Deputy Head of the 2nd FSB Service Ilyin. How do the daughters of an FSB general do business?
Data shown on early March 2004
President - KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Putin
Administration of the President:
Deputy head of the administration - Lieutenant General Viktor Ivanov (former deputy director of the FSB, head of the Department of Economic Security of the FSB)
Head of the HR Department - Vladimir Osipov (former FAPSI HR officer)
Head of the Information Department - Igor Porshnev (graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Countries, worked in India, at Gosteleradio, at Interfax, it is alleged that he was an officer of the KGB PGU)
Head of KHOZU - Colonel General Alexander Strelkov (former deputy director of the FSB)
Presidential Administration:
Deputy Administrator - General Sergei Strygin (9th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, deputy head of the FSO, commandant of the Kremlin until the beginning of 2004)
Safety tip:
First Deputy Secretary - Colonel General Vladislav Sherstyuk (former deputy director of FAPSI)
Deputy Secretary - Colonel General Valentin Sobolev (former 1st Deputy Director of the FSB)
Deputy Secretary - Colonel General Oleg Chernov (in GBS 1977 to 1998)
Military inspection:
Head of the Military Inspectorate Department - Army General Mikhail Barsukov (former head of the Main Directorate of Defense and former director of the FSB)
Main Directorate of Special Presidential Programs:
Head of the department - Colonel General Alexander Tsarenko (former head of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow region and deputy director of the FSB)
All employees of the FSB, FSO (+SBP), SVR, Federal Service for Special Construction
And about. Minister - Colonel General Rashid Nurgaliev (former deputy director of the FSB)
Deputy Minister - Lieutenant General Sergei Verevkin-Rakhalsky (former head of the FSB Directorate of Sakhalin, then Primorye, oversees the block of financial, economic and tax crimes)
Deputy Minister - Colonel General Evgeny Solovyov (former deputy director of the FSB, supervises personnel.)
Head of the GUSB - Lieutenant General Konstantin Romodanovsky
Head of the Main Directorate of Special Technical Measures - Lieutenant General Boris Miroshnichenko (led the Obukhov case at the FSB)
Ministry of Justice:
First Deputy Minister - Colonel General Yuri Demin (former chief military prosecutor, career employee of state security agencies, former head of the legal department of the FSB)
Deputy Minister - Lieutenant General Alexander Elizarov
Defense Department:
Minister - Lieutenant General of State Security Sergei Ivanov (served in the PGU of the KGB of the USSR, in the Foreign Intelligence Service, was the first deputy director of the FSB)
First Deputy Minister (acting Chairman of the State Committee for Defense Order) - Army General Vladimir Matyukhin (former General Director of FAPSI)
Deputy Minister, Chairman of the Committee on Military-Technical Cooperation with Foreign States - Lieutenant General Mikhail Dmitriev (worked in the KGB PGU, headed the information and analytical department of the SVR)
Deputy Minister for Personnel - Head of the Main Personnel Directorate - Lieutenant General Nikolai Pankov (in state security agencies since 1974, graduate of the KGB Higher School, taught there)
1st deputy Minister - Army General Vyacheslav Trubnikov (former director of the SVR)
Deputy Minister - Colonel General Anatoly Safonov (he was the head of the KGB for the Krasnoyarsk Territory and deputy director of the FSB)
Ministry of Communications and Information:
Advisor to the Minister on Informatization Issues, Chief Designer of GAS "Elections" - Alexander Kalinin (former assistant to the 1st deputy director of FAPSI)
Ministry of transportation:
Deputy Minister - Nikolay Negodov (until 1999, 1st deputy head of the FSB Directorate for the Leningrad Region). By order of the Ministry of Transport, he was appointed general director of the FSUE "Rosmorport"
Deputy Minister - Rear Admiral Gennady Moshkov (former head of the Kaliningrad FSB Directorate)
1st deputy Minister and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Novorossiysk Shipping Company (until 2003) - Vladimir Yakunin (previously served in the KGB PGU)
Deputy Head of the state unitary enterprise "East Siberian Railway" for personnel and social issues - Alexander Sukharev (served in the border troops of the KGB of the USSR, then in the KGB for the Irkutsk region)
Ministry of Press, Television and Radio Broadcasting and Mass Communications:
Deputy Minister - Lieutenant General Vladimir Kozlov (first at the KGB PGU, then deputy head of the Department - head of the organizational and operational management of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight against Terrorism of the FSB of Russia)
Ministry of Atomic Energy:
Deputy Minister, member of the board of directors of JSC Techsnabexport - Major General Anatoly Kotelnikov (in GB from 1973 to 2002, former head of the FSB Directorate for the Komi Republic and head of the Yaroslavl FSB Directorate)
Ministry of Economic Development:
Deputy Minister - Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Strzhalkovsky (supervises tourism; worked in the KGB in Leningrad until 1990, then in the tourism industry, served as Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for Physical Education, Sports and Tourism)
State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports:
Advisor to the Chairman of the Security Committee - Major General Evgeny Khokholkov (former head of the FSB URPO)
Russian Agency for State Reserves:
General Director - Colonel General Alexander Grigoriev (until 2001, head of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg - deputy director of the FSB)
State Customs Committee:
1st deputy Chairman - Lieutenant General Vladimir Makarov
1st deputy Chairman - Leonid Lobzenko (served in the KGB PGU)
State Secretary (Deputy Chairman) - Colonel General Yuri Azarov
Deputy Chairman - Colonel General Igor Mezhakov (former deputy director of the FSB)
GC on Fisheries:
Deputy Chairman (until 2001) - Lieutenant General Boris Miroshnikov
Federal Service for Financial Recovery and Bankruptcy:
Head of the Interregional Territorial Authority for the North-Western Federal District - Major General Vladimir Zolotov
Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, State Civil Aviation Service:
Head of the Department of Aviation Security and Special Support
flights - Valery Saleev (in state security since 1976)
Head of the Department of Personnel and Educational Institutions of Civil Aviation - Vasily Egorov (in GB from 1968 to 1993)
Air transportation companies:
General Director of Domodedovo Airlines OJSC since 2002 - Colonel Oleg Vodolazsky (in the KGB since 1972)
JSC "Aeroflot", deputy General Director, Director of the Public Relations Department - State Security Colonel Lev Koshlyakov
JSC Aeroflot, Head of Personnel Department - Colonel General Oleg
Osobenkov (was acting State Secretary of the FSB)
State Committee for Control of Illicit Trafficking in Drugs and Psychotropic Drugs:
Chairman - Colonel General Viktor Cherkesov
Federal Tax Police Service (reorganized in the summer of 2003 and became part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs):
Deputy Director, Head of the State Administration for the Northwestern Federal District - Major General Alexey Sedov (in the State Security Service since 1980)
Deputy Director of the Federal Tax Service, Head of the Main Directorate for the Central Federal District - Lieutenant General Vladimir Senin
Head of the Federal Tax Service for Moscow - Major General Viktor Vasilyev (served as deputy chief of army counterintelligence)
Deputy Director of the FSNP, Head of the FSNP Main Directorate for the Siberian Federal District - Lieutenant General Vladimir Lazovsky
Deputy Director - Lieutenant General Anatoly Tsybulevsky
Head of the Federal Tax Service for the Altai Territory - Yuri Bolshakov (2000)
Head of the Information and Analytical Directorate of the FSNP - Major Dmitry Makarov (data for 1999)
Deputy Head of the Physical Protection Service of the FSNP - Colonel Viktor Anisimov (2000)
