Mark Galeotti

Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991 (eBook, PDF)

Illustrator: Shumate, Johnny

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed illustrated study of Putin's shadowy security and paramilitary armed forces.

While the size of Russia's regular forces has shrunk recently, its security and paramilitary elements have become increasingly powerful. Under the Putin regime they have proliferated and importantly seem set to remain Russia's most active armed agencies for the immediate future.

In parallel, within the murky world where government and private interests intersect, a number of paramilitary 'private armies' operate almost as vigilantes, with government toleration or approval.

This book offers a succinct overview of the official, semi-official and unofficial agencies that pursue Russian government and quasi-government objectives by armed means, from the 200,000-strong Interior Troops, through Police and other independent departmental forces, down to private security firms.

Featuring rare photographs, and detailed colour plates of uniforms, insignia and equipment, this study by a renowned authority explores the Putin regime's shadowy special-forces apparatus, active in an array of counter-terrorist and counter-mafia wars since 1991.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780961064
• Artikelnr.: 44785114

Autorenporträt

Mark Galeotti is a scholar of Russian security affairs with a career spanning academia, government service and business, a prolific author and frequent media commentator. He heads the Mayak Intelligence consultancy and is an Honorary Professor at University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies as well as holding fellowships with RUSI, the Council on Geostrategy and the Institute of International Relations Prague. He has been Head of History at Keele University, Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a Visiting Professor at Rutgers-Newark, Charles University (Prague) and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He is the author of over 25 books including A Short History of Russia (Penguin, 2021) and The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (Yale University Press, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Historical overview of Russian security and paramilitary forces
including their part in the failed coup against Gorbachev in 1991
the successful take-over by Yeltsin in 1993
and the rise of Putin The Police: Roles
organization and equipment
OMON riot police
SOBR and OMSN snatch squads
and the fight against the Mafiya The Interior Troops (VV): Roles
organization and equipment
VV Spetsnaz
Vega
ODON
MVD
and the war in Chechnya The FSB: commando units Al'fa
Vympel
Zenit
etc.
and FSB control of Border Troops 'Warlords in Suits': Independent ministerial forces
Federal Protection Service
Justice Ministry
Ministry of Emergency Situations Guns for the Masses: Private security firms and vigilante forces The Opposition: Anti-Moscow organizations in the North Caucasus Tools of the Trade: Special weapons and equipment Select bibliography Plate commentaries Index