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Son of Russia’s FSB chief awarded for his work in Rosneft
Row on de-contamination of poisoned Litvinenko house in London
Intelligence commission in Romania to hear Geoana, Constitutional Court judges
Romania’s intelligence chief suspends own deputy
Amendments needed in Latvian laws on security services
Armenia’s National Security Service allegedly involved in pre-election tricks
Son of Russia’s FSB chief awarded for his work in Rosneft
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded 26 y.o. Andrei Patrushev, son of the Federal Security Service (FSB) director, with the Order of Honour for, as it is said in the decree, "labour achievements and long-term diligent work" in the Rosneft company, Russian media reported.
Andrei Patrushev works in the Rosneft hardly more than 7 months, since September 2006, when he was appointed an adviser of chairman of board the state oil company, Igor Sechin, who also holds the post of Deputy Chief of Presidential administration.
62 y.o. Victor Platonovich Patrushev, brother of Nikolai Patrushev and uncle of Andrei Patrushev, is also awarded, he has got the Friendship Order. Victor Patrushev is a professional ship-builder and till 2000 worked in a scientific research institute in St.-Petersburg - now he is working as an assistant to administrative director of Northwest branch of Open Society Megafon.
Victor Patrushev had been awarded by Putin also earlier. In November, 2006 he received the Order of Honour for merits in development of physical culture and sports. Then in the decree he was named an adviser of chairman of Petersburg sports club Dynamo, according to newspaper Vedomosti.
It is known about the younger son of the FSB director, that four years back Andrei Patrushev graduated from the FSB Academy where classmate was Pavel Fradkov, the younger son of Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov.
According to daily Kommersant, the previous employment of Andrei Patrushev before the Rosneft was the job of deputy chief of the FSB’s 9th department of Directorate 'P'. This department is called 'oil' department at the FSB as its employees have steadfastly been watching everything occuring in the oil market.
Andrei’s older brother Dmitry Patrushev holds a post of Vneshtorgbank vice-president; the banks is said to be responsible for delivery of credits to the oil companies. Bank’s other vice-president is Sergei Matvienko, whose mother, Valentina Matvienko is the governor of St.-Petersburg.
Row on de-contamination of poisoned Litvinenko house in London
The row over who should de-contaminate the home of murdered Russian ex-FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko is rumbling on while the house remains sealed off, online paper This is London reports.
His Muswell Hill house, vacant since November 2006 when he died from radiation poisoning, was declared a no-go zone last month as it still contains traces of Polonium 210 - the radioactive metalloid which killed him. Councillor Nilgun Canver declared last week that the council was unable to write a blank cheque for clean-up costs and it would remain in its radioactive state until the owner, who was renting it to former Russian spy Mr Litvinenko and his family, paid the bill. Online paper adds that Russian millionaire Boris Berezovsky, who apparently owns the house on Osier Crescent through a property company, has refused to pay. If the house is never cleaned, it is estimated that the radioactivity left over from the ex-spy's poisoning will have decayed away in a couple of years.
Intelligence commission in Romania to hear Geoana, Constitutional Court judges
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The head of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), George Maior, presented on May 2 the results of the interior investigation of the recent scandal involving information on three Constitutional Court judges, online news agency HotNews reports.
Maior says that the data revealed in the investigation shows that none of the SRI employees ever conducted political police-like actions. Until it will become clear how the hand-written note of his deputy director - Florian Coldea - that caused the scandal reached the press, Maior will also take over his deputy's attributions.
According to Maior, Coldea did, indeed, demand information about three judges at the Constitutional Court, but only to verify information previously published by the press.
"Deputy Cozmin Gusa made some statements about two judges that may have been collaborators of Ceausescu's political police, Securitate. After the statements were published by the media, Coldea tried to verify the data", is the official SRI explanation.
The scandal around the subject begun when the Social Democrat head, Mircea Geoana, accused president Traian Basescu of using SRI in order to obtain compromising data about the judges, in order to gain favorable decisions in the court
The president of the Romanian Intelligence Service Commission within the Senate, liberal Radu Stroe, said that the course of the investigation of the memo scandal regarding the blackmail of Constitutional Court judges, does not lead, at the moment, to suspended president Traian Basescu, but to the leaders of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI).
