Just a brief cross-post: I wrote a short blog for the Osprey Books website on some of the experiences of writing my new book Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991, which you can read here. I also had a Q&A with Andrew Bowen of The Interpreter on some of the issues raised in the book, ‘An Expert’s Guide to Russia’s Security Apparatus: from riot police to secret intelligence units’, which you can find here. (There are also some earlier observations here).

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