President’s department head Vladimir Kozhin, left, deputy head of president’s administration Igor Sechin, center, and leader of Federal Security Service Nikolay Patrushev, right, won’t be limited by budget when fighting terrorists.
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Voluntary Committed to Fund Counterterrorism
Set up Feb. 15, 2006, the National Antiterrorism Committee held its first sitting in Moscow Thursday, March 7, 2006. The key purpose is to develop “new methods of fighting terrorism,” said Nikolay Patrushev, who heads the Committee. Although no matters of finance are said to be discussed at the meeting, the sponsors of counterterrorism are interesting. President Vladimir Putin has committed Russia’s business community to fund at least a portion of this undertaking.
The Putin’s ruling of February 28, which has not been promulgated to public at large so far, suggests the government elaborate procedures for luring Russia’s business into funding counterterrorism activities of enforcement bodies, said a source close to the enforcement divisions of Russia.
Though the definite wording of the ruling is yet unknown, the matter at stake could by the voluntary funding by Russia’s biggest business of counterterrorism activities of the National Antiterrorism Committee, the source said. To be more precise, the business of Russia will be “voluntary committed” to establish respective foundations, including those working at associations of entrepreneurs.
As it turned out the existence of Putin’s ruling is an open secret to Alexander Shokhin, president of Russia’s Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Shokhin said he hadn’t familiarized himself with the ruling and wouldn’t comment on it. According to Shokhin, the board of the Union meets next week to discuss the related issues.
Neither the Kremlin nor the government or Patrushev’s Federal Security Service commented on new obligations of business in part of funding official antiterrorist actions.
The National Antiterrorism Committee didn’t canvass financial matters March 7, according to official data. But some statements of Patrushev seem worth mentioning in this respect. “All resources of the society and the state” in Russia should go to solve problems approached, along with others, by the Committee, Patrushev emphasized.
Vladimir Kozhin, who is in charge of president’s department, is expected to coordinate establishment of private funding for antiterrorism operations of the Federal Security Service.
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All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 09, 2006
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