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Threat of terrorist attacks in Russia remains, Federal Security Service chief admits
Russian Federal Security Service detained in Yaroslavl an organizer of contract killing of Arkhangelsk businessman
Security Service of Ukraine promised forthcoming elections without clandestine servers and falsifications
Security Service of Ukraine to check scandalous accounting forms made public in the press
Poland’s General Jaruzelski asked Warsaw Pact commander for assistance "just in case", according to archival documents
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Threat of terrorist attacks in Russia remains, Federal Security Service chief admits
The threat of terrorist attacks in Russia remains, the Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, General Alexander Bortnikov stated at a meeting of the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee, Russian news agencies are reporting form Moscow today.
According to Bortnikov, critical infrastructure objects and places of mass gathering of people are not adequately protected in Russia, in terms of counterterrorism, news agency Interfax points out. The recent Nevsky Express passenger train crash and undermining of a train in Dagestan will soon to be exposed, the head of the FSB believes.
Meanwhile the governer of Russia’s Tver oblast, Dmitry Zelenin, announced enhancing of security measures at several sites of the Moscow-St.Petersburg railway, ITAR-TASS notes.
Russian Federal Security Service detained in Yaroslavl an organizer of contract killing of Arkhangelsk businessman
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers detained in Yaroslavl an organizer of a contract killing of a businessman in the city of Arkhangelsk, news agency ITAR-TASS reports, referring to a senior aide to the head of the Arkhangelsk Oblast and Nenets Autonomous District Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation General Prosecutor’s Office, Svetlana Tarnayeva.
Alexander Vostrykh, a businessman from Archangelsk, accused of organizing the contract killing, was hiding from the authorities and was put on the international wanted list. „Investigation of the criminal case against Vostrykh has been resumed, a complex of investigative and operational activities has been carried out", the news agency cites the spokesperson of the Investigative Directorate.
According to investigators, in 2008, Vostrykh ordered the murder of his former business partner Andrei Zelyanin for 500,000 rubles, ITAR-TASS adds.
Security Service of Ukraine promised forthcoming elections without clandestine servers and falsifications
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) promised that it would prevent rigging in the presidential election on polling day, news agency Ukrayinski noviny reports, referring to an interview of the SBU chairman Valentin Nalyvaychenko to the newspaper Gazeta 2000.
"Beyond the control of servers and the voters’ register we are clearly promising to prevent falsifications during the voting. Nobody would be playing with this, there will be no double-triple sets of ballots; we would be able to control all that together with the police," Ukrayinski noviny cites the SBU head.
In addition, Nalyvaychenko noted that the SBU would also provide protection for the transport of the bags of ballots during the counting of votes.
The head of the Presidential Secretariat Vera Ulyanchenko suspects the Party of Regions and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the intention to falsify the results of presidential elections, the news agency adds.
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Security Service of Ukraine to check scandalous accounting forms made public in the press
The head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentin Nalyvaychenko promised to check the documents which were made public in the press, describing the amount of bribes allegedly given by the representatives of the Target trade group, news agency ATN Kharkov reports. The company has been assuring that all these papers is nothing but a provocation. However, the data from the printouts are chalking out at least to the real decisions that courts have made in favour of the Target trade group, ATN Kharkov marks.
Bribes of $10,000 were allocated to Kharkov Economic Court, $30,000 to Tax Inspection, $100,000 to the Interior Ministry of Ukraine by the Protasovs family, according to online edition of Ukraina Kriminalnaya. The printing ledger has been serving as evidence and the information at once seemed interesting to the SBU investigators. The head of the Security Service Valentyn Nalyvaychenko assured that the Target group the case of which has already been heared in the court will become an object of double-checking.
Valentin Nalyvaychenko, the SBU head, marks that the operational check, pre-investigation, and then the legal decision will be taken in consultation with the prosecutor’s office.
The interest of the SBU in the case makes him smiling, claims one of the bosses of Target, Vladislav Protasov. It is his name which appears in the scandalous printouts, but he says he has not given bribes and saw the questionable papers only on the Internet.
Vladislav Protas, TG Target official, says that information which has been leaked to the media was dull and incomprehensible. However, these provocative papers are corresponding well in line with the decisions of certain bodies taken in favour of the Target trade group. Thus, in the Commercial Court of Ukraine, nine firms have opened the cases for recognition of their bankruptcy.
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General Jaruzelski asked Warsaw Pact commander for assistance "just in case", according to archival documents
The last political leader in Communist Poland, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, appealed for Russian support if the Polish military and police failed to suppress Solidarity protests in the country in late 1981, Polish Radio reports. Documents kept at Poland’s Institute of National Rememberance (IPN) indicating such a line of events are soon to be released for the public.
Former Polish President and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa expects that the investigation into the veracity of these allegations is pursued without involving politicians, saying that "a democratic country has diverse institutions for settling past events and securing the future. These institutions should do their job, whereas politicians should not interfere."
Historian Antoni Dudek has published in the institute’s “Biuletyn IPN” a record of conversations in the night of December 8-9, 1981 between Jaruzelski and the then Commander of the joint Warsaw pact forces, Soviet Army Marshall Viktor Kulikov. The documents are unequivocal proof of the Polish general’s intentions three days ahead of the imposition of martial law.
According to Dudek, "Jaruzelski said: "If the Solidarity will confine its actions to strikes, then we will manage it, yet we may not rule out that they will take to the streets." He went on to give a specific example of Upper Silesia to show Kulikov the scale of the problem. Jaruzelski said, "There are 4 million people living in the region and should the 4 million hold protests, I will not cope there with just one squadron stationed there and could I then count on your military assistance?"
The documents show that Russia had not planned any military intervention for fear of a reaction from the West. The IPN archive materials runs counter to the line of defence of Wojciech Jaruzelski, who has so far claimed that imposing martial law on December 13, 1981 was an attempt at warding off the Soviet invasion.
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