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Privatization signals an abandonment of those "commanding heights of the economy" where Mr. Putin and his clique of security-service associates planted their standard.

Medvedev Puts Russia in a Choice Situation Geoffrey T. Smith 2011

The dancers morph into a kettled mob scanned by dozens of security-service cameras.

The Festival of Britain, 60 years on 2011

They identified the driver by his accent as an Alawite, a member of the same religious minority as Mr. Assad and the majority of top government and security-service officials.

In Syria, Accounts of Widening Torture 2011

In the course of the investigation, Mr. Silchenko exonerated the tax and security-service officials whom Mr. Magnitsky had accused in the case.

Russia Exonerates Lead Investigator in Prison Death Alan Cullison 2011

Police and security-service presence along the route of the march was light.

Iranian Leaders to Meet With Challengers 2009

Others -- like the powerful Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, the informal leader of the so-called "siloviki" clan of security-service veterans, and first deputy Kremlin chief of staff Vladislav Surkov, the regime's informal ideologist -- are furiously trying to maintain the status quo.

Brian Whitmore: Obama's Kremlin Gambit 2009

Najim al-Jabouri wrote about pervasive security-service sectarianism in Iraq, and then this happens:

The Iraqi Roundup | ATTACKERMAN 2009

The core of the siloviki group, led by former KGB officer and Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Vladimir Putin himself, comprises about 6,000 security-service alumni who entered the corridors of power during Putin's first term.

Boing Boing 2007

Many of them -- his security-service chief, for one -- will be from St. Petersburg.

Will Putin Take On The Mob? 2008

Mr. Yevloyev had emerged as a vociferous critic of Mr. Zyazikov, a security-service veteran.

Ingushetia Web Site Owner Killed by Russian Police Jan 2008