14 May 2020
FRADKOV REMAINS AT THE HELM OF THE KREMLIN’S “INTELLIGENCE SERVICE” On May 13, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Mikhail Fradkov director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, in short RISS. This was just a formality – Fradkov has been in charge of the Kremlincontrolled agency since 2017. Yet with the decree, the Kremlin bolstered Fradkov’s position, and perhaps the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies will be faced with new, major tasks. Not incidentally, just the next day, RISS announced recruitment plans for “additional human resources” on its website.
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