Deputy Director - Yuri Chichelov (since 1996)
Head of the Federal Tax Service for the Samara region. - Major General Vitaly Belous (from 1967 to 1992 he worked in the GB, graduated from the Alma-Ata Higher Border Command School of the KGB and the KGB Higher School, served in military counterintelligence)
Head of the Federal Tax Service for the Irkutsk Region. - Valery Shirokopoyas (in the KGB no later than 1973)
Head of the Federal Tax Service of the Perm Region. - Lieutenant General Sergei Ukladov (2000)
Head of the Federal Tax Service of the Chelyabinsk region. - Alexander Titov (2000)
Head of the Federal Tax Service for St. Petersburg. - Colonel Alexander Karmatsky (data 2000)
Deputy Chairman for Security Affairs - Lieutenant General Alexander Zdanovich (since June 2002)
General Prosecutor's Office:
Head of Business Administration - Oleg Brodsky
Accounts Chamber:
Chairman - Colonel General Sergei Stepashin (in the State Security Bodies since 1992, in 1992-93 - Deputy Minister of Security, 1993-94 - Deputy Director of the Federal Grid Company, 1994-1995 -
Director of FSK-FSB)
FSUE "Rosoboronexport":
General Director - Andrey Belyaninov (worked in GB until 1992)
First Deputy General Director - Sergei Chemezov (data on work at the KGB PGU)
Chamber of Commerce and Industry:
President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Evgeny Primakov (former director of the SVR)
Director of the Department of Economic Security - Major General Alexander Makarychev (former Minister of Security of Kabardino-Balkaria and 1st Deputy Head of the FSB URPO, former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government)
Committee on Business Safety - Chairman Lieutenant General Alexander Korzhakov
Member of the committee - Major General Evgeniy Khokholkov
Committee member - Anatoly Raikevich (Deputy Head of the Directorate for Counterintelligence Support of Industrial Facilities of the FSB)
Subcommittee on Information Security of the Security Committee - Colonel General Yuri Shankin (former State Secretary of FAPSI)
"Rosvooruzhenie":
Director for Special Assignments of FSUE "Rosvooruzhenie" - Andrey Bykov (former deputy director of the FSB)
Mosenergo:
General Director of Mosenergo OJSC - Arkady Evstafiev (PGU KGB, undercover work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Graduate of the KGB Higher School and the Diplomatic Academy. Since 1992 - adviser and press secretary to Chubais. In June 1996, detained by Korzhakov’s people, when together with Lisovsky carried out about 500 thousand dollars in a box from a photocopier. Since 2000 - deputy general director of Mosenergo, since 2002 - general director. Awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd degree.)
Russian collection association of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation:
General Director - Lieutenant General Vladimir Tsekhanov (Head of the Economic Counterintelligence Department of the Federal Grid Company)
Plenipotentiary representatives and deputy presidents:
Plenipotentiary Representative to the Central Federal District - Lieutenant General Georgy Poltavchenko
1st Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Central Federal District - Major General Alexander Gromov
Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Central Federal District - Vladimir Volkov
Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Urals Federal District - Lieutenant General Leonid Kuznetsov (former head of the FSB Directorate for the Krasnoyarsk Territory)
Chief Advisor to the Plenipotentiary Representative in the PrivFO Federal District - Major General Nigamedzyanov Emir (worked in the FSB Directorate of Bashkiria, headed the FSB Directorate for the Sakhalin Region)
Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Siberian Federal District - Major General Valery Khalanov (former chief
Department of the Federal Security Service of Buryatia)
Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Siberian Federal District - Lieutenant General Vadim Goncharov
Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Siberian Federal District - Sergey Cherdantsev (head of the department of the Siberian District Inspectorate of the Main Control Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation)
1st Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Northwestern Federal District - General Vladimir Vyunov
1st Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Northwestern Federal District - Alexander Fedorov
Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Northwestern Federal District - Sergey Sviridov
Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Southern Federal District - Nikolay Britvin
Chief federal inspectors:
For the Altai Republic - Leonid Tadyev (in the KGB since 1984)
For the Republic of Tyva - Colonel Viktor Chernyshov (Deputy Head of the FSB Directorate for Tyva)
For the Republic of Khakassia - Vladimir Frolov
For the Republic of Dagestan - Colonel Gasan Abuev
For Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Colonel Sergei Dukhanin
For the Mari-El Republic - Major General Valerian Egorov
In the Kaluga region. - Major General Evgeniy Koenig
In the Yaroslavl region. - Colonel Alexander Kiselev
In the Murmansk region. - Vladimir Losev
In the Vologda region. - Colonel Sergei Pastukhov
In the Ryazan region. - Alexander Sergeev
For the Kursk region - Major General Surzhikov (federal inspector until 2003, now the mayor of Kursk)
In the Chelyabinsk region. - Major General Valery Tretyakov (headed the KGB of the Kazakh SSR, until 1999 - head of the FSB Directorate of the Chelyabinsk Region)
In the Penza region. - Colonel Vladimir Fomin (former head of the investigative department of the FSB Directorate for the Penza region)
In the Belgorod region. - Major General Nikolai Shatokhin (former head of the regional Directorate of the MB-FSK-FSB)
For Karelia - Major General Valentin Shmykov
For Tatarstan - Marcel Galimardanov (served in the PV KGB of the USSR, former first deputy head of the Department of Educational Work of the Federal Border Guard Service)
In Kamchatka, Chukotka and the Koryak region. - Georgy Dzyuba
Governors and provincial power
Ingushetia: Governor - Major General Murat Zyazikov (in the State Security Service since 1984)
Voronezh region: Governor - Major General Vladimir Kulakov (former head of the FSB Directorate of the Voronezh region)
Smolensk region: Governor - Major General Viktor Maslov (former head of the FSB Directorate of the Smolensk region)
Kurgan region: Chairman of the Regional Duma - Major General Valery Ponomarev (in the KGB since 1978, since 1992 in the tax authorities)
Leningrad region: 1st vice-governor (under Yakovlev) - Vladimir Kirillov (served in the PV KGB of the USSR)
Perm region: deputy. head of the regional administration - Colonel Valery Shchukin (former deputy head of the KGB, deputy head of the FSB Directorate for the Perm region)
Moscow, City Hall: Advisor to the Mayor and Government of Moscow, Deputy. Head of the Moscow Construction Investment Programs Department - Major General Alexander Perelygin
Buryatia: deputy Chairman of the Government - Chairman of the Civil Code of Property Relations - Evgeny Paltsev (in the KGB from 1974 to 1992)
Chechen Republic: Security Council of the Chechen Republic - State Security Colonel Rudnik Dudayev, deputy. Chairman of the Government of Chechnya - Colonel
State Security Movsar Khamidov
St. Petersburg: vice-governor - Andrei Chernenko (head of the MB DSP in 1992-93);
1st deputy Chairman - Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Koshelev (now top manager of the St. Petersburg Fund)
Ulyanovsk: Mayor - Colonel Pavel Romanenko (until 1999, employee of the regional FSB Directorate)
In Denmark - Colonel General Nikolai Bordyuzha (until 2003, now - Secretary General of the Collective Security Council of the states party to the Collective Security Treaty)
In Moldova - Vice Admiral Yuri Zubakov (since 1966 in the KGB)
Deputy Secretary of State of the Union State of Belarus and Russia - Anatoly Bondarev (graduated from the KGB Higher School, worked in the central office of the KGB of the USSR.
