{"id":570,"date":"2003-11-07T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-07T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2003-11-07T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-07T02:04:00","slug":"570","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b> PUTIN CENTRALIZES ALL RUSSIAN MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE SERVICES UNDER ONE TOP AIDE<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a stunning consolidation of personal power Russian President Vladmir Putin named the <a href=\"http:\/\/debka.com\/article.php?aid=654\">Chief of Staff of Russia&#8217;s Armed Forces the head of all the component intelligence services that spun off from the KGB.<\/a> giving the Putin more direct control over the military-security apparatus of any leader since Joseph Stalin. This would place Chief of Staff Army General Anatoly Kvashnin as Putin&#8217;s right-hand man and likeliest successor.<\/p>\n<p>This bureaucratic move is also a considerable rebuke to the hierarchy of the Russian security services who have never been placed in such a humiliating position of being answerable to an Army general, even after Stalin&#8217;s death when Beria was secretly executed and the all-powerful NKVD ministry demoted to a mere &#8221; state committee &#8221; ( KGB). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTIN CENTRALIZES ALL RUSSIAN MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE SERVICES UNDER ONE TOP AIDE In a stunning consolidation of personal power Russian President Vladmir Putin named the Chief of Staff of Russia&#8217;s Armed Forces the head of all the component intelligence services that spun off from the KGB. giving the Putin more direct control over the military-security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}