TY - JOUR
TI - 2014 takeover of the SBU headquarters in Lugansk as an example of the operation of the Russian special services
AU - Świerczek, Marek
TI - 2014 takeover of the SBU headquarters in Lugansk as an example of the operation of the Russian special services
AB - 
	The author analyzes the seizure of the SBU headquarters in Lugansk in 2014 by pro-Russian demonstrators. The author presents well-documented evidence that the Luhansk SBU was selected by the Russian secret services as a “trigger” of the uprising in the Donbas, due to the accumulation of a huge amount of ammunition, weapons and explosives, thanks to which the separatists could immediately start creating military structures after the attack. In the author’s opinion, the infiltration of the Ukrainian SBU and the Ministry of the Interior was facilitated by the existence of branched clientelist networks within them, enabling politicians hostile to the new prowestern government to steer state institutions in the name of the strategic interests of the Russian Federation.
VL - 2023
IS - Numer 28 (15)
PY - 2023
SN - 2080-1335
C1 - 2720-0841
SP - 278
EP - 312
DO - 10.4467/20801335PBW.23.012.17662
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przeglad-bezpieczenstwa-wewnetrznego/artykul/2014-takeover-of-the-sbu-headquarters-in-lugansk-as-an-example-of-the-operation-of-the-russian-special-services
KW - anomie
KW - FSB
KW - GU
KW - Ukraine
KW - SBU
KW - political technologies
KW - rebellion in the Donbas
KW - pro-Russian separatism