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Russian FSB will strengthen security measures for parliamentary elections period
Finnish Security Police will not release Stasi list of Finns
Ukraine’s SBU calls government to investigate, why preconditions for acts of terrorism have not been eliminated
Lithuanian paper describes version of Russian secret services interest in disappearance of businessman
Secret service files on Poland’s richest men discovered
Bulgarian National Protection Service busy with preventing death threats to politicians
Interest in communist secret police files “insultingly low” – Prime Minister of Bulgaria
South Ossetian Foreign Ministry blames secret services of Georgia for plans of stirring up diversive activity in conflict zone
Security Council of Kyrgyzstan warns that terrorists may create a "dirty bomb”
Russian FSB will strengthen security measures for parliamentary elections period
The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia will strengthen security measures during the pre-election campaign,
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radio Ekho Moskvy reports, referring to such statement at the meeting of National Antiterrorism committee in Khabarovsk made by the head of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev.
According to the FSB Director, strengthening of security measures is connected also with the fact that "the elections will take place within the framework of new rules" that will predetermine, in his opinion, tense political battle. The question, in particular, is about increase in number of mass actions in this connection and requirements of "antiterrorism security of citizens" that will increase.
Patrushev also noted the tendency to decrease in number of acts of terrorism in the territory of Russia. He pointed out that 257 terror acts were registered in Russia in 2005, 112 – in 2006 and only 21 - in January - June of this year.
Thus, however, the FSB Director expressed concern over growing terrorism-related crimes in the Russia’s Southern federal district, Ekho Moskvy adds. It is necessary to engage necessary forces and measures to stabilise the situation in the Caucasus and Russia’s southern regions, he said. High on the meeting’s agenda were also terrorism preventive tasks of regional anti-terror commissions and measures to upgrade protection of bioresources in the Far East, news agency ITAR-TASS reports.
The statement of the Director of FSB of the Russian Federation on strengthening security measures for the period of elections was discussed at a press conference of leaders of coalition Other Russia, radio Ekho Moskvy reports. According to the radio, Eduard Limonov has apprehended this application wryly. As he said, the situation in the country "is already similar to state of emergency: in Moscow subway there is so many militiamen that there is an impression, that a coup d’etat is being prepared in the country". " The higher gendarme body frightens us with emergency measures, though first of all, Patrushev should answer before mothers of Beslan for the tragedy", declared Limonov. In turn, leader of the United Civil Front Garry Kasparov marked that Patrushev's words "sound ominously, and any ways of reprisals concerning opposition" are possible.
Finnish Security Police will not release Stasi list of Finns
Hannu Moilanen, deputy director of the Security Police of Finland (SUPO), announced last week that SUPO will not release the so-called "Tiitinen's List", comprising Finns believed to have had contacts with the East German espionage agency Stasi, daily Helsingin Sanomat reports. Moilanen told Helsingin Sanomat that the issue will not be discussed further, as the decision to keep the list confidential was made a long time ago.
AIA already reported that the list, named after former SUPO director Seppo Tiitinen, is believed to contain the names of 18 people in Finland who are thought to have awakened the interest of Stasi operatives. The names were supplied by the West German intelligence service in 1990.
There have been a number of calls to make the list public. Seppo Tiitinen himself, as well as former President Mauno Koivisto and the chairs of Finnish Parliamentary party groups, have added their voices to those urging the release of the information, according to the paper. Speculation and colourful conspiracies theories have been rife over the identities of those on the list, but it is not thought that it contains significant political figures. In any event, these are not people who appear in the so-called Rosenholz files, which list individuals whom Stasi had recruited or were grooming as sources. Hence the value of the Tiitinen list is questionable at best.
Moilanen says that no change has taken place in the original conditions that led to keeping the lists confidential. Protection of privacy and the conditions set by the international community continue to be the reasons for keeping the documents a secret. By the "conditions set by the international community", Moilanen refers to the fact that international intelligence services exchange information on the condition that the information is not passed on.
Finnish President Tarja Halonen does not want to take a stand on the issue of releasing the Stasi list, as the Security Police is not the President's police force", and non-interference by the President is "a principle of the rule of law", the paper writes.
