Russian security agencies will vie for influence
The various organisations are competitors looking for opportunities to improve their own status
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- National Guard
- Zolotov's elevation
- MVD loses power and assets
- Investigative Committee's outspoken head
- Major players
- FSB not under threat
- Interior minister marginalised
- FSO's star may wane
- Other power-brokers
- Power relationships
- Competitive authoritarians
- Cautious technocrats
- Administrative balancers
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_350.jpg "President Vladimir Putin, centre, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and Russia's Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo)")