Mark Galeotti
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 59 |
Born | United Kingdom |
Job | Expert |
Education | Robinson College |
Tiffin School | |
London School of Economics and Political Science | |
University of Cambridge | |
Date of birth | January 1,1965 |
Nationality | British |
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ID | 557169 |
Spetsnaz: Russia's Special Forces
The Modern Russian Army 1992–2016
Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces
Russia's Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009
We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and how to Get Him Right
Kulikovo 1380: The Battle that Made Russia
Afghanistan, the Soviet Union's last war
Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine
Gorbachev and his revolution
Paths of Wickedness and Crime: The Underworlds of the Renaissance Italian City
The age of anxiety
Russian and Post-Soviet Organized Crime
Mythic Russia : heroism and adventure in the land of the firebird ; [a complete roleplaying game for play in a mythical or historical medieval world, using the Heroquest game engine]
Hybrid War Or Gibridnaya Voina? Getting Russia's Non-Linear Military Challenge Right
Hero's Book
Imperial Lunar Handbook: Imperial lunar handbook
Russian Hybrid Warfare: Understanding the New Way of War
Masters of Luck and Death: Hero Bands for the Hero Wars
Unstable Russia: A Regional Commercial Risk Assessment : a Special Report from Jane's Intelligence Review and Jane's Sentinel
Putin's Hydra: Inside Russia's Intelligence Services
The Kremlin's Agenda: The New Russia and Its Armed Forces
Crimintern: How the Kremlin Uses Russia's Criminal Networks in Europe
Russians on Trump: Press Coverage and Commentary
Eurotour
Heavy Metal Diplomacy: Russia's Political Use of Its Military in Europe
Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid
Mark Galeotti Life story
Mark Galeotti is a London-based political scientist, lecturer and writer on transnational crime and Russian security affairs and director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence.
Belarus leader welcomes Wagner boss Prigozhin into exile
... " Russia academic Mark Galeotti said the Belarus leader had acted as a useful intermediary for President Putin, who could now seek to keep Prigozhin on side to manage his mercenary forces in Africa...
Ukraine conflict: Who's in Putin's inner circle and running the war?
... Described as an " unsmiling, craggy bruiser" by Russia specialist Mark Galeotti, Gen Gerasimov also played a key role in the military campaign to annexe Crimea...
Notorious Russian nationalist Igor Mangushev shot dead in Ukraine
... After the attack, Russia expert Mark Galeotti said it demonstrated that Russia was sliding back towards aspects of the 1990s, " when murder was a business tactic, and the lines between politics, business, crime and war became near-meaningless"...
Vladimir Putin at 70: Seven pivotal moments that made him
...By Mark GaleottiAcademic and authorAs Vladimir Putin nears his 70th birthday on Friday, how did he become the isolated autocrat who launched his disastrous invasion of Ukraine? Seven pivotal moments in his life helped shape his thinking and explain his growing estrangement with the West...
Russia-Ukraine war: Some of UK's top journalists barred from Russia
... Correspondents Stuart Ramsay of Sky News, Shaun Walker and Luke Harding of the Guardian and Nick Beake and Paul Adams of the BBC are on the list, along with TV presenters Sophy Ridge and Cathy Newman, columnists Con Coughlin and Gideon Rachman and Russia academic Mark Galeotti...
Russia-Ukraine border: Why Moscow is stoking tensions
... " My suspicion is that this is contingency planning, " was security expert Mark Galeotti s conclusion in his podcast In Moscow s Shadow...
Russia corruption: Putin's pet space project Vostochny tainted by massive theft
... Prof Mark Galeotti, a Russia expert at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), told the BBC the Vostochny scandal highlighted the scale of corruption in Mr Putin s huge state bureaucracy...
Rocket mystery: What weapon was Russia testing in Arctic?
... Prof Mark Galeotti, a leading Russia analyst and researcher at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), says nuclear propulsion poses huge technical challenges...
Vladimir Putin at 70: Seven pivotal moments that made him
By Mark GaleottiAcademic and author
As Vladimir Putin nears His 70th birthday on Friday, how did he become the isolated autocrat who launched His disastrous invasion of Ukraine?
Seven pivotal moments in His life helped shape His thinking and explain His growing estrangement with The West .
Taking up judo, 1964Born in a Leningrad still scarred by its 872-day siege in World War Two, young Vladimir was a surly and combative boy at school - His Best Friend recalled that " he could get into a fight with anyone" because " he had no fear".
Nonetheless, a slight but scrappy young boy in a city overrun with street gangs needed an edge, and at the Age Of 12 he took up first sambo, a Russian martial art, And Then judo. He was determined and disciplined, and by The Time he was 18 had a judo Black Belt and third place in The National junior competition.
