The Ukrainian Week

1 February, 2021	Breaking news	Ukrainian security service raids aeronautics firm's board meeting after Kyiv sanctions potential investors Ukraine's state security service (SBU) is investigating a shareholder meeting of Motor Sich
22 October, 2019	Breaking news	FSB coercing Crimea residents into gathering info on pro-Ukrainian locals Among others, it is internet providers who are getting recruited by security operatives
26 August, 2019	Breaking news	Ukrainian nuclear plant demands worker pay for electricity stolen for illicit bitcoin mining operation The illicit operation came to light when the SBU, Ukraine's internal security service, searched the facility last month and uncovered computer equipment set up to "mine" the cryptocurrency
15 August, 2019	Breaking news	Russian spy exposed in Lviv region The man, who is now being charged with treason, has been cooperating with a Russian intelligence official operating under the diplomatic cover
26 June, 2019	Breaking news	Authorities arrest Odesa businessman, blame him for botched road repairs across Ukraine The Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, on June 25 announced it had detained Araik Amirkhanyan, a businessman from Odesa.
26 January, 2019	Breaking news	Ukraine's SBU detains "DPR" fighter as he enjoys "rest" in Kharkiv He also tried to hire local residents for participation in illegal armed formations in Donbas
17 January, 2019	Breaking news	Ukraine detains 'pro-separatist' journalist after deportation from Russia Authorities in Ukraine say they have detained a journalist accused of undermining the country’s territorial integrity
14 January, 2019	Breaking news	Ukrainian court rejects appeal against Russian journalist’s arrest If found guilty, the journalist may face up to 15 years in jail
27 December, 2018	Breaking news	Ukraine exposes Russian military intelligence network The latest task by their Russian curators was to create and further guide clandestine activities aimed at sabotage in the Ochakiv district
22 October, 2018	Breaking news	Russian FSB recruits Ukrainian businessman to create political party Tymofiy Nahorniy's political force was supposed to take part in the election and promote Russian narratives
16 April, 2018	World	The Hapsburg Group: Old Europe at Yanukovych's service? New details of the accusations against Paul Manafort reveal the side jobs of retired European high-ranking officials
1 February, 2016	Politics	18 Months is Not a Sentence But a Start Sabotage and lack of resources notwithstanding, the investigation into the murders on the Maidan has been going on for 18 months now. The finish line is still a long way off
23 December, 2015	Society	The Surrender of Luhansk SBU State Security Bureau officer on the early stage of the "Russian spring"
18 December, 2015		“What we are witnessing is inaction aimed at preserving the old criminal schemes rather than revanche” Ex-SBU Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko on who hampers the investigation of high-profile crimes, why lustration failed and what corrupt high-ranking Ukrainian officials fear and resist
14 July, 2015	Politics	Who Are You, Mr. Hrytsak? Whose interests will guide the new SBU chief
24 December, 2014	Politics	Andriy Levus: “A successful post-revolutionary Ukraine would be the collapse of the Russian project” The Ukrainian Week spoke to the former deputy chief of the Security Service of Ukraine and current MP about Ukrainian partisans in the Donbas, sabotage in Russia, reforms in the SBU and who it worked for prior to the Maidan.
30 June, 2014	News	SBU detains terrorists intending to blow up Kyiv-Kharkiv railroad SBU, Ukraine’s Security Service, detains five members of the terrorist group. They intended to blow up the railroad from Kyiv to Kharkiv, its press service report says
28 June, 2014	News	SBU arrests terrorist “Czech” responsible for the movement of military vehicles from Russia The SBU, Ukraine’s Security Service, arrests a member of the terrorist organization acting in Eastern Ukraine, its press service reports
19 June, 2014	News	SBU detains Russian and German citizens involved in spying and organization of terrorist attacks Ukraine’s Security Service, SBU, submits files against two foreigners and eight Ukrainians to court. Charges include spying, terrorist activity and mass disturbances, SBU press service reports
3 April, 2014	News	Russia provided 5 tons of explosives and weapons to Yanukovych in January to disperse the Maidan Explosives and weapons that were probably used to shoot at protesters on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv were delivered from Russia, Ukraine’s Security Service Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said at a press conference today
21 February, 2014	News	SBU warns MPs engaged in separatist talks with foreigners Ukraine’s Security Service claims that it will apply tough measures to stop threats to territorial integrity of Ukraine and will hold everyone engaged in that liable, it says in a statement
19 February, 2014	News	SBU says it is not launching an “anti-terrorist operation”, just preparing for one SBU, Ukraine’s security service, says that the statement of SBU Chief Oleksandr Yakymenko speaks of preparation for an “anti-terrorist operation”, not the launch of one, SBU press center clarifies
15 July, 2013	News	Russian citizen is taken off the train and announced persona non grata for participation in protests in Ukraine Yuriy Barabash, a Russian citizen, photographer and designer at the Kyiv-based Tempora publishing house, claims that border patrol took him off the train and banned entrance to Ukraine today upon instruction of the SBU, Ukraine’s special service.
15 March, 2013	Security	FSB(U) The SBU, Ukraine’s Security Service, inherited its style from the Soviet KGB. It keeps playing into the hands of its Russian counterpart, the FSB and persecutes opposition members, as well as Ukrainian and foreign activists
15 March, 2013	Security	Will Ukraine’s Security Service Ever Become Ukrainian? The future adequate Ukrainian government will have to create powerful national security services, otherwise Ukraine’s sovereignty will always be at risk. So far, the SBU is run by people whose biographies, earlier careers and views are connected to one foreign state that has never accepted Ukraine’s independence.
24 February, 2012	Politics	The President's Secret Service Whose interests will the new SBU Chief protect?