Access to the body. The committee from which Putin's career began
" The Russian Foreign Ministry, as the successor of the USSR Foreign Ministry, was not able to immediately take on all the powers and responsibilities of the former Union Foreign Ministry, and the regional and city structures, which previously carried out external relations under the strict control of the regional committees and city committees of the CPSU, very quickly lost their traditional friends and partners, with the exception of the preserved tweeters in the leading capitalist countries