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Nicolai Patrushev is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest advisers and wields considerable influence on government policy as the head of the powerful Security Council of Russia.

The Kremlin on Thursday confirmed a Reuters report that Valentin Yumashev, the son-in-law of former Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, had quit his role as an unpaid advisor to President Vladimir Putin.

Finland and Sweden have long kept a careful balance — and neutral position — between the West and Russia. But that changed after Moscow invaded Ukraine.

Soviet-born businessman Alexander Temerko, who held a senior position is Boris Yeltsin's administration, said Vladimir Putin has swallowed the myths of legendary Russian military prowess like the defeat of the Mongols in the 13th Century or the besting of Napoleon in 1812

The politician played a key role in the dissolution of the USSR and helped usher in a new era for the eastern European country

The combination of Russia's decades-old fear of an eastwards-expanding NATO and its own invasion into Ukraine seems to have had an adverse effect: non-aligned Finland and Sweden strongly considering joining the anti-Russian alliance and increasing the tense stand-off between Moscow and the west.

First president of an independent Ukraine who played a key role in bringing the Soviet Union to an end

Former leader relinquished his country’s Soviet nuclear arsenal, the third-largest in the world

Leonid Kravchuk, a former communist who helped sign the Soviet Union's death warrant and then served as the first president of independent Ukraine, died on Tuesday at the age of 88.