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The FSB and the Russian State System
The FSB was Putin's old service but under Putin they still seem to be thickly coated in Teflon. They were the ones who initially said that Yanukovych would survive the revolution of dignity in Ukraine he didn't. It became clear that on the whole these people were either unable or are more to the point unwilling to do so. So I think you know for all of these reasons in some ways Pragogen was never going to be able to win unless he precipitated something broader Unless you therefore have wider mutinism than security apparatus.