PATRIOTS DEMANDED TO BAN THE RUSSIAN 'ROSSOTRUDNICHESTVO' WORK IN KYIV

It is known that Moscow, among other, uses all-sorts of Russian cultural centers, diplomatic institutions and even branches of Russian companies all-over Europe as an official cover for the work of its external intelligence and agents of influence. Recall, last year, during the searches in Ukrainian offices of the Russian Yandex IT company the SBU revealed that they had been involved in collecting of personal data about Ukrainian military, security service employees and their families. At the same time, the Rossotrudnichestvo (Russian Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, compatriots living abroad and international humanitarian cooperation) branch office is still running in the capital of Ukraine.

On February 18, the activists of Ukrainian patriotic organizations (the C14, Pravy Sektor, Tradytsia i Poryadok) entered the Rosspivrobitnitsvo office in Kyiv with demands to ban the Russian institution work in Ukraine, arguing that it cooperates with the Russian intelligence services.

During the action the activists explained that the organization is illegally staying in this building, since it has had problems with rental payment for about two years. In addition, it is known that the Rossotrudnichestvo for a long time have conducted subversive activity on the territory of Ukraine. Till 2016 the institution had funded the "Young Scouts of Sumy Region" camps, initiated by the Russian Cultural Center. Subsequently, the SBU detained the camps organizer for promotion of  separatism.

One of the priorities of the Rossotrudnichestvo is to attract perspective Ukrainian youth to study in the Russian Federation, where it will be much easier to persuade them to cooperate with the Russian external intelligence.

Among other things, the activists shared information about some of the interesting things they found at the Russian institution office:

"A dossier on a businessman and public activist from Zaporizhia, obviously collected by Russian intelligence. Unique text. Apart from talks about Russian artists and Chaliapin, the Russian intelligence is working hard in the Rossotrudnichestvo. When we broke into this structure of propaganda and recruiting (the rear for the Kremlin's non-military intelligence), one of the frightened mischiefs tried to throw a folder in the WINDOW. The guys have managed to intercept it. No comments. That's what's going on right the center of Kyiv, and yesterday two more Ukrainians in Crimea were imprisoned for six years. Without a reason."

This photo was made in the Kyiv's office of the Rossotrudnichestvo in 2013. "The bottom row. The first from the right is Aleksey Selivanov, a leader of the Vernoye Kazachestvo (a pro-Russian marginal separatist organisation), unofficial security structure of the Moscow Patriarchate institutions in Ukraine. He's the one, who in 2014 urged the DNR terrorists to attack Kyiv. 

The next one is Dmitry (also known as "Kremen"), currently hides in Minsk, the head of the Soprotivlenie separatist structure; active supporter of AntiMaydan; the Donbass conflict participant on the separatists side. In September 2014, one of his deputies was killed by the SBU employee during the transportation of a a backpack with explosives in Kyiv. 

Next is a Russian army paratrooper from Moscow, the organizer of a rally with the bust of Tsar Nikolay in Ukraine, a member of the RNE Russian chauvinist organisation.

The guy on the left is Yegor Smorodinov, an athlete and a businessman from the Dnipro city; in 2014 he had headed the security service of anti-Ukrainian politician Oleg Tsarov. Currently he is hiding in Moscow.

Before the war, it was Rossoudrudnichestvo who had coordinated the "humanitarian" support of many future terrorists."

The action in general had a non-violent character; noticeable, that the activists themselves called the police to ensure the action to be held within the law frameworks.