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Armed group planning terror attacks eliminated in Chechnya - FSB
Russian FSB vows to carry on open dialogue with society
Czech military intelligence service director to resign today
Ukraine’s Yushchenko accepts resignation of senior security official
Law on KGB reservists fails, but the lustration debate continues in Lithuania
Pope Paul VI was target of communist secret police spies
Armed group planning terror attacks eliminated in Chechnya - FSB
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A criminal armed group that was planning to stage terror attacks targeting civilians has been eliminated in Chechnya, news agency Interfax reports, referring to the Federal Security Service's Department for Chechnya. The department reportedly said that three members of the criminal armed group were tracked down in a joint sweep operation conducted by the security department, the intelligence department of interior troops and local police. The militants were ordered to surrender, but they opened fire in response; they were killed in the fighting, news agency says.
AVN (Military News Agency), an Interfax branch, expands on the incident that two militants have been eliminated on the outskirts of the village of Selmentauzen in Chechnya's Vedeno district. An agency’s source said that four militants were blocked in a wooded area outside Selmentauzen on yesterday night after they offered armed resistance; two of them were killed by return gunfire.
In other developments, a suspected militant was detained in his house in Chechen capital Grozny's Leninsky district yesterday. According to AVN, he was a member of the criminal armed group led by field commander Debeshev in 2005. Also a man suspected of assisting the criminal armed group led by Suleiman Imurzayev (Hairullah; killed April 4, 2007), was detained in Dyshne-Vedeno yesterday. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov earlier told the press that Hairullah had publicly claimed responsibility for the terror attack at a stadium in Grozny in which former President Akhmad Kadyrov and other officials were killed.
Russian FSB vows to carry on open dialogue with society
First session of the Public Council of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russian Federation advice took place at the FSB headquarters in Moscow, news agency RIA Novosti reports. The council includes 15 representatives of public associations, commercial and scientific organizations, religious figures and veterans of the FSB of Russia, according to the news agency.
Vasily Titov, senior vice-president of the Vneshtorgbank was elected the head of the council, while Andrei Przhezdomsky, member of the commission of Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on public control over activity of law enforcement bodies, power structures and reforming of judicial-legal system, became his deputy.
FSB director Nikolai Patrushev speaking at the session underlined that strengthening of cooperation between the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and public associations is among pressing questions to be discussed on the first place. Schedule of work of the council for 2007 was discussed, too, RIA Novosti says.
Members of the Public Chamber Viacheslav Glazychev, Vladislav Grib, Anatoly Kucherena, Alexander Ochirov, Andrey Przhezdomsky and Konstantin Frolov, rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations Anatoly Torkunov, prior of the Sacred Sofia on Lubyanka square father Alexander are among members of the council. Security services are presented by the deputu chairman of the sports society Dynamo in St.-Petersburg and Leningrad oblast, Alexander Afonichev, member of the council of the FSB veterans, Alexander Yermolaev, President of the All-Russian national military foundation, Alexey Molyakov and the head of the boarderguard union of veterns Gennady Zgersky. Mikhail Dedyukhin, vice-president of the joint-stock company Atomstriexport, is also included in the council. The council has been intended as a tool of public control over unclassified components of activity of the security service, online paper Gazeta.ru writes. Some members of the council have learned about their new duty in the notifying order, Gazeta.ru says, pointing at the fact that in many respects the existence of the FSB Public Council is nothing but fiction.
Ukraine’s Yushchenko accepts resignation of senior security official
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has granted Valery Khoroshkovsky's request to be relieved of the duties of first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, news agency Interfax reports. Valery Khoroshkovsky was appointed to his post on December 11, 2006. Interfax adds that on May 12, Yushchenko replaced Vitaly Haiduk with Ivan Plyushch as secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. Haiduk had held his post since October 10, 2006 and also resigned.
Czech military intelligence service director to resign today
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Miroslav Krejcik, director of the Czech Military Intelligence Service, is to resign today, news agency CTK reports, referring to Ladislav Sticha, spokesman for the intelligence. According to CTK's source, Krejcik made the decision because he did not want to hold such a sensitive post after several attempts to dismiss him.
The government was to discuss Krejcik's dismissal yesterday, but Defence Minister Vlasta Parkanova withdrew the point from the agenda. Krejcik has headed the military intelligence service since the end of 2004. According to the original agreement, Krejcik is to leave the post late in June.
Daily Pravo wrote that he may be dismissed because he is investigated on suspicion of an alleged abuse of public office. Parkanova wanted to sack Krejcik in March already, but they and Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek eventually agreed that he would leave the post in June, not in October when his employment contract expires. The reasons were to be the planned systemic changes in the intelligence services, CTK marks. Parkanova said shortly after she became minister in January that she does not trust Krejcik and repeatedly submitted the proposal to dismiss him, however no vote has ever been taken on her proposals, news agency adds.
Law on KGB reservists fails, but the lustration debate continues in Lithuania
Lithuanian parliament failed yesterday vote to override a presidential veto on a law which would have broadened the Baltic nation’s ban on former KGB officials holding public posts, but some politicians say that debate is not yet over and are eager to offer new legislation imposing restrictions on former members of the Soviet intelligence service, The Baltic Times reports.
During the discussion yesterday afternoon, member of parliament Petras Grazhulis accused President Valdas Adamkus of ties with the KGB, therefore was asked to leave the hall of the plenary sessions of the parliament, news agency Rosbalt reports. However, Grazhulis refused to leave a boardroom. As a punishment, parliamentary Vice-Speaker Gintaras Steponavicius deprived the MP of the right to participate in five parliamentary sessions, news agency marks.
Pope Paul VI was target of communist secret police spies
Pope Paul VI was spied upon, probably throughout his pontificate, according to a Polish priest who has studied relations between the Church and the Communist secret police, CWNews.com reports. Father Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, the author of a controversial book on relations between Church officials and government agents in Poland, reports that he has discovered a Russian-language report by Stasi, the former East German secret police, showing that the Communist regime was receiving information about the Pope's meetings.
The East German spy agency had information about the health of Pope Paul VI in 1974, the record shows. The report also includes notes on the Pope's meetings with an American ambassador, and information about the Church in Poland and Church-state relations in Portugal. The documents suggest that the source of the information might have been Polish, Father Isakowicz-Zaleski says.
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