Soviet-Era KGB archives to be opened in Ukraine: What information can they contain about Armenia? (video)
The Verkhovna Rada voted in April 2015 to open up the Ukraine's archive of Soviet-era KGB files to the public. Under the bill, titled "On access to the archives of the repressive organs of the communist totalitarian regime during 1917-1991,” the information would be transferred to the Institute of National Remembrance. The bill passed by 261 votes of the parliament's roughly 420 members. Political analist Stepan Safaryan says the archives may contain ‘interesting’ information about Armenia, since they refer to the entire Soviet Union. Former Deputy Head of the National Security Service Gurgen Yeghaizaryan reminds, in turn, that lustration is an illusion and if it were a good thing the west would also open its archives. Lustration procedures have been applied in the Baltic states, Georgia and Eastern Europe.
