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Soviet guards on their way to Lenin's mausoleum, 1988 Soviet guard on their way from Lenin's mausoleum, 1990. When the leaders of the Soviet Union moved from Petrograd to the Moscow Kremlin in early 1918, their protection was entrusted to the Red Latvian Riflemen, under the command of the Commandant of the Kremlin Garrison.
The Red Guards (Russian: Krasnaya Gvardiya) were armed groups of workers formed during the Russian Revolution of 1917, although the designation and concept dates back to Moscow during the Revolution of 1905. In 1917 the volunteers of the Red Guard and their elected leaders formed the main strike force of the Bolsheviks.
Tatiana Stanovaya, [99] who heads the Center for Political Technologies (CPT) in France, in commenting on Viktor Zolotov's appointment to head the National Guard said: "The unnecessary link, that of a minister between the commander-in-chief and the head of the National Guard is removed. Whoever the minister is, a brother, friend, classmate or ...
Our Home – Russia: 1 Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) 6 November 1996 31 December 1999 (resigned) — Non-partisan — Vladimir Putin (b. 1952) 31 December 1999 7 May 2000 — Unity: 2 7 May 2000 7 May 2008 2000: Independent: 2004: 3 Dmitry Medvedev (b. 1965) 7 May 2008 7 May 2012 2008: United Russia All-Russia People's Front (2) Vladimir Putin (b ...
ROSTOV-ON-DON/VORONEZH, Russia (Reuters) -Mutinous Russian mercenaries who surged most of the way to Moscow have agreed to turn back to avoid bloodshed, their leader said on Saturday, in a de ...
An economic collapse will undermine Russia’s military and war efforts, he said, leaving Putin with two choices. The first is unlikely as it would require Putin to ask the broader society for ...
The Presidential Security Service (SBP) (Russian: Служба безопасности президента России) is a federal government agency concerned with the tasks related to the protection of the President of Russia and the Prime Minister of Russia with their respective families and residences.
In a Russia at war, there is only one real candidate and only one winner: Vladimir Putin. As Russians cast their ballots in the March 15-17 election, the 71-year-old former KGB lieutenant colonel ...