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Ukraine’s Security Service head Nalyvaychenko becomes state first rank civil servant
Security Service of Ukraine gathered cummulative evidence on separatist criminal case
Russian parliament member names entry ban blood feud of Ukraine’s President and Security Service head
Polish Institute of National Remembrance to reveal additional database on Communist secret collaborators
Criminal case on death of Lithuanian security service officer to be renewed
Azerbaijan’s National Security Ministry agents detained gang members transporting drugs to Russia
Ukraine’s Security Service head Nalyvaychenko becomes state first rank civil servant
The President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko has appropriated to the Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Valentin Nalyvaychenko the civil servant’s first rank. It is said in the decree of the head of the Ukrainian state, dated May 10. The decree is published on the official website of the President of Ukraine.
On June 8, Nalyvaychenko celebrated his 43rd birthday. He was born in Zaporozhye, in 1966.
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Nalyavychenko graduated with distinction from the Kiev National University named after Taras Shevchenko.
Online paper LIGAinform notes that the data on Nalyvaychenko’s career in the early 1990s are absent in his curriculum vitae for some reason. In 1994, he was an employee of Zaporozhye private enterprise Kachestvo.
The greater part of his career has been connected with the diplomat’s work; he has served to the rank of the Plenipotentiary Envoy of the first class. In 1994-97, he worked as the 2nd, 1st secretary of Embassy of Ukraine in Finland, and also simultaneously in Denmark and Norway. Then till May of 2001, he was the 1st secretary, an adviser, the head of department, the deputy chief of Consular directorate of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine.
The following two years he was the General Consul of Embassy of Ukraine in the United States. Between November, 2003, and February, 2004, he was the director of the Consular Service Department of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine.
Then till February 2006, he was the Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine. Still occupying this post, on December 30, 2005, Nalyvaychenko was appointed by the President of Ukraine the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine in Republic of Belarus.
On May 29, 2006, Nalyvaychenko becomes the first deputy chairman of the SBU. Six months later, on December 22, 2006, the President dismissed the SBU head Igor Drizhchany. Though, still in August, during formation of the new government and global personnel rearrangements in other key state authorities, Drizhchany quite suited at this post to the head of state as quite controllable and predictable. From the moment of resignation of Drizhchany, Nalyvaychenko has been carrying out functions of the SBU head as the acting chairman of the SBU.
On March 6, 2009, the Supreme Rada (parliamnet) of Ukraine approved appointment of Valentin Nalyvaychenko to the post of the SBU chairman.
Security Service of Ukraine gathered cummulative evidence on separatist criminal case
The second application on security measures regarding a witness of defence to the court by the leader of the non-governmental organization, Sevastopol-Crimea- Russia, Valery Podyachy, who has been accused of separatism, has not been replied, Russian news agewncy Rosbalt reports, referring to a statement of Liberty Human Rights Defence Centre.
Members of the organization pay attention to the fact that employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) «cannot give any witness who would explain to court what concrete subversive activities threatening the state Podyachy has undertaken». The activists allege that the Court of appeal of the Crimea in no way wish to react to requirements of Podyachy to provide protection to the witness who has been assaulted in an attack “which was obviously organized by employees of the secret services».
The leader of the organization Sevastopol — Crimea — Russia, Valery Podyachy, in the autumn of 2008, submitted a claim to a district administrative court in Simferopol on cancelling of the present Constitution of the Crimea according to which the peninsula belongs to Ukraine. Consideration of his claim has been finished recently.
The Security Service of Ukraine has brought a criminal case according to the Criminal code of
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Ukraine on the encroachment on territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, as well as on the fact of fulfilment by members of association Sevastopol — Crimea — Russia of public appeals to infringement of territorial integrity of Ukraine.
According to the SBU, cumulative evidence on the case, sufficient for charging of concrete organizers and executors of the above mentioned crime by the heads of the Sevastopol — Crimea — Russia organization has been gathered.
Activity of 6 members of the Sevastopol — Crimea — Russia have been considered within the framework of the criminal case, though criminal charge is put only against two of them, Valery Podyacny and Semen Klyuyev.
Russian parliament member names entry ban blood feud of Ukraine’s President and Security Service head
The incident in Ukraine involving Russian lawmaker Konstantin Zatulin runs counter to the interests of bilateral relations, news agency Interfax cites Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko. The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine officers refused Zatulin entry to Ukraine upon arrival at Simferopol Airport, in the Ukrainian Crimean Autonomous Region, last week, Marina Ostapenko, the press service head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), confirmed. She explained that border guards refused Zatulin entry since the Security Service’s ban on Zatulin's entry has not been lifted although the Russian parliament member had filed an appeal with a Ukrainian court. The Security Service of Ukraine expelled Zatulin from Ukraine in July 2008.
