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Soldiers of the National Guard of Russia (aka Russian Guard), a 500,000-strong internal security structure subordinated to Putin personally

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Putin’s greatest fear is the FSB refusing to fire on the Russian people, Golts says

Aleksandr Golts, a Moscow specialist on military affairs and the deputy chief editor of Yezhednevny zhurnal, says that…

byPaul A. Goble

Just mere hours after it was executed, the Russian secret police was already washing off the blood (and any remaining evidence) after the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, slain in front of the Moscow Kremlin, in the area of direct responsibility of the Federal Protective Service of Russia, whose head Viktor Zolotov reports directly to Vladimir Putin

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Putin is behind the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, his colleague says

The trial in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia’s leading opposition figures, is coming to a…

byKseniya Kirillova

Putin with Viktor Zolotov, the head of the National Guard of Russia, an internal security force directly subordinated to him with estimated staff of 500,000.

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Putin moves to give his “personal guard” KGB-like functions

The Rosbalt news agency is reporting that the Kremlin plans to give the National Guard of Russia additional functions…

byPaul A. Goble