Among the documents impounded by SBU there are orders by the Soviet State Security, MGB, for 1945 and some documents from SBU archives in Lithuania.
Says Iryna Kalynets, a dissident and former inmate of the Lontsky St prison: “What is going on is an attempt to stall research work at the museum. It is a violation of the law and infringement on human rights.
Not sure why the SBU would seize historical documents, unless they were sending a message as well. The Yanukovych government continues to focus on the past. The former economic minister has been placed on the Interpol wanted list. Hard to tell if this is political prosecution and/or corruption.
The SBU chief is engaged in his professional activities which are in no way connected with the activities of mass media. I have no such information. As for his property, he transferred it under the management of his relatives. We have many officials, who came to work at different agencies, and who owned certain property, and transferred the management of this property in line with the law. This is happening not only in Ukraine but across the world," the president said when asked about Khoroshkovsky's ownership of a TV channel.President Yanukovych defending his SBU chief, his denial perhaps a confirmation.
"Our political force, as one of the most consistent opposition forces, starting from the presidential elections in 2010, is essentially being deprived, oblast by oblast, of the chance to participate in the elections. Yanukovych’s battle against democracy has reached new heights," Yulia Tymoshenko said today during a meeting with foreign diplomats in Ukraine.
According to her, the Batkivshchyna Party has been excluded from the political process in four oblasts. "We won’t run if the situation doesn’t change in four oblasts: Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lviv and Luhansk oblasts."
From her website, take it with a grain of salt, but its not out of the question that Yanukovych trying to stifle the party.
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