Before beginning the operation in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Security Council's final meeting, and one Kremlin hawk appeared to rule the room. This is the man who wants Putin’s job.
The influential Security Council secretary and close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin from their time working together at the KGB in St. Petersburg, Nikolai Patrushev, informed the Russian leader that the United States was to blame for the unrest in eastern Ukraine and was ...