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RKP5637

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3. ... could get worse ...

Reply to Tickle (Reply #2)

Thu May 12, 2022, 05:10 PM

May 2022

"...his temporary replacement will be the grim Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s National Security Council, a fellow ex-KGB man and longtime director of one of its successor agencies. Patrushev, as New Lines has documented, is also one of the most hawkish ideologues of the regime."

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