TY  - BOOK
AU  - Soldatov,Andrei
AU  - Borogan,Irina
TI  - New nobility : the restoration of Russia`s security state and the enduring legacy of the KGB 
SN  - 9781586488024 
AV  - JN6529.I6 S67 2010
U1  - 363.2830947 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Public Affairs
KW  - Federalʹnai͡a︡ sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossii
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Intelligence service
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Internal security
KW  - National security
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. The FSB regains power -- pt. 2. Response to terrorism -- pt. 3. Activity abroad
N2  - In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service.  While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse.  The security services have played a central and often mysterious role at key turning points in Russia during these tumultuous years: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan massacre. The security services are not all-powerful; they have made clumsy and sometimes catastrophic blunders. But what is clear is that after the chaotic 1990s, when they were sidelined, they have made a remarkable return to power, abetted by their most famous alumnus, Putin
ER  -