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| | Johnson's Russia List Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Six weeks before the presidential election, 17 key posts in the Kremlin, including two Deputy Prime Ministers and the head and deputy head of the Federal Security Service (or FSB), are already filled by figures who rose through the St Petersburg regional government when Mr Putin was the city's deputy mayor in the early 1990s. |
 | | Nikolai Patrushev, like Mr Putin, joined the KGB in what was then Leningrad in 1975. |
 | | In August he was put in charge of the KGB's successor, the FSB, apparently at Mr Putin's insistence as he was leaving the job to become Prime Minister. |
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