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UNCLAS MOSCOW 000324 
 
SIPDIS 
 
USDOC FOR 532/OEA/M.HAMES/L.RITTER 
USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA 
USDOC FOR 532/OEE/MO'BRIEN 
USDOC FOR 532/BIS/OEA/TWILLIS/EHOLLAND/ANALYST 
 
 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: LINK EXPRESS, 
KIEV, UKRAINE, LICENSE NO. NLR 
 
REFTEL: USDOC 0238 
 
¶1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is 
prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 
 
¶2. Reftel requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the 
legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Link Express, Kiev, 
Ukraine. The company is listed on BIS license application: NLR as 
the ultimate consignee of fifty (50) I.C. DIV 2 prescaler, DC, 
electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, and other mixed signals. 
 Fifty (50) I.C., SMT double-balanced mixers, electronic integrated 
circuit: n/unmounted and other mixed signals.  One hundred (100) 
I.C., MSOP8 SMT mixers, electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, 
and other mixed signals.  One hundred (100) I.C., DIV 4 prescaler 
DC, electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, and other mixed 
signals.  One hundred (100) I.C., SMT double-balanced mixers, 
electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, and other mixed signals. 
Three hundred (300) I.C., MSOP switches and electronic integrated 
circuit and other mixed signals.  Thirty (30) integrated circuit 24 
lead, 4X4electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, and other mixed 
signals.  One hundred (100) I.C., digital attenuator electronic 
integrated circuit: n/unmounted, and other mixed signals.  ECCN: 
none given.  The exporter is Hittite Microwave Corporation, 20 Alpha 
Road, Chelmsford, MA  01824. 
 
¶3. On January 30, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES 
Yuriy Prikhodko conducted the requested post-shipment verification 
with Link Express, Polevaya Street 21, Office 305, Kiev, Ukraine. 
The export control team met with Yurily Petrushevsky, General 
Director. 
 
¶4. Link Express was founded in 1999 as a privately held Limited 
Liability Corporation.  Link Express is involved in radio, 
television and satellite system installation.  Link Express has 25 
employees and is certified by the National Manufacture of 
Sub-Stations in Kiev, Ukraine.  Link Express was considered the 5th 
channel during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine when they were the 
only television station to broadcast the events outside of the 
Ukraine. 
 
¶5. Yurily Petrushevsky, General Director, advised the export control 
team that the commodities in reftel will be used to produce 
amplifiers and other components for satellite systems.  Petrushevsky 
gave the export control team a tour of his laboratory and production 
facility where the amplifiers are produced and tested. 
 
¶6. The export control team determined that the reftel commodity is 
being used for the end-use for which it was licensed.  There are no 
indications of impropriety and the consigneeQs answers were not 
evasive. 
 
¶7. Recommendations: Post recommends Link Express, Kiev, Ukraine as 
reliable recipients of sensitive U.S. origin commodities. 
(FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON) 
BEYRLE