Monday, January 4, 2010

BusinessDay - Russia’s security men and spies are shifting back to the shadows

BusinessDay - Russia’s security men and spies are shifting back to the shadows

THE Russian aphorism that “the Kremlin has many towers” is a comment not just on its architecture but on the rivalries that pervade the regime that sits within it — maintaining an outward veneer of autocratic rigidity but roiling nonetheless with bureaucratic turf battles.