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| 23.11.200907:48 (GMT) | The Spanish daily ABC has devoted an article to Nikolai Patrushev, the current Secretary of the Russian Security Council and till last year the Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB). The paper says in the Russian ruling circles there will be no other person who would embody Vladimir Putin's impenetrable and authoritative regime perfectly than Nikolai Patrushev. Much colder and tougher than his boss, Patrushev was the architect of the order that was established in modern Russia by the top brass hats of security forces, the paper writes. Patrushev and Putin together studied at the KGB Academy in Leningrad (nowadays St.-Petersburg). In August, 2003, he climbed on top of the Elbrus (5.642 meters), the highest mountain of the Caucasian ridge.
Already holding the post of the secretary of the Security Council Secretary, Patrushev developed the document which included the new military doctrine of Russia. Now it has to be approved by President Dmitry Medvedev. The most were evident "innovation" of the doctrine is that «Russia reserves itself the right of preventive use of nuclear weapons in a critical situation», as Patrushev declared recently in an interview to the Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper. Patrushev has been Putin's right hand for long years and headed the FSB between 1999 and 2008. He even appeared in the list of possible presidential candidates. However subsequently, in spite of the fact that the President continued giving credence to Patrushev, he has a little faded into upstage, ABC writes.
At the same time Patrushev has made many mistakes, the paper points out. Among the most sensational mistakes was the storm of the Chechen-seized Dubrovka Theatre Centre in Moscow and primary school in Beslan, that entailed a plenty of victims. He has been accused of preparation of the acts of terrorism attributed to the Chechen separatists, with the purpose of justification of the second Chechen campaign. And all it has allegedly been done with the purpose to facilitate Putin's arrival to the Kremlin, according to the book, FSB blowing up Russia, the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by polonium-210 in London, precisely three years ago.
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