The Coup in the Kremlin (Part 1)
How Putin and the Security Services Captured the Russian State.
I would like tentatively to share the insights and analysis by Nina Khrushcheva, Professor of International Affairs at the New School.
Nina’s commentary originally appeared in The Foreign Affairs on May 10.
On December 20, 1999, Vladimir Putin addressed senior officials of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) at its Lubyanka headquarters near Moscow’s Red Square. The recently appointed 47-year-old prime minister, who had held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the FSB, was visiting to mark the holiday honoring the Russian security services. “The task of infiltrating the highest level of government is accomplished,” Putin quipped.
Part 1:
https://youtu.be/SGe4AuuoRfE
