Russia’s Domestic Security Wars by Peter Reddaway

Author:Peter Reddaway
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

8. November 2006: The Tide Turns Against the Cherkesov–Zolotov Group as the Succession Struggle Heats Up

Peter Reddaway1

(1)George Washington University, McLean, VA, USA

Peter Reddaway

Email: [email protected]

Abstract

In late 2006 the silovik war heated up still more in the wake of the murder of two anti-regime figures, journalist Anna Politkovskaya and recent emigrant to UK, Alexander Litvinenko. The circumstances surrounding the murders and their aftermaths caused serious damage to the standing of Putin and his government in the eyes of the Western world. Much evidence pointed to Kremlin guilt or at least connivance. Conveniently for the Sechinites, the Western outcry fed the anti-Western attitudes that had been intensifying since 2003 in the hardline sections of Russian elite opinion. These attitudes pushed Putin and his administration ‘to the right’ in both foreign and domestic policy. In sum, from June to November 2006, Putin had curbed the Sechin faction, and then, from November 2006 to February 2007, he restrained the Cherkesov clan. Putin also, reportedly, restored Sechin to his favour and set him to work on planning personnel changes. In February Putin aimed to keep the temperature down by appealing to all parties for restraint.

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