:Dignity and Honor

Dignity and Honor is an veterans organization for former members of Russian intelligence services.{{cite web|url=http://www.ia-forum.org/files/ilosty.pdf |title=Microsoft Word - Russian_Intelligence.doc |date= |accessdate=2018-05-12}} It was founded in 2003.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/02/russia.italy1|title=Litvinenko laughed off my warning. He said it was like the plot of a film|last1=Vasagar|first1=Jeevan|date=2006-12-02|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-10-14|last2=Moscow|first2=Barbara McMahon Tom Parfitt in|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news|url=http://seansrussiablog.org/2006/12/11/%E2%80%9Ci%E2%80%99m-not-going-to-comment-on-it-in-any-way/|title=I'm not going to comment on it in any way!|date=2006-12-11|work=Sean's Russia Blog|access-date=2017-10-14|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6602521|title=Investigators Seek Motives in Poisoning Case|work=NPR.org|access-date=2017-10-14|language=en}} It has over 3000 members.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1905/08/29/archives/russias-honor-and-dignity.html|title=Russia's "Honor and Dignity."|date=1905-08-29|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-10-14|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} In 2006, it was run by Colonel Valentin Velichko.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1535777/Man-who-leads-group-accused-of-killing-ex-spy.html|title=Man who leads group accused of killing ex-spy|last=Gardham|first=Duncan|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=2006-12-02|access-date=2017-10-14|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}} Members of the organisation have been alleged to have assassinated several high-profile spies.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZMtDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Dignity+and+Honor%22+russia+2003&pg=PA142|title=Encyclopedia of Political Assassinations|last=West|first=Nigel|date=2017-08-07|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781538102398|language=en}}{{cite web|url=https://www.litvinenkoinquiry.org/files/2015/02/INQ019859.pdf |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160613092159/https://www.litvinenkoinquiry.org/files/2015/02/INQ019859.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-06-13 |title=Data |website=webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NfRDBAAAQBAJ&q=%22Dignity+and+Honor%22+russia+veterans&pg=PP286|title=The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin|last=Myers|first=Steven Lee|date=2015-09-24|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781471130656|language=en}} The organisation refutes all claims it has a 'hit list' and that it was involved in the assassination of Yuri Shchekochikhin.{{cite web|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/russia-does-not-murder-spies-anymore-kgb-ve/18589/|title=Russia does not murder spies anymore: KGB veteran - Indian Express|website=archive.indianexpress.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-10-14}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16207460|title=Ex-Russian spy doubts KGB killed 'traitor'|date=2006-12-14|work=msnbc.com|access-date=2017-10-14|language=en}}