Stroe mentioned that, for this reason, the SRI Commission did not consider hearing Basescu, but it wishes to heat the president of the Social Democratic Party, or PSD, Mircea Geoana, and the Constitutional Court judges, should they decide to attend. Geoana is the one who made public two SRI internal notes where compromising information was allegedly requested, regarding judges of the Constitutional Court.
Romania’s intelligence chief suspends own deputy
Director of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) George Maior, announced that he has temporarily taken over the operative competencies of first-deputy Florian Coldea, until the completion of the internal investigation, Mediafax reports. The internal investigation is meant to shed light on the serious matter of information leak, where social-democrat leader Mircea Geoana made public two SRI internal notes.
Maior indicated that he will create an investigation commission, run by the head of the Legal Department within SRI. The Commission will look into the possibility that people within SRI might be involved in political police acts. The Commission will also establish the circumstances in which “the office notes” written by first-deputy Florin Coldea reached "the public sector."
According to Mediafax, Maior said that after the internal investigation, the results indicated that “there has been no political police within SRI."
Deputy-chief within the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) Florian Coldea, said that he will not resign from his position and that he “promptly” answered all the question he was asked by the Parliament investigation Commission. Coldea refused to comment the disappearance of the two memos that triggered the investigation.
Amendments needed in Latvian laws on security services
National Security commission of the Latvian parliament sent a letter to Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis on May 2 suggesting to create a working group on changes of the National security law and State security services law to precisely determine scope of the security services activities, news agency LETA quotes commission chair Dzintars Jaundzeikars as saying.
Jaundzeikars pointed at the shortcomings of the law concerning interception of individuls phone communication, preservation and destruction of gathered information and other issues. He also said commission is willing to use Germany’s experience as basis for the law amendments. The changes in the laws are to be worked out till September 1 to be included in the schedule of the parliament’s session this coming fall.
Armenia’s security service allegedly involved in pre-election tricks
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News agency Regnum reports that these days Armenian daily Golos Armenii has published the text of conversation between ex-speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, the leader of Orinats Yerkir party, Arthur Bagdasaryan, and Deputy Chief of Mission of the United Kingdom Embassy in Armenia, Richard Gayd, discussing preparations for the forthcoming parliamentary elections on May 12 in Armenia. The content of the conversation became widely known owing to a CD of an unknown origin thrown into editorial office of the newspaper.
According to agency A1, Embassy of the United Kingdom in Armenia has distributed a statement pointing out that the embassy of the „is anxious and disappointed by interception of conversation between the representative of embassy and one of leaders of opposition party, and also the fact of the publication in mass-media of separate extracts of its audio recording".
President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, declared that he had immediately charged to security service to investigate all circumstances of the incident, and later said all published material completely corresponded to reality.
Newspaper Zhamanak-Yerevan admits that since now nobody is protected from interception of his or hers conversation in a public place and recording of it. „Anybody now cannot be assured that there is no bugs in his or hers house, that phone conversations are not overheard, and you have not become a victim of shadowing," the paper writes.
Henceforth foreign diplomats and observers, sending on a meeting with Armenian politicians ought to take with themselves special muffling equipment not to let "special services" of Armenia to use their bugs, newspaper Aravot comments.
Security services of Uzbekistan withdraw large lot of drugs
Special operation carried out in Kashkadarin area by the Directorate of National Security Service of Uzbekistan has ended successfully, online news agency Press-uz.info reports, referring to the press centre of the National Security Service on May 2.
It is reported that that two residents of Uzbekistan’s Kamashin district, Shermahamad Rakhimov and Eson Keldierov, have been arrested during an attempt of realization of 930 grams of narcotic substances (marihuana).
As a result of Rakhimov Shermahamada's interrogation it became known that the narcotic substance has been received by him from resident of Nonkhur settlement of the same district, Yuldosh Utaganov, Press-uz.info says.
Investigatory actions are conducted on the given fact by the Kashkadarin area SNB branch, news agency adds.
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