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Zoran Veruševski
Zoran Verushevski was the third director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), the domestic counter-intelligence and security agency of the Republic of Macedonia. Arrest He was arrested in January 2015, and he is still under arrest by Macedonian authorities under suspicion of two crimes: espionage and assisting in violence towards representatives of the highest state organs. Opposition leader Zoran Zaev was also charged, on January 31, with "conspiring with a foreign intelligence service to topple the government" and foreign diplomats are also allegedly involved in the alleged coup d'état A coup d'état (; ; ), or simply a coup , is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to powe .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Administration For Security And Counterintelligence
The Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (, Albanian language, Albanian: ''Administrata për siguri dhe kundërzbulim''), commonly referred to by the acronym UBK, was the domestic counterintelligence and security agency of North Macedonia. Its headquarters were located in Skopje, and the agency was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (North Macedonia), Ministry of Internal Affairs. The agency was founded in the People's Republic of Macedonia under the name Department for People's Protection OZNA, as the official security agency in the Macedonian socialist republic. Officially, the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence, was founded in 1995 under the name Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence. This agency was succeeded by the National Security Agency. Directors See also *North Macedonia *Intelligence Agency of North Macedonia, Intelligence Agency (Civilian Agency) * Military Service for Security and Intelligence-G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dobri Velichkovski
The Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (, Albanian: ''Administrata për siguri dhe kundërzbulim''), commonly referred to by the acronym UBK, was the domestic counterintelligence and security agency of North Macedonia. Its headquarters were located in Skopje, and the agency was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The agency was founded in the People's Republic of Macedonia under the name Department for People's Protection OZNA, as the official security agency in the Macedonian socialist republic. Officially, the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence, was founded in 1995 under the name Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence. This agency was succeeded by the National Security Agency. Directors See also *North Macedonia *Intelligence Agency (Civilian Agency) * Military Service for Security and Intelligence The Military Service for Security and Intelligence of North Macedonia is an intelligence office within th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedonians (ethnic Group)
Macedonians ( ) are a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group native to the region of Macedonia in Southeast Europe. They speak Macedonian, a South Slavic language. The large majority of Macedonians identify as Eastern Orthodox Christians, who share a cultural and historical "Orthodox Byzantine–Slavic heritage" with their neighbours. About two-thirds of all ethnic Macedonians live in North Macedonia; there are also communities in a number of other countries. The concept of a Macedonian ethnicity, distinct from their Orthodox Balkan neighbours, is seen to be a comparatively newly emergent one. The earliest manifestations of an incipient Macedonian identity emerged during the second half of the 19th century among limited circles of Slavic-speaking intellectuals, predominantly outside the region of Macedonia. They arose after the First World War and especially during the 1930s, and thus were consolidated by Communist Yugoslavia's governmental policy after the Second World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslav People's Army
The Yugoslav People's Army (JNA/; Macedonian language, Macedonian, Montenegrin language, Montenegrin and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian language, Croatian and ; , JLA), also called the Yugoslav National Army, was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its antecedents from 1945 to 1992. Origins The origins of the JNA started during the Yugoslav Partisans of World War II. As a predecessor of the JNA, the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (NOVJ) was formed as a part of the Resistance during World War II, anti-fascist World War II in Yugoslavia, People's Liberation War of Yugoslavia in the Bosnian town of Rudo on 22 December 1941. After the Yugoslav Partisans liberated the country from the Axis Powers, that date was officially celebrated as the "Day of the Army" in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia). In March 1945, the NOVJ was renamed the "Yugo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Administration For Security And Counterintelligence
The Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (, Albanian: ''Administrata për siguri dhe kundërzbulim''), commonly referred to by the acronym UBK, was the domestic counterintelligence and security agency of North Macedonia. Its headquarters were located in Skopje, and the agency was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The agency was founded in the People's Republic of Macedonia under the name Department for People's Protection OZNA, as the official security agency in the Macedonian socialist republic. Officially, the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence, was founded in 1995 under the name Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence. This agency was succeeded by the National Security Agency. Directors See also *North Macedonia *Intelligence Agency (Civilian Agency) * Military Service for Security and Intelligence The Military Service for Security and Intelligence of North Macedonia is an intelligence office within th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counter-intelligence
Counterintelligence (counter-intelligence) or counterespionage (counter-espionage) is any activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service. It includes gathering information and conducting activities to prevent espionage, sabotage, assassinations or other intelligence activities conducted by, for, or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations or persons. Many countries will have multiple organizations focusing on a different aspect of counterintelligence, such as domestic, international, and counter-terrorism. Some states will formalize it as part of the police structure, such as the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Others will establish independent bodies, such as the United Kingdom's MI5, others have both intelligence and counterintelligence grouped under the same agency, like the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). History Modern tactics of espionage and dedicated government intelligenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Macedonia
North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the north. It constitutes approximately the northern third of the larger geographical Macedonia (region), region of Macedonia. Skopje, the capital and largest city, is home to a quarter of the country's population of over 1.83 million. The majority of the residents are ethnic Macedonians (ethnic group), Macedonians, a South Slavs, South Slavic people. Albanians in North Macedonia, Albanians form a significant minority at around 25%, followed by Turks in North Macedonia, Turks, Romani people in North Macedonia, Roma, Serbs in North Macedonia, Serbs, Bosniaks in North Macedonia, Bosniaks, Aromanians in North Macedonia, Aromanians and a few other minorities. The region's history begins with the Paeonia (kingdom), kingdom of Paeonia. In the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoran Zaev
Zoran Zaev (, ; born 8 October 1974) is a Macedonian economist and politician who served as prime minister of North Macedonia from May 2017 to January 2020, and again from August 2020 to January 2022. Prior to entering politics, he ran a private business in his hometown of Strumica. In the period 2003–2005, he was a Member of the Parliament of Macedonia, and then he ran for mayor of Strumica Municipality, a position he held for three terms, between 2005 and 2016. After the resignation of Branko Crvenkovski from the leadership of the centre-left Social Democratic Union of Macedonia in 2013, Zaev was appointed the new party leader. Zaev suffered defeat in the 2014 parliamentary election, after which he made accusations of election rigging and decided for his party to act as a non-parliamentary opposition. In 2015, he published illegally obtained telephone conversations of senior government officials that contained indications of organized crime. In the same year, he signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
