​Top security officials accused of links to Yanukovych, Kremlin

• le Ministre de l’écologie : Iatseniouk bloque toute réforme et place ses pions, en particulier dans les instances anti-corruption

Shevchenko : Yatsenyuk should not be Ukraine’s prime minister
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Whether he survives as Ukraine’s minister of ecology and natural resources or not, Igor Shevchenko wants the world to know his opinion about who is blocking major reforms in Ukraine today: Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

“The prime minister is the biggest brake and obstacle to reforms in this country,” Shevchenko told the Kyiv Post on June 28 during an interview in his office in Kyiv.

Shevchenko this month refused Yatsenyuk’s demand that he resign – what he called the prime minister’s fifth attempt to fire him during his six months in office. He says it is Yatsenyuk who should resign.

“Ukraine deserves a better prime minister than the guy who is doing all these manipulations,” Shevchenko said. “He’s not a reformer. He’s a pseudo-reformer. He’s playing. He’s doing nothing. He blocks appointments of ministers of the presidential team. He is not guided by the public interest and the country’s interest, but by his own interests and the interests of his business partners and political allies.”
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One of the latest blowouts between Yatsenyuk and Shevchenko took place after Shevchenko publicly protested the appointments of four members of a selection committee to the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption, a graft-fighting institution created to verify the income and asset disclosures of public officials.
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Shevchenko said it appears that Yatsenyuk simply wants to control the agency and who it investigates, thereby subverting the anti-corruption fight

He said that Yatsenyuk’s deputy minister of the Cabinet of Ministers, a 600-employee apparatus under the control of the prime minister, didn’t even want to give him the biographical information about the four candidates.

This dispute, however, was just the latest one between Yatsenyuk and Shevchenko.

“Yatsenyuk demanded me to write a letter of resignation four times during meetings of the Cabinet,” Shevchenko said. “I refused.”

• dans les services secrets les accusations de participation active à l’ancien régime se succèdent les unes aux autres ; la dernière (?) en date

Top security officials accused of links to Yanukovych, Kremlin
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Newly appointed top officials of the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, have been accused of having ties to ousted President Viktor Yanukovuych’s regime and supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

The accusations have been denied by the SBU. The appointments, made earlier this week, followed the resignation of SBU Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko and the selection of Vasyl Hrytsak as the agency’s acting head last week. Vasyl Hrytsak’s son, Oleh, has come under fire for allegedly prosecuting EuroMaidan activists in January 2014, according to Channel 5 footage – a claim that the SBU denies.

While the SBU’s supporters argue that the agency has changed since the 2013-2014 EuroMaidan Revolution and become patriotic, critics describe it as a leftover of the Soviet Union’s State Security Committee, or KGB. It has also been accused of perpetuating the practices of the Yanukovych regime after its downfall and of being infiltrated by Russian spies.

• le 19 juin, Porochenko appelait à une purge
Poroshenko expects acting SBU head to dismiss senior security officials
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, during a meeting with the heads of law enforcement agencies and institutions, said that by the end of June 19 he expects acting head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasyl Hrutsak to submit proposals for the dismissal of a number of senior security officials.

• le 27 juin, arrestation du responsable régional de Kiev pour haute trahison au profit de la Russie

SBU informs one of SBU heads in Kyiv city and region detained on high treason charges
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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained one of the heads of the chief department of SBU in Kyiv city and region on the charges of high treason in favor of intelligence services of Russia (Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – high treason).

Acting SBU Head Vasyl Hrytsak said that the work to purify intelligence services continues.

• idem pour la Justice, chaque nomination de procureur déclenche les mêmes séquences

Appointment of prosecutor tied to pro-Russian party prompts backlash
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The appointment of a top prosecutor linked to Viktor Medvedvchuk, Ukraine’s pro-Russian politician par excellence, has prompted a flurry of indignation in civil society.

Maksym Yakobovsky was selected as the southern district’s top prosecutor in March, and his ties to Medvedchuk’s Ukrainian Choice party were revealed earlier this month. Critics cite the appointment as proof that Ukrainian authorities are refusing to lustrate officials associated with ousted President Viktor Yanukovych or the Kremlin.