Last year, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the law “On Access to Archives of Repressive Agencies of Totalitarian Communist Regime of 1917-1991”, which opens to the public the documents of the Cheka, NKVD, and KGB that are currently stored in Ukraine, even including classified documents. The Security Service of Ukraine’s central and regional archives store more than 900,000 volumes from the Soviet period — they are to be handed over to the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.

As the documents are studied, they are gradually digitized, and currently published on the website of the Ukrainian Center for Research on the Liberation Movement. To mark the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl NPP accident, the Center published 32 KGB of the Ukrainian SSR classified documents about the causes and aftermath of the accident, as well as about the effort to conceal information related to the accident. Bird In Flight cites the most interesting excerpts.