chabad don't have power in russia.  the siloviks have power in russia, and putin is the most powerful among them.  > in the russian political lexicon, a silovik (russian: co, ipa: [sjlvik]; plural: siloviki, russian: co, ipa: [sjlvjki]) is a person who works for any state organisation that is authorised to use force against citizens or others. examples are 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.
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