The likelihood of a coup d’état in Moscow against Vladimir Putin by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the former KGB, is increasing. This emerges from some emails sent by an anonymous source “at the heart of Russian intelligence” to exiled Russian dissident Vladimir Osechkin, founder of human rights group gulagu.net, and quoted by the London Times. Of course, such rumors should be treated with caution. The fact is that, according to this anonymous source, a kind of “deep throat” of the Moscow services, chaos and malcoltia are increasing within the intelligence services, which in turn are blamed by Putin as responsible for the failure of the goal of overthrowing the government of Kyiv.
Much of that sentiment would stem from the fallout from Western sanctions against the FSB agents themselves, who are seen by many as Moscow’s “new nobility” and who could no longer “holiday in their villas in Italy or take their kids to Disneyland.” . Paris “. Vladimir Osechkin told the British newspaper: “For twenty years, Putin created stability in Russia. The officials of the services, the police, the judges, all these people within the power system could live well. But now all this is lost. They realize that this war is a catastrophe for the economy, for humanity. They don’t want to go back to the times of the Soviet Union.”
Among the emails Osechkin received, which several Russian intelligence experts believe to be authentic, the anonymous source describes in a March 4. On March 11, two FSB leaders were arrested and placed under house arrest, and another twenty agents were searched . The anonymous source is not among them, but he asked Osechkin to “send my greetings to everyone”.