The term combines the words oligarch and siloviki. The latter translates as "people of force" and encompasses leading officials from the security services and law enforcement. According to ...

Russia will expend many lives for its goals and has many more to give, but such ruinous losses of men and money cannot be ...

In that scenario, the siloviki—Russia’s security and military elite—would come to regard Putin as a hindrance to a decisive victory over Ukraine, as well as an increasingly unreliable ...

The siloviki rule the roost in Russia; that’s the unofficial term for the hardliners in positions of power in the intelligence services, military and defense, primarily, opposed to liberals like ...

He was motivated by revenge, legacy and romance. He and his Siloviki (past and present securocrats from the KGB and FSB) do ...

Britain is in Putin’s crosshairs. One of the most senior members of the Russian Siloviki recently commented: “We know Britain is behind the invasion of Kursk”. We weren’t. Make no ...

Mr Wallace said Putin and his henchmen – former KGB spies known as Siloviki – “do not accept that they were the culprits behind the Soviet Union they inflicted on the Russian people”.

Cipher Brief Expert and former Chief of CIA's Central Eurasia Division Rob Dannenberg pens an open letter to Jake Sullivan excusively in TCB ...

Kyiv’s surprise campaign has captured hundreds, if not thousands, of prisoners of war (POWs). This success is the result of ...

Vladimir Putin "is coming for" the UK and the country must be prepared "for the inevitable", Ben Wallace has cautioned. The ...

He was motivated by revenge, legacy and romance. He and his Siloviki (past and present securocrats from the KGB and FSB) do not accept that they were the culprits behind the Soviet Union they ...