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Under A Quiet Surface.(World Affairs)
Byline: Owen Matthews AND Anna Nemtsova
Forget democracy. The real Russian politics rages in the Kremlin.
When a squad of heavily armed Russian federal agents started banging on the front door of her suburban mansion, Galina Bulbova did what any well-to-do Moscow housewife would: she called out her husband's security detail. Within minutes, two teams of Kalashnikov-toting police were facing off across her front lawn. One was from the office of her husband, General Alexander Bulbov, who runs Russia's federal anti-narcotics
agency, or FSKN. The other was from the Federal Security Service, or FSB, who had already arrested the general and his ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Under A Quiet Surface.(World Affairs)