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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev chaired a meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council on Thursday. Taking part in the conference were presidential chief of staff Sergei Naryshkin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander...
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Moscow Times (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
... wiretaps. It is also believed that Bulbov wiretapped former Federal Security Service chief Nikolai Patrushev and Sechin, as well as Ivanov -- in short, all the most prominent members of the siloviki. Bulbov could not have conducted his wiretaps without the president's sanction. But at the same time, he was turned into a scapegoat. In theory however, Putin should never have allowed...
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
... of the security council in May, naming the former head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), Nikolai Patrushev as its chief.
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Moscow Times (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
... will Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin lose his influence with Putin? What is the significance of Nikolai Patrushev’s appointment as head of the Security Council? Even if it is still too early to identify the winners in these backroom power struggles, it is clear who have become the losers. Without question, the main loser in the shuffle is Sergei Ivanov, who not long ago was considered...
