficult to deal with, it is the same problem for both parties. It is better for everyone to have a headache than for Russia (8 to any country.