Agreement signed with an additional Ukrainian partner

Prague/Kiev, December 14, 2009

– On Monday, December 14, representatives of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and Security Services Archive signed a cooperation agreement with the Security Service of Ukraine in Kiev. The directors of the Institute, Pavel Žáček, the Archive, Ladislav Bukovszky, and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, signed a framework agreement on bi-lateral cooperation in the fields of scientific, educational and documentation activity. This is the second Ukrainian institution with which the Institute and Archive have signed a cooperation agreement in these fields. The first was signed on June 9, 2009 with the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, whose work focuses on documentation of the Holodomor of the 1930s and other crimes of the communist totalitarian regime. The documents of the former State Security Service (KGB) of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic are administered by the Department of Archive Collections of the Security Service of Ukraine. The Institute and Archive will cooperate with this department on the study political repressions on the territories of both states before 1991 or 1989, and specifically on the expert analysis and publication of documents created in the course of activities of the State Security Service and KGB. The signing of the agreement chiefly opens up the opportunity to study period documents from the former Soviet state security services with respect to Central and Eastern Europe. Mgr. Patrik Košický Director, Office of the Institute