The Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYT) suspects the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was involved in making phone threats against Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the BYT faction in parliament, Serhiy Sobolev, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
I suppose that pressure on the BYuT leader should be expected considering that local elections are coming up. However, Taras Kuzio's article in the Eurasia Daily Monitor offers another reason for the SBU's actions.
Anatoliy Grytsenko, head of the parliamentary committee on national security and defence, believes –like many– that the SBU is deliberately derailing Ukraine’s European integration and thereby pushing Ukraine into a single vector pro-Russian foreign policy (http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2010/09/19/5395398/). Such views about Khoroshkovsky are widespread in the foreign ministry, a senior Ukrainian diplomat confided to Jamestown, and among former SBU officers who see the SBU transforming itself into a new KGB (http://www.dt.ua/1000/1550/ 70437/). The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union warned that SBU officers actions “are more reminiscent of those of the KGB in the Soviet era” (http://eng.maidanua.org/node/ 1144).
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