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The National Security Service was created in 1991 and from the beginning it was subordinated personally to the President of Uzbekistan. Together with other enforcing bodies, it constitutes one of the foundations of Uzbekistan’s legislative order. Uzbekistan adopted a model where it merged the intelligence and counterintelligence, not only the civil but also the military and the secret services that persecutes economic crimes in one institution. The result is that the tasks and powers granted to National Security Service are extensive. There are no effective mechanisms of parliamentary control over the Service’s activities. Due to political conditions, a significant part of its activity is devoted to fight against the actual and potential or alleged enemies of the existing political order.