{"title":"Working methods of the Russian secret services in the light of the Oleg Kulinich case","authors":"Marek Świerczek","doi":"10.4467/20801335pbw.23.031.18773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20801335pbw.23.031.18773","url":null,"abstract":"The author analyses the case of the detention of Ukrainian Security Service officer Oleg Kulinich on suspicion of espionage for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. On the basis of the analysis of the tasks posed to this Russian agent, he concludes that the modus operandi of Russian counterintelligence is diametrically opposed to the methods of Western services. The main difference is the shifting of the centre of gravity of operational activities from reconnaissance-information work to attempts at agentic seizure of control over enemy institutions, mainly civilian and military special services, and the realisation of intelligence infiltration by people with the same habitus as recruitment candidates. Drawing on the achievements of cognitive psychology and research in recent history, the author demonstrates that the Russian services have been using and refining these methods for more than 100 years.","PeriodicalId":196713,"journal":{"name":"Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego","volume":"14 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138984281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assassination attempt on the life of the President of the Republic of Poland pursuant to Article 134 of the Criminal Code","authors":"Piotr Kosmaty","doi":"10.4467/20801335pbw.23.035.18777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20801335pbw.23.035.18777","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to present the issue of special criminal law protection of the President of the Republic of Poland. With reference to pre-war legislation, Article 134 of the Criminal Code was analysed, which criminalises behaviour constituting an attempt on the life of the President of the Republic of Poland, who, perceived not as a specific person but as an entity embodying the majesty of the Republic of Poland, is one of the main guarantors of the efficient and undisturbed functioning of the state organism. An assassination attempt on the holder of this office may be the beginning of both internal and external destabilisation of the state, and the threat to its security appears already at the moment of preparation to commit this crime. While the author of the article does not deny that this provision also strengthens the protection of this person’s life and health, he recognises that this is an incidental object of protection. The article presents arguments in favour of the criminalisation of any behaviour bearing the features of preparation for the crime of an attempt on the life of the President of the Republic of Poland, following the example of the authors of the Criminal Code of 1932.","PeriodicalId":196713,"journal":{"name":"Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego","volume":"25 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138984193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The mirror principle in assessing hybrid threats emanating from Russia and Belarus","authors":"Anna Maria Dyner","doi":"10.4467/20801335pbw.23.030.18772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20801335pbw.23.030.18772","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the author describes how the mirror principle used in psychology, which is based on finding in other people traits that an individual tries to suppress, can be used to identify potential threats from Russia and Belarus. She puts forward the hypothesis that by analysing the greatest threats mentioned by these countries, e.g. in strategic documents, it is possible to deduce, according to the principle of the mirror, in which spheres they will most actively conduct hostile actions against NATO members. Among other things, the hybrid actions that Russia and cooperating Belarus may take against Western states are indicated, but without an in-depth analysis of these issues. Thus, the article does not exhaust the topic, but merely attempts to signal one method of analysing the threats emanating from Russia and Belarus.","PeriodicalId":196713,"journal":{"name":"Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego","volume":"33 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138983798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Budowanie odporności państwa na działania hybrydowe","authors":"J. Keplin","doi":"10.4467/20801335pbw.23.018.18760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20801335pbw.23.018.18760","url":null,"abstract":"Zapewnienie bezpieczeństwa w coraz bardziej złożonym i niepewnym świecie wymaga od państw sprostania wielu wyzwaniom. Na-leżą do nich konieczność utrzymania kooperatywnego charakteru w przestrzeni międzynarodowej oraz potrzeba realizacji swoich celów strategicznych. Często następstwem takich działań są intencjonalne lub nieintencjonalne zagrożenia, które mogą skutecznie zdestabilizować nie tylko pojedyncze państwo, lecz także cały region. Ich pojawienie się może być efektem braku odporności na wrogie działania podmiotów państwowych lub niepaństwowych, które dla osiągnięcia swoich celów podejmują m.in. działania hybrydowe. Terminy „odporność państwa” i „działania hybrydowe” w literaturze przedmiotu są jednak niewystarczająco jasne i opisywane w sposób bardziej konceptualny niż definicyjny. W dokumentach zarówno narodowych, jak i NATO brakuje powszechnie uznanych definicji tych pojęć. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie koncepcji budowania odporności państwa na działania hybrydowe.