Deputies of the State Duma of the IV convocation:
Arshba Otari - member of the State Duma Committee on Security, deputy from United Russia (graduated from the Higher School of the KGB at the Council of Ministers of the USSR named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky; top manager of Evrazholding).
Bogomolov Valery - Secretary of the General Council of United Russia, first deputy head of the United Russia faction (career state security officer)
Igor Barinov - member of the International Affairs Committee (lieutenant colonel, graduate of the FSB Academy, employee of the FSB Directorate for the Sverdlovsk Region, one of the commanders of the regional "Alpha")
Voitenko Viktor - deputy. Chairman of the Security Committee (Colonel General)
Volkov Yuri - member of the information policy committee (major, former senator from Komi)
Grishankov Mikhail - 1st deputy. Chairman of the Security Committee (Lieutenant Colonel GB)
Gudkov Gennady (Lieutenant Colonel GB)
Dyatlenko Valery - deputy. Chairman of the Security Committee (Lieutenant General of the State Security Service, former head of the FSB Directorate of the Rostov Region)
Yezersky Nikolay - member of the security committee (FSB lieutenant colonel)
Ermolin Anatoly - member of the International Affairs Committee (major, graduate of the Moscow Higher Border Command School of the KGB of the USSR, officer of the Vympel group of the KGB PGU, where he served for 10 years)
Nikolay Kovalev (Army General, former FSB Director)
Alexey Kondaurov - member of the Committee on Education and Science (Major General, former head of the Central Security Service of the KGB of the USSR - RF Ministry of Defense)
Korzhakov Alexander - member of the defense committee (lieutenant general, former head of the SBP)
Lebedev Alexander - deputy. Chairman of the Committee on CIS Affairs (PGU-SVR)
Leonov Nikolay (Lieutenant General of the State Security Committee, former head of the Analytical Directorate of the KGB of the USSR)
Margelov Vitaly - deputy. Chairman of the Security Committee (Colonel General, former Deputy Director of the SVR)
Morozov Igor (PSU-SVR, formerly - senator from the Ryazan region, creator of the Yabloko bloc without Yavlinsky, member of the advisory council to the FSB)
Stalmakhov Vladimir Aleksandrovich - member of the security committee, deputy in the 119th constituency from United Russia (former vice-president for security of the NPO Kosmos, graduate of the Moscow Higher Border Command School of the KGB of the USSR).
Nikolay Kharitonov (GB reserve colonel)
Council of the Federation:
Agapov Boris - representative of the government of the Altai Republic (major general, served in the border troops of the KGB of the USSR)
Bykov Valery - member of the Federation Council from the administration of the Kamchatka region. (2nd rank captain, served in the Black Sea Fleet)
Golubev Valery - member of the Federation Council from the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region. (lieutenant colonel)
Kosarev Nikolay - Tambov region. (major general)
Margelov Mikhail - Pskov region. (Colonel of the Customs Service, Lieutenant of the State Security Reserve)
Melnikov Vladimir - Chita region. (Colonel, in the KGB from 1975 to 1992)
Mironov Victor - Omsk region. (major general)
Panteleev Oleg - Kurgan region.
Udumbar Chanmyr - representative of the Great Khural of Tuva (Major General, former head of the FSB Directorate for Tuva) (replaced by Lyudmila Narusova)
Alexey Shishkov (Major General, Head of the FSB Directorate for the Krasnodar Territory)
The country has a professional anti-mafia team. All the most high-profile criminal cases of recent times related to corruption and fraud were conducted by the group of FSB General Sergei Korolev. At the beginning of July, Sergei Korolev received control of the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB."In the fight against the Russian Cosa Nostra"
Behind the most high-profile criminal cases of recent times is a team of FSB officers led by General Sergei Korolev, who until recently headed the department’s Internal Security Directorate (USB) of the FSB, and in early July received the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB under his command, said
RBC.
In the early 2000s, Korolev served in the third department of the Economic Security Service of the FSB, which oversaw law enforcement agencies. In those days they looked at it practically as a pension, Fontanka wrote the other day.
A few years later, news reached St. Petersburg - Korolev became an adviser to the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, while overseeing the Main Directorate of the General Staff, which is more often called the GRU.
Soon, unexpectedly for everyone, Korolev became the head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the FSB of Russia. In the police environment, security officers are called watchmen. It turns out he was watching the watchmen.
Under Korolev, the Sixth Service became one of the most significant units in the CSS. According to RBC's interlocutor, close to the USB, it was created in 2008, it includes only about 35 people. The service is headed by Ivan Tkachev, writes RBC.
Of course, before detaining governors and other high-ranking officials, the head of the service coordinates the position with FSB Director Bortnikov. And with such questions you need to approach the president. The resolution should be the same everywhere: “To work.” Signature, date. Which, in fact, means - in Lefortovo, notes Fontanka.
The Economic Security Service is one of the key units in the FSB, explains retired FSB Major General, member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Alexander Mikhailov. According to him, in the USSR, in the context of the confrontation with the West, the main role was played by employees directly involved in counterintelligence, but in recent years the importance of the SEB has increased noticeably.
The structure of the FSB SEB is not officially disclosed. As Novaya Gazeta wrote, the Economic Security Service includes seven departments: for counterintelligence support of the credit and financial system (directorate “K”), industrial enterprises, transport, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Justice, for the fight against smuggling and drug trafficking, organizational and analytical management and administrative service.
