When citing/dealing with Carnegie do people not understand that Dmitri Trenin was a GRU colonel and runs a think tank for over a decade that is a mouthpiece of the Kremlin. Carnegie “may” have started out independent but that changed awhile ago. 
The reason I saw may is because FSB infiltrated everything including Yeltsin’s team and democratic parties. There may have been an intention to have free thinking centers but that quickly changed as FSB gained strength towards the end of the 90s.
Putin himself was sent by FSB to infiltrate the Mayor Sobchak’s office in Leningrad who held the first democratic style election. And Putin was seen in a few photos lingering around Yeltsin in the background
Also there is nothing wrong with having a think tank connected to foreign ministry and pushing their message. But when citing people need to understand that’s where it is coming from
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