On April 5, President Vladimir Putin ordered the creation of a new National Guard, marking a sweeping transformation in Russia’s security structures (see EDM, April 7, 11). Intermittently discussed since the 1990s, the reform of these structures was long overdue and clearly tasked with improving domestic security capabilities. But the National Guard’s roots lie in Moscow’s wider efforts against color revolution as one of the most formidable challenges facing the Russian state. The actual reform appears based on structural analyses of similar bodies in the former Soviet Union, while the twin aims of countering color revolution and terrorism denote the …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation
