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Chapter 25 Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev
Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev
Leaving for the government, Putin left his man in the Lubyanka - Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev. Putin said that Patrushev is one of the people whom he unconditionally trusts. And everyone immediately drew attention to the personal devotion of the new director of the FSB to Putin.
Vladimir Vladimirovich was still the head of the government, and already Patrushev accompanied him everywhere, although usually the leaders of the FSB and the prime ministers behave, of course, correctly and kindly, but still obey only the president. But this was a special case.
Nikolai Platonovich, together with Putin, flew to Chechnya on New Year's Eve to award orders and hunting knives to officers who distinguished themselves in battle.
CHANGER
Nikolai Patrushev was born in 1951. In 1974 he graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute, and he was immediately invited to the KGB. In the Leningrad Department of State Security, as they say, he met Putin.
Patrushev avoids publicity, rarely gives interviews and tries not to talk about himself. He is known to enjoy hunting, fishing and volleyball.
His career in the state security agencies was quite successful for him. In 1992-1994, Patrushev headed the department of the Federal Counterintelligence Service in Karelia, then he was transferred to Moscow to the post of head of the organizational and inspection department of the department of organizational and personnel work of the Federal Security Service.
In 1998, his personnel rise began. Putin, who became the first deputy head of the presidential administration, recommended Patrushev to his former position as head of the President's Main Control Department. But Nikolai Platonovich did not have time to work in the presidential administration.
Putin literally two months later became the director of the FSB and took Patrushev to his place, appointing him deputy director and head of the most important department of economic security - this is control over what is happening in Russian business.
In early 1999, Nikolai Platonovich had already become the first deputy director of the FSB and actually led the entire service, because Putin devoted more time to his duties in the Security Council. When Yeltsin instructed Putin to head the government, he agreed with Boris Nikolayevich that he would leave Patrushev in his place at the Lubyanka.
Several other close acquaintances of Putin have taken up prominent positions in the ranks of state security. General Alexander Grigoriev, a friend of the president from his student years, became the deputy director of the FSB. Their joint photo is placed in Vladimir Putin's book "From the First Person". Then Grigoriev was transferred to his native Leningrad as the head of the department. But soon he unexpectedly left this position - they say he did not get along with a person even closer to Putin - Viktor Cherkesov. In this conflict, the president sided with Cherkesov.
Grigoriev in the northern capital was replaced by another representative of the close-knit St. Petersburg team - Lieutenant General Sergei Smirnov. Prior to that, he headed the internal security department of the Federal Security Service.
This department deals only with serious matters. Comparatively minor offenses are dealt with by the personnel department and the personnel inspection in the FSB inspection department, which, at the direction of the director, conducts an official investigation. Chekists also lose their weapons, get into traffic accidents or even get involved in fights ... General Smirnov told reporters that the greatest danger was the attempts of commercial structures to bribe state security officers. He believes that this is used by foreign intelligence agencies that introduce their people into commercial structures, and they skillfully lure information out of the employees of the Federal Security Service.
Vladimir Shults was appointed State Secretary and Deputy Director of the FSB. He graduated from Leningrad University in 1972, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor. He served in state security since 1992 as deputy head of the St. Petersburg department, then headed the FSB academy.
Another native of St. Petersburg, Evgeny Alekseevich Murov, became the head of the Federal Security Service. He first served in intelligence, and in 1992 changed his path and moved to counterintelligence. He worked in St. Petersburg, headed various regional departments, and rose to the position of deputy head of the regional administration.
After his appointment as chief security guard, journalists started talking about Putin placing people personally known to him everywhere.
Yes, Vladimir Vladimirovich has a lot of acquaintances and friends, - Murov answered. - Nevertheless, he takes only those people whom he knows as professionals into his team.
MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSIONS
Under Patrushev, in the summer of 1999, the Vladimir Department of the FSB launched a high-profile inspection of the company, which belonged to the wife of Yuri Luzhkov. By this time, the Moscow mayor had already announced his participation in the election campaign, and the sudden initiative of the Vladimir Chekists was perceived as a retaliatory blow, although this was denied at the Lubyanka. The check ended in nothing, but some damage to Luzhkov's reputation was inflicted.
Patrushev's appointment coincided with the beginning of the second Chechen war.
The invasion of Chechen fighters into Dagestan was being prepared for several months, if not years. The military later said with irritation that long-term defensive structures were created there, and were indignant at the behavior of local authorities, who did not notice anything. Were you surprised how the Federal Security Service missed the preparations for the invasion of Dagestan? But in the heat of those days, these questions remained unanswered.
When the militants who penetrated Dagestan were already almost destroyed, explosions sounded in Moscow and other cities. These were well-prepared terrorist acts. Several hundred people died.
From the very first minute, everyone proceeded from the fact that this was the work of Chechen fighters.
In the autumn of 1999, the military operation against Chechnya was supported by almost all political forces in the country. Terrorist actions in Moscow and other cities played a huge role in mobilizing public opinion, which saw in Putin a man capable of protecting the country from terror. The second Chechen war played a decisive role in Putin's election as president.
And the FSB officers constantly repeated: "We have no doubts that Chechen field commanders organized these explosions." Yes, no one seemed to have any doubts. But personal conviction is not evidence for the court. Everyone expected that the FSB would quickly enough be able to uncover these barbaric crimes and name the organizers and perpetrators.
There were clearly professionals involved. These explosions were not a response to the defeat of the militants in Dagestan. Explosions were prepared ahead of time. When one terrorist attack follows another, this is the classic tension strategy. This is an attempt to intimidate the whole country.
If the explosions are the work of Chechen fighters, then this means that of all types of terrorism, we are faced with the worst. It is incredibly difficult to fight Islamic extremism, it is almost impossible to achieve real success and completely secure oneself.
Terrorist Islamist groups around the world are considered a very difficult target for undercover penetration. These are closely related clans numbering several hundred people, of which only a few are privy to the plans of terror.
Someone is developing such operations - you need to know what and how to blow up. Someone is recruiting and training militants. Someone provides a large amount of explosives and skillfully assembles an explosive device. Someone is supplying the group with fake but reliable documents. Someone provides them with support - delivers them to the city, rents apartments, provides cars - stolen or with fake numbers.
