From your article: "The only dissent will come from the Communists"
Hmmm...Communists against a KGB/FSB dictatorship...That's a new one!!!
From the reports that I have read, it appears that only Putin will decide who is going to serve.
If you don't like his choice, then tough, he will appoint.
Well, the KGB used to be an organ of the government controlled by the Communists. I imagine there is some resentment, now that the tables are turned and the KGB actually rules.
From an article in the Wall Street Journal, page 1, Wednesday, February 23, 2005:
"Mr. Putin him self served more than 15 years in the KGB and later headed its successor, the FSB [actually, the KGB split onto 2 organizations, the FSB (international, like the CIA) and the SVR (national, like the FBI).] Since taking over the Kremlin in 2000, he has presided over an unprecedented influx of ex-KGB men into the upper echelons of power---men whose formative years were spent learning how to undermine the West's interests.
Prominent among the ex-KGB officials who now pace the Kremlin's corridors are Defense minister Sergei Ivanov, Interior Minister Rahid Nurgaliev, and FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev, as well as the heads of Russia's arms-export, defense-procurement, and drug-enforcement agencies. A close Putin aide and former KGB man, Victor Ivano, serves on the board of flagship airline OAO Aeroflot. A favorite parlor game in Russia is to divine which other senior officials and businessmen have suspicious gaps in their resume that suggest a past with the intelligence services."
In this regard, I wonder what has happened to the old nemissis and competition of the KGB, the GRU? I suspect they have not fared well.