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.
The former president may well ignore the January 6th committee’s summons; the whole affair may be unceremoniously shut down next year. But that is not to say the process has been in vain. Russia’s
intelligence failures during the war in Ukraine have taken the shine off the security services’ fearsome reputations. And remembering
Loretta Lynn, country music’s most-successful-ever female star.
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