From 2004 to 2008, the SEB was headed by Alexander Bortnikov, who moved from this post directly to the post of director of the FSB. Yakovlev became Bortnikov's successor in the leadership of the SEB. On July 8, Vladimir Putin appointed a new head of one of the key divisions of the FSB - the Economic Security Service. It was Sergei Korolev.
The most notorious criminal cases of the Sixth Service
May 8, 2015. Police Lieutenant General Denis Sugrobov, who headed the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs until February 2014, was detained. Let us remind you that he was arrested on charges of organizing a criminal community, provoking a bribe and exceeding official powers. His deputy Boris Kolesnikov was also arrested and soon committed suicide.
September 2015. The head of the Komi Republic, Vyacheslav Gaizer, was arrested on charges of fraud and organizing a criminal community. There are 19 people involved in the Gaiser case, including ex-State Duma deputy from Komi Evgeny Samoilov.
March 4, 2016. Governor Alexander Khoroshavin was detained on Sakhalin and is charged with accepting a bribe in the amount of $6 million.
March 14, 2016. Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov was detained in Rostov. The total amount of damage charged to him and other defendants is more than 100 million rubles. In addition to Pirumov, the director of the St. Petersburg company BaltStroy, Dmitry Sergeev, and other responsible persons were arrested in the so-called “restorer case.”
End of March 2016. “St. Petersburg businessman No. 1,” billionaire Dmitry Mikhalchenko, was arrested. He has been charged with smuggling. According to investigators, elite alcohol was purchased at European auctions and supplied to Russia under the guise of construction sealant.
As RBC notes, Mikhalchenko’s case is not the only case of smuggling that the Internal Security Service is dealing with. At the end of 2015, management became interested in the case of ULS Global. Among the persons involved in the investigation was the head of the 7th Department of Directorate “K” (it deals with counterintelligence support in the credit and financial sphere) of the FSB Economic Security Service, Vadim Uvarov.
The connection with Mikhalchenko affected the career of one of the country’s most senior security officials, FSO director Evgeniy Murov.
Murov worked for several years with Mikhalchenko’s business partner Nikolai Negodov in the regional department of the FSB. Murov, Mikhalchenko, Negodov lived in the same village on the shores of Lake Valdai in the Novgorod region.
At the end of May, by decision of the president, Murov was dismissed. The head of state's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, explained Murov's dismissal by his advanced age, RBC recalls.
June 24, 2016. In a Moscow restaurant, Nikita Belykh, the governor of the Kirov region, former chairman of the Union of Right Forces, was caught red-handed while receiving 400 thousand euros.
July 13, 2016. The court authorized the arrest of Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy), who was charged with extortion and organizing a criminal community.
On the night of July 18-19. The deputy head of the Main Investigative Directorate for Moscow, Denis Nikandrov, the head of the Main Directorate for Interdepartmental Cooperation and Internal Security of the Investigative Committee, Mikhail Maksimenko, and his deputy, head of the Internal Security Department, Alexander Lamonov, were detained.
July 26, 2016. Investigators found about 10 million rubles and hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros during a search in the house of the head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation Andrei Belyaninov. Searches were also carried out in the offices of Belyaninov’s deputies, Andrei Strukov and Ruslan Davydov. During the searches, items and documents relevant to the investigation of the criminal case of alcohol smuggling were seized.
As it became known today, July 28, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order on the resignation of the head of the Federal Customs Service Andrei Belyaninov.
Let us note, following Fontanka, that Khoroshavin, Gaizer, Belykh are the governor’s power. Sugrobov is a policewoman. Pirumov - ministerial. Mikhalchenko is capitalist. Citizen Shakro is a mafia member. Today we reached the Investigative Committee and the Federal Customs Service.
Reshuffles in the FSB
In June, the head of department “K” (part of the SEB structure), Viktor Voronin, the immediate superior of Vadim Uvarov, lost his post.
The CSS had information that Voronin was connected with Mikhalchenko, two interlocutors close to the CSS management told RBC. Voronin’s resignation occurred as a result of an internal audit carried out at the SEB by employees of the Internal Security Service.
Soon after the first audit, the Department of Internal Security began a second audit. Upon its completion, the head of the SEB, Yuri Yakovlev, resigned.
A few weeks before Yakovlev’s resignation, Korolev became the main contender for his place, interlocutors in the special service told RBC. It was he who was appointed head of the SEB on July 8.
Now reshuffles are continuing in the FSB, but at the level of mid-level operatives of the Economic Security Service. According to one of RBC’s interlocutors in the FSB, close to the leadership of the special service, the scale of the dismissals is still difficult to assess, but it is already known that about ten people will lose their posts, about half of whom will be additionally checked in connection with possible violations of the law.
Another RBC interlocutor in the intelligence service said that at least one person from among the SEB employees left the country. According to another RBC source, one of the operatives of the Economic Security Service was fired on July 8, the day when the decree appointing a new head of the Economic Security Service was signed.
