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A dinner party at Putin’s dacha, including Pugachev, Shevkunov, Sechin and Patrushev
Putin and Lyudmilla welcomed by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during a state visit to the UK (© Pool Photograph/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
Mourners at the school in Beslan where 330 hostages died in a terrorist attack (Shutterstock)
The school gymnasium in Beslan (Shutterstock)
Semyon Mogilevich (Alexey Filippov/TASS via Getty Images)
Moscow police raiding the dacha of Sergei Mikhailov (Kommersant Photo Agency/SIPA USA/PA)
Vladimir Yakunin (Mikhail Metzel\TASS via Getty Images)
Roman Abramovich at a Chelsea football match (AMA/Corbis via Getty Images)
Putin sheds a tear speaking after his reelection in 2012 (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images)
Gennady Timchenko and Putin playing hockey (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
Donald Trump inside his Taj Mahal casino (Joe Dombroski/Newsday RM via Getty Images)
Donald Trump with Tevfik Arif and Felix Sater (Mark Von Holden/WireImage)
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Putin’s inner circle, the
Igor Sechin – Putin’s trusted gatekeeper, a former KGB operative from St Petersburg who rose in power as deputy head of Putin’s Kremlin to lead the state takeover of the Russian oil sector. Later became known as ‘Russia’s Darth Vader’ for his ruthless propensity for plots.
Nikolai Patrushev – Powerful former head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB, and current Security Council chief.
Viktor Ivanov – Former KGB officer who served with Putin in the Leningrad KGB and oversaw personnel as deputy head of Putin’s Kremlin during his first term, leading the Kremlin’s initial expansion into the economy.
Viktor Cherkesov – Former senior KGB officer who ran the St Petersburg FSB and was a mentor to Putin, moving with him to Moscow, where he remained a close adviser, first as first deputy head of the FSB and then running the Federal Drugs Service.
Sergei Ivanov – Former Leningrad KGB officer who became one of the youngest ever generals in Russia’s foreign-intelligence service in the nineties and then rose in power under Putin’s presidency, first as defence minister and then as Kremlin chief of staff.