Vadym Chernysh: “Russia is not a state that has a security service; it is a security service that has been ruling the nation”

“The French statesman, Count Mirabeau, once said about Prussia that it was ‘not a state that has an army, but an army that has conquered a nation.’ A bit ironically, we could apply this statement to the situation in modern Russia, changing it as follows: Russia is not a state that has a security service; it is a security service that governs the nation.”
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Vadym Chernysh: “The practice of secondment of intelligence officers existed not only in the USSR and Russia, but also in the newly independent states.”

The practice of assigning security service officers to civilian institutions existed not only in the USSR and the Russian Federation but also in the newly independent states. This is mentioned in the research article by Vadym Chernysh, the Head of CENSS. The article was published in Strategic Security (Global and National Security Institute, University of South Florida, USA).
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Undercover officers: how intelligence services have influenced Russia’s executive branch since the Soviet era to the present day

There is a presumption that the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation has significant influence over the executive power in Russia and uses methods and tools inherited from the Committee for State Security (KGB) of the Soviet Union.

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