https://moscowmigrant.com/tags/security-services/Recent content in Security Services on MoscowMigrantHugoenFri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-fsb-a-mafia-state-within-the-state/Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-fsb-a-mafia-state-within-the-state/The usual picture has the FSB as Vladimir Putin's obedient sword and shield. The truth is the reverse: it is a mafia the size of a country, an independent power centre that nearly perished in the early 1990s, survived the reformers' failure to finish it off, and rebuilt itself by embedding into every firm, city, ministry and foreign capital — and that, if it ever decided he was a liability, could remove Putin himself.