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Alleged Norwegian spy appeared in hands of Russian Federal Security Service
Vehicle with explosives cleared by Federal Security Service experts in Russia’s Dagestan
Russian Federal Security Service pursuing founders of books of memory
Security Service of Ukraine punished its employees for attempt to interfere in work of newspaper
About 900 kg of drugs withdrawn by Tajikistan’s border guards
National Security Committee of Kazakhstan rejecting complaints of independent journalists
Trial on alleged abduction of Kazakhstan’s ex-security service officials begun in Austrian capital
Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security allegedly spying GERB party leader
Alleged Norwegian spy appeared in hands of Russian Federal Security Service
An alleged spy has been detained by the customs officials of Russia’s Murmansk, radio Ekho Moskvy reports.
The detained person is a citizen of Norway. In the course of examination the Russian officers revealed "confidential" maps of the Russian regions and equipment which could be
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used for gathering of intelligence information. At the same time the Norwegian citizen has specified "tourism" as the purpose of his trip across Russia. Now his case is being probed by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), radio marks.Brian Palmer, of Slate magazine points out that intelligence agencies of smaller countries tend to be extremely focused on bordering nations.
As a result, when it comes to their immediate geographical neighborhood, their intelligence knowledge and capabilities often surpass those of larger intelligence powers. According to the analyst, Norway is a good example of this.
Ever since the days of the Cold War, the United States has depended on the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) to monitor the activities of Russia’s Northern Fleet, which is based in Russia’s Kola Peninsula. The Murmansk Oblast, where Kola Peninsula is situated, borders Norway and is home to many ethnic Norwegians, some of whom have collaborated with the NIS over the years, according to online paper Intelnews.org.
Vehicle with explosives cleared by Federal Security Service experts in Russia’s Dagestan
The exposive experts of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia Dagestan directorate have finished mine clearing a VAZ-2106 vehicle filled with explosives which has been found out in Derbent, Russia’s Dagestan, news agency Interfax reports, referring to the public relations group of the Federal Security Service Dagestan directorate.
According to the source of the news agency, by means of a special robot the explosive has been withdrawn from the luggage section of the vehicle.
Russian Federal Security Service pursuing founders of books of memory
The head of faculty of local history of Pomorsk state university Mikhail Suprun and the chief of archive of the Department of Interior of Russia’s Arkhangelsk area Colonel Dudarev, working under the scientific project devoted to German POWs in Russia, have ben charged for «gathering and distribution of information having confidential, personal character» online paper Polit.ru reports.
According to the member of board of International Historical and Educational, Charitable and Human Rights spciety Memorial, Jan Racinsky, the investigators have been questioning Mikhail
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Suprun, online news agency PRIMA-News says.
Mikhail Suprun and Colonel Dudarev are contributors to the joint Russian-German project, Etnich Germans, repressed in the 1940s. In September, Suprun, his scientific assistant and Colonel Dudarev were detained in charge of «gathering and distribution of information having confidential, personal character». The Federal security Service’s (FSB) Arkhangelsk directorate officers carried out search in their houses and work.
Suprun told Polit.ru that such books of memory had started to appear back in the years of perestroika and have been existing practically in each area, and their creation was initiated, as a rule, by Office of Public Prosecutor.
The security officers have withdrawn all the electronic archive, all computers and other electronic carriers of the researcher, a part of written archive, printed archive among which there were documents on the Russian history which in 1999 Suprun has taken out from archives of the USA and Europe. Suprun says he thinks that similar things have occurred with the archives of other employees who worked in the same project.
«The books of memory is one of reference points of memory about Stalinist-era. These books published in the majority of regions of Russia, have been forming today a library in volume of almost 300 volumes. They contain in total more than one and a half millions names of the executed, sentenced to the camp terms, deported. This is a serious achievement, especially if to recollect complexities of access to many of our archives storing materials about terror», said the historian, chairman of board of International Memorial, Arseny < Roginsky at the international conference, History of Stalinism. Results and Problems of Studying.
It is significant to note that the state security bodies have attempted to prevent gathering and distribution of information on activity of their predecessors, Polit.ru marks. The fair slogan of protection of personal data, referred to those who directed and carried out mass reprisals quite often use has been used as the basis for closing the documents.
In this case the legislation on protection of personal secret is used for restriction of access to documents which should be declassified under the law on archives; investigations does not take into consideration the direct instruction of the law on rehabilitation on drawing up and publication of lists of victims of reprisals, Jan Racinsky emphasizes.
About 900 kg of drugs withdrawn by Tajikistan’s border guards
During special operations lead in the frontier zones of Tajikistan, within 9 months of this year, border guards have withdrew 864 kg and 504 grams of narcotic substances, including 105 kg and 776 grams of heroin, 552 kg and 482 grams of cannabis groups’ drugs, 206 kg and 300 grams of opium-raw and 1,172,967 bushes of a wild-growing hemp have been destroyed, news agency Khovar reports from Dushanbe. Referring to the Main directorate of Border Guard troops of the State National Security Committee of Tajikistan, the news agency expands that as a result of work within this period of time 7 drug smugglers have been detained, 199 facts of infringement of state border stopped and thus detained 42 infringers of the state border, as well as 831 infringer of passport regulations in the border zone.
According to the Decree of the President of Tajikistan, dated December 2, 1994, On Voluntary Delivery and Withdrawal of Fire-arms, Ammunition and Military Equipment from the population of Republic of Tajikistan, the border guards of the Main directorate of Border Guard troops under the State National Security Committee of Tajikistan within the period between January and September, 2009, have withdrawn 46 units of fire-arms, including 26 submachine-guns, 13 carbines, news agency adds.
