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‘Siloviks & Scoundrels’

Mark GaleottiMoscow’s current bout of spy fever is political pathology

‘What Chechens are like’

22/04/2013 20:21

Will the Boston bombing bring Moscow and Washington together?

Putin’s Cypriot win

01/04/2013 20:07

Cyprus’ loss – and those of its Russian depositors – may be Putin’s gain

We all live in the Big House

04/03/2013 20:08

Russia’s prisons are miserable places. Can better management and more transparency help?

Advancing on every front

18/02/2013 20:04

Military reform isn’t quite dead, but it does seem to be marking time

Cop cooperation

04/02/2013 20:25

There is less than meets the eye to Russia’s decision to pull out of an anti-narcotics agreement with the United States

Damage control

28/01/2013 20:30

The Oboronservis investigation into military corruption is massive, but limited

Russian mafia: Ded and buried?

21/01/2013 20:26

The murder of mafia godfather Aslan Usoyan has particular implications for Moscow

The sulky teenager

24/12/2012 20:35

Will the world see a friendlier, more cooperative Russia in 2013?

Purge and prejudice

03/12/2012 20:45

What will the fate of military reform tell us about the anti-corruption campaign?

What is the army for?

01/10/2012 20:19

Recent military exercises and the new budget both point to military ambitions

Keeping the spooks in Czech

24/09/2012 20:41

Are Prague’s security services sounding a false alarm on Russia?

Liberals in epaulettes

17/09/2012 19:31

Spies and siloviks are not necessarily conservatives and authoritarians

A school for spooks

10/09/2012 20:55

Russia trains foreign agents to earn silovik soft power and teach the values of repression

Why spooks need protesters

03/09/2012 20:30

Russia’s complex and competitive array of security agencies actually generate unrest

Russia’s stationary jihad

27/08/2012 20:30

What is worse: the risk of spreading Islamic jihadism or the backlash?

SCO guns and APEC butter

20/08/2012 21:26

Russia’s APEC summit may be grabbing attention, but the SCO is a different model for Asia

The Russian inquisition

13/08/2012 21:10

Should we be more surprised that the government is not squeezing dissent more tightly?

Is the Force with Bastrykin?

06/08/2012 20:47

The Kremlin’s Praetorian may risk being in the wrong place at the wrong time

‘Deep State’ in deep water

02/07/2012 20:09

The talk of divisions within the Russian elite is signaling turmoil – and fueling further divisions

A walk in the woods

21/06/2012 20:10

The furor surrounding Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin suggests that the siloviki are more than a little nervous

Syria’s known unknowns

14/06/2012 20:45

The West should pay more attention to Moscow’s concern about Syria

Kolokoltsev’s big day out

07/06/2012 20:54

The June 12 protests will be the new interior minister’s first major test

Where real power resides

24/05/2012 21:28

Putin’s shift of power away from the Cabinet could lead to new conflicts ahead

An offer you can’t refuse

17/05/2012 21:31

Private security is ubiquitous in modern Russia, but whose interests does it really protect?

Echoes of spring 1991

10/05/2012 21:57

The crackdown in Moscow around Putin’s inauguration may radicalize the opposition

Echoes of 1991

09/05/2012 23:57

The police crackdown on Moscow's streets around Putin's inauguration may radicalize the opposition

Arms dealers for peace

03/05/2012 21:11

Belligerent rhetoric notwithstanding, Russia is not the West’s enemy: just ask the arms dealers

The unshocking suspects

23/04/2012 21:12

A new body policing the Russian police will increase Putin’s control over cops and prosecutors

Putting the Bout in

09/04/2012 21:20

Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout’s imprisonment will have consequences for the U.S.

Injured boxer Lebedev back in hospital - Manager

20/05/2013 17:56

The week in quotes: The spy who shamed me

20/05/2013 20:53

Putin says ‘liked’ Femen activists bare breasts show

08/04/2013 14:15

Blogger Navalny floats presidential ambitions ahead of trial

05/04/2013 14:15

No future for Mosque-ow

01/04/2013 14:25

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