National Security Service (Armenia)

State agency of Armenia

For other intelligence services of a similar name, see National Security Service (disambiguation).

National Security Service of ArmeniaՀայաստանի Ազգային Անվտանգության Ծառայություն

Seal of the NSS

NSS headquarters in Yerevan
Agency overview
Formed| 4 December 1991
Preceding agency|

* KGB of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic

Superseding agency|

* Foreign Intelligence Service of Armenia

Jurisdiction| Government of Armenia
Headquarters| Yerevan, Armenia
40°10′55″N 44°31′23″E﻿ / ﻿40.182°N 44.523°E﻿ / 40.182; 44.523
Agency executive|

* Colonel Armen Abazyan, Director

Website| www.sns.am

The National Security Service (NSS) (Armenian: Հայաստանի Ազգային Անվտանգության Ծառայություն, romanized: Hayastani Azgayin Anvtangut’yan Tsarrayut’yun) is the national civilian security agency of Republic of Armenia tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from internal and external on threats to national security and works to eliminate those threats.

The National Security Service conducts analysis and development intelligence gathering and counterintelligence systems to create national security, border security, civilian intelligence cybersecurity, clandestine and covert operations, countering hybrid threats, counterintelligence, counter-revolutionary, counterterrorism, creation a civilian security network intelligence, executive protection (especially the President of the Republic of Armenia, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, and visiting foreign leaders), intelligence gathering and assessment, internal security, investigation and interrogation some other types of serious crimes, military counterintelligence, political warfare, protects classified information, psychological and information warfare, support anti-corruption, support irregular warfare operations, and threat assessment to national security.

The service is also responsible for the Armenian Border Guard.[1][2]

The NSS is being replaced by the civilian-run Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS), established in 2023. The NSS, the direct successor of the Soviet Committee for State Security of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (KGB of ArSSR), was once responsible for all domestic and foreign intelligence, counter-revolutionary, counterintelligence affairs as well as the security detail for the Prime Minister of Armenia, protects classified information, and threat assessment to national security. Now, it has lost those missions, in part because of a perception within Armenian government that the agency maintains its own interests and alliances inconsistent with national interests.[3] It is expected to be entirely dissolved within three years.[4] The NSS is currently headquartered on Nalbandyan Street in the Kentron district of downtown Yerevan.

## History

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A 2018 stamp dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the security services of Armenia

In late September 1991, Soviet Armenia declared its independence and began the process of restructuring its Soviet-era security agencies, including the Committee for State Security of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (KGB of ArSSR).[5] According to a law on the structure and composition of the government adopted on 4 December 1991, the KGB of ArSSR was renamed the State Directorate of National Security, with Major General Husik Suren Harutyunyan becoming its first director, serving until February 1992.[6]

Between 1996 and 1999, the government went through the process of uniting the Ministry of National Security and the Ministry of Internal Affairs into one department. Despite rumors that the NSS will be dismembered into several departments to follow a Russian format, the service runs with a Committee for State Security (KGB)-style semi-militarized structure which remains unchanged since its establishment. On 17 December 2002, President Robert Kocharyan restructured the National Security Ministry into the NSS.[7][8]

## Operations

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It is known to have participated in both the 2016 Yerevan hostage crisis[9] and the 2018 anti-corruption crackdown.[10] During the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, 46 servicemen of the National Security Service Border Troops (NSS Border Troops) were killed, with 191 others wounded, and 2 declared missing.[11] During the protests following the 2020 Karabkah ceasefire agreement, the NSS foiled an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, uncovering the illegal acquisition and storage of weapons and explosives by a group of people led by former NSS operative and director Artur Vanetsyan.[12]

## Structure

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The NSS has traditionally been structured closer to its predecessor, the KGB, than other post-Soviet states, however since reforms by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in 2018, the service has reorganized and consolidated. Two services have been derived directly from the organization of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB):[13][14]

* Border Guard – under the control of the NSS since 2004 when it was transferred from the Ministry of Defence of Armenia.
* Central Administration
* Department of Counterintelligence
* Department of Economic Security and Countering Corruption – modeled on the 4th Service of the Russian FSB[14]
* Department of Intelligence
* Department of Military Counterintelligence
* Department of Protection of Constitutional Order and Fight against Terrorism – modeled on the 2nd Service of the Russian FSB[14]
* Investigation Department
* Territorial Authorities

## Recruitment

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Service in the NSS is open to all Armenian citizens under the age of 30 who are fluent in Armenian. Males must have fulfilled or been exempted from compulsory service requirements. All applicants must meet military physical fitness requirements, and pass physical and mental health examinations as well as a polygraph. The service prefers recruits speak at least one other language, while recruits who attend training programs in Russia must also be fluent in Russian.[15]

NSS intelligence officers are often trained through the intelligence schools of the Russian Federation, to include the Federal Security Service (FSB) academy. Students who attend the FSB academy graduate from the five year residential program with a degree in law and a commission as a lieutenant in the Armenian military.[15]

Recruits to the Armenian Border Guard attend five year residential training programs in Russia at the Oryol campus of the FSB's Moscow Border Institute, or either the Kurgan or Kaliningrad Border Guard Institutes, graduating with a degree in engineering and a commission as a lieutenant in the Border Guard.[15]

## NSS Union

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Artur Vanetsyan as NSS director in 2019

In April 2021,[16] group of former senior NSS officials formed an organization called the Union of NSS Reserve Officers. The union includes, in particular, ex-director of the NSS Artur Vanetsyan, former commander of the border troops Armen Abrahamyan, former Deputy Head of the NSS Grigory Harutyunyan, and former Acting Director of the NSS Mikael Hambardzumyan. The task of the union is to confront the challenges and threats to security, collect facts of the subversive activities of some structures, and use the experience of officers to solve the country's security problems. Although initially created as an apolitical structure, it supported the army officials who signed a statement drafted by General Staff calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.[17]

