All the President’s Eunuchs
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been purging his closest and longest-serving advisers, replacing an old guard made up of relative equals with a new guard of loyal apparatchiks. A clear pattern has emerged: those who could speak to Putin as equals are being replaced by those whom he has created, and who owe their careers to him.
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MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has been methodically purging his closest and longest-serving advisers. The latest – but surely not the last – victim is Sergei Ivanov, a former KGB operative (like Putin himself) and defense minister who has just been forced out as Kremlin chief of staff.