The once-terrifying Russian military intelligence agency has been so sloppy and prone to fumbling that you have to ask: Why does a strongman brought up in the K.G.B. put up with it?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/opinion/putins-keystone-spies.html
http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2018/12/17/1753521.html
http://www.rosbalt.ru/world/2018/12/14/1752816.html
https://www.gazeta.ru/science/2018/12/12_a_12092281.shtml
https://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2018/12/10_a_12090481.shtml
https://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2018/12/11/5c0e19839a7947128f0d129e
https://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2018/12/11/5c0e3ba59a7947205c50c67d