The Siloviki Who are they? Putin’s old friends from the intelligence services, now in the FSB, defence ministry and presidential security service. They oppose neo-liberal policies, and want a strong, protectionist, authoritarian state. The liberals label them anti-capitalist, anti-democratic ex-KGB stooges. The Siloviki see themselves as patriots.
Who’s in the clan? Viktor Ivanov and Igor Sechin, deputy heads of the presidential administration; FSB head Nikolai Patrushev; Yury Zaostrovtsev, deputy head of the FSB in charge of “economic safety”; Vladimir Chernov, chairman of the State Investment Company; Mikhail Prusak, governor of Novgorod Oblast region.
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