Nikolai Patrushev
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Putin’s Right-Hand Man
It seems as if Patrushev had “a conversion moment” and began seeing himself as another Andropov, the kind of person who would bring state security personnel into the Kremlin, the pinnacle of Russia’s power, just as Andropov had done.