Then a reasonable question arose: why was the FSB, with such a huge and extensive apparatus, unable to prevent these terrible explosions that claimed so many lives?
It was also surprising that month after month passed, and the organizers and perpetrators of terrorist acts in Moscow and other cities continued to roam free.
In this case, one of the militants was arrested, but what evidence they gave, what they managed to find out, again remained unknown.
In the area of Urus-Martan, the advancing federal troops discovered a training camp for militants to train terrorists. There was a test site where improvised explosive devices were tested. They also found equipment for making a homemade explosive mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder. As if just such a substance was used in the fall of 1999 during explosions in Moscow. True, we were not told what the result of the examination of these substances was. Was the version that it was the Chechens who prepared such explosives confirmed or not confirmed?
And in the absence of reliable information, the most insane rumors circulated. In particular, they wrote that these explosions were a provocation organized in order to get a pretext for striking at Chechnya and thereby ensure the election of Vladimir Putin as president. They told that there are people who know the truth. Boris Berezovsky is allegedly among them, so they did not touch him when they tried to imprison Gusinsky ...
The suggestion that the explosions were in fact a provocation by the security forces is monstrous. But the laws that the mass consciousness obeys are known: until a full investigation is carried out and an open and public trial takes place, people can assume whatever they like.
RYAZAN HISTORY
FSB leaders often talked about hundreds, if not thousands, of foreign mercenaries in Chechnya. But these elusive foreigners could not be captured. For a simple reason: the war on the other side - with a few exceptions - was waged not by foreign mercenaries, but by our fellow citizens with the same passports as all of us. Apart from the Jordanian Khattab, no other foreign names were mentioned.
The FSB claimed to have operational data on foreign aid coming to Chechen fighters. The words "intelligence" work magically. But operational materials are just a pretext for carrying out an audit, which can confirm or refute the data obtained by operational means.
The FSB complained that the official responses of foreign states to all requests sound like this: our country does not provide assistance to terrorists. And the FSB confidently said that it knows both specific people and foreign organizations that help the Chechens, and even bank account numbers through which money is received by field commanders. But why, then, in this case, these data were never made public?
Maybe because in reality both the money and the weapons of the Chechen fighters are of Russian origin? It would be better if they analyzed and reported at Lubyanka how exactly all these years Chechnya managed to get Russian weapons and Russian money.
At the end of 1999, the heads of the FSB department for the protection of the constitutional order and the fight against terrorism rated the work of their department as unsatisfactory. They admitted that they could not prevent terrorist attacks in Moscow and other cities. As a result, 305 people died.
But it is still not known whether the necessary work on the bugs has been carried out? Former director of the FSB Nikolai Kovalev, elected deputy State Duma, said that he created a department that, in particular, with the help of electronic intelligence, monitored the activity of militants on the territory of Chechnya and could prevent terrorist attacks.
When Kovalev was removed and appointed director of the FSB, Putin, and his first deputy, Patrushev, the department was disbanded. What do the current leaders of the FSB think about this? Unknown.
The only thing we know for sure about the work of the FSB after the explosions is the desire of the Chekists to teach the country vigilance. It ended with a wild story in Ryazan, where explosives were also found, and the inhabitants of the whole house - women, children, old people - spent the whole night outside in anticipation of an explosion. And the next day, the leaders of the FSB said that it was an exercise and instead of explosives there was a harmless substance. The Chekists decided to check whether their police colleagues are doing well ...
None of the remarkable Chekists thought about what this terrible night in anticipation of the explosion meant for the inhabitants of that house in Ryazan, for women, for children, for the elderly. Then they said that officials who do not care about people have no place in the public service. However, the FSB continued to insist that such exercises were necessary in order to keep the spirit of vigilance among the people.
The Ryazan story gave rise to a new surge of rumors that the explosions were a provocation. Because there was talk that real explosives were still planted in Ryazan ...
In January 2001, Putin handed over to Nikolai Patrushev the leadership of all operations in Chechnya, on the assumption that the military had completed its task. The President instructed the director of the FSB to report on the results achieved by May 15.
The comments then were different. Some said that this meant the strengthening of Patrushev's position. Others, on the contrary, noted the danger of this appointment: from now on, Patrushev will be responsible for every death, for every terrorist attack in Chechnya. And there the guerrilla war will go on for a long time.
The Russian units in Chechnya found themselves in the position of the occupying troops, who are being shot in the back. The militants dispersed, changed into civilian clothes, hid their weapons, but did not stop fighting.
In Chechnya, they hoped that the security officers would stop the total cleansing operations using aviation and artillery, and instead they would catch or destroy the leaders of the bandits - and then, perhaps, the intensity of the war would subside.
But the nature of the war has not changed. In response to each terrorist act, a massive military strike followed, which, in turn, brought more and more Chechens into the ranks of the militants.
May 15 has passed, but the situation in Chechnya, perhaps, has only worsened: in the summer, hostilities in the Caucasus are always more active than in the winter. Patrushev met with journalists and tried to answer the question why the main leaders of the militants Khattab and Shamil Basayev have not yet been destroyed.
Even today we are capable of destroying Basayev or Khattab, but this is fraught with great losses on our part,” the director of the FSB said confidently. - I think that this will be an unreasonably large price to pay for their capture. Now we are actively neutralizing middle managers. This keeps our losses to a minimum.
The journalists insisted:
They say that for some reason you do not want to liquidate the commanders of the militants.
We want and we can do it,” Patrushev replied. - But it is quite natural to want to save your people. The main leaders of the militants are hiding in the mountainous terrain, well known to them, the approaches to which are mined ...
The operational headquarters for the leadership of the anti-terrorist operation in Chechnya was headed by Vice Admiral German Alekseevich Ugryumov, deputy director of the FSB and director of the 2nd Department (for the protection of the constitutional order and the fight against terrorism). He was the head of the FSB department for the Pacific Fleet, the deputy head of the military counterintelligence department. On May 31, 2001, he died of acute heart failure right at his workplace in Khankala.
In Chechnya, civilians became victims of artillery shelling and aerial bombardment. And the death of someone close makes the whole family avenge the victim. The military operation in Chechnya, which led both to casualties among the civilian population and to a mass exodus of people, by no means turned the Chechens into friends of Russia.
In the Baltics and Western Ukraine after the Second World War - that is, under Stalin's total control! - It took the state security agencies seven or eight years to liquidate the nationalist underground. Therefore, experts promise many more years of active hostilities in Chechnya. But at the same time, few people remember that the suppression of the nationalist insurrectionary movement in Western Ukraine and the Baltic republics, in essence, did not change much. At the first opportunity, these republics seceded from Russia.
OUR "NEODORYANES"
But Chechnya, perhaps, is the only disappointment for the current Chekists. Patrushev headed the FSB at a happy time for the Chekists, when their position in society began to change.
Boris Yeltsin, until the end of his presidency, retained his distrust of the state security agencies. In addition, he firmly grasped several important democratic principles. He did not want to become a dictator, did not even try. The media has been literally throwing mud at him for years. And he decided for himself that the freedom of the press must be preserved, and not a single journalist was afraid of him. It was safer to smash the president than any official in the country. Under Putin, everything began to change. Journalists and the intelligentsia again felt the pressure of the state apparatus, which does not tolerate criticism and opposition.
Chekists came to life, they became much more active and visible. They regained a sense of self-worth.
Nikolai Patrushev in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda said:
When I have to give government awards to our guys, I carefully look into their faces. High-browed intellectual analysts, broad-shouldered weather-beaten special forces soldiers, silent explosives technicians, strict investigators, discreet counterintelligence officers… Outwardly they are different, but there is one important quality that unites them - these are service people, if you like, modern "non-nobles".
Chekists-“non-nobles” began to look for a more prominent place in the life of the country, even ran for deputies and governors. The head of the Voronezh Department of State Security, General Vladimir Grigoryevich Kulakov, was elected governor of the Voronezh region.
At Soviet power KGB officers were not made first secretaries of regional committees and chairmen of regional executive committees. It was considered impossible. There was only one obvious exception - Heydar Aliyev. But there was an explanation for this: in Azerbaijan, it was necessary to suppress corruption at all costs.
Boris Pugo in Latvia or Givi Gumbaridze in Georgia also became the first secretaries of the republican Central Committees from the post of chairman of the republican KGB, but both of them were not professional Chekists, but spent their whole lives in the party and Komsomol work ...
“The Russian bureaucracy has recovered and subdued all living things under itself,” poet Dmitry Sukharev wrote in Novaya Gazeta. - What is the central office of the Academy of Sciences? This is the same as the former secretariat of the Writers' Union, that is, a branch of the KGB. In order not to be dispersed, they hid for a while. But now they have nothing to fear .... They have already restored the first departments in the academic institutions. We have restored the lifestyle that we had lost the habit of… We ran into the backs of our old acquaintances and spies, our eternal curators… Only political will is needed for repressions and purges. I can only hope that they no longer have this will.”
Even the chairman of the Duma Committee on Security, Lieutenant-General Alexander Gurov, who himself served in the KGB, spoke indignantly in May 2001 that Russia's law enforcement agencies were reviving the shameful spirit of denunciation and informing in the country.
The trials organized by the FSB against scientists accused of espionage became noticeable. These are people who have worked closely with foreign colleagues. They were accused of disclosing classified information, although they did not have access to information constituting a state secret, did not give a non-disclosure agreement, and did not even know what, in fact, is a secret. These processes are perceived rather as a desire to intimidate and cut down on extensive communication with the outside world.
And the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences issued, as in Soviet times, an instruction that requires scientists to report their contacts with foreigners and report back after traveling abroad.
THE PENDULUM WENT IN THE BACK SIDE
The peculiarities of our spiritual history include the fact that the concepts of "intellectual", "intelligent", "intelligentsia" invariably retain an openly dismissive connotation. This neglect of the intellect should have been ended long ago, but nothing is changing.
A real intellectual, by virtue of his very nature, is open to criticism. The inability to conformism, the desire to question what seems natural to others - that is, opposition to everything that exists - is characteristic of an intellectual. This predetermines the conflict between the intelligentsia and the authorities.
An intellectual considers it his duty to be a heretic, to go against the current, to say things that are not what others say, to contradict the generally accepted point of view and to stand up for all the humiliated and offended.
That is why intellectuals have so often been called anti-patriots, cosmopolitans, traitors and defilers of their own nest in our history.
It has always been so. After the suppression of the 1905 revolution, Maxim Gorky traveled all over the world and urged not to give loans to the tsarist government. This also seemed to someone terribly unpatriotic.
But what should a real intellectual do?
There are two lines of action. One is to resolutely protest against the stupid, harmful and criminal actions of the authorities. So did, say, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. Another line is to try to influence the power from within, to restrain it. So did Alexander Tvardovsky when he edited the Novy Mir magazine, and Academician Pyotr Kapitsa, who constantly wrote to Stalin, Molotov, Khrushchev and always achieved something.
Which model of behavior is more correct?
For example, Tvardovsky, constantly making curtsies towards the Central Committee and censorship, nevertheless managed to turn Novy Mir into an outpost of liberal thought. Academician Kapitsa, using his authority, managed to help many, and the future Nobel Prize winner Lev Landau was pulled out of prison.
But they were forced to keep within certain limits and, by their cooperation, gave the authorities the appearance of respectability. And they were blamed for this. Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn believed that it was most important to follow one's own principles, and that compromise with the authorities was fatal. Sakharov said this: nothing can be done, but it is also impossible to remain silent.
The question always arises of what price a person is willing to pay for a protest. Even a modest expression of disagreement entailed the deprivation of some privileges. They were not allowed to go abroad, they were not given an order for the anniversary.
At first they said that Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov could afford a lot thanks to their world fame. But fame was their relative protection. One was thrown out of the country, the other was sent into exile.
Dmitri Shostakovich, when asked why he signed the vile collective letters that were being prepared in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the CPSU, dryly replied: "I'm afraid of them." But few have so bluntly admitted that they lacked the civic temperament and courage necessary for a dissident.