## Directors of the National Security Service

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Directors of the National Security Service since the end of the KGB of the Armenian SSR:

* Major General Usik Harutyunyan (1991–1992)[18]
* Major General Valery Poghosyan (1992–1993)
* Major General Eduard Simonyants [hy] (1993–1994)
* David Shahnazaryan (1994–1995)
* Serzh Sargsyan (1996–1999)
* Lieutenant General Carlos Petrosyan (1999–2004)
* Colonel General Gorik Hakobyan (2004–2016)
* Major General Georgi Kutoyan (2016–2018)
* Major General Artur Vanetsyan (2018–2019)
* Colonel Eduard Martirosyan (2019–2020)[19]
* Colonel Argishti Kyaramyan (June 2020–October 2020)[20]
* Colonel Armen Abazyan (November 2020–present)

## See also

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* Prosecutor General of Armenia

## References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to National Security Service of Armenia.

1. ^ "Armenia's National Security Service reveals another unsuccessful attempt of Azerbaijani propaganda". armenpress.am. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
2. ^ "Armenia National Security Service exposes another failed Azerbaijan propaganda attempt". news.am. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
3. ^ Ioannisyan, Daniel (30 August 2024). "Opinion: Armenian authorities "don't trust the National Security Service, the KGB's successor"". Jam News. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
4. ^ "Armenia's Foreign Intelligence Service Seeks to Further Detract Power from the NSS". Oragark. 29 August 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
5. ^ Paradox of power: Russia, Armenia, and Europe after the Velvet Revolution. 7 August 2019.
6. ^ "History". www.sns.am. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
7. ^ "History".
8. ^ "Armenia | Freedom House". freedomhouse.org. Archived from the original on 18 November 2013.
9. ^ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld | Hostage Crisis Continues in Armenia". Refworld. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
10. ^ "Armenian opposition group takes hostages in Yerevan police building". The Guardian. Agence France-Presse. 17 July 2016. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
11. ^ 46 servicemen of Armenia NSS border troops killed during NK war
12. ^ "Assassination attempt on Pashinyan stopped - Armenian National Security". TASS. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
13. ^ "Служба национальной безопасности Республики Армения - Структура Службы национальной безопасности РА".
14. ^ a b c "Structure". www.sns.am. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
15. ^ a b c "How to become an employee of the NSS". www.sns.am. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
16. ^ "Основана общественная организации "Союз офицеров запаса Службы национальной безопасности"".
17. ^ "Союз офицеров запаса Службы нацбезопасности Армении: Нельзя допустить, чтобы фанатичные популисты разделяли народ | Новости политики".
18. ^ Биография
19. ^ "Eduard Martirosyan appointed NSS Director".
20. ^ "Armenia PM announces names of new police, national security and army chiefs".

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* North Korea: SSD
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* Ukraine: HUR MO
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Imagery
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* Israel: Air Intelligence Group
* Malaysia: MaCGDI
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* Portugal: CIGeoE
* Russia: TsVTI GRU
* United Kingdom: DGIFC
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Financial
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* Brazil: COAF
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* China: MPSECIB [zh]
* Fiji: FIU
* France: Tracfin, DNRED
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* Mexico: UIF
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* Qatar: FIU
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* Spain: SVA, SEPBLAC
* Turkey: MASAK
* United Kingdom: NCA
* United States: IRS-CI, TFI
* FinCEN
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* Vatican: ASIF

Criminal
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* Canada: CISC
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* Indonesia: Baintelkam Polri (id)
* Italy: DIA, DIGOS
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* Romania:  DGPI
* South Africa: Crime Intelligence Division
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Intelligence
community|

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Science
and technology|

* Yerevan Physics Institute
* National Academy of Sciences
* Institute of Mathematics of National Academy
* Yerevan Computer Research Institute
* CANDLE Synchrotron Institute
* Tumo Center for Technologies

Sport|

* Vazgen Sargsyan Rep. Stadium
* Hrazdan Stadium
* Yerevan Football Academy
* Tigran Petrosian Chess House
* H. Hayrapetyan Equestrian Centre
* Karen Demirchyan Complex
* Yerevan Velodrome
* Yerevan Figure Skating and Hockey Sports School

Transportation|

* Yerevan railway station
* Trolleybuses in Yerevan
* Erebuni Airport
* Zvartnots International Airport
* Yerevan Underground

Squares, streets
and bridges|

* Republic Square
* Freedom Square
* Garegin Nzhdeh Square
* Charles Aznavour Square
* Aram Street
* Abovyan Street
* Mashtots Avenue
* Sayat-Nova Avenue
* Baghramyan Avenue
* Tamanyan Street
* Komitas Avenue
* Liberty Avenue
* Northern Avenue
* Victory Bridge
* Hrazdan Gorge Aqueduct
* Great Bridge of Hrazdan
* Davtashen Bridge

Government|

* President's Residence
* Government House
* National Assembly Building
* National Security Service
* Yerevan City Hall
* Constitutional Court
* Police of Armenia
* Prosecutor General
* Central Bank of Armenia
* Court of Cassation

Precincts|

* Ajapnyak
* Arabkir
* Avan
* Davtashen
* Erebuni
* Kanaker-Zeytun
* Kentron
* Malatia-Sebastia
* Nork-Marash
* Nor Nork
* Nubarashen
* Shengavit

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