Ukraine’s SBU calls government to investigate, why preconditions for acts of terrorism have not been eliminated
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) calls upon the Cabinet of Ministers (government) of Ukraine to lead service
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investigation regarding lack of decision of the government over elimination of preconditions for acts of terrorism, online paper proUA reports, referring to acting SBU head Valentin Nalyvaychenko, who talked to journalists about it.
«We have addressed the government to carry out service investigation why the governmental decision on immediate acceptance of measures for elimination of preconditions for acts of terrorism» was not executed, daily Ukrayinski noviny cites Nalyvaychenko.
The acting SBU head also noted, that on May 23 the SBU addressed the Cabinet of Ministers with the letter on inadequate condition on the Ukrainian railway. «On May 23, the Cabinet signed an assignment to all ministries to take immediate measures for elimination of preconditions for acts of terrorism», Nalyvaychenko marked.
AIA already reported that earlier Minister of Transport and Communication of Ukraine Nikolai Rudkovsky announced that the Secretariat of the President allegedly had been preparing a large-scale act of terrorism. The SBU demanded Rudkovsky to give all the information confirming his statement.
Lithuanian paper describes version of Russian secret services interest in disappearance of businessman
In Lithuania a new version has emerged about the disappearance in the Kaliningrad oblast of Russia and further destiny of the influential Lithuanian businessman, head of Roslitstroy company, Stanislovas Jucjus, news aegncy Regnum reports. On September 7, daily newspaper Kauno diena published an article titled Does the Kremlin spin latent attack?, expressing an assumption that Stanislovas Jucjus "most likely, is dead".
According to the paper, "Russian intelligence agencies are going to use mysterious disappearance of Stanislovas Jucjus against Lithuania".
Itis said in the article by Kauno diena that, ostensibly, "the Russian intelligence agencies may try to accuse Stanislovas Jucjus for collaboration with the Lithuanian intelligence" and after the connection was detected, "he had tried to hide himself in Cyprus".
According to the daily newspaper’s assumption, " Law enforcement agencies of Kaliningrad oblast deliberately tighten investigation" about disappearance of Jusjus and death of his business partner Alexander Semkin.
According to Kauno diena, customers of abduction allegedly are the head of one of areas of Kaliningrad and a member of the City Council.
Referring to an anonymous informed sources, Kauno diena says that both probable executors and customers of Jucjus’ abduction are known. The newspaper believes that "the executors of abduction belong to one of the organized crime groupings of the Kaliningrad oblast", and it names one of members of the government of the Kaliningrad oblast as "the most probable customer". The newspaper also names two other persons suspected in abduction of Jucjus. On August 8, at entrance of his house in Kaliningrad, general director of Roslitstroy, Alexander Semkin, who had replaced Stanislovas Jucjus in this post, was killed.
Secret service files on Poland’s richest men discovered
Secret Service files have been found in Warsaw - some of which date back to the late 1980s – and are said to reveal the origins of the wealth of some of Poland’s richest men, including Ryszard Krauze, who police are currently wanting to question in connection with a corruption case, Polish Radio reports.
The secret files were drawn up and updated by the former Military Intelligence Services (WSW) and the by the Military Information Services (WSI), which has now also been disbanded, according to the radio.
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The files contain information on how some of the private fortunes were accumulated at the end of 1980s, as communism was about to end in Poland – though some documents may date from the times of Leszek Miller’s government in the late 1990s to early 2000s.
According to a source at the Wprost weekly, there are at least five files on Ryszard Krauze, Jan Kulczyk, Zygmunt Solorz, Michal Solowow and Roman Karkosik (all are included in the list of the top 100 richest Poles). Head of Military Counterintelligence Antoni Macierewicz used them to draw up the second part of his report on the liquidation of WSI - to be disclosed within a few months).
