When the KGB dissolved in 1991, it reappeared almost immediately. An ex-KGB man actually made it to post-Soviet leadership, President Vladimir Putin. Shashank Joshi: The intelligence failures revealed in Mr. Putin's War on Ukraine suggest that the security services' reputation needs to come down a notch or two.
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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