scholarly journals THE HEAD OF THE STATE SECURITY SERVICE А. POVILAITIS, IN LUBYANKA: THE ISSUE OF TESTIMONY VERIFICATION

Author(s):  
A. R. Dyukov ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail A. Burenkov

Presents some editions of the memoirs and journalistic literature of 2000–2010 which describe professional values of military personnel, employees of the State Security Service of Russia and promote the patriotic education of Russian citizens. The books considered by the author may be especially useful for library experts and young people and for all those who take the keen interest in the modern political processes and socially-psychological mechanisms of organizations increasing activity.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Justyna Doroszczyk

Oprichina is the first security service in Russia. The main aim of oprichnina was to protect the stability of the political system and the reign of tsars. The main thesis is based on the conviction that secret services since Ivan the Terrible are one of the most important factors in the Russian political system. The purpose of the article is to analyze the functioning and the role of oprichnina, its organization, its structure and its main tasks in the context of the tendency of centralization of the state. The aim is to demonstrate that the establishment of the oprichnina initiated the process of forming state security organs as the foundation of maintaining power and implementing the priorities of internal and external politics.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2020) (3) ◽  
pp. 879-919
Author(s):  
Ana Šela ◽  
David Hazemali

In this paper the authors present the tracking and monitoring of Slovenian guest workers, who were temporarily living and working in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s, by the State Security Service. By analysing archival material of the Slovenian political police about the activities and associations of Slovenes in the Federal Republic of Germany, which is kept by the Archive of the Republic of Slovenia and using a selection of scientific works of domestic and foreign historiography, the authors present the process of emigration from the Socialist Republic of Slovenia to the Federal Republic of Germany from a west German and Yugoslav perspective. They also present how the State Security Service tracked Slovenian guest workers in the FRG during the 1970s and which groups of emigrees it paid special attention to. Here the authors concentrate on the tracking of Slovenian emigree clergy and emigree press, both groups having had large cultural influence on other Slovenian guest workers while they lived and worked in the Federal Republic of Germany.


2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Vitalii Makarchuk ◽  

The article is devoted to the administrative and legal status of law enforcement agencies as subjects of formation and implementation of state policy in the field of national security and defense. The article outlines the basic terminological concepts, such as: status, legal status, administrative and legal status. The opinions of various scholars on the interpretation of the concept of the legal status of law enforcement agencies, its structure and elements are analyzed. The administrative and legal status of law enforcement agencies that ensure the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of national security and defense, including the administrative and legal status of the National Police, Prosecutor's Office, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, State Bureau of Investigation, Law Enforcement Service, State Security Service of Ukraine, state border guards. It was established that the administrative and legal status is a systemic set of such administrative and legal properties of law enforcement agencies that implement state policy in the field of national security and defense, as: competence; the order of formation and acquisition of legal features; name; location; structure; goals of operation; responsibilities, which are directly regulated by current regulations, laws of Ukraine, and international agreements, the binding nature of which is given by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The presence of administrative and legal status means that law enforcement agencies have the competence defined by administrative and legal norms – subjects of jurisdiction, rights and responsibilities (powers), are responsible for actions or omissions within their own or delegated competence, perform public, executive, functions involved in administrative legal relations of a regulatory or protective nature. It was concluded that the administrative and legal status of law enforcement agencies (National Police, Prosecutor's Office, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, State Bureau of Investigation, Law Enforcement Service, State Security Service of Ukraine, state border guards) as subjects of state policy formation and implementation in sphere of national security and defense determines the main directions of influence on public relations in the state, and those that arise to protect the interests of national security and defense of the state. It was stated that the obligatory sign of acquisition by law enforcement bodies - subjects of administrative-legal status is the presence of specific subjective rights and obligations, which are realized both within the administrative legal relations and outside them.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (35) ◽  
pp. 37-53
Author(s):  
Tomasz Goryca

The aim of the study is to present the concept of the process of qualification to service in State Security Service, which was established on February 1, 2018 in lieu of the Government Protection Bureau. All requirements for candidates participating in the recruitment process to State Security Service are set out by relevant laws and ordinances of the Minister of Interior and Administration. The specificity of tasks carried out by the officers of the State Security Service requires superior physical fitness, high resistance to stressful situations and teamwork skills. The units responsible for recruitment make high demands on candidates in the face of changing security threats for the most important people in the state. Properly conducted recruitment process let the units to select the best candidates for officers who will ensure the highest standards of implementation of protective measures in the country as well as abroad. The article presents the author’s concept of such a process. For this purpose, theoretical research methods were used and documents related to the selection process for the State Security Service were analysed.


Author(s):  
A. B. Suslov ◽  

The paper is aimed at examining criminal prosecution of the collaborationists, which is one of the most important activities of the post-war Soviet state security bodies. The research is based on the files of state security bodies in the Molotov region. In historiography, the issue is in general explored. Particularly, some papers describe well the evolution of legislative environment for criminal justice and penal sanctions for collaborationism. However, scholars, as a rule, do not verify information that can be found in official documents. Therefore, the author focuses mainly on the opportunities of using the investigations’ files as sources for the assessment of validity of imputations of collaborationism. The source analysis shows that, in general, a style of the significant part of accused persons’ evidences which can be found in the records of interrogations, bills of indictment, and other materials of the studied trials, shows an adequate representation of the most part of events. The author demonstrates that the state security bodies of Molotov region did an important work for the state and society, disclosing collaborationists and initiating criminal prosecution against them. They did a large-scale and intensive work to identify the criminals and prove their guilt. The analysis of declassified documents of investigation bodies and tribunals lets the author to conclude that a large part of those evidences are persuasive. However, the ability to extend the research results to the activity of the state security service as a whole depends on whether historians would have the opportunity for studying all the doc- Уголовное преследование … 117 uments of the Soviet state security service of the war and post-war period dealing with the trials against collaborationists


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