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SBU’s ex-deputy head has not lost his rank in connection with Yushchenko’s poisoning
Kiev-based daily speculates whether SBU ex-chief would be detained or forced to stay out
Drizhchany reportedly dismissed within framework of demilitarization of state authority system of Ukraine
Ukrainian intelligence agencies keep in training to hunt nuclear charges
Soviet KGB ex-leaders call security forces to end mutual confrontation
FSB does not doze: Novosibirsk security service agents closely study Communist anecdotage
Uzbek security service officers seize 90 kg of opium in one day
SBU’s ex-deputy head has not lost his rank in connection with Yushchenko’s poisoning
Deprivation of the former deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vladimir Satsyuk of rank of a Major-General is connected with infringement of procedure of assignment of a rank not with the case about poisoning of President Viktor Yushchenko, news agency URA-Inform reports, referring to deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat Igor Pukshin who spoke at a briefing in Kiev.
He told the press that in 1994 Satsyuk has been dismissed from service in Armed Forces of Ukraine, and in 1997 he has been assigned a rank of a major.
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However, submitting his documents for assignment to the position, Satsyuk ostensibly has reported that he received the major’s rank in 1994 instead of 1997, according to Pukshin. He said the Minister of Defence awarded Satsyuk the rank of a colonel without reason in 2000 and the rank of a Major – General was assigned to him by a corresponding decree of the President in 2004.
The SBU brought appropriating application now, considering that the Minister of Defence had cancelled the decree about assignment to Satsyuk of a rank of colonel, and proceeding from these documents the President has cancelled his decree that was groundless assigning Satsyuk the rank of a Major-General, the official said.
Making comments on a cancelling of diplomatic rank of Igor Smeshko, the former head of the SBU, Pukshin declared that the post Smeshko was occupying, that of the chairman of the SBU, did not belong to the category of posts that prescribes presence of such status. Smeshko cannot be an ambassador because of short seniority, according to the official, Ukrayinskiye novosti writes.
Kiev-based daily speculates whether SBU ex-chief would be detained or forced to stay out
Ex-head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Igor Smeshko does not exclude that his deprivation of the diplomatic rank of the plenipotentiary ambassador is only the beginning of wide-scale political reprisals against him that may continue after his arrival from abroad, daily Segodnya reports.
The former chief of the Ukrainian security service considers the presidential decree as politicial revenge for his criticism addresed to the head of state at the recent session of the Ukrainian forum on results of the parliamentary elections, the paper says. It points out that in the Presidential Secretariat Smeshko and his former first deputy Statsyuk still have been associated with the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko. It seems that two years after the incident, the current President does not believe in innocence of both men and defacto considers them
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guilty in his poisoning, Segodnya notes.
Sources in the SBU assume that multi-running combination is played around their former chief. They are in perplexity why Smeshko, a military, has not been degraded the same as Satsyuk. He is abroad, using a diplomatic passport. According to the paper’s source, Smeshko will return to Kiev this weekend. His former colleagues assume that he might be detained already at the Borispol airport — on the basis of the presidential decree. Other version, forcing him to stay out, has been also mentioned. In his turn, Satsyuk is already in Russia, Segodnya marks.
According to Segodnya, Igor Smeshko has reacted sharply enough: "I do not exclude any version, as those people have rather wide range of opportunities, however, as a soldier I am not accustomed to go hiding. "
Smeshko headed the SBU between September 2003 and February 2005. Satsyuk was appointed the first vice-chairman of the SBU in April 2003 and dismissed in December 2004 after poisoning scandal connected with the then presidential candidate Yushchenko in Satsyuk’s summer house. Both ex-leaders of the SBU deny any participation in those events.
Drizhchany reportedly dismissed within framework of demilitarization of state authority system of Ukraine
Experts do not relate dismissal of the Deputy Secretary of the Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (SNBO) and former head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Igor Drizhchany, on October 29 with forthcoming formation of parliamentary coalition and the government, believing, that President Viktor Yushchenko has taken such decision within the framework of demilitarization of system of the government, daily Kommersant Ukraina reports.
"Yulia Timoshenko has initialed the agreement, according to which the President completely supervises the security forces block, including SNBO", – Andrey Kozhemyakin, the former deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine, member of the Supreme Rada (parliament) told the paper.
" In due time it was not so much willingness to see Drizhchany in the SNBO, as a wish to more smoothly deduce him from the leadership of the SBU. Obviously, this problem has been already solved", - Director of Institute of Global Strategy Vadim Karasev noted.
According to the Kommersant Ukraina, working in the SNBO, general Igor Drizhchany was registered on service in the SBU. "Officially he was attached to the SNBO as the deputy secretary", – an informed SBU source told the paper.
The former first deputy head of the SBU Alexander Skibinetsky considers that it has been Drizhchany’s military rank that might become the formal reason for his dimissal. "Last week the President signed a decree that significantly reduces number of the state posts that may be filled in by military personnel," – Skinetsky said. According to him, only in the SBNO the innovation will concern 31 militaries, and Drizhchany was one of them. Skibinetsky does not see alternative to officers among civilians.
