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The Kremlin’s Clan Warfare: The Putin Era Ends
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| Contributor | 411 Name Removed |
| Last Edited | 411 Name Removed Oct 26, 2007 10:37pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Oct 22, 2007 10:00pm |
| Description | Something big is happening in the world of Russian power. And it ain't pretty.
Two weeks ago, Viktor Cherkesov, the don of one of the main siloviki clans, published an open letter in Kommersant. Reports in the English-language press focused on how unusual it was for a silovik to take his problems public in the Putin Era--particularly a silovik of Cherkesov's stature. As head of the Federal Anti-Narcotics Agency, Cherkesov essentially runs a kind of FSB-2. And given the recent slew of high-profile arrests, along with Cherkesov's open letter, it looks as though FSB-2 is at war with FSB-1. |
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