Here is a person like the main creator of nuclear weapons, Julius Khariton, could do a lot to influence the government and protect the unjustly offended, but did not want to. He believed that his work was more important than everything else, and could not imagine that he would lose this work, respect and honor.
Others sincerely disliked the dissidents. They saw them as destroyers of the state. A talented physicist, future Nobel Prize winner Zhores Alferov not only did not support dissidents, but also made sure that they were not in his institute. The president of the Academy of Sciences, Mstislav Keldysh, twisted the arms of the academicians so that they would sign letters condemning Sakharov.
And finally, the third is annoyed by the very existence of people who are able to risk everything for the sake of their principles. They hate to know that they are not capable of it. And it is psychologically important for them to debunk those who are capable of a courageous act. This is the instinct of mental self-preservation.
After all, it is psychologically extremely unpleasant when someone nearby continues to tell the truth, and you are already lying. Therefore, I so want those who are still resisting to be silent as soon as possible, and even better to join the general choir.
In Russia, it is easier to meet a saint than an impeccably decent person, the philosopher Konstantin Leontiev once joked. Encountering a perfectly decent person is discouraging and even angering.
By the way, many people would beware of putting their signatures under collective denunciations and in general would do less nasty things if they knew that the Soviet system would collapse and all their actions would become known.
“A calf butted an oak tree” is how Solzhenitsyn once called his attempt to resist the state machine. From a head-on collision with an oak, a calf has a hard time. And only a few decide on this - like, say, the well-known human rights activist and State Duma deputy Sergei Adamovich Kovalev. He belongs to that rare type of disinterested people who at all times go against the prevailing opinion, not at all worrying about their personal fate. But are there many such people? And is it possible to demand such uncompromisingness from someone?
The liberal intelligentsia is alone in its dissatisfaction with the state apparatus. Most people are satisfied that the government is once again taking over all the threads of managing society. Times of complete freedom did not bring happiness to many people at all.
Having to decide everything on your own turned out to be an unbearably ordeal. Previously, a person knew what would happen tomorrow, what would happen in ten years, he could predict. And suddenly he was forced to think about tomorrow, how to live. This was not taught. And not everyone is able, especially at a respectable age, to learn how to do it.
The mood in society has changed.
An all-Russian public opinion poll conducted at the beginning of 2001 showed that 77 percent of those polled consider the Federal Security Service to be a necessary agency for the country.
It can be said that the very spirit of the times has changed. People no longer want radical change. They reject both revolutions and revolutionaries.
“The revolution,” former Deputy Prime Minister Professor Yevgeny Yasin said in an interview with Novye Izvestiya, “is characterized by chaos, the weakening of the state, a period of general discontent arising from the disorder reigning in the country.
Therefore, sooner or later, the process of post-revolutionary stabilization begins. It began in Russia under Yeltsin. In a sense, these processes are inevitable. Excesses are inevitable in this political stabilization. For example, the same processes after the Great French Revolution ended with Napoleon, after the English Revolution - with Cromwell, after the October Revolution - with Stalin. I hope that such a fate does not await Russia now.”
This is characteristic of a person: after everything that has been experienced, after all the storms and worries, one wants peace.
The man is desperately looking for a foothold. Yesterday people rebelled against the government, today they are looking for protection from it. Many believe that we do not have democracy, but anarchy. And anarchy must end. And here people from the special services, who now occupy such prominent positions in the state apparatus, will be very useful.
On December 20, 2000, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Patrushev spoke of an attempt to “demonize” former state security officers who came to power structures:
“The appearance on Staraya Square, in the Kremlin and in the regions of people who have gone through the school of leadership in the structures of national security is a vital necessity to infuse “fresh blood” into the administrative corps of Russia, the desire to use the potential of responsible and organized people who, in spite of everything, have preserved the “spirit of public service”. These are not weak-willed idealists, but tough pragmatists who understand the logic of the development of international and domestic political events, of emerging contradictions and threats. At the same time, they are well aware of the impossibility of returning to the old, the need to develop the country on the basis of a reasonable combination of liberal and traditional values.”
It is not very clear what values Patrushev considers "traditional". If we are talking about the traditional values of the Lubyanka, which are discussed in this book, then they are with liberal values and human rights, with normal life hardly connected.
Some people said that after a long period of freedom, the country needed rigor, to put things in order, and that's what people from the Lubyanka needed. The main thing is that they do not go too far ...
But the idea that the stick must be bent, that the pendulum of historical development in a certain sense has gone back, that the strengthening of the state will be associated with a detrimental restriction of rights and freedoms for the country, comes to the mind of many. As the outstanding Russian historian Vasily Klyuchevsky once said: “in Russia, when the state grows stronger, the people wither.”
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"Biography"
Education
He studied at secondary school No. 211 in the same class as Boris Gryzlov, chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party. In 1974 he graduated from the instrument-making department of the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute, after which he worked as an engineer in the institute's design bureau. In 1974-1975 - a student of the higher courses of the KGB at the Council of Ministers of the USSR in Minsk.
Activity
Since 1975 - in the counterintelligence unit of the KGB of the USSR in the Leningrad Region: junior detective, detective, head of the city department, deputy head of the district department, head of the anti-smuggling and corruption service. He graduated from the one-year advanced training courses at the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR.
From June 1992 to 1994 - Minister of Security of the Republic of Karelia, Head of the Department of the Federal Counterintelligence Service of Russia for Karelia. In 1994-1998 - Head of the Department of Internal Security of the FSB of Russia, Deputy Head of the Department - Head of the Organizational and Inspection Department of the Department for Organizational and Personnel Work of the FSB of Russia.
"Themes"
"News"
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Nikolai Patrushev said that the secret services and the oppositionists supervised by them are trying to fuel extremist movements among the youth. He also called totalitarian sects that profess Satanism a threat.
Patrushev urged to increase the "offensiveness of foreign policy" because of the United States
Russia needs to improve the efficiency of import substitution programs and strengthen the independence of the financial system, said Nikolai Patrushev. A change in US policy has led to an increase in threats to Russia's security, he believes
What will the billionaire Pinkevich, arrested by the Rotenberg family, tell about the Patrushev family?
