News - FSB Probes Threat To Kill City's Governor

The Federal Security Service is investigating a death threat made to St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko that was posted on the Internet by a nationalist party at the end of July, Fontanka.ru reported Saturday. The report cited Vladimir Gusev, first deputy head of the St. Petersburg branch of the FSB as its source. The threat was posted July 30 on a Fontanka.ru forum and attributed to the obscure Party of Liberty. It accused Matviyenko of conducting an "anti-Russian policy and colonizing our city with people of Caucasian and Asian origin," the report said. The FSB took into account that nationalist group Russian Republic had claimed responsibility for the assassination in June of Nikolai Girenko, an expert on nationalist and extremist issues, by posting its "death sentence" of Girenko on the Internet.