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Sergei Ivanov and Nikolai Patrushev at a meeting of Vladimir Putin with officers and prosecutors appointed to senior positions, April 2015Putin with Sergey Lavrov, Alexander Bortnikov, and Sergei Naryshkin, 19 December 2016
In the Russian political lexicon, a silovik (Russian: силови́к, IPA:[sʲɪlɐˈvʲik]; plural: siloviki, Russian: силовики́, IPA:[sʲɪləvʲɪˈkʲi]) is a person who works for any state organisation that is authorised to use force against citizens or others. Examples are the Russian Armed Forces, the Russian national police, Russian national drug control, Russian immigration control (GUVM), the Ministry of Justice, the Federal Security Service (FSB), former KGB personnel, GRU, the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and the Federal Protective Service (FSO). This word is also used for a politician who came into politics from these organisations.[1]
Siloviki is also used as a collective noun to designate all troops and officers of all law enforcement agencies of post-Soviet countries, not necessarily high-ranking ones.
^Illiarionov, Andrei (2009). "Reading Russia: The Siloviki in Charge". Journal of Democracy.
In the Russian political lexicon, a silovik (Russian: силови́к, IPA: [sʲɪlɐˈvʲik]; plural: siloviki, Russian: силовики́, IPA: [sʲɪləvʲɪˈkʲi]) is a person...
Russia's intelligence and security services. Law enforcement in Russia Silovik "Reuters Factbox on Russian military intelligence by Dmitry Solovyov"....
Service (FSB) since 2008. He is one of the most powerful members of the silovik faction of president Vladimir Putin's inner circle. A Hero of the Russian...
by the concentration of political and financial powers in the hands of "siloviks", current and former "people with shoulder marks", coming from a total...
Drug Enforcement Administration Viktor Cherkesov said that all Russian siloviks must act as a united front: "We [Chekists] must stay together. We did not...
wealthiest 110 individuals. Daniel Treisman proposed using a term "silovarch" (silovik and oligarch) for a new class of Russian oligarchs with backgrounds in...
are to repel the Russian invasion of Ukraine and ultimately depose the silovik regime of Vladimir Putin. The group claims to be made up of two battalions...
of whom were appointed to high positions during Putin's presidency. The silovik Sergei Ivanov and the administrator-specialist Viktor Zubkov were seen...
" Historian Yuri Felshtinsky compared the takeover of Russian state by siloviks with an imaginary scenario of the Gestapo coming to power in Germany after...
and terrorism issues. In July 2011, he started writing a regular column, Siloviks & Scoundrels, for the Russian newspaper The Moscow News, until the newspaper's...
the Study of Elites. Kryshtanovskaya said that FSB members and other "siloviks" took key positions in the Russian government, Parliament and business...
kremlintrolls.com. Retrieved 12 September 2015. Team "G" (How to unveil agents of siloviks at popular forums in the Internet), May 25, 2008 "The Kremlin's virtual...
but later reinstated under Stalin in the Soviet Union. Silovik (Russian: силови́к), plural siloviks or siloviki (Russian: силовики́) (from Russian си́ла...
close to the House of Romanov and the Russian Orthodox Church, including Siloviks and Russian oligarchs. She even goes so far as to elevate such people to...
power". When silovik Putin was appointed Prime Minister in 1999, the process was boosted. According to Olga: "Yes, Putin has brought siloviks with him. But...
last chance to buy their phones before they are confiscated), others as a siloviks’ revenge on Chichvarkin. In September 2008 the headquarters of Euroset...
Illarionov describes the emerging corporatism in Russia as power in hands of Silovik power structures, the current incarnation of Chekism, whose ideology he...
death, which was a part of the power struggle between the clans of Russian siloviks, according to Vladimir Pribylovsky. "The entire political system of Russia...
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