A participant in corruption schemes of the Russian Agricultural Bank owed the president's coach
The office of the company "Nastyusha" was searched. Shareholder Igor Pinkevich was arrested by the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow for fraud with the money of equity holders of the Tsaritsyno residential complexes in Moscow. Mortgage loans to the victims were provided by the Russian Agricultural Bank (RSHB). The unprofessional lending policy pursued by the bank under the leadership of Dmitry Patrushev has already led to record losses for the country. The deals of Patrushev and Pinkevich are considered corrupt.
Patrushev proposed to create an institution of "Internet vigilantes"
Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, proposed creating an institute of "Internet vigilantes" from among active bloggers. He stated this at a meeting in Cherkessk on national security issues in the North Caucasus federal district(NCFD), reports TASS.
US imposes sanctions against Russian billionaires and state managers
The US Treasury has published a list of Russian businessmen and top managers against whom new sanctions have been introduced. As noted in the message of the department, there are 26 people and 15 companies in the new list of SDN (Specially Designated Nationals).
The United States imposed new sanctions due to the situation in Ukraine, Syria, and also because of cyber attacks, but "above all, Russia's attempts to undermine Western democracy," the US Treasury said in a statement. The Russian government is involved in a number of conflicts around the world, "including continuing to occupy Crimea and instigating violence in eastern Ukraine," supplying weapons to the Syrian army, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was quoted as saying.
Oligarchs and heads of state companies fell under new US sanctions
Patrushev spoke about the states claiming the role of "judges of the peace"
A number of countries claim the role of "prosecutors and judges of world scale rolled into one", allowing peace to be strengthened by force if their "narrowly selfish interests" require it. This was stated by the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev at the Moscow Conference on International Security, RBC correspondent reports.
The Kremlin called the connection of Patrushev's visit to Thailand with the arrest of Rybka absurd
The press secretary of the President of Russia assured that the foreign visits of the Secretary of the Security Council are agreed in advance
Patrushev predicted cyber attacks before the presidential elections
According to the secretary of the Russian Security Council, the Vybory information system could become a target. Patrushev added that the intelligence services of other countries are working on attack scenarios against critical infrastructure.
Patrushev called the “Kremlin report” a short-sighted step by Washington
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev called the "Kremlin report" a short-sighted step by Washington, which will have a negative impact on bilateral contacts (quoted by RIA Novosti).
Patrushev saw in the US strategy "unfounded accusations" against Russia
There is “certain continuity” in calling Russia a threat in the new US national security strategy, said Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council. The US security strategy was published yesterday
Patrushev announced preparations for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria
Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that at present preparations are underway to the withdrawal of the Russian military group from Syria. It is reported by TASS.
Patrushev named the number of people convicted of "telephone terrorism" in 2017
In the first half of 2017, 350 people were convicted of telephone terrorism in Russia. This was stated by Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, RIA Novosti reports.
Patrushev discussed the fight against terrorism with the head of German counterintelligence
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and German counterintelligence chief Hans-Georg Maassen discussed issues of countering terrorism, Interfax reports.
Patrushev called illegal migration "a breeding ground" for terrorism
So far, it has not been possible to reduce illegal migration to Russia, the situation continues to threaten public security and is a “breeding ground” for terrorism,” said Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
The results of the meeting of the Security Council Commission saw a threat to the monopoly of Gazprom
Patrushev's son increased his stake in Gazprom
Dmitry Patrushev, son of Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, increased his stake in Gazprom. This is stated in the issuer's message (*pdf).
Patrushev announced a 92% reduction in the area of irrigated land in Crimea
Problems with the Crimean water supply hinder the development of the peninsula and create difficulties for tourism and agriculture. This was stated by Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev at a meeting in Simferopol, Interfax reports.
Putin awarded Patrushev's son with the Order of Honor
Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the Order of Honor to Dmitry Patrushev, Chairman of the Board of Rosselkhozbank, son of Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. The corresponding decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin was published on October 27 on the official Internet portal of legal information.
Nikolai Patrushev congratulated Leonid Tibilov on Republic Day
Secretary of the Security Council Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev congratulated President Leonid Tibilov on Republic Day.
The congratulations say:
“Let me congratulate you on the Independence Day of the Republic of South Ossetia. This truly national holiday united all those who feel responsible for the fate of their state, its present and future.
I count on the further constructive nature of Russian-South Ossetian relations on the entire spectrum of issues of ensuring the security of Russia and South Ossetia.
Let me wish you and all the people of the republic, first of all, a peaceful sky, as well as success, stability and prosperity.”
Patrushev took part in the meeting of BRICS representatives with the Prime Minister of India
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev took part in a meeting of high representatives of the BRICS countries on security issues with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
BRICS countries can establish a regular dialogue on energy security
The meeting took place the night before after the annual meeting of BRICS representatives on security issues, which was hosted by India as the country chairing the association this year.
“Among them (participants in the meeting with Modi - ed.) was Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. We discussed issues of ensuring regional and international security within the framework of the BRICS,” Yevgeny Anoshin, spokesman for the Security Council apparatus, told RIA Novosti.
Modi himself described the meeting as "very good" on his Facebook page.
At the meeting of the BRICS representatives on security, Patrushev took the initiative to create a single database of the BRICS countries on foreign terrorists and to strengthen the exchange of information on their movement. The meeting also discussed issues of cooperation in the field of cybersecurity. In addition, the BRICS representatives decided to study the issue of establishing a regular dialogue on energy security issues.
Nikolay Patrushev discussed in China the issues of combating "color revolutions"
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev discussed the fight against crime, terrorism and "color revolutions" in Beijing during Russian-Chinese consultations on justice, public security and law and order. “Issues of bilateral cooperation through the Prosecutor General's Offices, interaction in the field of combating organized crime, drug trafficking, and illegal migration were discussed. Special attention is paid to the field of information security. The delegations noted the high efficiency of interaction to ensure international information security,” the Security Council said in a statement.
Sergei Shoigu and Nikolai Patrushev are going to Baku
In the near future, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev will visit Baku. This was reported to the Moscow bureau by sources in the Russian Ministry of Defense.
During the visit of high-ranking representatives of Russia, the Karabakh settlement and issues of military cooperation between the countries are expected to be discussed.
