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Russian secret services to receive legal powers to infringe upon rights of Internet users
Russian Federal Protection Service to be responsible for keeping electronic correspondence of country’s leaders secret
Federal Security Service official to participate in work of Russian mission in NATO
Declassified documents of Secret Police of Communist Bulgaria published in collection on links between Soviet KGB and DS
Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security probing Muslim party founders' property
Hungary’s Security Services Minister fails to explain removal of surveillance over suspects
Murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko was planned in advance by Poland’s Communist secret service
Russian secret services to receive legal powers to infringe upon rights of Internet users
Russian security services and law enforcement bodies will receive an opportunity to limit the
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rights of Internet users at carrying out of operative and search actions, as well as investigatory actions. It they will consider necessary, the security services would disconnect some citizens from the Internet, daily Rossiskaya gazeta writes today.
The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has brought for public discussion a bill, regarding use of the Internet by Russian citizens and in the territory of the Russian Federation, the paper explains.
First of all the new project is directed against hackers who would decide to crack the official sites. For an unauthorized visit, say, to the confidential database of the Ministry of Interior or the Tax Service the hacker may receive three years of imprisonment, especially if he has broken or blocked something there.
Copying of the classified information too, is punishable under the new bill. Hackers risk to face strict punishment for blocking of any official site of a state department. If the Internet-hooligans unite in a group and arrange a real "failure" of an official site, they may face up to seven years of imprisonment, the paper notes.
In the draft law there are such definitions as the network address in the Internet, the unique identifier of the device connected to a network. Behind the network address there is a concrete person, whose name and a surname should be known to secret services and law enforcement bodies.
The system administrators will be punish for handicapes to investigators, the draft law marks. It is offered to add the Administrative Offences Code with a new clause, establishing punishments for citizens, official and legal persons who would break the legal order of interaction of operators of network services and law enforcement bodies, carrying out operative and search activity, Rossiiskaya gazeta adds.
Russian Federal Protection Service to be responsible for keeping electronic correspondence of country’s leaders secret
Members of the Russian government, the President and other top officials of the Russian state will henceforth exchange the documents in electronic mode, daily newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK) reports. The Federal Protection Service (FSO) will supervise strict privacy of all this correspondence.
According to the newspaper, the interdepartmental electronic document circulation at the highest level will allow to make important decisions almost instantly.
Through computer networks the paper gets on the official’s table faster than through the governmental dispatch-riders service. Electronic documents will ply between several departments, federal bodies of state power, the Presidential Administration and the staff of government of the Russian Federation. Each such message will consist of accompanying and substantial parts, MK expands. The paper adds that thus the exchange of the classified information is also supposed, its confidentiality will be guaranteed.
In the beginning any document will get to the head unit of all this system, the operator of which will be the Federal Protection Service, and already then it will be transferred to the addressee. The Federal Protection Service should provide anti-virus protection of the information, MK adds.
Federal Security Service official to participate in work of Russian mission in NATO
An expert from the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation may soon appear in the permanent representation office of Russia to NATO for interaction with the North-Atlantic alliance in the sphere of anti-terrorism, news agency RIA Novosti reports, referring to the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin.
"I think that the question of appearance of a representative of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the structure of our permanent mission of Russia to NATO will be solved soon. The FSB... prosecutes subjects of anti-terrorism, they will have official contacts to corresponding structures of NATO", Rogozin has marked.
Declassified documents of Secret Police of Communist Bulgaria published in collection on links between Soviet KGB and DS
The Chairman of the Bulgarian Files Commission (investigating Bulgaria's Communist-era secret police files), Evtim Kostadinov, noted at the official presentation of a book, KGB and DS -
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Links and Dependences, that attempts to track down the relations between both police are not always successful. He stressed that the Bulgarian Communist-era secret police, the so called State Security (DS) was closely related to, but was not a part of the notorious Soviet KGB, Sofia News Agency reports.
The nearly 500-page documentary collection covers declassified archives from the two police departments from the period 1950-1991, including funds of the Interior Ministry and the National Investigative Service, a successor to the foreign policy investigating unit at the Bulgarian state security police.
This is the first event of this kind, initiated by the so-called Files Commission. Under local legislation, adopted in 2006, the body is entitled to publish archive documents of the repressive regime from the ruling of the Bulgarian Communist Party, news agency adds. The commission, which is in charge of the declassification of the files prepared by the country's intelligence services before the fall of the regime, plans to distribute the collection on DVD and online.
Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security probing Muslim party founders' property
The State Agency for National Security (DANS) of Bulgaria Targovishte regional directorate has been probing the purchase of lands by notorious brothers Ali and Yuzeir Yuzeirovs, Sofia News Agency reports.
The brothers have just now founded a new Muslim party, Muslim Democratic Union, a move stirring large public and media outcry in Bulgaria, according to the news agency.
