INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Viktor Cherkesov, a longtime associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin who fell foul of the Kremlin for publicly discussing a rift
within Russia's security elites, has died in St
He is survived by his wife, Natalia Cherkesova.Cherkesov began his KGB career in 1975, the same year as Putin joined the agency
After rising in the ranks, he continued to work for KGB's successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB), after the collapse of the Soviet
Union and served as head of the FSB's St
Publicly chastizing Cherkesov for the piece, Putin said: "one who makes claims about the secret service war must first themselves be
