No heads of agencies have lost their jobs in Russia. Putin doesn't always trust them, but he's not going to pick a fight with them just at the moment his regime is facing its biggest challenge in 20 years. After the explosion of the Kirch Bridge on October 8th, we actually saw Putin put the FSB in charge of that. And so in that sense, that grand history, that spooks of all spooks that we remember from decades ago, we should just throw that idea away.

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