The probe involves the legitimacy of the purchase of great amount of land in the areas of the cities of Targoishte and Veliko Tarnovo, and the town of Gorna Oriahovitsa, along with a tax audit, Sofia News Agency expands. The Yuzeirovs have presented contracts with private individuals, mostly from Belgium, for over BGN 100 000 as proof for the funds used to buy the land.
The new Muslim party was founded in Slavyanovo, an area largely populated by ethnic Turks, but is yet to be registered. Yuzeir Yuzeirov spends most of his time in Belgium and says the party will be financed by funds from businesses of its members. Ali Yuzeirov was elected party chairman.
In addition to the Muslim party, Yuzeir Yuzeirov is the founder of the Club for Friendship and Brotherhood in Slavyanovo, and founder and leader of the Bulgarian Red Crescent". Bulgarian Red Cross says this organization is illegal, according to the Geneva Convention. The Red Cross says the existence of the Crescent in Bulgaria is a precedent because a country can only have either a Red Cross or a Red Crescent, never both, news agency notes.
Hungary’s Security Services Minister fails to explain removal of surveillance over suspects
The Budapest Times writes about the conclusions regarding investigation of a number of murder cases in Hungary last year in which the victims were innocent Gypsies. By the end of the summer, police had concluded that the nine shootings had been committed by the same perpetrators.
On August 21, six men were arrested in connection with the murders; large quantities of weapons and ammunition were also found in a cache. Police assured that they caught the real perpetrators, although two were shortly released thereafter, the paper expands. A six-men strong expert team arrived from the US FBI in order to profile the murderers, it adds.
It appeared that one of the detained men had lived in Israel for a year and a half during the 1990s. Another had been a professional soldier serving in the KFOR forces in Kosovo, and while there was allegedly recruited by the Hungarian military’s own intelligence service, the KBH.
At this point the National Security Bureau, NBH, also admitted that they had had these men under surveillance for an astonishing four years, starting in 2004, which was “accidentally” stopped just a few weeks before the series of killings started. The Budapest Times says the Security Services Minister Ádám Ficsór admitted that the NBH had made serious mistakes and the identity of the culprits could have been established much earlier. Ficsor could give no logical explanation as to why the surveillance of the men had ceased just some weeks before the shootings began.
Murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko was planned in advance by
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Poland’s Communist secret service
The murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko was precisely planned in advance by SB, Poland’s Communist secret service, daily Dziennik writes today. The SB network of agents surrounded the priest, the highest officials of the ruling party and the Ministry of Interior were informed about repressions against the chaplain of the Solidarity movement, the paper marks.
Historian Dr. Jan Zaryn, director of the Office of Public Education of the Poland’s National Memory Institute (IPN) in conversation with daily Dziennik discussed unknown secret police documents. In the coming weeks they will be published by the Institute of National Remembrance. In his book, Apparatus of Repression Against Father Jerzy Popieluszko, 1982-1984, the names of people who reported to the SB about Father Popieluszko will be disclosed.
Dr.Zaryn expands in the interview that the first denunciation testifying about closer interest of the SB about the priest and publicised in the new book is dated February, 1982. The first denunciations on Father Popieluszko were provided to the SB by a secret collaborator who used several aliases, including Miecz (Sword) and Tarcza (Shield). In April, SB got orders to take Popieluszko under special observation. In September, after Mass for the Fatherland, SB engaged in "development of an operational case" (SOR) under the code name of Popiel.
It was an activist of Solidarity in the Mazowsze region, associated with miners and belonged to the close environment of the priest; he provided much information to the SB. After the decision of surveillance of the priest other agents were planted into his entourage. They were a few people, clergy and laity, they had to watch the priest and to report about him. Among them there was priest Jankowski, Michal Czajkowski, others will be revealed when the book appears. After the murder two priests broke collaboration with the SB.
The documents published by IPN contain no evidence of alleged cooperation of Popieluszko’s driver, Waldemar Chrostowski, with the SB. When in September 1983, an investigation was initiated against the priest Popieluszko, the materials collected by the SB, denunciations, phone tapping recordings and recordings from sermons, photos, etc., were used by the prosecutor Anna Jackowska to bring her allegations against him.
Today it is known that in In December 1983, when the priest was arrested because "anti-socialist" and "subversive" materials found in his apartment, they were planted there by the SB. One of the SB helpers was Leszek Pekala, who later became the priest’s murderer.
The IPN researchers suppose that most likely the decision was made to murder a priest on October 12 at leadership session at the Ministry of Interior because the next day the group lead by Grzegorz Piotrowski undertook a failed assassination attempt on Popieluszko’s life when he was returning to Warsaw from Gdansk.
There are records showing that General Wojciech Jaruzelski and General Czeslaw Kiszczak were kept informed about the activities of the SB against the priest, according to Dr.Zaryn.
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