Zatulin named the ban "political prosecution with elements of personal vendetta by (the President of Ukraine) Viktor Yushchenko and the chief of Security service of Ukraine Valentin Nalyvaychenko", according to online paper Korrespondent.
Earlier, in February of this year, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentin Nalyvaychenko declared that the Russian politicians - he specially marked Konstantin Zatulin - were involved in financing separatist actions in Ukraine. In his turn, Zatulin repeatedly claimed Russia might take part in the split of Ukraine.
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Polish Institute of National Remembrance to reveal additional database on Communist secret collaborators
Already in June the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) will make available to journalists and researchers 30 times more information than one could find in the so-called Wildstein’s list, daily Rzeczpospolita reports. The new directory is to facilitate the lustration, the paper notes.
It will be possible to watch among other materials, cards considering Karol Wojtyla and Father Jerzy Popieluszko. Till today the database of the Institute was about 100,000 archival records relating to various persons. In the new database they are 1.5 million records, the paper marks.
IPN also announced that after the summer holidays the second stage of revealing new materials would be taking place. The new data base will also include a part of the information from the damaged Communist secret police (SB) files. For example, the files of priests who were reporting to the secret police have been wiped out more than by 90 percent.
The database will help to identify a number of agents. Thanks to additonal data, it will be easier to determine whose reports have been collected at the points of operative development. The so-called ‘obiektowki’, files on particular persons, and files on operative development contain copies of the agents’ reports, the paper expands.
The names which have been registered in the register, it is not a list of agents. The database will also contain data on persons observed by the Communist security services, or on those whom the Security Service had tried unsuccessfully to enlist for collaboration.
Criminal case on death of Lithuanian security service officer to be renewed
The General Prosecutor’s Office of Lithuania will have to renew for the fifth time investigation of circumstances of death of the former officer of the State Security Department of Lithuania (VSD) Vytautas Pociunas, online paper Penki kontinentai reports.
Such a decision was taken by the Vilnius district court, after reviewing of the complaint of the General Prosecutor’s Office. The prosecutors asked to cancel the decision adopted in May by the 1st local court of Vilnius, on renewal of investigation of circumstances of Pociunas’ death. In the complaint of the Deputy General Prosecutor Vytautas Barkauskas, it is stressed that the pre-judicial investigation has been lead carefully, all witnesses have been interrogated, the necessary documents have been requested, therefore there is no bases for renewal of the case.
The widow of the officer, Ludvika Pociunene, thinks differently. According to lawyer Ionas Butkus, representing her interests, evidence of the hotel manager is worth to be taken into consideration that an unidentified man entered the Pocius’ hotel room at night. The hotel employee had thought that it was Pociunas, though after viewing of photos she was shown, the hotel worker concluded that that person did not at all remind the Lithuanian officer.
The lawyer also considers that there are enough argument, that Pociunas himself could not fell out of a window of the eighth floor of hotel accidentally and it is necessary to carry out additional experiments.
In November 2007, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Lithuania established that Pocius who worked at the consulate of Lithuania in Grodno, Belarus, during his business trip to Brest on August 23, 2006, died in the result of an accident, having fallen out of a hotel window, and the pre-judicial investigation was stopped. However, the court soon cancelled this decision and the General Prosecutor’s Office renew investigation of circumstances of the tragedy.
Azerbaijan’s National Security Ministry agents detained gang members transporting drugs to Russia
Approximately 11 kg of narcotic drugs was seized and withdrawn from a gang dealing with drug trafficking via route of Azerbaijan - Russia, Trend news agency reports, referring to a joint statement by the National Security Ministry and Interior Ministry of Azerbaijan.
Conductors of passenger train Baku-Moscow Abutalib Mammadov and Feyzulla Agayev who attempted to shift a large consignment of drugs through the customs from Azerbaijan to Russia were detained. A special secret place was discovered during the search in the train where approximately 10 kilograms of hashish, as well as 5 kg of white color drug-like substance was discovered and seized.
As a result of other operational activities carried out jointly by the National Security Ministry and the Interior Ministry of Azerbaijan, another attempt to transport contraband drugs was prevented. Russian citizen Ramin Mutallimzade had received approximately one kilogram of hashish to deliver it to Moscow. He was detained by security agents when he wanted to take the bag with the drugs to the Baku-Moscow passenger train. Approximately 1 kg of hashish and 40 grams of opium and 0.3 grams of heroin was discovered and seized during the search, Trend news agency adds.
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