SECURITY SERVICE OF UKRAINE IN 2010–2014 VERTICAL POWER STRUCTURE

Abstract

The article investigates the role and the place of Ukraine’s State Security Service in Victor Yanukovych’s power distribution system. The specificity of Yanukovych’s “family” personnel policies towards State Security Service’s top management in 2010 – 2014 has been defined. The details of V. Nalyvaichenko’s dismissal and V. Khoroshkovsky’s subsequent appointment as a Head of SSU have been revealed. The “staff purge” of SSU top management initiated by V. Khoroshkovsky to assign the key positions to his and the regime’s loyal supporters has been demonstrated. 2010- 2014 activities of SSU have been analyzed. It is established that the relevant service was gradually losing its impudence and gave up meeting any threats on the part of the Russian Federation. Over that period, SSU ceased countering actions against separatism threats, which grew every year, in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. It has been studied that SSU inactivity and indulgence to interests of FSB RF can refer to the dependence of regime key representative and V. Yanukovych on Kremlin’s instructions. The motives of V. Viatrovych’s dismissal from the position of Director of SSU Archives Department have been exposed, as well as the background of cancelling the residency restriction imposed by V.Nalyvaychenko on the staff Federal Security Service of the Black Sea Navy. The scope of Kremlin’s undermining Ukraine’s strategic security in Crimea has been defined. Alongside that, an attempt was made to outline the preparatory phase of Russian Feneration’s aggression against Ukraine based on neglecting Ukraine’s strategic interests in favor of Kremlin’s priorities.