First Deputy Directors
| Full name | Military rank (at the time of resignation) |
date appointments |
date liberation |
Main position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zorin Viktor Mikhailovich | Colonel General | July 24, 1995 | May 1997 | Head of the Anti-Terrorism Center of the FSB of Russia (since September 1995) |
| Klimashin Nikolay Vasilievich | Colonel General? | March 2003 | July 2004 | And. O. General Director of FAPSI (2003). |
| Kulishov Vladimir Grigorievich | army General | March 2013 | (in the position) | Head of the Border Service (since 2013) |
| Patrushev Nikolay Platonovich | Colonel General | April 1999 | August 1999 | |
| Pronichev Vladimir Egorovich | army General | March 2003 | March 2013 | Head of the Border Guard Service (March 2003-March 2013) |
| Safonov Anatoly Efimovich | Colonel General | April 5, 1994 | August 1, 1997 | |
| Smirnov Sergey Mikhailovich | army General | June 2003 | (in the position) | |
| Sobolev Valentin Alekseevich | Colonel General | 1997 | April 1999 | |
| Stepashin Sergey Vadimovich | lieutenant general | December 21, 1993 | March 3, 1994 | |
| Cherkesov Viktor Vasilievich | lieutenant general | August 1998 | May 2000 |
Deputy Directors
| Full name | Military rank (at the time of resignation) |
date appointments |
date liberation |
Main position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anisimov Vladimir Gavrilovich | Colonel General | 2002 | May 2005 | Head of the Inspectorate Department (2002-2004) |
| Bespalov Alexander Alexandrovich | Colonel General | 1995 | March 15, 1999 | Head of the Department of Organizational and Personnel Work (1995-1998), Head of the Department of Organizational and Personnel Work (1998-1999) |
| Bortnikov Alexander Vasilievich | lieutenant general | March 2004 | July 2004 | |
| Bulavin Vladimir Ivanovich | Colonel General | March 2006 | May 2008 | |
| Buravlev Sergey Mikhailovich | Colonel General | June 2005 | December 2013 | |
| Bykov Andrey Petrovich | Colonel General | January 1994 | August 26, 1996 | |
| Gorbunov Yuri Sergeevich | Colonel General of Justice | December 2005 | 2015 | Secretary of State |
| Grigoriev Alexander Andreevich | Colonel General | August 1998 | January 2001 | Head of the Department of Economic Security (August-October 1998), Head of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region (1998-2001) |
| Ezhkov Anatoly Pavlovich | Colonel General | 2001 | July 19, 2004 | |
| Zhdankov Alexander Ivanovich | Lieutenant General? | 2001 | July 2004 | |
| Zaostrovtsev Yuri Evgenievich | Colonel General | 1999 or 2000 | March 2004 | Head of the Department of Economic Security |
| Zorin Viktor Mikhailovich | Colonel General | May 1997 | May 1998 | |
| Ivanov Viktor Petrovich | Lieutenant General? | April 1999 | January 5, 2000 | Head of the Department of Economic Security |
| Ivanov Sergey Borisovich | lieutenant general | August 1998 | November 1999 | |
| Klimashin Nikolay Vasilievich | lieutenant general | 2000 | March 2003 | |
| Kovalev Nikolay Dmitrievich | Colonel General | December 1994 | July 1996 | |
| Komogorov Viktor Ivanovich | Colonel General | 1999 | July 2004 | Head of the Department of Analysis, Forecast and Strategic Planning |
| Kulishov Vladimir Georgievich | Colonel General | August 2008 | March 2013 | Chief of Staff of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee |
| Kupryazhkin Alexander Nikolaevich | Colonel General | July 2011 | (in the position) | |
| Lovyrev Evgeniy Nikolaevich | Colonel General | OK. April 2001 | July 2004 | |
| Mezhakov Igor Alekseevich | Lieutenant General? | 1995 | December 1995 | Head of the Personnel Department |
| Nurgaliev Rashid Gumarovich | Colonel General | July 2000 | July 2002 | Head of the Inspectorate Department |
| Osobenkov Oleg Mikhailovich | Colonel General | 1996 | 1998 | Head of the Department of Analysis, Forecast and Strategic Planning (since 1997) |
| Patrushev Nikolay Platonovich | Colonel General? | October 1998 | April 1999 | Head of the Department of Economic Security |
| Pereverzev Pyotr Tikhonovich | Colonel General | 2000 | July 2004 | Head of the Operations Support Department |
| Pechenkin Valery Pavlovich | Colonel General | September 1997 | July 2000 | Head of the Department of Counterintelligence Operations (1997-1998), Head of the Department of Counterintelligence (1998-2000) |
| Ponomarenko Boris Fedoseevich | lieutenant general | 1996 | September 1997 | |
| Pronichev Vladimir Egorovich | Colonel General | 1998 | August 1999 | Head of the Department for Combating Terrorism |
| Savostyanov Evgeniy Vadimovich | major general | January 6, 1994 | December 2, 1994 | Head of the Department of Federal Disaster Control for Moscow and the Moscow Region |
| Safonov Anatoly Efimovich | Colonel General | January 6, 1994 | April 5, 1994 | |
| Sirotkin Igor Gennalievich | lieutenant general | December 2015 | (in the position) | Chief of Staff of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee |
| Sobolev Valentin Alekseevich | Colonel General | 1994 | 1997 | |
| Solovyov Evgeny Borisovich | Colonel General | April 1999 | April 2001 | Head of the Department of Organizational and Personnel Work |
| Strelkov Alexander Alexandrovich | Colonel General | January 1994 | January 2000 | Head of the Operations Support Department (since 1997) |
| Syromolotov Oleg Vladimirovich | Colonel General | July 2000 | July 2004 | Head of the Counterintelligence Department |
| Sysoev Evgeniy Sergeevich | Colonel General | March 2013 | December 2015 | Chief of Staff of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee |
| Timofeev Valery Alexandrovich | Colonel General? | January 1994 | 1995 | |
| Trofimov Anatoly Vasilievich | Colonel General | January 17, 1995 | February 1997 | Head of the Federal Criminal Investigation Department and the Federal Security Service Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region |
| Ugryumov German Alekseevich | admiral | November 1999 | May 31, 2001 | Head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Combating Terrorism |
| Ushakov Vyacheslav Nikolaevich | Colonel General | July 2003 | February 21, 2011 | Secretary of State (2003-2005) |
| Tsarenko Alexander Vasilievich | Colonel General | April 1997 | May 2000 | Head of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region |
| Shalkov Dmitry Vladislavovich | Lieutenant General of Justice | March 2015 | (in the position) | Secretary of State |
| Shultz Vladimir Leopoldovich | Colonel General | July 2000 | July 2003 | Secretary of State |
Heads of services (since 2004)
| Full name | Military rank | date appointments |
date liberation |
Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversation Sergey Orestovich | Colonel General | 2009 | (in the position) | |
| Bortnikov Alexander Vasilievich | army General | 2004 | 2008 | |
| Bragin Alexander Alexandrovich | Colonel General | 2004 | 2006 | |
| Zhdankov Alexander Ivanovich | Colonel General | 2004 | 2007 | Control service |
| Ignashchenkov Yuri Yurievich | Colonel General | 2007 | 2013 | Control service |
| Klimashin Nikolay Vasilievich | army General | 2004 | 2010 | Scientific and technical service |
| Komogorov Viktor Ivanovich | Colonel General | 2004 | 2009 | 5th Service (Operational Information and International Relations Service) |
| Kryuchkov Vladimir Vasilievich | Colonel General | 2012 | (in the position) | Control service |
| Lovyrev Evgeniy Nikolaevich | Colonel General | 2004 | (in the position) | 6th Service (Organizational and Personnel Work Service) |
| Menshchikov Vladislav Vladimirovich | lieutenant general | 2015 | (in the position) | 1 Service (counterintelligence service) |
| Sedov Alexey Semenovich | army General | 2006 | (in the position) | 2nd Service (Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Combating Terrorism) |
| Syromolotov Oleg Vladimirovich | army General | 2004 | 2015 | 1st Service (Counterintelligence Service) |
| Fetisov Andrey Alexandrovich | Colonel General | 2010 or 2011 | (in the position) | Scientific and technical service |
| Shekin Mikhail Vasilievich | Colonel General | 2006 or 2007 | (in the position) | |
| Shishin Sergey Vladimirovich | Colonel General | 2004 | 2006 | 7th Service (Activity Support Service) |
| Yakovlev Yuri Vladimirovich | army General | 2008 | 07.2016 | 4th Service (Economic Security Service) |
Sources
- Encyclopedia of Russian Secret Services / Author-comp. A.I. Kolpakidi. - M.: Astrel Publishing House LLC: AST Publishing House LLC: Transitkniga LLC. 2003. - 800 p.
