this is why he (and the others in the Interior Ministry top brass gang he was part of) thought that they can challenge FSB (KGB). Well, they lost, not surprisingly. About the same mistake that Khodorkovsky did when he challenged Putin for the position of the top-thief-in-command.
For another gang who is in the process of losing right now lookup "RUSNANO" - kind of a huge Russian sovereign venture fund officially intended for development of nano-technologies in Russia (what an oxymoron!) while really is a vehicle for government money "privatization" and laundering for inside people and a subject of infinite number of regular people's jokes. After several years of non-stop-party under Kremlin's protection they seemed to have lost some power fight and now everybody who wasn't arrested has left the country (except for the highest guy there - Chubais - who seems to be still untouchable, or probably all this is exactly what will bring him down finally, will see...)
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 19.8 ms ] threadFor another gang who is in the process of losing right now lookup "RUSNANO" - kind of a huge Russian sovereign venture fund officially intended for development of nano-technologies in Russia (what an oxymoron!) while really is a vehicle for government money "privatization" and laundering for inside people and a subject of infinite number of regular people's jokes. After several years of non-stop-party under Kremlin's protection they seemed to have lost some power fight and now everybody who wasn't arrested has left the country (except for the highest guy there - Chubais - who seems to be still untouchable, or probably all this is exactly what will bring him down finally, will see...)