\u0000\u0000Building state resilience against hybrid activities: Ensuring security in an increasingly complex and uncertain world requires states to address a number of challenges. These include the need to remain cooperative in the international space and the need to pursue their strategic objectives. Often these are followed up by intentional or unintentional threats that can effectively destabilise not only a single state, but also an entire region. Their emergence may be the result of a lack of resilience against hostile actions by state or non-state actors who, in order to achieve their objectives, undertake, among other things, hybrid activities. However, the terms ‘state resilience’ and ‘hybrid activities’ are insufficiently precisely formulated in the literature and described in a conceptual rather than a definitional manner. Both national and NATO documents lack universally accepted definitions of these terms. The aim of this article is to present the concept of building state resilience to hybrid activities.","PeriodicalId":196713,"journal":{"name":"Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego","volume":"18 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138984136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Współpraca Rosji z Chinami jako alternatywa dla ograniczenia obecności rosyjskiego sektora energetycznego w Europie","authors":"J. Sobieraj","doi":"10.4467/20801335pbw.23.027.18769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20801335pbw.23.027.18769","url":null,"abstract":"Artykuł jest poświęcony zasobom energetycznym Rosji, która za pomocą rurociągów kształtuje rynek odbiorców, a także – zgodnie ze swoimi interesami – wpływa na ich postawy i działania. W związku z inwazją na Ukrainę 24 lutego 2022 r. i sankcjami nałożonymi na Federację Rosyjską istotne jest pytanie o przyszłość rosyjskiego sektora energetycznego i alternatywę dla tamtejszego rynku węglowodorów. Autor opisał bilateralne relacje na rynku energii między Chińską Republiką Ludową a Federacją Rosyjską. Celem artykułu jest analiza historii tej współpracy, jej stanu obecnego oraz dokonanie predykcji jej rozwoju w związku z ograniczeniami rosyjskiej obecności na europejskim rynku energetycznym.\u0000\u0000Russia-China cooperation as an alternative for Russian energy in Europe: With almost 20% of the world’s natural gas reserves and more than 6% of the world’s oil reserves, Russia’s economic development is based on the production and export of hydrocarbons. This article is an excerpt from a diagnostic and analytical study of Russia’s energy resources, which, with the help of pipelines, shapes the market of consumers, influencing their attitudes and behaviour in line with its interests. The series of sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation after 24 February 2022, in connection with the full-scale aggression against Ukraine, poses the question of the future of the Russian energy sector and an alternative to the hydrocarbon market there. The author reconstructed bilateral energy relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation by analysing the history, current situation and making predictions about the potential future of bilateral cooperation in the light of the reduction of Russian energy presence in Europe. The article has been expanded to include an update on the state of bilateral relations in the first half of 2023.","PeriodicalId":196713,"journal":{"name":"Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego","volume":"28 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138983811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generał brygady Jan Kowalewski (1892–1965) – oficer wywiadu i kryptolog. Studia i szkice, red. Dariusz Rogut","authors":"M. Kozłowski","doi":"10.4467/20801335pbw.23.026.18768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20801335pbw.23.026.18768","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":196713,"journal":{"name":"Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego","volume":"20 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138984384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metody działania rosyjskich służb specjalnych w świetle afery Olega Kulinicza","authors":"Marek Świerczek","doi":"10.4467/20801335pbw.23.020.18762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20801335pbw.23.020.18762","url":null,"abstract":"Autor dokonuje analizy przypadku zatrzymania oficera Służby Bezpieczeństwa Ukrainy Olega Kulinicza pod zarzutem szpiegostwa na rzecz Federalnej Służby Bezpieczeństwa Federacji Rosyjskiej. Na podstawie analizy zadań stawianych temu rosyjskiemu agentowi dochodzi do wniosku, że sposób działania rosyjskiego kontrwywiadu diametralnie różni się od metod zachodnich służb. Główną różnicą jest przeniesienie środka ciężkości działań operacyjnych z pracy rozpoznawczo-informacyjnej na próby agenturalnego przejęcia kontroli nad instytucjami przeciwnika, głównie cywilnymi i wojskowymi służbami specjalnymi, oraz na realizację infiltracji wywiadowczej przez ludzi dysponujących tym samym habitusem co kandydaci do werbunku. Korzystając z dorobku psychologii po-znawczej oraz badań z zakresu historii najnowszej, autor udowadnia, że od ponad 100 lat rosyjskie służby wykorzystują i udoskonalają te metody.\u0000\u0000Working methods of the Russian secret services in the light of the Oleg Kulinich case: The author analyses the case of the detention of Ukrainian Security Service officer Oleg Kulinich on suspicion of espionage for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. On the basis of the analysis of the tasks posed to this Russian agent, he concludes that the modus operandi of Russian counterintelligence is diametrically opposed to the methods of Western services. The main difference is the shifting of the centre of gravity of operational activities from reconnaissance-information work to attempts at agentic seizure of control over enemy institutions, mainly civilian and military special services, and the realisation of intelligence infiltration by people with the same habitus as recruitment candidates. Drawing on the achievements of cognitive psychology and research in recent history, the author demonstrates that the Russian services have been using and refining these methods for more than 100 years.","PeriodicalId":196713,"journal":{"name":"Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego","volume":"27 