Axis: 78 % of Russian political elite comes from KGB-FSB
78 % of Russian political elite comes from KGB-FSB
"The analysis carried out by the Moscow Center of Research of Elites shows that 78% of leading political figures, heads of departments of the Presidential administration, all members of the government and members of both chambers of parliament, heads of federal structures and heads of executive power and legislature in regions, somehow in their career have been connected with the KGB or the organizations that had come to replace it.
The Online paper NEWSru.com remarks that this fact is proven to be true in view of recent appointments.
Unlike during the Soviet period when the KGB was engaged mainly in security issues, now most of the successors of this structure have entered into business, political parties, NGOs, regional governments and even culture, according to analysts. Numerous tasks of the FSB include investigation, counterespionage, struggle against terrorism and economic crimes, electronic espionage, public monitoring and, supervision of Russia’s computerized electoral system.
