Knowledge Units — Core Persons & Institutions
Knowledge Base
KU-SPEC-v1.0
Atomic Knowledge Units Repository
Structured, source-attributed empirical assertions establishing evidence-backed traceability.
Knowledge Units: Core Persons & Institutions
Selected high-value KUs from entity cards (not exhaustive; full sets remain on individual cards).
| ID | Claim | Source_ids | Type | Appears on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KU-VP-01 | Putin served as a KGB officer in Dresden and later as deputy mayor of St Petersburg responsible for external economic relations in the early 1990s. | SRC-DAW-2014; public biographical records | Secondary / public record | Entity: Putin |
| KU-VP-02 | Secondary literature documents the formation around Putin of a core circle of St Petersburg associates who later occupied key positions in security, business and politics. | SRC-DAW-2014 | Secondary academic | Entity: Putin |
| KU-VP-03 | After 2000 the independent oligarchs of the 1990s were subordinated or displaced; wealth and security became contingent on loyalty to the Putin circle (kremligarch model). | SRC-DAW-2014; SRC-AC-2025 | Secondary analysis | Entity: Putin; Mechanism KE |
| KU-VP-04 | Putin has been designated under multiple Western sanctions regimes in connection with the annexation of Crimea, the invasion of Ukraine, and related matters. | SRC-OFAC; UK / EU designations | Primary (sanctions) | Entity: Putin |
| KU-NP-01 | Patrushev served as Director of the FSB from August 1999 to May 2008. | Public official records | Primary / public record | Entity: Patrushev |
| KU-NP-02 | He served as Secretary of the Security Council from May 2008 until May 2024. | Public official records | Primary / public record | Entity: Patrushev |
| KU-AB-01 | Bortnikov has been Director of the FSB continuously since 12 May 2008. | Public official records | Primary / public record | Entity: Bortnikov; Entity: FSB |
| KU-IS-01 | Sechin has been CEO of Rosneft since May 2012. | Public company records; Reuters | Primary / public record | Entity: Sechin |
| KU-IS-02 | He worked with Putin in the St Petersburg mayor’s office in the 1990s and followed him into the presidential administration. | SRC-DAW-2014; secondary | Secondary | Entity: Sechin |
| KU-FSB-01 | The FSB is the principal domestic security and intelligence service of the Russian Federation, headed by a Director appointed by the President. | Public institutional records | Primary / public | Entity: FSB |
| KU-FSB-03 | Secondary literature describes systematic interpenetration between elements of the security services and organised-crime networks as a feature of state–crime symbiosis. | SRC-GAL-2024 | Secondary analytical | Entity: FSB; Mechanism SCS |
| KU-WAC-02 | After the 2023 mutiny and Prigozhin’s death, African operations were reorganised as Africa Corps under closer Ministry of Defence oversight. | RAND; IFRI; secondary reporting | Secondary | Entity: Wagner/Africa Corps |
| KU-WAC-03 | Secondary analyses describe the formation as an instrument of authoritarian patronage, combining security services with resource-extraction arrangements. | SRC-GAL-2024; GI-TOC | Secondary analytical | Entity: Wagner; Mechanism AP |
| KU-RL-01 | The Russian Laundromat was a large-scale money-laundering scheme documented by OCCRP involving billions of dollars moved through shell companies and banks. | SRC-OCCRP-Laundromat | Secondary investigative | Entity: Russian Laundromat |
| KU-BRO-01 | Bank Rossiya and the Ozero cooperative are identified in secondary literature as early institutional nodes of the St Petersburg circle around Putin. | SRC-DAW-2014 | Secondary academic | Entity: Bank Rossiya/Ozero |