April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2
Andrei Illiarionov
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April 2009, Volume 20, Issue 2
Reading Russia: The Siloviki in Charge
The holders of political power in Russia today are the siloviki (sometimes called “securocrats” by political scientists). These are the people who work for, or who used to work for, the silovye ministerstva-literally “the ministries of force”-charged with wielding coercion and violence in the name of the state. Since Vladimir Putin’s rise to power at…