Whatever the Ukraine fallout, KGB won’t go away
Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West by Catherine Belton, who was a correspondent with the Financial Times in Moscow, tells a dramatic, high-stakes story of what Vladimir Putin’s takeover of Russia truly means.
When the Soviet Union fell, communism collapsed but the deep security state simply bided its time. Post-Boris Yeltsin, the deep state’s siloviki (men of force) networks not only filled their own pockets and expropriated Russia’s resources, but always also aimed to destabilise Western institutions.
When the Soviet Union fell, communism collapsed but the deep security state simply bided its time. Post-Boris Yeltsin, the deep state’s siloviki (men of force) networks not only filled their own pockets and expropriated Russia’s resources, but always also aimed to destabilise Western institutions.