Moiseev, Valentin Ivanovich

Moiseev Valentin Ivanovich was born on March 10, 1946 in Leningrad . He studied there at secondary school No. 1.

In 1969 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR with a degree in economics and international affairs, and in 1990 - from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He speaks Korean , English and French .

From 1969 to 1976 and from 1984 to 1998, he worked in the central office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs abroad - in Pyongyang , Seoul and Vienna , having gone from an assistant trainee to the head of the Department of Korea (1994-1996) and Deputy Director of the First Department of Asia of the Ministry (1996-1998). He has the diplomatic rank of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. Member of numerous international negotiations and meetings at the highest and highest levels in Moscow and abroad.

From 1982 to 1984, he worked as head of the economic department of the USSR Trade Representation in Pyongyang.

From 1977 to 1982 he was a researcher at the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System (now OMEPI IE - Department of International Economic and Political Studies of the Institute of Economics of the RAS), Ph.D. Research interests: socio-economic situation in the DPRK , the situation on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia , Russian-Korean relations. The author of more than 90 publications, a participant in international scientific conferences and symposia on this subject. In 1995-1998 combined work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with scientific activity at OMEPI IE RAS .

Married (wife - Denisova Natalia Mikhailovna), has an adult daughter and son.

On July 3, 1998, Valentin Moiseev was arrested and charged with high treason in the form of espionage in favor of South Korea (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The immediate reason for the arrest was the transfer to the adviser to the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Moscow, Cho Song Wu, of the theses read out the day before at the official Russian-Korean symposium in OMEPI the report “Russian Politics on the Korean Peninsula” ( http://index.org.ru/mayday/moiseev/mlecture .html ) accepted by the FSB for a secret official document. Abstracts are published in the OMEPI scientific collection, posted on the Internet, and at the same time one copy is kept in the Moiseyev case as evidence of his guilt.

Valentin Moiseev spent more than three and a half years in the Lefortovo FSB pre-trial detention center, while the investigation and trial continued. In December 1999, he was sentenced by the Moscow City Court to 12 years in prison. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned this verdict, stating in its ruling that it "cannot be recognized as lawful and justified." The case was sent to the Moscow City Court for a new trial, which lasted almost a year and during which six court compositions were replaced.

In August 2001, a verdict was passed according to which Moses was sentenced to a term almost three times lower than the lower limit provided for in Articles 275–4.5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony with confiscation of property. The term was fully served in Torzhok at the UFSIN hospital in the Tver Region . Released December 31, 2002

According to Russian human rights activists, violations during the investigation and trial that took place in the case of Valentin Moiseyev became vivid evidence of his “ordered”, political nature. The “appointment” of him as a “spy” was supposed to show society a rampant foreign penetration even in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Well-known human rights activists, journalists, scientists and other public figures have repeatedly filed motions and appeals in his support. On September 14, 2000, a number of leading human rights organizations in Russia turned to Amnesty International with a request to recognize Valentin Moiseev as a prisoner of conscience.

In November 2000, Moiseyev’s wife, Natalia Denisova, registered his complaint with the European Court of Human Rights. On December 9, 2004, the European Court ruled on its admissibility ( https://web.archive.org/web/20071009172018/http://www.ip-centre.ru//rus/Moiseyev.doc ), and on October 9 2008 substantive decision. In general, 17 violations were found under 7 articles of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ( https://web.archive.org/web/20100210004547/http://www.ip-centre.ru /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=265 ) (in the Supreme Court’s ruling, which examined the cassation appeals against the Moscow City Court’s verdict in the Moiseyev case and dismissed them, it says that “neither the investigating authorities nor the court committed any criminal process cial law, norms of the Russian Constitution and international law, in particular the European Convention on Human Rights "). In particular, the Court found a violation of the right to a fair trial, finding that the domestic court was not impartial and independent, and that the right to a defense had been violated. Such violations actually disavow the Moscow City Court’s verdict against Moses.

Valentin Moiseev described his misadventures in the book “How I Was a South Korean Spy,” published by the Moscow Helsinki Group ( https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194818/http://www.mhg.ru/publications/7109F5 ).

Since 2005, Valentin Moiseev has been working as deputy director of the Center for Assistance to International Protection Interregional Public Organization, which provides assistance to Russian citizens in protecting their rights at the European Court of Human Rights .

• The social policy of the TPK and its impact on the living standards of the DPRK population. - M. IEMSS AN USSR, 1980.
• The current situation in Russia and the path of development of Korean-Russian economic ties // Strategy for entering the markets of the CIS and Eastern Europe. - Seoul, 1992 (in core).
• Russia - the Republic of Korea: a course of constructive partnership (on the outcome of the visit of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation) // Problems of the Far East, 1994, No. 4.
• Russia and the Korean Peninsula // International Affairs, 1996, No. 2.
• On the Korean Peninsula // International Affairs, 1997, No. 3.
• The North Korean Nuclear Program: Security, Strategy and New Perspectives from Russia

• The most fake spy . A selection of materials and documents from the magazine "Dossier on censorship"
• Putin about Moiseev . Komsomolskaya Pravda July 8, 1999.
• Ernst Black. Prove that you are not a spy . General newspaper August 31, 2000.
• Zoya Svetova . The Case of the "Spy Diplomat" Moiseyev Russian Thought. September 6, 2000
• Oleg Fochkin. Which ear buzzes ? Moscow Komsomolets, October 12, 2000
• Elizabeth Maynaya. AGENT 2002. Recruitment invalidate ? Moscow Komsomolets December 8, 2000.
• Elizabeth Maynaya. Spy Dead End . Moskovsky Komsomolets August 16, 2001 December 2000
• Francois Bonnet. Valentin Moiseev appeared in court for the third time since 1998 . Mond, March 2, 2001
• Evgenia Rubtsova. Spies, spies, all around spies . Novye Izvestia July 17, 2001
• Irina Borogan. Blue buttonholes of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Newspaper Version 17 February 2003
• V. Moiseev. Like I was a South Korean spy . Newspaper Version 18 November 2003
• Zoya Svetova. It didn’t work to make me a spy (inaccessible link) . Novye Izvestia, October 8, 2008.
• Irina Borogan. The FSB did not pass the test of Strasbourg . Agentura.ru
• Ernst Black. The Chekists have always had this . Grani.ru February 21, 2011