CGA professor discusses Russian security law on BBC World Service
CGA Clinical Professor Mark Galeotti was interviewed for the BBC World Service’s Europe Today program on a new draft Russian law which would allow the Federal Security Service (FSB), the main internal security agency, to call in people for ‘preventative conversations.’ Russian liberals describe this as a draconian step, a charter for intimidation, but as Galeotti also discusses on his blog, this codification of existing practice could paradoxically also bring the FSB under the scrutiny of the courts in a way it never has before.