ABOP was finally liquidated on February 19, 2009.
On April 21, 2009, the Interregional Public Organisation ‘Public Academy of National Security’ (OANS) was registered in Moscow.
The president is Alexander Vasilyevich Stefanov. The OANB website lists his rank as major general. The OANB emblem is remarkably reminiscent of both the ABOP emblem and the FSB emblem.
Like the ABOP, the OANB has its own orders and medals, but only a few: orders: ‘For Service to Russia,’ ‘Benefit, Honor and Glory,’ ‘For Faith and Loyalty,’ ‘For Merit in Ensuring National Security’; medals: ‘For Strengthening the Russian State,’ ‘Veteran of Service,’ and ‘For Merit.’ In 2012, the OANB established the International Alumni Club of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Its chairman is Colonel Andrei Ivanovich Kovalchuk, who served as head of the special faculty of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from 2006 to 2010. The special faculty trains foreign military personnel. During Soviet times, it trained approximately 3,500 people from 35 countries.
As stated on the OANB website: ‘The most representative detachments of these belong to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, the GDR, Hungary, Cuba, Algeria, Vietnam, and China. Currently, priority in recruiting students belongs to states participating in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Along with these countries, military personnel from Angola, Afghanistan, Belgium, Greece, Denmark, Egypt, India, Indonesia, North Korea, Libya, Mali, Mongolia, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Serbia, Syria, Turkmenistan, France, Finland, Sweden, Ethiopia, and other countries have also trained at the academy.’ The club's deputy chairman is ‘Defence Attaché of Sweden, Captain 1st Rank Mr. Håkan Andersson, a 2005 graduate of the VAGSh.’
It is quite obvious that the establishment of such a club was aimed at creating an international GRU network among foreign military personnel.
Major General Stefanov, in parallel with the OANB, heads another organisation with a telling name: the AUTONOMOUS NON-COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATION ‘ANTITERRORIST INTERNATIONAL CENTER’ (ATMC). It is located at 13 Myasnitskaya St., Bldg. 1. Alfa-Bank is also located in the same building. The ATMC was established in 2004. ‘The main activity is the provision of social services without accommodation.’ The word ‘international’ in the centre's name clearly indicates its focus. The ATMC was founded in 2004 by the ‘Management of the Anti-Terrorist Centre of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Academy of Security, Defence, and Law Enforcement.’ In 2009, the OANB and the ATMC jointly founded the scientific and analytical journal ‘Development Strategy and National Security.’ The activities of the OANB and Stefanov are currently limited to Russia, with seven regional branches (including Crimea). However, initial attempts to reestablish old Western ties have already been made. In 2011, a world festival of cultures was held in Berlin, to which Alexander Vasilyevich Stefanov, President of the OANB, was invited. On July 2, he delivered a congratulatory address from the International Foundation ‘Art of Living’ and presented OANB awards, including the OANB ‘Man of Peace’ Order.
In 2016, OANB Vice President Klerikov attended a medical congress in Hanover organised by the European Academy of Natural Sciences, which will be discussed below.
In his presentation, N.V. Klerikov also discussed the activities of the OANB, the organisation's goals and objectives, and the OANB's role in improving the nation's health and promoting a healthy lifestyle. For his exceptional achievements in promoting public health, N.V. Klerikov was awarded the Silver Knight ‘STAR’ Order.
The best description of the caliber of all the organisations participating in this event is the list of titles held by the Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences: ‘Klerikov, Nikolai Vladimirovich. Doctor of Psychology and Energy-Information Sciences. Professor. Holds a certificate of deposit and registration of an intellectual property work with the Russian Authors' Society – ’Activation of the Immune System with the Help of Complex Bioenergy Therapy.‘ Master of Traditional Medicine. Bioenergy therapist. Member of the PPL, the Elite NGO. Full member of the M. Nostradamus Academy, the European Academy of Natural Sciences, the Mademn, and the Association of National Biophysical Sciences. Master of Science and Practice...’
A characteristic feature of almost all such ‘academies’ is the alliance of state security and all sorts of charlatans, paramedics, parapsychologists and other researchers of cosmic energy.
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