Reforming Intelligence: Russia's Failure
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Tsypkin, Mikhail
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2006-07
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The origins of today’s Russian intelligence services suggest that their
transition to real democratic civilian control—which has yet to happen
more than 15 years after communism’s fall and the Soviet Union’s
breakup—is likely to be anything but easy. Russia, like most of the
post-Soviet states, has failed to develop a well-institionalized democratic
political system. Since the year 2000, when President Boris Yeltsin
engineered the election of his chosen successor Vladimir Putin, the
nearly failed Russian state of the 1990s has given way to a polity that
lives under the domination of the executive branch. It is a cliché to
mention the 16 years that President Putin spent working for the Soviet
intelligence and security agency, the KGB, and the preferential treatment
that he has accorded to its succesor agencies. What precisely is the
place of these agencies in today’s Russian political system?
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Journal of Democracy, Volume 17, Number 3, July 2006
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.