Write a review about the article "Management of the FSB of Russia"
An excerpt characterizing the leadership of the FSB of Russia
Andrei did not tell his father that he would probably live for a long time. He understood that there was no need to say this.“I will do everything, father,” he said.
- Well, now goodbye! “He let his son kiss his hand and hugged him. “Remember one thing, Prince Andrei: if they kill you, it will hurt my old man...” He suddenly fell silent and suddenly continued in a loud voice: “and if I find out that you did not behave like the son of Nikolai Bolkonsky, I will be ... ashamed!” – he squealed.
“You don’t have to tell me this, father,” the son said, smiling.
The old man fell silent.
“I also wanted to ask you,” continued Prince Andrey, “if they kill me and if I have a son, do not let him go from you, as I told you yesterday, so that he can grow up with you... please.”
- Shouldn’t I give it to my wife? - said the old man and laughed.
They stood silently opposite each other. The old man's quick eyes were directly fixed on his son's eyes. Something trembled in the lower part of the old prince’s face.
- Goodbye... go! - he suddenly said. - Go! - he shouted in an angry and loud voice, opening the office door.
- What is it, what? - asked the princess and princess, seeing Prince Andrei and for a moment the figure of an old man in a white robe, without a wig and wearing old man’s glasses, leaning out for a moment, shouting in an angry voice.
Prince Andrei sighed and did not answer.
“Well,” he said, turning to his wife.
And this “well” sounded like a cold mockery, as if he was saying: “Now do your tricks.”
– Andre, deja! [Andrey, already!] - said the little princess, turning pale and looking at her husband with fear.
He hugged her. She screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder.
He carefully moved away the shoulder on which she was lying, looked into her face and carefully sat her down on a chair.
“Adieu, Marieie, [Goodbye, Masha,”] he said quietly to his sister, kissed her hand in hand and quickly walked out of the room.
The princess was lying in a chair, M lle Burien was rubbing her temples. Princess Marya, supporting her daughter-in-law, with tear-stained beautiful eyes, still looked at the door through which Prince Andrei came out, and baptized him. From the office one could hear, like gunshots, the often repeated angry sounds of an old man blowing his nose. As soon as Prince Andrei left, the office door quickly opened and the stern figure of an old man in a white robe looked out.
- Left? Well, good! - he said, looking angrily at the emotionless little princess, shook his head reproachfully and slammed the door.
In October 1805, Russian troops occupied the villages and towns of the Archduchy of Austria, and more new regiments came from Russia and, burdening the residents with billeting, were stationed at the Braunau fortress. The main apartment of Commander-in-Chief Kutuzov was in Braunau.
On October 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just arrived at Braunau, awaiting inspection by the commander-in-chief, stood half a mile from the city. Despite the non-Russian terrain and situation (orchards, stone fences, tiled roofs, mountains visible in the distance), despite the non-Russian people looking at the soldiers with curiosity, the regiment had exactly the same appearance as any Russian regiment had when preparing for a review somewhere in the middle of Russia.
In the evening, on the last march, an order was received that the commander-in-chief would inspect the regiment on the march. Although the words of the order seemed unclear to the regimental commander, and the question arose how to understand the words of the order: in marching uniform or not? In the council of battalion commanders, it was decided to present the regiment in full dress uniform on the grounds that it is always better to bow than not to bow. And the soldiers, after a thirty-mile march, did not sleep a wink, they repaired and cleaned themselves all night; adjutants and company commanders counted and expelled; and by morning the regiment, instead of the sprawling, disorderly crowd that it had been the day before during the last march, represented an orderly mass of 2,000 people, each of whom knew his place, his job, and of whom, on each of them, every button and strap was in its place and sparkled with cleanliness . Not only was the outside in good order, but if the commander-in-chief had wanted to look under the uniforms, he would have seen an equally clean shirt on each one and in each knapsack he would have found the legal number of things, “sweat and soap,” as the soldiers say. There was only one circumstance about which no one could be calm. It was shoes. More than half the people's boots were broken. But this deficiency was not due to the fault of the regimental commander, since, despite repeated demands, the goods were not released to him from the Austrian department, and the regiment traveled a thousand miles.
The regimental commander was an elderly, sanguine general with graying eyebrows and sideburns, thick-set and wider from chest to back than from one shoulder to the other. He was wearing a new, brand new uniform with wrinkled folds and thick golden epaulettes, which seemed to lift his fat shoulders upward rather than downward. The regimental commander had the appearance of a man happily performing one of the most solemn affairs of life. He walked in front of the front and, as he walked, trembled at every step, slightly arching his back. It was clear that the regimental commander was admiring his regiment, happy with it, that all his mental strength was occupied only with the regiment; but, despite the fact that his trembling gait seemed to say that, in addition to military interests, the interests of social life and the female sex occupied a significant place in his soul.
“Well, Father Mikhailo Mitrich,” he turned to one battalion commander (the battalion commander leaned forward smiling; it was clear that they were happy), “it was a lot of trouble this night.” However, it seems that nothing is wrong, the regiment is not bad... Eh?
The battalion commander understood the funny irony and laughed.
- And in Tsaritsyn Meadow they wouldn’t have driven you away from the field.
- What? - said the commander.
At this time, along the road from the city, along which the makhalnye were placed, two horsemen appeared. These were the adjutant and the Cossack riding behind.
The adjutant was sent from the main headquarters to confirm to the regimental commander what was said unclearly in yesterday's order, namely, that the commander-in-chief wanted to see the regiment exactly in the position in which it was marching - in overcoats, in covers and without any preparations.
A member of the Gofkriegsrat from Vienna arrived to Kutuzov the day before, with proposals and demands to join the army of Archduke Ferdinand and Mack as soon as possible, and Kutuzov, not considering this connection beneficial, among other evidence in favor of his opinion, intended to show the Austrian general that sad situation , in which troops came from Russia. For this purpose, he wanted to go out to meet the regiment, so the worse the situation of the regiment, the more pleasant it would be for the commander-in-chief. Although the adjutant did not know these details, he conveyed to the regimental commander the commander-in-chief’s indispensable requirement that the people wear overcoats and covers, and that otherwise the commander-in-chief would be dissatisfied. Having heard these words, the regimental commander lowered his head, silently raised his shoulders and spread his hands with a sanguine gesture.
- We've done things! - he said. “I told you, Mikhailo Mitrich, that on a campaign, we wear greatcoats,” he turned reproachfully to the battalion commander. - Oh, my God! - he added and decisively stepped forward. - Gentlemen, company commanders! – he shouted in a voice familiar to the command. - Sergeants major!... Will they be here soon? - he turned to the arriving adjutant with an expression of respectful courtesy, apparently referring to the person about whom he was speaking.
