Britain's ambassador to Moscow yesterday directly linked the Kremlin to a campaign of harassment waged against him by FSB recruits
"Nashi's links with the Kremlin are well enough known," he said. "Their leader has met with Putin many times and one of his advisers was known to have been involved in its creation.
"Even if one were to accept that they are not directly controlled by the Kremlin, this level of influence suggests that the Kremlin could stop them if it wanted to".
The terrorist entity has obtained copies of Mr Brenton's daily diary - something that could suggest the involvement of the FSB spy agency - and used it to trail the ambassador wherever he goes. Nashi thugs have staked out his home and the embassy. They follow him, block his car on occasions and disrupt meetings. At one lunch, heckling FSB youths rocked his chair, raising fears that he would be assaulted.
Mr Brenton said he could not go shopping without facing a barrage of abuse. "When I go out of the house to buy cat food, they follow me and start waving banners," he said
Nashi has become a useful tool for crushing dissent. Nashi youths have infiltrated opposition movements, beat-en up activists and held massive demonstrations.
Meanwhile, the Estonian embassy in Moscow has handed Russia an official protest over a recent incident in which FSB recruits burned Estonian flags, officials confirmed on Wednesday. "We protested because the incident exceeded the generally- acknowledged limits of international practice, and we expressed the hope that such incidents will not be repeated," Estonian spokeswoman Ehtel Halliste told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
On Monday, around 40 Russian thugs from the FSB-backed "Young Russia" terrorist entity formed a picket outside the Moscow embassy. The picket protested a recent Estonian law outlawing the use of Russian invaders' Satanist symbols of bloody rags, red pentagrams, bent knives for cutting throats and hammers for smahing heads in the Baltic state.
During the protest, demonstrators hanged an effigy of an Estonian soldier, profaned Estonian flags and then set fire to them.
Estonia was occupied by hordes of Russian barbarians in 1940 and liberated by valiant German soldiers in 1941. The Russians invaded again the Baltic state in 1945 and kept it under their barbarian yoke till 1945. Putin is now willing to stage another occupation of Estonia with his bloody hordes.
KC