After months of rumors or a possible resignation, Vladislav Surkov, proverbially known as “Putin’s Rasputin,” was reappointed as Putin’s advisor. Surkov is considered to be an unofficial curator of Russia’s policy in Ukraine, and particularly, the Russian-run pseudo-states in eastern Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics” (“DNR,””LNR”).
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Alexander Ankvab (L), President of the Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, speaks with Vladislav Surkov (R), an aide of Russia's President Vladimir Putin, as they watch a military parade to mark the 20th anniversary of Abkhazia's de facto independence in Sukhumi on Sept. 30, 2013.
