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Uzbek security service will be succession kingmaker

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UZBEKISTAN

Uzbekistan's SNB.

Russian security agencies vie for roles in repression

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RUSSIA

The discreet power struggle is motivated by competition for budgets and powers, a desire to avoid blame and genuine disagreement about the best strategy to adopt.

Uzbek leader is free to reform but may lack will

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UZBEKISTAN

The Uzbek president's removal of his security chief.

Russian security bodies lack clear direction on virus

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RUSSIA

The health emergency has highlighted more differences than coordination in their responses.

Nazarbayev's re-election will boost Kazakh 'siloviki'

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KAZAKHSTAN

Three candidates competed for the country's supreme political office in the election on April 26. Unsurprisingly, Nazarbayev (74) won by a landslide, obtaining 97.7% of the total…

Nemtsov's death heralds darker era in Russia

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RUSSIA

Nemtsov was killed on February 27 by several shots fired from a passing car, on Moscow's Bolshoi Mosvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin. He had been due to take part in the…

Russian security merger will not make for efficiency

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RUSSIA

Shake-up in Russian security and law enforcement

Russian security agencies face generational change

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RUSSIA

While his term limits have been extended, some of his security service chiefs are approaching compulsory retirement age, in a year when the Kremlin is relying more and more on the…

Russia will exert multiple pressures on EU states

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RUSSIA/EUROPE

Russian efforts to shape and divide EU opinion.

Russia will factor in 'usual' responses to UK spy case

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RUSSIA/UK

The government is under pressure to attribute the attack to Russia but has so far insisted on gathering full evidence before doing so and setting out retaliatory steps. The attack…