Spetsnaz Rossii is a Russian monthly political newspaper founded by the International Association of Anti-Terror Veterans of Alpha . The publication is registered by the Press Committee of the Russian Federation (reg. No. 013476).
The newspaper was founded in the city of Rostov-on-Don in the spring of 1995 by the Association of Special Forces Veterans "Spring", then the publication was moved to Moscow .
In a short period of time, under the leadership of the vice-president of the KGB Group A Community , the KGB - FSB Vladimir Nikolayevich Shiryaev [1] , who was the ideologist and curator of the project in 1995-2010, Russian Special Forces went from a large-scale “combat leaflet” to an authoritative publication sovereign patriotic orientation.
The development of the problem of terrorism from the perspective of professionals undoubtedly distinguishes Russian Special Forces both in scope and in depth of published materials.
The publication pays much attention to the history and present day of the Seventh Directorate of the KGB of the USSR — Group A Office of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service of Russia, the work of the International Association of Special Forces Veterans Alpha and its structures, sponsored secondary schools, military-patriotic and sports clubs.
Russian Special Forces is unique in its genre variety of materials. Over the years of its existence, the newspaper has featured combat journalism, informative analytical materials, exclusive interviews with government officials and well-known politicians, recollections of luminaries of special services, sensational journalistic and historical investigations, economic essays and the problems of the non-state security system, deep philosophical and religious articles, and even small artwork.
The region where the newspaper is distributed (by subscription and retail) is the republics and territories of Russia, the “near abroad”. Since the fall of 1998, Special Forces of Russia has also been released in electronic form. His special correspondents and journalistic brigades repeatedly traveled to Chechnya and Tajikistan, Bosnia and Kosovo, and other places of military conflicts.
According to the president of the International Association of Veterans of the Anti-Terror Special Forces Alpha, deputy of the Moscow City Duma Colonel Sergei Goncharov, the specifics of the publication is “to combine the special forces approach to reality and an exceptionally high intellectual level, the ability to work as a team. We would be too presumptuous if, having decided to publish a newspaper, we imagined that, possessing organizational or combat skills, we could also master the printed word. It was necessary to find people who would be the same professionals in their field as the Alfovites. I think it succeeded ... " [2]
In June 2010, after a sudden death in the workplace of V.N. Shiryaev Alfa Council made staff changes. Aleksey Alekseevich Filatov, Vice-President of the Group A Community of the KGB-FSB, Chairman of the Economic Council of the International Association of Veterans of the Special Forces Alpha, Editor-in-Chief of Alphagroup.ru [3], became the chief editor.
At the same emergency meeting of the Council, the “Alfovskiy” historian and journalist Pavel Anatolyevich Evdokimov, who was the deputy editor-in-chief of the Special Forces of Russia in 1998-2003 [3] [4] , was approved by the editor-in-chief.
The posthumously exceptional contribution of V.N. Shiryaeva in the creation and formation of the newspaper "Special Forces of Russia" was awarded the Jerusalem Cross "For Merit" I degree [5] [6] .
Among the authors of the newspaper are Dmitry Lysenkov and Konstantin Krylov (both were the chief editors of Russian Special Forces in 1995-2002 and 2003-2009), Yegor Kholmogorov , General Alexander Lyakhovsky, Igor Pykhalov, Maxim Kalashnikov, Nikolai Lukyanov, Andrey Bortsov, Yuri Nersesov, Olga Egorova, Vladimir Semiryaga, Georgy Elevterov, Armen Asriyan, Alexey Avanesov, Inga von Kremer and others.
Notes
- ↑ Russian special forces ||| Association ||| Antiterror Knight
- ↑ Special Forces of Russia ||| POSITIONS ||| 10 YEARS OF ALFA ASSOCIATION - THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING
- ↑ 1 2 Personnel appointments at Alpha
- ↑ 1 2 Russian special forces ||| Association ||| Staff Appointments At Alpha
- ↑ Russian special forces ||| Association ||| Awarded Posthumously
- ↑ All-Russian Monarchist Center - Jerusalem Cross to the vice president of Alpha. Posthumously