As described by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, the text “Russia cleans up its spy agencies”, published by the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), in the Russian peculiar Services, there is simply a deliberate “cleaning” of structures from non-ethnic Russians. It is simply a extremist departure from the practices of Stalin and his successors who utilized the competences and networks of cultural minorities – Jews, Armenians, Georgians or Latvians – in safety structures, which importantly increased their operational effectiveness.
