Tag: SBU

Ukraine Live Day 322: Another Blast Strikes Odessa

January 5, 2015

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Russia This Week: Kremlin Advisor Speaks at Yalta Conference Amid Separatists, European Far Right (25-31 August)

August 30, 2014

Updated Daily. -Kremlin advisor Sergei Glazyev speaks in Yalta, surrounded by separatists and European far right; advocates for “Novorossiya” to join Customs Union. -There was an anti-war rally in St. Petersburg. -Lev Shlosberg, Pskov deputy who investigated Pskov paratroopers’ deaths, assaulted, hospitalized; he links his attack to his investigation, and Acting Governor Turchak condemns attack. […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 183: Ukraine Fights to Retake Ilovaisk

August 19, 2014

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 70: Fresh Sanctions Ahead As Situation Grows More Chaotic

April 28, 2014

While the US President, Barack Obama, is due to announce a new range of sanctions against Russia later today, the situation in Ukraine is rapidly getting worse. Russian-backed fighters still hold seven OSCE monitors and three SBU officers hostage, in addition to others including the Ukrainian journalist Irma Krat. Furthermore, the violence has spread further […]

Virtually Entire SBU Leadership has Voluntarily Left Places of Service

February 24, 2014

Valentin Nalivaychenko, Verkhovna Rada commissioner for oversight of the activity of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) announced, during a speech in the Rada, that virtually the entire leadership of the SBU has voluntarily left their places of service. “The SBU does not have a chairman or first deputies. The head and his first deputies have […]