conveniently the FSB controls the Investigative Committee

  The FSB also controls the Investigative Committee, Russia's equivalent to the FBI, meaning that no prosecutor's office has independent oversight 

over it and the courts defer to it when making judgements. To monitor the private and public sector all large Russian firms and institutions reportedly have FSB officers assigned to them, a practice carried over from the Soviet Union. According to scholars of the FSB, “Putin's offer to the generation of security service veterans was a chance to move to the top echelons of power. Their reach now extends from television to university faculties, from banks to government ministries, but they are not always visible as men in epaulets….Many officers, supposedly retired, were put in place as active agents in business, media and the public sector while still subordinated to the FSB.”   -“Wheels Within Wheels: Ho Mr. Putin Keeps the Country Under Control,” The Economist, 22 Oct. 2016; Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan: The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB, Public Affairs, at pp. 27-8 (2010). 

  Galeotti asserts that under Putin's rule connections between Russia-based organized crime groups and Russian intelligence services, including the FSB, have grown substantially. Their interconnectedness now goes well beyond the institutionalization of corruption and the growing grey area between legal and illegal activity. In effect during Putin's rule the state nationalized organized crime: the underworld now serves the “upperworld.”  -Mark Galeotti: Crimintern: How the Kremlin Uses Russia's Criminal Networks in Europe, European Council on Foreign Relations, Apr. 2017. 

  Patriarch Kirill, who assumed leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2009, endorsed Putin's long rule as a “miracle of God” on February 8, 2012, weeks before the presidential election.  -Gleb Bryanski: Russian Patriarch Calls Putin Era `Miracle Of God,' Reuters, Feb. 8, 2012.

 The independent channel NTV, founded by oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky, also aired a piece in 1999 asserting an FSB role in the failed apartment bombing in Ryazan, after which the Kremlin informed Gusinsky he had “crossed the line.” In 2000 Gusinsky was briefly jailed, exiled and pressured to sell his stake in NTV to the state energy company Gazprom. -Robert Coalson, “Ten Years Ago, Russia's Independent NTV, The Talk Of The Nation, Fell Silent,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Apr. 14, 2011.

  RIA-Novosti, Russia's state-run international news agency, was liquidated in December 2013 on a decree from Putin and refashioned into Russiya Segodnya (“Russia Today") under the helm of an unabashedly pro-Kremlin commentator, Dmitry Kiselev.  In 2014 opposition channel Dozhd (“Rain”) was dropped from several cable providers and evicted from its Moscow studio space.  -Daniel Sandford, “Russian News Agency RIA Novosti Closed Down,: BBC News, Dec. 9, 2013; Rossiya Segodnya is distinct from RT, the international television network supported by the Russian government. -Benyumov, “How Russia's Independent Media Was Dismantled Piece by Piece,” The Guardian,  May 25, 2016.

 To implement its propaganda Putin's deputies reportedly summon chief editors on a regular basis to coordinate the Kremlin line on various news and policy items and distribute it throughout mainstream media outlets in Moscow.  -Bill Powell, “Pushing The Kremlin Line,” Newsweek,  May 20, 2014.

  In the weeks before his death, [opposition leader Boris Nemtsov] was demonized on television, to great 

effect. In Moscow street protests at that time, “hate 

banners carrying his image were hung on building 

facades with the words ‘Fifth column--aliens among us' 

…[marchers] carried signs proclaiming PUTIN AND KADYROV PREVENT MAIDAN IN RUSSIA alongside photographs of Nemtsov identifying him as ‘the organizer of Maidan.' This climate led Nemtsov to assert in an interview hours before his death that Russia was turning into a
“fascist state” with “propaganda modeled on Nazi Germany’s.” -Ostrovsky, The Invention of Russia, p. 2.

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