- In an hour, I think.
- Will we have time to change clothes?
- I don’t know, General...
The regimental commander himself approached the ranks and ordered that they change into their overcoats again. The company commanders scattered to their companies, the sergeants began to fuss (the overcoats were not entirely in good working order) and at the same moment the previously regular, silent quadrangles swayed, stretched out, and hummed with conversation. Soldiers ran and ran up from all sides, threw them from behind with their shoulders, dragged backpacks over their heads, took off their greatcoats and, raising their arms high, pulled them into their sleeves.
Half an hour later everything returned to its previous order, only the quadrangles turned gray from black. The regimental commander, again with a trembling gait, stepped forward of the regiment and looked at it from afar.
- What else is this? What's this! – he shouted, stopping. - Commander of the 3rd company!..
- Commander of the 3rd company to the general! commander to the general, 3rd company to the commander!... - voices were heard along the ranks, and the adjutant ran to look for the hesitant officer.
When the sounds of diligent voices, misinterpreting, shouting “general to the 3rd company”, reached their destination, the required officer appeared from behind the company and, although the man was already elderly and did not have the habit of running, awkwardly clinging to his toes, trotted towards the general. The captain's face expressed the anxiety of a schoolboy who is told to tell a lesson he has not learned. There were spots on his red (obviously from intemperance) nose, and his mouth could not find a position. The regimental commander examined the captain from head to toe as he approached breathlessly, slowing his pace as he approached.
– You’ll soon dress people up in sundresses! What's this? - shouted the regimental commander, extending his lower jaw and pointing in the ranks of the 3rd company to a soldier in an overcoat the color of factory cloth, different from other overcoats. – Where were you? The commander-in-chief is expected, and you are moving away from your place? Huh?... I'll teach you how to dress people in Cossacks for a parade!... Huh?...
The company commander, without taking his eyes off his superior, pressed his two fingers more and more to the visor, as if in this one pressing he now saw his salvation.
- Well, why are you silent? Who's dressed up as a Hungarian? – the regimental commander joked sternly.
- Your Excellency…
- Well, what about “your excellency”? Your Excellency! Your Excellency! And what about Your Excellency, no one knows.
“Your Excellency, this is Dolokhov, demoted...” the captain said quietly.
– Was he demoted to field marshal or something, or to soldier? And a soldier must be dressed like everyone else, in uniform.
“Your Excellency, you yourself allowed him to go.”
- Allowed? Allowed? “You’re always like this, young people,” said the regimental commander, cooling down somewhat. - Allowed? I’ll tell you something, and you and...” The regimental commander paused. - I’ll tell you something, and you and... - What? - he said, getting irritated again. - Please dress people decently...
And the regimental commander, looking back at the adjutant, walked towards the regiment with his trembling gait. It was clear that he himself liked his irritation, and that, having walked around the regiment, he wanted to find another pretext for his anger. Having cut off one officer for not cleaning his badge, another for being out of line, he approached the 3rd company.
- How are you standing? Where's the leg? Where's the leg? - the regimental commander shouted with an expression of suffering in his voice, still about five people short of Dolokhov, dressed in a bluish overcoat.
Dolokhov slowly straightened his bent leg and looked straight into the general’s face with his bright and insolent gaze.
- Why the blue overcoat? Down with... Sergeant Major! Changing his clothes... rubbish... - He didn’t have time to finish.
Biography of the FSB director
Alexander Bortnikov was born in the Urals in 1951. At the age of 15, while still in school, he became a Komsomol member. After receiving secondary education, he entered the Institute of Railway Transport Engineers in Leningrad. In Gatchina he worked in his specialty.
Then he moved to Moscow, where he began studying at the Dzerzhinsky KGB Higher School. Already at this time he chose a career as a security officer. At the same time, he became a member of the CPSU, to which he remained faithful until its dissolution in the early 90s.
In state security agencies
Bortnikov Alexander Vasilyevich in 1975 entered the service of the state security agencies. He started as an operational officer, then got into the leadership structures of the KGB department in the Leningrad region.
He remained working in the same system after the collapse of the Soviet Union - in the management of the FSB of Russia. By 2003, he took the position of deputy head of the department for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. Still in charge of counterintelligence operations.
In 2003, Alexander Vasilievich Bortnikov was appointed to the post of head of the regional department of the FSB. He worked in this position for only six months. After this, by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he was transferred to the central office.
The following year, Bortnikov became deputy director of the Russian FSB. The Department of Economic Security was directly subordinate to him. He officially headed this structure a few months later. The state apparatus at that time was waging a consistent fight against oligarchs and big businessmen who were beyond the control of the tax authorities, so perhaps the most responsible function fell on Bortnikov’s shoulders.
To combat economic criminals and identify persistent tax evaders in the state treasury, an interdepartmental working group to combat the laundering of criminal proceeds was created in October. Alexander Bortnikov becomes the head of this group.
In the management of a shipping company
In 2008, Bortnikov joined the board of directors of the open joint stock company Sovcomflot. This is a Russian shipping company that is engaged in maritime transport. The annual turnover is about one and a half billion rubles per year. The company employs about 8 thousand people.
The company began its history back in the USSR. In modern Russia it was equipped with new ships. The stake in Sovcomflot is fully owned by the state.
Despite the unstable position in the shipping market, Sovcomflot is included in the list of the largest tanker companies in the world. For example, it ranks first in transportation in northern latitudes.
Alexander Bortnikov makes management decisions on the company’s board of directors. Today it is one of the ten largest in the world in organizing tanker transportation.
Head of the FSB of Russia
On May 12, 2008, a new director of the Russian FSB was appointed. Alexander Bortnikov holds this position. In his post, he replaced Nikolai Patrushev, who headed the federal state security agencies for 9 years. The period of his work included the second Chechen campaign, countering terrorist organizations that had become active in Russia.
For Patrushev, resignation from the post of head of the Federal Security Service was not a significant demotion. He headed the Security Council. He still holds this post today.
The biography of Alexander Bortnikov since 2008 is entirely related to his work in the leadership of the FSB. He also headed the National Anti-Terrorism Committee and became a permanent member of the Federal Security Council.
Anti-Terrorism Committee
The need for an anti-terrorist committee, headed by Bortnikov, arose in 2006. Its first leader was Nikolai Patrushev.
The committee’s tasks include preparing specific proposals to counter terrorism, which are approved by the head of state. Development of methods to combat terrorist organizations, coordination of the activities of all government bodies in this direction.
At the same time, the leadership of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee is directly involved in international cooperation.
The chairman of the committee is the current head of the FSB. His deputy is the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Among the main tasks of the committee today is the fight against terrorism in the North Caucasus, as well as the development of a law “On countering terrorism.”
