1998

Former KGB operative Vladimir Putin is appointed head of the FSB

• Alexander Litvinenko and other FSB officers publicly accuse their superiors of ordering the assassination of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky

• War in Abkhazia

• 1974-2002 Soviet involvement in Angolan Civil War

• 1800-2001 Russia annexing Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia) and deposing the Bagratids

• 1948- Involvement to Arab-Israeli Conflict

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