Nikolai Patrushev: at a meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation it was proposed to transfer the functions of the FMS to the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev said that proposals were made at the meeting of the Security Council to transfer the functions of the FMS of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but no decision was made; he also noted that he did not know where the information about the liquidation of the FMS came from.
“I don’t know where these media outlets got this information from. But, in principle, today during the discussion such proposals were voiced, there is a basis for them,” N. Patrushev said, responding to a request to comment on the publications that the issue of a significant reorganization of the work of law enforcement agencies was allegedly being discussed, and we are talking about the alleged liquidation of the Federal Migration Service.
Nikolai Patrushev called the main threats to the security of Crimea
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev at an off-site meeting in Yalta said that threats of destabilization of the socio-political situation still remain in the Crimean Federal District, Interfax reports.
Among the main threats to security in Crimea, Patrushev named political challenges and economic pressure from the West.
Patrushev announced the creation of "hotbeds of military tension" near the borders of Russia
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev accused the West of creating "hotbeds of tension" near Russia's borders by bringing to power on post-Soviet space"anti-Russian regimes"
Putin discussed the increased shelling in the Donbass at the Security Council
Russian President Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting on Wednesday with the permanent members of the Russian Security Council, at which he discussed the situation in the Donbass, the Kremlin press service reported.
Patrushev saw a threat to Russia in the Ukrainian national security strategy
The national security strategy of Ukraine until 2020 is aimed at a long-term confrontation with Russia. Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council, told reporters about this, TASS reports.
Patrushev announced the growth of the threat of terrorism in the Crimea
The head of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said that “threats of terrorist manifestations” from “militants” and “nationalist organizations of Ukraine” have increased in Crimea. He did not give details
EU releases new sanctions list against Russia
In particular, the list of individuals included Director of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov, Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, Chairman of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Deputy Head of the Security Council Rashid Nurgaliyev, member of the Security Council Boris Gryzlov, head of the 5th Directorate of the FSB Sergei Beseda, State Duma Deputy Mikhail Degtyarev, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev.
Patrushev called on the Russian authorities to take into account the opinion of the opposition
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said it was necessary to draw conclusions from what is happening in Ukraine and listen to the opinion of the opposition in Russia.
Bild: Shoigu and 7 other persons close to Putin will be subject to EU and US sanctions
Diplomats from Washington and Brussels confirmed to the publication that the list includes Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov, head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and head of the National Security Council Nikolai Patrushev.
In addition, the sanctions may affect Russian presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev, presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, and chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexei Pushkov.
Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev was born on July 11, 1951 in Leningrad, in the family of a military sailor. He studied at the 211th school in the same class with Boris Gryzlov. In 1974 he graduated from the instrument-making department of the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute, then a one-year advanced training course at the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR with a degree in law. He has military rank Army General (assigned in 2001). Doctor of Law.
He has state awards: the title of Hero of the Russian Federation, the Order of Military Merit and 7 medals. He was also awarded orders and medals from a number of foreign countries.
Labor biography
Until 1991, Nikolai Patrushev was a member of the CPSU.
Nikolai Patrushev came to the system of state security organs shortly after graduating from the institute, having worked for the shortest time as an engineer in a design bureau. Presumably, while still a student, he was noticed by those who were supposed to look for suitable personnel for the KGB, and made an offer that he did not refuse.
After the necessary retraining, Patrushev was appointed junior detective, and then very dynamically moved up the career ladder.
By the end of the Soviet period, Patrushev rose to the post of head of the anti-smuggling and corruption service of the KGB department for Leningrad and the region. And in 1992, he headed the regional department of the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation (then - the Federal Counterintelligence Service) for Karelia.
In the summer of 1996, the "court court" Barsukov at Lubyanka was replaced by professional Nikolai Kovalev, but this did not positively affect Patrushev's career - he did not enter the "inner circle" of the new boss. And, as they say, Kovalev with a light heart released his "personnel officer" to the Presidential Administration as deputy head of the Main Control Department, which was then headed by Patrushev's countryman Vladimir Putin.
Patrushev briefly replaced Putin as head of the GKU when he moved to the Lubyanka, and in early August he received the rank of deputy head of the presidential administration.
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Patrushev got into Putin's team after a financial default and an acute political crisis, when it became not very comfortable in the Presidential Administration - it was felt that an increasing share of power was flowing into the White House, where the Primakov government settled.
Returning to Lubyanka, Patrushev became deputy director of the FSB and at the same time head of the economic security department. Vladimir Putin has always "breathed unevenly" about the problems that the Patrushev department was dealing with - ever since the St. Petersburg days. Yes and by general situation the direction of the KGB work supervised by Patrushev attracted special attention of the high leadership: well-organized economic crime became a factor that seriously hindered the development of the country and undermined social stability.
In the spring of 1999, Patrushev was appointed first deputy director of the FSB with far-reaching prospects.
Nikolai Patrushev became the absolute owner of the Lubyanka on August 17, 1999, immediately after the Duma approved Vladimir Putin as head of government. From that moment, in essence, the formation of Putin's own team began, which began to grow rapidly, drawing in longtime associates and colleagues of the prime minister, who was declared Yeltsin's political heir.
At a time when Patrushev was just beginning to show himself as the head of the FSB, the country was going through hard times. In the fall of 1999, houses in Russian cities began to explode. In Ryazan, on September 22, 1999, residents of one of the houses found bags with explosives in the basement. Patrushev prevented panic by saying that it was an exercise to test the vigilance of citizens. The tragic events that took place in Moscow in October 2002 - the seizure of the Theater Center on Dubrovka - made it logical to resign the head of the FSB (such opinions were expressed). But the president did not make the leading security officials "scapegoats".
After the army in 1999-2000. crushed large militant formations of the separatists, the main responsibility for restoring constitutional order in the Chechen Republic fell on the Patrushev department.
In April 2003, Patrushev's powers were significantly expanded due to the fact that the Federal Border Service and the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information were transferred to the FSB. After that, almost all the structures of the former KGB (with the exception of the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Federal Security Service) were under the direct supervision of Patrushev, and most of the police departments were under his indirect control.
