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Siloviki*. Soloviki is an interesting combination of that word and Solovki, famous GULAG camp — if you were Russian I'd call it a Freudian slip but it just seems like a curious coincidence.
But yeah, his whole hierarchical system is based on the principle of personal loyalty & most of the guys that have access to him have been close to him for many, many decades. Even someone like Hitler had an internal conflict between the party and the military with him seriously favouring the former (which lead to the most famous coup).
At least it didn't autocorrect to Soulvaki and send me to a nearby Greek restaurant.