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138984432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Praktyczny wymiar zagadnień związanych z oceną pewności źródeł oraz wiarygodności danych i informacji","authors":"Józef Kozłowski","doi":"10.4467/20801335pbw.23.021.18763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20801335pbw.23.021.18763","url":null,"abstract":"Fazy przygotowania, analizy, integracji, wstępnej interpretacji danych i informacji wywiadowczych są stosunkowo szeroko opisane w literaturze. Jedynie dziedzina oceny pewności źródeł oraz wiarygodności danych i informacji wywiadowczych nie nadąża za rozwojem innych elementów w domenie działań informacyjnych. Ze względu na coraz intensywniejsze działania prowadzone przez potencjalnych przeciwników należy obecnie stosowane metody, techniki i narzędzia poddać krytycznej ocenie i zidentyfikować ich ograniczenia, a także podjąć próby opracowania i wdrożenia nowych procesów i procedur. Przede wszystkim trzeba zwiększać możliwości przygotowania i komunikowania coraz dokładniejszych ocen pewności źródeł oraz wiarygodności danych i informacji. W związku z tym należy: kwantyfikować dokładność informacji, przygotować nowe procedury i oprogramowanie, badać stopień nadmiarowości informacji, jej kompletność i poziom diagnostyczności. Pracownicy aparatów zdobywającego i analitycznego muszą mieć wiedzę na te-mat istniejących ograniczeń i poszukiwać sposobów rozwiązywania problemów. Takie poszukiwania nie powinny skupiać się na meto-dach uniwersalnych, lecz na pragmatycznym podejściu do każdego z elementów.\u0000\u0000Practical dimension of issues related to assessing the reliability of sources and the trustworthiness of data and information: The phases of preparation, analysis, integration, initial interpretation of data and intelligence are relatively widely described in the literature. Only the field of assessing the certainty of sources and the reliability of data and intelligence has not kept pace with the development of other elements in the domain of information operations. In view of the increasing intensity of activities carried out by potential adversaries, the methods, techniques and tools currently in use should be critically evaluated and their limitations identified, and attempts should be made to develop and implement new processes and procedures. Above all, the capacity to prepare and communicate increasingly accurate assessments of the certainty of sources and the reliability of data and information must be enhanced. Therefore, it is necessary to: quantify the accuracy of the information, prepare new procedures and software, study the degree of information redundancy, its completeness and level of diagnosticity. Acquisition and analytical apparatus staff must be aware of existing limitations and search for ways to solve problems. Such a search should not focus on one-size-fits-all methods, but on a pragmatic approach to each element.","PeriodicalId":196713,"journal":{"name":"Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego","volume":"31 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138983912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Szturm na siedzibę Służby Bezpieczeństwa Ukrainy w Ługańsku w 2014 r. jako przykład operacji służb specjalnych Federacji Rosyjskiej","authors":"Marek Świerczek","doi":"10.4467/20801335pbw.23.002.17652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20801335pbw.23.002.17652","url":null,"abstract":"Autor analizuje zajęcie siedziby Służby Bezpieczeństwa Ukrainy (SBU) w Ługańsku w 2014 r. przez prorosyjskich manifestantów. Przedstawia także dobrze udokumentowane poszlaki wskazujące na to, że ługańska SBU została wybrana przez rosyjskie służby specjalne, aby odegrać rolę „wyzwalacza” wystąpień separatystycznych w Donbasie. Temu miało służyć między innymi zgromadzenie w magazynach tej jednostki ogromnych ilości amunicji, broni i materiałów wybuchowych, aby natychmiast po szturmie separatyści mogli przystąpić do tworzenia struktur militarnych. Zdaniem autora infiltracja ukraińskiego SBU i Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnętrznych była łatwiejsza wskutek istnienia w nich rozgałęzionych sieci klientelistycznych. To umożliwiało politykom wrogim nowej władzy sterowanie instytucjami państwowymi w imię interesów strategicznych Federacji Rosyjskiej.\u0000\u00002014 takeover of the SBU headquarters in Lugansk as an example of the operation of the Russian special services\u0000The 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.","PeriodicalId":196713,"journal":{"name":"Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123536183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study of threats in the information environment on the example of discussions about Russophobia in the Polish-language section of Facebook based on data from 2018 and January-April 2022","authors":"Kamil Baraniuk","doi":"10.4467/20801335pbw.23.011.17661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20801335pbw.23.011.17661","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyses the accounts most involved in initiating discussions about Russophobia in the Polish-language section of the Facebook social network in 2018 and in the period January-April 2022. The research process was carried out using quantitative trend analysis of the occurrence of a keyword related to discussion about Russophobia, network analysis and frame analysis. The author’s intention was an in-depth description of how this group of social media users reacted to the situational factor shaping the information environment, which was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The author sought to answer the question of how the observed phenomena affected the information security of the state. The study noted positive changes in the segment of the information environment concerning the discussion of Russophobia.","PeriodicalId":196713,"journal":{"name":"Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126512206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}