Of course, this has since been used as part of His carefully-curated macho persona, but it also confirmed His early Belief that in a dangerous world, you need to be confident but also realise that, in His own words, when a fight is inevitable, " you must hit first, and hit so hard that your opponent will not rise to His feet".
Asking the KGB for a job, 1968On the whole, people avoided going to 4 Liteyny Prospekt, the KGB political police HQ in Leningrad. So many had passed through its interrogation cells to the gulag labour camps in The Stalin era that the bitter joke was that the so-called Bolshoi Dom, the " Big House" was the tallest building in Leningrad, because one could see Siberia from its basement.
Nonetheless, when he was 16, Putin entered its red-carpeted reception and asked the rather bemused officer behind the desk how he could join. He was Told that he needed to have completed military service or a degree, and so he even asked which degree was best.
Law, he was Told - and from that point, Putin was determined to graduate law, after which he was duly recruited. To Putin the street-smart bruiser, the KGB was the biggest gang in town, offering security and advancement even to someone with no Party connections.
But it also represented a chance to be a mover and Shaker - as he himself said about The Spy films he watched as a teenager, " one spy could decide the fate of thousands of people".
A mob surrounds him, 1989For all His hopes, Putin's KGB career never really took off. He was a solid worker, but no high flier. Nonetheless, he had applied himself to learning German, and this got him an appointment to the KGB's liaison offices in Dresden in 1985.
There he settled into a comfortable expat life, but in November 1989, The East German regime began to collapse, with shocking speed.
On 5 December, a mob surrounded the Dresden KGB building. Putin desperately rang the nearest Red Army garrison to request protection, and they helplessly replied " we cannot do anything Without Orders from Moscow. And Moscow is silent. "
Putin learned to fear the sudden collapse of central Power - and determined never to repeat what he felt was Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev 's mistake, not to respond with speed and determination when faced by opposition.
Brokering the 'Oil for Food' programme, 1992Putin would later leave the KGB as the Soviet Union imploded, but soon secured a position as fixer for The Reformist new mayor of what was now St Petersburg.
The economy was in freefall, and Putin was charged with managing a deal to try and help The City 's people get by, swapping $100m (£88m) worth of oil and metal for food.
In practice, No One saw any food, but according to an investigation, quickly suppressed, Putin, His friends and The City 's gangsters pocketed The Money .
In the " wild 90s" Putin quickly learned that political influence was a monetisable commodity, and gangsters could make useful allies. When everyone around him was profiting from their positions, why shouldn't he?
Invading Georgia, 2008When Putin became Russian president in 2000, he hoped to be able to build a positive relationship with The West - on His own terms, including a sphere of influence across the former Soviet Union . He soon became disappointed, then angry, believing The West was actively trying to isolate and demean Russia.
When Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili committed His country to joining Nato, Putin saw red and a Georgian attempt to regain control over the Russian-backed breakaway region of South Ossetia became an excuse for a punitive operation.
In Five Days , Russian forces shattered the Georgian military and forced a humiliating peace on Saakashvili.
The West was outraged, yet within a year, US president Barack Obama was offering to " reset" relations with Russia, and Moscow was even awarded The Right to host the 2018 football World Cup .
To Putin, it was clear that might made right - and a weak and inconstant West would huff and puff, but ultimately back down in The Face of a determined will.
Protests in Moscow, 2011-13A widespread - and Credible - Belief that the 2011 parliamentary elections were rigged sparked protests that were only galvanised when Putin announced that he would be standing for re-election in 2012.
Known as the " Bolotnaya Protests" after the Moscow Square that they filled, this represented the largest expression of public opposition yet under Putin.
His Belief was that The Rallies were initiated, encouraged and directed by Washington, blaming US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally.
To Putin, it was evidence that the gloves were off, and The West was coming directly for him, and that, in effect, he was now At War .
Isolating from Covid, 2020-21When Covid-19 swept across the globe, Putin went into an isolation unusual even for personalistic autocrats, with anyone going to meet him being isolated for a fortnight under guard And Then having to pass through a corridor bathed in germ-killing ultraviolet light and fogged in disinfectant.
In This Time , The Number of allies and advisers able to have face time with Putin shrank dramatically to a handful of yes-men and fellow hawks.
Exposed to fewer alternative opinions and scarcely even seeing His own country, Putin seems to have " learned" that all His assumptions were right and all His prejudices justified, and The Seeds of The Invasion of Ukraine were planted.
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Source of news: bbc.com