Spiralling radicalisation in the North Caucasus
Harold Chambers warns how heavy handed security service crackdowns are galvanising islamic radicalisation in the North Caucasus
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Russian Intelligence’s “Assassin’s Creed”
Maxim Trudolyubov on the origins and specifics of the Russian “intelligence”
Schrödinger’s Siloviki and Russia’s Criminal Conundrum
Pavel Luzin writes that Russia’s headline-grabbing “wars” within the security services are nothing of the sort — they are the natural result of a government which violates its own laws
Is Russia a ‘Militocracy’?
This is the second part of a series entitled ‘Russia’s Human Resources.’ This part examines how workers with military or secret service backgrounds percolate Russia’s ruling elite.