HOW A RUSSIAN SECURITY ANALYST SEES THE SITUATION: AN INTERVIEW WITH NIKOLAI PATRUSHEV, FROM ROSSISKAYA GAZETTA - News
Mr. J.L. kindly shared this English translation of an interview with Mr. Nikolai Patrushev, current Secretary of the Russian Security Council (since 2008), and former Director of Russia’s FSB ( Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, the renamed KGB) from 1999-2008. As such, it is a lengthy and detailed interview, but important to see how the current leadership surrounding Mr. Putin in Moscow views the world, and particularly its relationship with the USA and the West since the days of the Cold War: