Putin’s Purge Puts Kremlin Elites on Notice - News Week

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Written before that latest critic found dead; story in the World News section.

Putin’s Purge Puts Kremlin Elites on Notice
By Maxim Trudolyubov On 8/28/16 at 4:00 AM

This article first appeared on the Wilson Center site.

Few longtime insiders have left their coveted positions during Putin’s first 15 years in power. If anything, they were climbing the Kremlin ranks and Forbes rich-man tables.

Now they’re leaving in droves. The received wisdom that President Vladimir Putin does not part with old friends is now demolished.

The president’s chief of staff and a personal confidant Sergei Ivanov was only the latest to go. The list of those who retired or were dismissed from prominent federal posts before Ivanov is impressive: Yevgeny Murov, former head of the Federal Protection Service; Viktor Ivanov, former head of the Federal Narcotics Service; Konstantin Romodanovsky, former head of the Migration Service; Andrei Belianinov, former head of the Customs Service; and  Vladimir Yakunin, former chief of Russian Railways. All were considered Putin’s friends and thus seen as untouchable.

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That Lesbian thread in the world news section can be tossed if the mods saw fit.

What is important; is that it really shows you how big brother is really on top of one in Russia, it be journalists or opposition politicians being threatened or worse.

The whole repressive regime.

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