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In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Government Security Service. While Vladimir Putin has been leader and excellent minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of their state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its real estate agents and spies were put beyond general population accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse. The security services have played a central and often strange role at key turning factors in Russia of these tumultuous years: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan massacre. The security services are not all-powerful; they have got made clumsy and sometimes catastrophic blunders. But what is clear is the fact after the chaotic 1990s, when they were sidelined, they have got made a remarkable return to electric power, abetted by their most famous alumnus, Putin.
