RE: Trading Statement?24 May 2022 13:17
Meanwhile, trusted aide Nikolai Patrushev, who is a former FSB chief, is now said to be in virtual control of the central Russian government.
As the secretary of the Security Council, he now makes ‘final’ decisions on all issues that ‘require permission or the opinion of the president’.
General SVR said in a separate post last night: ‘The decisions taken by Patrushev can and will undoubtedly be perceived by people in power ambiguously, and without guarantees of support for these decisions by the president, everything will quickly slide into a political crisis.’