United Press International - Security & Terrorism - Car burnings worry Russian authorities
United Press International - Security & Terrorism - Car burnings worry Russian authorities: "Car burnings worry Russian authorities
CHELYABINSK, Russia, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Authorities in the Siberian city of Chelyabinsk are concerned that in the wake of the Paris riots three vehicles have been torched in 24 hours.
The Chelyabinsk Emergency Control Ministry press office said that officials were investigating the incidents, Regnum news agency reported.
Chelyabinsk houses some of Russia's most important nuclear facilities, including a nuclear-weapons assembly and disassembly plant at Trekhgorny and a weapons-design lab at Snezhinsk.
Authorities remain concerned that terrorists could target Chelyabinsk facilities.
In 1998 Russia's ministry of atomic energy chief of nuclear accounting and control, Victor Yerastov, said that a theft in Chelyabinsk province involved 'quite sufficient material to produce an atomic bomb.'
Later that year Gen. Valeriy Tretyakov, an official of Russia's successor agency to the KGB, the Federal Security Service (FSB), said that agents under his command had broken up a conspiracy by employees at a Chelyabinsk nuclear facility to steal 40 lbs. of weapons-grade material.
Tretyakov said that if his agents had not stopped the conspiracy, the theft would have caused 'significant damage to the (Russian) state.'
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CHELYABINSK, Russia, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Authorities in the Siberian city of Chelyabinsk are concerned that in the wake of the Paris riots three vehicles have been torched in 24 hours.
The Chelyabinsk Emergency Control Ministry press office said that officials were investigating the incidents, Regnum news agency reported.
Chelyabinsk houses some of Russia's most important nuclear facilities, including a nuclear-weapons assembly and disassembly plant at Trekhgorny and a weapons-design lab at Snezhinsk.
Authorities remain concerned that terrorists could target Chelyabinsk facilities.
In 1998 Russia's ministry of atomic energy chief of nuclear accounting and control, Victor Yerastov, said that a theft in Chelyabinsk province involved 'quite sufficient material to produce an atomic bomb.'
Later that year Gen. Valeriy Tretyakov, an official of Russia's successor agency to the KGB, the Federal Security Service (FSB), said that agents under his command had broken up a conspiracy by employees at a Chelyabinsk nuclear facility to steal 40 lbs. of weapons-grade material.
Tretyakov said that if his agents had not stopped the conspiracy, the theft would have caused 'significant damage to the (Russian) state.'
? Copyright 2005 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved"
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