As a result of all the reshuffles that have taken place, Nikolai Patrushev has actually become the curator of the entire sphere of internal security - a kind of "prefect of the praetorium" of the resurgent third Roman power. He, as well as Sergei Ivanov (who was in charge of defense and the defense industry) and Viktor Ivanov (who is in charge of the most important area of personnel policy) made up the key triad of supporting figures of the personal presidential team.
And on February 16, 2006, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the creation of a new anti-terrorism body - the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. FSB director Nikolai Patrushev has been appointed head of the new structure. The subordinate staff of Patrushev increased by 300 units.
Information about relatives
Widower. His wife Lyudmila (according to the Panorama IAC, she was a doctor) died in 2001, leaving her husband two sons.
Personal life
The director of the FSB does not talk about his personal life, which is quite logical. It is known that Nikolai Patrushev is raising two sons without a wife.
Hobbies
As befits an employee of the power structure - sports. “Patrushev sincerely loves volleyball, plays at a decent level himself, suffers from our problems,” said the former president of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation, Valentin Zhukov, who was replaced in this post by Nikolai Patrushev, the “chief Chekist” of Russia. He likes to read, good music and "peculiarities of the national hunt" are also not alien to him.
Enemies
To list the enemies of Patrushev is like listing the enemies of the security of our state, which can be divided into internal and external. These include those who interfere with the “stable development of the economy” with their “facts of extortion of $5 million by representatives of the commercial structure “System Design of Business” from the shareholders of the company “Podolsk Electromechanical Plant” for terminating the bankruptcy procedures of this large strategic enterprise.” Enemies of security and Patrushev personally are terrorist groups, blowing up, capturing, seeking to gain access to biological weapons.
Companions
The most important friend in all respects (as far as it is appropriate in relation to the head of state) is Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich, who consistently promoted the “silovik” up the career ladder.
Weaknesses and shortcomings
As a general rule, the main person responsible for the security of the country should not have shortcomings, and Patrushev, as a general rule, fully complies with this condition. But, like any “responsible”, he has a weakness for loud phrases like “the FSB prevented 70 acts of sabotage and terrorist attacks” without specifying the period for which these same terrorist attacks were prevented. Or: “The FSB has its own recipe for fighting black cash,” as it turned out, “cash equipment can become the main barrier to the flow of unrecorded cash…” - a truly shocking statement.
Strengths
Those who had a chance to communicate with Patrushev in his younger years, he was remembered as a very energetic, purposeful person, with good brains, literate and very efficient. At the same time, he was not a “blinkered serviceman”, he had a fairly wide range of hobbies (books, music, hunting). He went in for sports, as it should be for an employee of the power structure.
According to some colleagues from the FSB, Patrushev is the kind of person "who does not need to be explained who is who in the regions, he certainly knows who to imprison and for what to imprison."
Patrushev turned out to be a man capable enough to creatively develop the idea of a kind of new nobility of Chekist origin. If we discard the details (Orthodoxy, a special path and a brilliant empire in the near future), the essence of it is this: 1) a new class of nobles needs support; 2) only being in power, this class will be able to support the president.
It is clear that this logic is the opposite of the attitude towards intelligence officers in democratic countries. There are civil servants who are responsible for their work.
As a result, each new terrorist attack, each new shock does not shake the chair under Patrushev, but, on the contrary, add points to him. All these tragedies mean that the secret services are still too weak, too poor and too humiliated. We must fight to improve their lives.
So far, Patrushev has been able to convince the president of this. Actually, only this can explain the strange trend that after the next terrorist attack, the leadership of the FSB is not punished, but rewarded.
Patrushev himself received the rank of army general in July 2001 - a few months after the explosions in Minvody, Essentuki and Cherkessk (then a total of 24 people died). So Putin congratulated him on his fiftieth birthday.
Patrushev, receiving the next rank, does not forget his generals. Immediately after Nord-Ost, he introduced the head of the Moscow Department of the FSB, Viktor Zakharov, whose task is to prevent terrorist attacks in the capital and the region, to the rank of colonel general. And recently the director of the FSB nominated Colonel-General Alexander Zhdankov, head of the Department for Combating Terrorism, for the rank.
Merits and failures
All the most important achievements are marked with the corresponding titles and awards: the military rank of Army General (assigned in 2001). Doctor of Law. State awards: the title of Hero of the Russian Federation, the Order of Military Merit and 7 medals. He was also awarded orders and medals from a number of foreign countries.
Failures are known to everyone: explosions in the Moscow metro, residential buildings in Russian cities, the seizure of schools, houses of culture ... the fact that today the people of our country continue to die not by natural death ... But in ranks and ranks, there are no demotions, let alone failures at all. The fact that Patrushev can present even the biggest mistake of those responsible for the country's security as what life, sometimes unfair, is to blame for, is a merit.
Compromising evidence
"Nord-Ost". Chechen terrorists seized the Palace of Culture of the Bearing Plant, took 800 hostages. Patrushev receives the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
It’s just a fact: on October 26, the department’s employees learned about the assault on the recreation center only from news releases and, of course, they didn’t expect anyone to come to their place ... At 9 in the morning, an ordinary UAZ for 12 seats drove up to the doors of the department. There, on top of each other, 30 victims lay in one heap. No movement, no gunshot wounds... It immediately became clear that several people had already died in the car. But not from gas, but from the fact that they were crushed. At the very bottom was a 13-year-old girl. Epicrisis: crushed…`.
From 1917 to 1991, the VChK-OGPU-NKVD-MGB-KGB, fulfilling the will of the communist leaders of various ranks, destroyed 66 million people in concentration camps. More than died in all countries participating in the Second World War. In total, over 70 million people were repressed in the territory of the former USSR during these years (including those who were forcibly deported, exiled, dispossessed). And all these are not enemies of the people - this is the people themselves. However, we must not forget that the people have always been not only victims of terror. He was its customer and executor. It was in the name of the people that executions and mass atrocities were committed in the fatherland.