Personnel rearrangements in the SNBO begun last week when President Yushchenko signed a decree on dismissal of the SNBO Deputy Secretary Alexander Sadykov.
In May, Yushchenko granted Valery Khoroshkovsky's request to be relieved of the duties of first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. Khoroshkovsky was appointed to his post on December 11, 2006. 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.
Ukrainian intelligence agencies keep in training to hunt nuclear charges
Interoperability between law enforcement and security agencies on prevention of criminal use of the weapons of mass destruction’ components is practised in the course of international exercises Vostochny Shchit-2007 (Eastern Shield), online paper Obozrevatel reports, referring to the press centre of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
The exercises has been carried out in the framework of the Initiative on security of non-proliferation between October 29 and October 31, in Odessa under auspices of the Anti-terrorism centre of the SBU.
Intelligence agencies and law enforcement bodies of Ukraine, Poland and Romania have been acting as organizers of the exercises. Besides observers from 26 countries participate in the exercises, news agency UNIAN reports.
Anti-terrorism centre of the SBU, Service of Foreign Intelligence and the State Borderguard Service of Ukraine are among the organizers of the exercises from the Ukrainian side, the agency notes.
Soviet KGB ex-leaders call security forces to end mutual confrontation
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Former leaders of the KGB of the USSR have called upon Russian security forces and agencies to terminate mutual confrontation, online paper NEWSru.com reports.
"We call for elimination of the arisen conflicts", a statement signed by former chairman of the KGB of the USSR Vladimir Kryuchkov, former chairman of the KGB of Azerbaijan, Vagif Guseinov and several former chiefs of directorates of the KGB of the USSR says.
"The veterans, operating employees of the security services cannot remain indifferent in this situation. We know by experience that conflicts between reputable and worthy people can be used in bad purposes. And it is important to do the utmost to not allow it", the statement, cited by the radio Ekho Moskvy, says.
"Contradictions between separate special services should not be used with dirty purposes by both external, and internal destructive forces, - the statement says. - The Russian society does not require contentions, it needs internal calmness. It is important to our community to become a source of this desired in the country internal calmness ".
Completely the text of the statement will be published in the next issue of the newspaper Zavtra, editor-in-chief of the paper Alexander Prokhanov told radio Ekho Moskvy.
The recent coil of opposition between the FSB and State Drugs Control Agency provoked arrest of the general of Antinarcotics department Alexander Bulbov. Shortly after that the State Drugs Control Agency director Viktor Cherkasov published an open letter about the war between security forces in the daily Kommersant.
FSB does not doze: security service agents in Novosibirsk closely study Communist anecdotage
The Russian Federal Security Service officers in Novosibirsk have very closely studied a propaganda brochure of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation titled For People's Power! containing criticism of "the party in power" and «jokes from [the party leader Gennady] Zyuganov». Online site of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation says employees of the state security agency have considered illegal activity in the lawful preelection campaign of the political party.
Several days back the territorial electoral commission of the Soviet area of Novosibirsk received an official letter signed by the chief of a department in the Novosibirsk centre of science of the FSB Novosibirsk area directorate S.V. Sharmanov, informing the regional electoral committee that security officers «in the result of activities aimed at protection of the constitutional order have established a fact of illegal propaganda activity carried out by the Novosibirsk branch representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian
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Federation».
Publications in the paper For People's Power! are entirely devoted to compromise political parties LDPR (Liberal-Democrats), Spravedlivaya Rossiya and Yedinaya Rossiya, according to the FSB letter. Security agents draw to a conclusion that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation had opposed these parties demonstrating itself as an alternative. The basic negative accent had been made on substantial increase of food prices and results of votings of parliamentary factions for acceptance of certain bills: about monetary equivalents of privileges, about Banner of Victory, about introduction of the housing code of the Russian Federation, the FSB marked.
The state security agency particularly specified «the jokes from Zyuganov», published on the last page of the brochure, where two political parties and the President of the Russian Federation were mentioned „in the incorrect form”. The FSB directorate asked the chairman of the territorial electoral committee to inform the FSB on the taken measures.
Communist Party of the Russian Federation notes on its website that the FSB has not addressed the leader of the party regional branch in connection with the publication. The propaganda material, prior to the beginning of its distribution, was presented to the regional electoral committee according to the law, and the electoral committee of Novosibirsk area did not find any violations neither of electoral, nor other legislation in the specified propaganda material, the order of its manufacturing, release and distribution, Communist Party of the Russian Federation online site marks.
Uzbek security service officers seize 90 kg of opium in one day
Uzbekistan's security service announced yesterday that its officers had seized a total of 90 kilograms of opium in two special operations, news agency RIA Novosti reports. Uzbekistan is a major transit country for drugs from neighboring Afghanistan, the world's largest heroin and opium producer.
Two Tajiks were arrested in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, carrying a bag containing 19 kg of opium in polyethylene packages, according to the news agency.
Earlier in the day, security officers reportedly found 71 kg of opium in a truck parked at a bus station.
The drugs found in both operations are believed to have been supplied by a well-known Tajik trafficker known to have smuggled drugs into Tajik prisons, RIA Novosti adds.
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