Silovik Persona Lista

In the Russian political lexicon, a silovik (Russian: силовик, IPA: [sʲɪlɐˈvʲik]; plural: siloviki, Russian: силовики, IPA: [sʲɪləvʲɪˈkʲi]) is a person with a power ministry background, i.e. government institutions responsible for the exercise of state coercive power.

Examples include the Russian Armed Forces, the Russian national police, Russian national drug control (GUKON), Russian immigration control (GUVM), the Ministry of Justice, the Federal Security Service (FSB), former KGB personnel, Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU), the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and the Federal Protective Service (FSO). This word is also used for a politician who came into politics from these organisations.

Siloviki is also used as a collective noun to designate all troops and officers of all law enforcement agencies of post-Soviet countries, not necessarily high-ranking ones.

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