Thursday, December 14, 2006
KGB influence 'soars under Putin'
BBC: Four out of five political leaders and state administrators in Russia either have been or still are members of the security services, a study suggests.
The unprecedented research implies a huge expansion of KGB-FSB influence in politics and business in recent years.
How different Russia looks from other formerly communist countries in eastern Europe, where there have been attempts to identify individuals who worked for Soviet-era security services, many of which were highly repressive.
So far, unhappiness about Russia's new ruling class has been expressed only by the country's beleaguered liberal minority.
IMO: I was once threatened with a free trip to Siberia in Kruschev's days - not a joke to me, anyway.
The unprecedented research implies a huge expansion of KGB-FSB influence in politics and business in recent years.
How different Russia looks from other formerly communist countries in eastern Europe, where there have been attempts to identify individuals who worked for Soviet-era security services, many of which were highly repressive.
So far, unhappiness about Russia's new ruling class has been expressed only by the country's beleaguered liberal minority.
IMO: I was once threatened with a free trip to Siberia in Kruschev's days - not a joke to me, anyway.
# posted by uv : 6:33 AM
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