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The head of the local KGB, Anatoly Baranov, used to head the Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Russian Republic of Mordovia. The head of the South Ossetian Interior Ministry, Mikhail Mindzayev, served in the Interior Ministry of Russia's North Ossetia. The South Ossetian "defense minister," Vasily Lunev, used to be military commissar in Perm Oblast, and the secretary of South Ossetia's Security Council, Anatoly Barankevich, is a former deputy military commissar of Stavropol Krai.
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Certainly puts Russia's actions into perspective.
Russia has alot of cards it can play to counter U.S influence. Russia is a major gas supplier to Europe, and if the U.S want to make serious progress in Iran they need Russia on the same page.
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