On 6 September, in an interview with daily Rzeczpospolita Macierewicz enigmatically confirmed that the report also mentioned “names involved in the Kaczmarek case", one of which is Ryszard Krauze, who is said to be currently in Switzerland. Krauze is wanted by police in connection with the detention at the end of last month of former interior minister, Janusz Kaczmarek on allegations that he obstructed the course of justice and perjured himself in connection with an enquiry into an anti corruption investigation which led to the collapse of the ruling coalition in Poland. The source of the wealth of Krauze and others has been used by the out going government in Poland, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, in accusations that an elite has grown in the country which benefited from connections with the pre-1989 communist dictatorship, Polish Radio adds.
Bulgarian National Protection Service busy with preventing death threats to politicians
Every month the National Bodyguard Service (NBS) of Bulgaria receives death threats in regard to Bulgarian politicians, NBS Chief General Dimiter Dimitrov says in an interview published in the latest issue of the daily Trud, based in Sofia.
The threats by people with mental problems would become more frequent in spring and during major public events as elections, for example, General Dimitrov notes. Recently NBS has ensured a bodyguard for Sports Agency Chief Vesela Lecheva, whose husband was shot in the head on July 11.
Interest in communist secret police files “insultingly low” – Prime Minister of Bulgaria
The following days after the Bulgaria's Secret Files Committee in charge of opening the communist- era secret police files publicized the files of the parliament members of Bulgaria after 1989, country’s Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev described the interest in this issue as "insultingly low", daily Sega writes. In the view of Prime Minister, the publicizing of the secret police files is rather of historic significance.
Daily 24 Chasa runs an interview with former politician George Ganchev, whose name is on the list of former secret service agents. Ganchev denies to have collaborated to the communist ex-Security Service. According to former Prime Minister Zhan Videnov, the purpose of the present campaign is to divert the attention from recent disclosures that President Georgi Parvanov had contributed to the former State Security Service under the alias Gotse.
According to the Commission's Chair Evtim Kostadinov, the people, who now declare themselves against the law, could have voiced an opinion or impose a veto given that it had been put to broad discussion. Daily Trud publishes a commentary, headlined, The Files: Manipulation or Irony. "Is the fuss about the files not aimed at hiding the truth about the transition?" the author asks. It is not plots and dependencies but the culpable irresponsibility and greed of the main players of the transition that could account for what has happened, the author of the Trud article underlines.
South Ossetian Foreign Ministry blames secret services of Georgia for plans of stirring up diversive activity in conflict zone
«Dynamics of development of situation does not leave doubts that before holding in Tskhinvali of the 6th Ossetian Congress and celebratings in South Ossetia of Day of Republic on September 18-20, secret services of Georgia will try to stir up diversive activity in the conflict zone», says an official statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of South Ossetia, distributed by the State Information and Press Committe of the breakaway republic of Georgia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia regards the recent act of terrorism which reulted in wounding of the 24 y. o. Resident of Tskhinval, Igor Kokoyev, as one more proof that the Georgian side is not going to refuse further realization of the plan of destabilization of situation in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict.
«The information reaching South Ossetia unequivocally specifies deliberate character of actions of the authorities of the neighbouring state, igniting already critical situation in Georgian-Ossetian relations, using for pressure upon South Ossetia its policy with the components that characterize it as the state terrorism. In this connection authorities of Republic of South Ossetia are going to use all available means and opportunities for not allowing on its territory the wide-scale destabilization of situation, planned in Georgia», Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of South Ossetia says in its statement.
Security Council of Kyrgyzstan warns that terrorists may create a "dirty bomb”
The Security Council of Kygyzstan has receveid information about intentions of terrorists to create the so-called "dirty bomb”, Secretary of the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan, Tokon Mamytov, announced at a press conference in Bishkek, according to news agency 24.kg.
The head of the CIS Antiterrorism centre, Andrei Novikov, informed these days that secret services have data on displacement of terrorists towards the borders of the states of Central Asia in searches of the weapons of mass distruction, 24.kg reports. In particular, they are interested in uranium mines of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan with an aim of creation of the so-called «dirty bomb».
However, according to mytov, the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan does not possess particular information that terrorists are going to get raw material for a bomb in Kyrgyzstan, 24. kg notes. "Nobody speaks that terrorists are willing to reach our mines to make "the dirty bomb”. And even if they would want to do so - we shall not allow them to make it", Secretary of the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan emphasized.
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