According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ estimates, after the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war, approximately 3 million units of firearms may end up in the hands of civilians (National Police of Ukraine, 2023). In this context, the question arises: does Ukraine have a comprehensive policy on firearms? And if not, is such a policy needed?
Vadym Chernysh: “Russia is not a state that has a security service; it is a security service that has been ruling the nation”
“The French statesman, Count Mirabeau, once said about Prussia that it was ‘not a state that has an army, but an army that has conquered a nation.’ A bit ironically, we could apply this statement to the situation in modern Russia, changing it as follows: Russia is not a state that has a security service; it is a security service that governs the nation.”
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Vadym Chernysh: “The practice of secondment of intelligence officers existed not only in the USSR and Russia, but also in the newly independent states.”
The practice of assigning security service officers to civilian institutions existed not only in the USSR and the Russian Federation but also in the newly independent states. This is mentioned in the research article by Vadym Chernysh, the Head of CENSS. The article was published in Strategic Security (Global and National Security Institute, University of South Florida, USA).
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Undercover officers: how intelligence services have influenced Russia’s executive branch since the Soviet era to the present day
There is a presumption that the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation has significant influence over the executive power in Russia and uses methods and tools inherited from the Committee for State Security (KGB) of the Soviet Union.
Проблеми національної ідентичності як чинник вразливості суспільства та держави
Пулікуємо останню в цьому учбовому році роботу студентки Національного технічного університету України «Київський політехнічний інститут імені Ігоря Сікорського» спеціальності публічне управління та адміністрування Войцешук Маргарити. Робота стала однією з найкращих та була виконана в рамках вивчення студентами КПІ навчальної дисципліни «Основи національної безпеки», викладачем якої є голова Керівної ради «СЕНСС» Вадим Черниш. Детальніше