Bortnikov's deputies
Army General Alexander Bortnikov, a title he received in 2006, relies on his deputies in his work as head of the FSB. The head of the federal state security agencies has six of them.
Army General Vladimir Grigorievich Kuleshov holds the post of first deputy. His area of responsibility includes the management of the border service, which is part of the FSB structure.
Army General Sergei Mikhailovich Smirnov is the most experienced among Bortnikov’s deputies. He has been working in the state security system since 1974.
Lieutenant General Evgeny Nikolaevich Zinichev was appointed to this post quite recently - in October 2016. Before that, for a year he headed the regional department of the FSB of Russia in the Kaliningrad region, for several months he served as acting governor of the Yantarny Territory after the transfer of the previous head of the region to the post of plenipotentiary representative of the President of Russia in the Northwestern Federal District.
Colonel General Alexander Nikolaevich Kupryazhkin worked as deputy director of the FSB under Nikolai Patrushev.
Colonel General Igor Gennadyevich Sirotkin heads the apparatus of the National Terrorist Committee.
All of Alexander Bortnikov’s deputies began working in state security agencies back in Soviet times. An exception to the rule is Colonel General of Justice Dmitry Vladimirovich Shalkov. He did not serve in the USSR State Security Committee. He has been working in the FSB system since 1993. He holds the position of Secretary of State.
International sanctions
In 2014, in connection with the annexation of Crimea to Russia and the events in the south-east of Ukraine, sanctions were imposed against Russia by the international community. They concerned both large companies and specific managers.
In July and August, the European Union and the Canadian government imposed sanctions against FSB director Alexander Bortnikov. At the same time, the United States did not include the head of state security agencies among the 35 officials and deputies closest to Vladimir Putin. Therefore, American sanctions did not apply to him.
Thanks to this, Bortnikov was able to take part in the summit on countering extremism, which took place in the United States at the beginning of 2015. The FSB director led the Russian interdepartmental delegation.
Criticism in the media
Bortnikov’s work has been criticized more than once in the opposition and liberal media. In particular, in 2015, Novaya Gazeta published a number of publications alleging that Bortnikov and his associates in the FSB were involved in illegal transactions with land plots in the Moscow region. Specifically in the Odintsovo district.
If you believe the sources that were at the disposal of the editorial office, the Bortnikovs and their associates sold land plots of almost five hectares. They were located under a building that once housed a departmental kindergarten. The plots were located in a prestigious area - on Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway. As a result, each of the participants in the deal, as reporters claimed, received a profit of two and a half million dollars.
According to the publication, it was this deal that was largely the reason why the Russian FSB insisted on closing public access to information contained in Rosreestr. In particular, to data about property owners.
Family of the FSB director
The family of Alexander Vasilyevich Bortnikov consists of a wife and son. Denis was born in 1974, now he is 32 years old. He received higher education in the city on the Neva in the field of economics and finance.
He worked in banking structures, since 2011 he has headed the North-West regional center of VTB.
The President appointed a new head of this division. He became Sergei Korolev, who headed the Counterintelligence Department of Internal Security. Fontanka.Ru writes about this and is confirmed by two RBC sources in the FSB. Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that he had not seen such a decree
View of the building of the FSB of the Russian Federation on Lubyanka Square. Photo: Nikolay Galkin/TASS
The former head of the SEB, Yuri Yakovlev, retired. Who is the newly appointed Sergei Korolev, and what to expect from the new head of the economic security service? Dmitry Abzalov, President of the Center for Strategic Communications, comments.
President of the Center for Strategic Communications“Korolev is quite a legendary person. He headed the direction related to his own security, and, in fact, oversaw the investigation of basic corruption cases. He specialized in economics for the most part. And, in fact, he accompanied and was the main curator from the FSB in all major areas. Therefore, in principle, it was believed that he would be promoted fairly soon. But previously it was planned that he would go to the “K” department. Under him, firstly, there will be rotation in regional bodies. And secondly, the anti-corruption campaign will be intensified. Now this is especially relevant against the backdrop of two things. The first is the 2016 elections. And here, in order to remove anti-corruption issues from the agenda, quite serious cases are needed. As a matter of fact, this is what the FSB does. The second is 2018. Anti-corruption issues are also extremely important. And accordingly, as I understand it, the process will continue. Moreover, it is quite actively supported by the ONF through government procurement. Therefore, I think it will be activated. And finally, the third point is that, given the difficult economic situation, the anti-corruption investigation will also be quite good. “I think that against the background of a difficult socio-economic situation, with a request for an active return of funds and against the background, accordingly, of an anti-corruption campaign, which is promising during electoral periods, I think Korolev will strengthen this direction.”
The reshuffle in the FSB took place after two inspections by the department’s Economic Security Service. After the first, in May, the head of the “K” department, Viktor Voronin, who was involved in the banking sector, resigned. One of the reasons was the smuggling case, in which Voronin’s subordinates were involved.
Then the head of the SEB, Yuri Yakovlev, was offered to resign, RBC wrote, citing a source. But Yakovlev refused to retire. Soon after this, employees of the Own Security Directorate again came to check on his subordinates. What to expect from the new head of one of the key areas of the FSB? Opinion of the director of the Center for Political Science Research of the Financial University Pavel Salin.
Director of the Center for Political Science Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation“We can simply say that the contents of the folders that are placed on the desks of the top officials of the state by person will change somewhat. But by and large, the situation with corruption will not change. As for the situation within the FSB itself, there may be some redistribution of spheres of influence. Because Mr. Yakovlev, as I understand it, was Mr. Bortnikov’s protégé. Because Mr. Bortnikov came to the post of director of the FSB precisely from the post of head of the Economic Security Service. And he lobbied his protégé Yakovlev for his place. Mr. Korolev, if I understand correctly, is not one hundred percent protégé of Mr. Bortnikov. There is a very complex interweaving of interests here. I think there are two factors that played a significant role. The first is the creation of the National Guard. Because there were different options. That is, in addition to the creation of the National Guard, the merger of the FSB, FSO and the Foreign Intelligence Service was considered. This option did not work. The second factor is the resignation of the head of the FSO, Mr. Murov. And the third possible factor is that these changes have not yet been observed, but there have been rumors that a serious strengthening of the presidential administration by people from the special services is possible. This hasn’t happened now, maybe it will happen after the Duma elections.”
The structure of the FSB Economic Security Service is not disclosed. According to Kommersant, after the reorganization of the department in 2004, the SEB included six departments. Directorate “P” deals with the industrial sector, Directorate “K” deals with banking, Directorate “T” is responsible for transport, “M” is responsible for the cleanliness of the ranks in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and Directorate “N” is responsible for the fight against drugs. The last section does not have a letter designation and is analytical.
