there is no one for the Russians to target with their vast nuclear arsenal which includes enough intercontinental ballistic missiles to destroy the world, 928 total. There are many important organizations in Russia. The Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg in 1724 by Peter the Great and is the main organization that coordinates scientific research. Membership in it is the highest honor in the Russian scientific community. The Communist Party of Russia is also very important. The main party principle is democratic centralism, which includes three basic ideas:1. Monolithic unity is fundamental to Marxism-Leninism.2. All party decisions are irrevocably binding on party members.3. Any restriction or questioning of party policy is considered revision, which is contrary to the CPSU's role as the only interpreter of Marxism-Leninism.In 1990 the Communist Party had 19,228,217 members, which was about 9% of the adult population. Women accounted for 30% and Russians in general for 59% (1999 ABC-CLIO, Inc., Kaleidoscope). After the fall of the Soviet Union the turmoil caused many of the republic leaders to be able to keep their power and to legalize republic Communist parties. The party dominated 1995 State Duma elections under apparatchik Gennady Zyuganov.The Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, the Committee of State Security, or KGB, which is much easier to say, was the chief office of Russian security from 1953 to 1991. In 1991 the KGB merged with the Interior Ministry to form the Russian Security and Internal Affairs Ministry. To handle all the functions that the KGB once carried out, the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) were formed. Prior to the 1991 reforms the KGB was responsible for these tasks which are now handled by the aforementioned organizations:1. Foreign intelligence and espionage.2. Intelligence gathering and analysis.3. Counterintelligence.4. Political control of the...
