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Catholic University protests 'interference' by Ukraine security service
May 28, 2010Teaching staff at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv have complained about interference by the country's Security Service in its activities, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. University Rector Borys Gudziak said in a memorandum that on May ...
Yanukovych authorizes the return of Russia's FSB to the Crimea
May 24, 2010By Taras Kuzio The FSB returns to Ukraine After the second round of Ukraine’s 2010 elections, Russia demanded that President, Viktor Yanukovych, undertake measures to improve relations between both countries. Moscow demanded that Yanukovych...
Russian intelligence services return to Ukraine's Crimea
May 21, 2010By Paul Goble Aleksandr Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB, and Valery Khoroshkovsky, head of Ukraine’s SBU, have signed a five-year agreement that will allow Moscow again to put intelligence agents in Crimea, from which 19 such...
Yanukovych downplays Russian intelligence operations in Ukraine
March 12, 2010By Taras Kuzio Yanukovych will ignore Russian espionage against Ukraine The election of the Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych as Ukraine’s president presents a fundamental shift in the country’s national security culture as outlined...
Yanukovych’s election opens up Crimean separatist threat
March 02, 2010By Taras Kuzio Viktor Yanukovych’s inauguration as Ukrainian president on February 25 forced him to face the fact that the Party of Regions that he leads, has re-opened the Pandora’s Box of Crimean separatism. National Institute of Strategic...
Conflict zones in Georgia and Moldova - springboard for Russia's intelligence activities
February 05, 2010Conflict Zones such as Transnistrian or occupied regions of Georgia are indispensable for the security services of Russia as a springboard for conducting intelligence activities and for implementation of various special operations, including subversive...
Ukraine announces detention of Russian spies from Transnistria
February 04, 2010Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has detained five officers of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia at the moment when they were accepting state-secrecy information from a Ukraine citizen, SBU Chief Valentin Nalivaichenko announced at a news conference...
FSB’s privileged position in Russian state could be at risk
February 04, 2010By Paul Goble Three events this week suggest that the special privileged status the FSB has enjoyed in the Russian government for the last decade may be at greater risk than ever before, a development at the very least that presages some kind of reordering...
Yushchenko and Yanukovych enter a secret power sharing agreement before elections
January 05, 2010By Taras Kuzio On December 25, 2009 UNIAN published a secret agreement “On Political Reconciliation and the Development of Ukraine” leaked by Yaroslav Kozachok, the deputy head of the presidential secretariat’s department on domestic...
Taras Kuzio: SBU Challenges the FSB in Crimea
July 14, 2009By Taras Kuzio In line with implementing stricter security policies in Sevastopol and the Crimea, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is adopting tougher policies towards Russian intelligence activities in the peninsula. These follow the August ...