Trial on alleged abduction of Kazakhstan’s ex-security service officials begun in Austrian capital
In the Austrian capital city of Vienna, court hearings with participation of jurymen on the criminal case on "abduction" of the ex-ambassador of Kazakhstan in Austria Rakhat Aliyev and the former head of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan Alnur Musayev have begun. The 61 y.o. agent of the Kazakhstan’s secret service Ildar Akhmetsafin is accused of attempting on commitment of the crime, news agency KazTAG reports..
Radio Azatyk reports, referring to Austrian newspaper Oesterreich, that in the very beginning of the trial, Ildar Akhemtsafin did not plead guilty. He reportedly said that there had been no abduction and everything had been staged.
According to the newspaper, the Austrian investigators have got to know that Akhmetsafin “had tried to learn addresses of Alnur Musayev and Rakhat Aliyev in Vienna”.
“For this purpose he has ostensibly employed a detective who was advised to him by the former party official of the Socialist Party of Austria, Anton Gaal. Besides for the same purpose the defendant has enlisted ostensibly the local policeman ”, - marks the edition. Besides the defendant allegedly recruited also a local policeman, the paer notes.
According to the newspaper Kronen Zeitung, “the accuser at the trial has shown diagrams, photos and sketches prepared by the investigators, and also the fixed telephone conversations of the defendant Akhmetsafin who, according to documents, communicated with the abductors by phone more than 500 times”. According to the version of investigators, Ildar Akhmetsafin also “gave his habitation to a group of the Kazakh spies”.
The following session on the case of Rakhat Aliyev and Alnur Musayev is to take place on October 7, and a testimony of the former party functionary Anton Gala is scheduled to be heard, KazTAG marks.
National Security Committee of Kazakhstan rejecting complaints of independent journalists
AIA already reported about the press-conference in Almaty where employees of the independent newspaper Vzglyad and online site Stan.tv declared that shadowing of their editorial offices and leading journalists had been conducted by state security service agents. A few journalists have been tried to get recruited and even threatened with physical violence. They told that they had suspicions that phones of the employees of the editions were listened. The National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, KNB, have been consequently rejecting similar accusations.
According to the producer of online site Stan.tv, Baurzhan Musirov, from the very beginning of the website’s work, March, 2007, the employees of the Stan.tv have been facing various problems.
They have been limited access to information, they always experience problems with obtaining of accreditation for official events, are compelled to enter official correspondence to receive accreditation. They receive informal, unmotivated refusals, according to Musirov. From
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the very beginning the journalists of the Stan.tv have been exposed to pressure, "conversations" with the employees have been held in which they are attempted to become intimidated, sometimes even bribes have been suggested, Musirov expands.
The journalists of the newspaper Vzglyad and online portal Stan.tv consider that the state security service of Kazakhstan have turned into a body of political prosecution, and are demanding from the security service to stop war with heterodoxy.
The radio Azattyk managed to receive the comment of the KNB of Kazakhstan in occasion of the application of these journalists. The employee of the KNB press service Bolatbek Toleutayev told that they often had been hearing such applications from representatives of opposition.
The KNB official claimed that the state security service is not engaged in shadowing or prosecution of members of independent press outlets and it was illegal.
The official wondered whether they had possessed an audio recording of the citizen who allegedly «tried to bribe journalists». “If they have it, it is possible to address to the court. If it is not present, this is prompting of slander”.
According to the law, the KNB have been carrying out actions concerning journalists only if they violate the law. Bolatbek Toleutayev notes that there is General Prosecutor’s Office in Kazakhstan which can check up the state security service in need. He also has told that the journalists complaining on prosecution possess any evidence, the KNB is ready to consider them, radio Azattyk adds.
Security Service of Ukraine punished its employees for attempt to interfere in work of newspaper
The chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Valentin Nalyvaychenko called by phone the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Khreschatik, Denis Zharkih, and was critical about the non-professional and unauthorized actions of the SBU employees who have not introduced themselves and refused to show their service papers at an attempt to rush into a premises of the editorial office, Khreschatik reports.
The SBU head told Zharkih that all the persons involved in this act, were punished and dismissed from their posts. The SBU head has assured that he personally instructed to not carry out investigatory actions concerning journalists during electoral campaigns.
The newspaper Khreschatik will be watching also in the further the performance of the promise of Valentin Nalyvaychenko concerning punishment and dismissal from posts of the SBU employees involved in intervention in the work of the newspaper. The readers will be informed on the course of performance of the assignment of the SBU head on prohibition of carrying out of investigatory actions concerning journalists during electoral campaigns.
The previous day, the editorial office of the municipal newspaper Khreschatik has given in to attempt of an attack of unknown persons who were naming themselves the employees of the Security Service of Ukraine. On the request of journalists to show any documents, confirming their statements, one person introduced himself as the SBU investigator Anatoly Novikov (the real surname is Novichenko), however he did not show confirming documents to the journalist.
At attempt to photograph him, the plain-clothed man covered his face with a newspaper and threatened the photographer and a journalist of "Khreschatik".
As it became known, the person who names himself Anatoly Novikov, within a week was making calls to different phones of the paper and tried to find out whether the management of the newspaper were present.
Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security allegedly spying GERB party leader
The Sofia-based daily 24 Chasa in a headline alleges that the DANS, the State Agency for National Security, have been spying on GERB party (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria) leader.
The secret service gathered information on incumbent Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov after he became leader of the GERB party, Tsvetanov himself told journalists at Sofia Airport, news agency BTA reports. According to Tsvetanov, the former incumbents turned the DANS into political police.
"I made a check to find out if somebody there [at DANS] had shown interest in me. Yes, I found they were interested in me and asked the Interior Ministry for information on me. How did I threaten the national security so that they had to check the Bulgarian systems for identity documents about me? They started spying on me the moment I got involved in politics," the paper cites Tsvetanov.
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