The Ministry of State Security ( ro, Ministerul Securității Statului, russian: Министерство государственной безопасности, uk, Міністерство державної безпеки) is the

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n state security service.

History

It was formed May 16, 1992 and was headed by

Vladimir Antyufeyev Vladimir Yuryevich Antyufeyev (russian: Владимир Юрьевич Антюфéев; born 19 February 1951), also known under the assumed name Vadim Shevtsov or Vladimir Shevtsov is a former Soviet OMON police officer who was one of organiz ...

up to 2012, until he was replaced by Vladislav Finagin. The ministry is headquartered in

Tiraspol Tiraspol or Tirișpolea ( ro, Tiraspol, Moldovan Cyrillic: Тираспол, ; russian: Тира́споль, ; uk, Тирасполь, Tyraspol') is the capital of Transnistria (''de facto''), a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the th ...

. Until January 11, 2017, it was known as the Committee of State Security of the PMR, which was named after the former Soviet

KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...

. The headquarters of the ministry were attacked in 2022 while the

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was taking place. This was part of a series of attacks of unknown authorship that occurred in Transnistria in that year. The perpetrator is unknown, but it is possible that it was a

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incident orchestrated by

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or Transnistria.

Structure

* Territorial security agencies * Security forces of the

Armed Forces of Transnistria The Armed Forces of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic ( ro, Forțele armate ale Republicii Moldovenești Nistrene, Moldovan Cyrillic: Форцеле армате але Републичий Молдовенешть Нистрене; russian: ...

* Service bodies within the ministry * Support units * Independent Battalion of Special Operations "Delta" * Border Detachment ** Separate Reserve Cossack Border Regiment * Center for Special Operations

Border Detachment

The Border Detachment of the MGB tasked with patrol of the regional borders with

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and

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. On 14 November 1992, former territorial rescue detachment fighters took the role of protecting of the borders of the republic, along with the Black Sea Cossacks. On 1 March 1993, in the structure of the Ministry of State Security, a reserve cossack regiment was created. The border detachment was formed in September 1993 from the

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Cossacks and soldiers of the TSO. On 14 September 1993, the Border Guard received a battle banner. Today, there are two Cossack border commandant's offices, units of which more than 75% of the personnel are

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. The border outpost in Bender is named after the Cossack Colonel Driglov, who died defending the during the Transnistria War.

Border Guards Day Border Guards Day (russian: День пограничника; kz, Шекараны қорғау күні; tg, Рӯзи сарҳадбонони сарҳадӣ; ky, Чек ара кызматы күнү; be, дзень пагранічніка ...

is celebrated on 14 September.

Independent Battalion of Special Operations "Delta"

The Order of Honor Independent Battalion of Special Operations "Delta" of the Ministry of State Security is a special battalion formed on 31 March 1992 by presidential decree of

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, at the height of the Transnistria War. It is currently subordinate directly to the MGB, and is enlisted in the reserve of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, it currently performs tasks of protecting the national border and fight against terrorism. In late June of that year, the Delta battalion took part in the Battle in Bender, driving the forces of the

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from the bridge over the

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. On 4 April 1997, the Delta Battalion was awarded the Order of Honor by President

Yevgeny Shevchuk Yevgeny Vasilyevich Shevchuk (russian: Евге́ний Васи́льевич Шевчу́к, tr. ''Yevgeniy Vasilyevich Shevchuk'', uk, Євге́н Васи́льович Шевчу́к, tr. ''Yevhen Vasylovych Shevchuk'', Moldovan Cyrillic ...

. In 2012, the "Delta" battalion was reorganized into the "East" Special Operations Center of the KGB.https://novostipmr.com/ru/news/19-04-01/specnazu-delta-27-let {{Bare URL inline, date=April 2022

List of leaders

– September 1992 – December 2011 * Vladislav Finagin – January 24, 2012 – May 17, 2013 * Nikolay Zemstov – October 22, 2013 – May 21, 2014 * Mikhail Lapitsky – May 21, 2014 – June 1, 2017 * Valeriy Gebos - June 1, 2017 – present

References

External links

Description and contact information
Ministry of National Security of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, Retrieved April 2, 2010. * Dan Ionescu
"Intelligence Agences: Lethal Expansion"
TOL, 2002
crij.org: Sorin Ozon, "Original Communism"
Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism, July 13, 2006 History of Transnistria since 1991 Intelligence ministries Politics of Transnistria Political organizations based in Transnistria Military of Transnistria