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===Yevno Azef and Russian Imperial secret police===
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Russian socialist revolutionary [[Yevno Azef]], as a paid police informant, provided the Russian secret-police [[Okhrana]] with information to allow them to arrest an influential member of the [[Socialist Revolutionary Party]]. After the arrest, Azef assumed the vacant position and organized assassinations, including those of the director of Imperial Russia's police and later Minister of the Interior [[Vyacheslav von Plehve|Vyacheslav Plehve]] (1904) and [[Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia|Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich]], the Tsar's uncle (1905). By 1908, Azef was playing the double role of a revolutionary assassin and police spy who received 1000 rubles a month from the authorities.