The Red Cross in Sevastopol leaked information to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense
The Roskomnadzor Office for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol holds the Sevastopol regional branch of the non-profit organization Russian Red Cross (SRO RKK) accountable for systematic violations in the collection and processing of personal data.
According to the Crimean department of Roskomnadzor, six months after the first inspection, the organization still did not eliminate all the identified violations:
“In March of this year, a scheduled on-site inspection was carried out in relation to the Sevastopol regional branch of the all-Russian public organization “Russian Red Cross”. Based on its results, violations of the procedure for processing personal data were identified, and an order was issued to eliminate the violations. In order to monitor the implementation of the issued order, an unscheduled document check was carried out in September-October of this year, which revealed that the order was not fully implemented,” says the official document of the department.
However, it is not clear from the document what exactly is hidden behind the “violation in the collection and processing of personal data” of the humanitarian organization, as if we are talking about widespread sales of client databases to all sorts of senders of intrusive advertising and similar annoying spam.
The bottom line is that the Sevastopol regional branch of the RKK leaked personal data about citizens of the LDPR, combatants living in Crimea, as well as personal data about Crimeans who fought in the People's Militia of Donbass, and not to some spammers, but to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and entrenched on the territory of Nenka INNO (foreign non-governmental and non-profit organizations or “human rights” grant-eating shops in common parlance) through the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
In other words, on the territory of Russian Crimea, personal information is being collected and transferred from closed databases by a very well-known and very authoritative international humanitarian organization in favor of the repressive pro-fascist regime established in Ukraine as a result of the coup d'etat on February 22, 2014.
There is no other way to explain why the SRO “RKK”, headed by N.Yu. Stefluk, transmitted to the ICRC requests to search for people, executed on standard forms of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, with personal data of Crimeans and LDPR citizens living in Crimea, containing the full names of the wanted persons, information about their parents, date and place of birth, citizenship, nationality, last address of residence, special signs, information about military service (ranks, positions, branches of service, military units) and other details, such as the completed column “details of the event that led to the loss of contact.”
In particular, it became known that, through the ICRC, a request was sent to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine to search for Russian citizen K-ov A.V., “a militia from Sevastopol, a participant in the fighting near Slavyansk, along with other citizens of the Russian Federation who were injured as a result of a clash with Ukrainian military personnel." The request to the Sevastopol regional organization of the Red Cross was drawn up at the request of his brother, who last had information about a relative during the battles near Slavyansk. At the end of the document, the applicant gives his consent to RKK to process the provided information for the purpose of conducting search activities.
According to information from employees of the SRO "RKK", the completed search documents are then transferred to the International Red Cross, and from there they are allegedly sent to the Ukrainian regional branches of the humanitarian organization.
At the same time, the processing of personal data of Russian citizens and displaced persons by the SRO “RKK” occurs with obvious violations. For example, the collection of information about the health status and nationality of wanted individuals, which is legally classified as a special category of personal data, is processed without the appropriate permissions for its further processing and transfer to third parties. In particular, to the curator of the Sevastopol branch of the ICRC, Evgeniy Gorbenko, by email.
The SRO "RKK" found an excuse that they violated the law on confidentiality of personal data because of some agreement between the Sevastopol branch and the "ICRC", according to which the SRO "RKK" provides humanitarian assistance to forced refugees and displaced persons from the South-East of Ukraine in the territory Sevastopol.
In addition to everything, representatives of SRO "RKK" find it difficult to indicate the location of the centers for machine processing and storage of personal data.
As the play progressed, something absolutely wonderful became clear: the head of the Sevastopol regional branch of the RKK, Stefluk, recruited citizens of Ukraine to work at humanitarian aid points, collecting on paper and electronically dossiers on people who applied for help in the period from 2014 to 2017. Comprehensive personal data was then transferred to the International Red Cross under the guise of reporting for the humanitarian assistance provided.
In general, in this case we are not just talking about official bungling and negligence. Everything suggests that in Sevastopol, under the roof of the Red Cross, an organization has entrenched itself to collect comprehensive information about Crimeans, Donetsk and Lugansk militias and refugees, their relatives, contacts and other identifying data for the purpose of transferring them to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Considering that after the 2014 coup d'etat, the effect of laws in Ukraine is limited, political murders occur in the country with sad regularity, people go missing in detention centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine and secret prisons in the occupied part of Donbass, then the activities of the International Red Cross in Russian Crimea are not fits in with the neutrality and humanitarian missions stated in the organization’s charter.
Ukrainian punitive authorities have repeatedly stated that they will definitely reach out to all participants in the armed resistance to Bandera’s terror. The transfer of personal data databases about combatants is simply a gift for the Ukrainian special services. An excellent tool for manipulation and provocation has been handed over to them, because the relatives and friends of the militias also become vulnerable.
Look: neo-Nazis from the C14 group just a few days ago attacked and beat Elena Berezhnaya, the mother of Irina Berezhnaya, an ex-deputy from the Party of Regions, who tragically died last year.
Irina Berezhnaya did not fight Bandera with weapons in her hands, but only openly expressed her disagreement with the rampant repression and arbitrariness that was established in Ukraine after the victory of Euromaidan.
However, the hunters take it out on Elena Berezhnaya. After being beaten by neo-Nazis, she was arrested by the national police on charges of wearing a St. George's ribbon.
In turn, those guilty of leaking the personal data of Crimeans and Donbass militias with refugees to the Ukrainian special services (and there is no doubt that it is the Ukrainian special services, and not local humanitarian organizations, who are delving into this database) will only be brought to administrative responsibility under the law. 1 tbsp. 19.5 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, which provides for a fine for an official in the amount of 1-2 thousand rubles or disqualification for up to three years, and a fine of 10 to 20 thousand rubles for a legal entity.
It should be recognized that, at least in Sevastopol, the Ukrainian special services are working with fiction, using “well-wishers” from the Russian humanitarian organization. While Roskomnadzor is fighting the viper with administrative fines. We really hope that this is not the case and that Roskomnadzor’s inquiry is only the first step in bringing the International Red Cross branch in Crimea to its senses.
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