Several years ago, Patrushev, the head of the Chekist department of Russia, declared with unconcealed pride that the Chekists had not given up and were not going to give up their past, they were proud of it. Imagine that, say, in Germany, the chief of the German intelligence service publicly called himself a follower of the Gestapo case. It seems that the most minimal punishment that he would have suffered would have been to instantly lose his seat ... And recently, the same Patrushev, the “chief Chekist”, called on the townsfolk to cooperate more actively with the special services, to supply the information necessary to the “authorities”, and “if this happens on an ongoing basis, then this person does good for society ...” (probably, he means for Putin’s entourage).
Today, about 80 percent of the leading bureaucratic positions in the country are occupied by personnel Chekists - punishers and spies ... For last years The FSB budget has grown 360 times!
Due to the news agenda, which brings to the fore the issues of the country's security, the name of Nikolai Patrushev is increasingly appearing in the media. Starting his career with work in the state security agencies in the Leningrad region, Patrushev twenty years later headed the FSB of Russia. After a decade of service, in May 2008, the newly elected president appointed him Secretary of the National Security Council. Manages the structure to this day.
Childhood and youth
Nikolai Patrushev's paternal grandfather was a peasant in the village of Podomo (now the village of Ilinsko-Podomskoye), which is located 700 km southeast of Arkhangelsk. Son Plato was born shortly after the revolution. The family lived in poverty, and at the age of 20, Plato joined the Navy.
The Great Patriotic War found him in the Baltic. The father of the future head of the FSB served on the destroyer "Groashchiy", was the deputy commander of the destroyer "Active". The courage of the young man can be judged by the awards, among which were two medals and three orders. Platon Patrushev returned to civilian life already as a captain of the 1st rank.
The war did not bypass the future wife of Platon Ignatievich. Antonina Nikolaevna was educated as a chemist. When the war between the USSR and Finland began, she got a job as a nurse. Helped in hospitals during the blockade of Leningrad.
The son, who was named Kolya, was born to a couple in Leningrad on July 11, 1951. The boy attended one of the oldest educational institutions northern capital- School No. 221 on Gorokhovaya Street was founded in 1860. The emphasis in teaching was on learning French.
In 1968, together with Patrushev, three graduates graduated from the school, who later also became famous. Among them are the coach of the national judo team Alexander Korneev; politician, now head of United Russia; well-known TV journalist Vladimir Mukusev from the Vzglyad program. Two years later, the future governor of the northern capital Georgy Poltavchenko graduated from the same school.
Patrushev received his higher education at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute. Perhaps the choice of path was influenced by the stories of his father, a military sailor. Being a graduate of the instrument-making faculty, Nikolai stayed to work in the design bureau of the university, but not for long. In the same 1974, he was included in the number of students of higher courses of the KGB in the capital of the Byelorussian SSR. He graduated from them in 1975. At 24, Nikolai Patrushev began his career in the state security agencies.
Career
Work in the counterintelligence structure of the KGB Patrushev gave 17 years. First he came to the position of an ordinary operative; climbing the career ladder, he reached the post of head of the anti-smuggling and corruption unit. In 1992, he became the Minister of Security of the Republic of Karelia, and remained in the region for two years.
After working in Karelia, he was entrusted with the post of head of the FSB division, which monitored the observance of laws and regulations by the employees of the service. After four years as head of the Department of Internal Security, in 1998, Patrushev moved to the Kremlin in virtually the same job.
Having headed the Main Control Department of the Presidential Administration, he audited the functioning of state-owned enterprises. It is noteworthy that his predecessor in this post was.
Patrushev worked in the Administration of the head of state for only four months. After his resignation, he returned to the FSB: he was appointed deputy director of the organization. Less than a year later, in August 1999, Nikolai Patrushev became the director of the law enforcement structure and remained in office for 10 years.
During the period of Patrushev's leadership of the Federal Security Service, a number of the largest terrorist attacks in the history of the country took place: explosions of houses in Buynaksk, Moscow, Volgodonsk, the seizure of the theater on Dubrovka, the terrorist attack at the Wings rock festival, the murder of Akhmat Kadyrov, the explosions of two aircraft,. In the second half of the "zero" the number of terrorist attacks decreased by 2-3 times compared with the statistics of previous years.
In May 2008, he received the post of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. This is an advisory structure under the head of state, which ensures the preparation of his decisions in the field of security.
While Patrushev was in charge of the FSB, five people were in this post: Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Rushailo, Igor Ivanov, Valentin Sobolev. To date, Patrushev's term of service as Secretary of the Security Council is the longest in the history of the position.
Personal life
Nikolai Patrushev has a family: his wife Elena and two adult sons. Children follow in the footsteps of their father. The eldest son has been heading the Ministry of Agriculture since May 2018. Prior to that, he worked in state-owned enterprises in the financial sector. The second son Andrei is a graduate of the Academy of the FSB. Three years after graduation, he was appointed to the position of adviser to the head of Rosneft.
The Secretary of the Security Council was awarded a number of orders. In 2000 he was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. Together with co-authors, he was awarded the Marshal State Prize of the Russian Federation for the creation study guide on the training of FSB officers sent to fight terrorism in the North Caucasus.
Conducts community activities. He chairs the Supervisory Board of the National Volleyball Association.
Nikolai Patrushev now
He continues to work in the post occupied in 2008. The fight against computer and Internet crime, countering illegal migration and drug trafficking remain topical topics for the work of the Security Council.
Concerning foreign policy, here we consider the resolution of the crisis in Ukraine, the Syrian campaign, the problem of ISIS, building a dialogue with the West, and the development of the Arctic.
Nikolai Patrushev is among the 24 Russians mentioned in the US sanctions list. These are people who, according to the American administration, are close to Vladimir Putin.
Education
He studied at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute, graduating in 1974.
Doctor of Law.
Labor activity
At first he worked as an engineer at the LKI department. Since 1974 he has been working in the state security agencies.
After graduating from the Higher Courses of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, he worked in the counterintelligence units of the USSR KGB in the Leningrad Region.
In 1992 he was appointed Minister of Security of the Republic of Karelia.
From 1994, for about four years, he headed a number of departments of the Federal Grid Company - the Federal Security Service of Russia.
In 1998, he became deputy head of the presidential administration - head of the main control department of the president of the Russian Federation.
In October 1998, he took the post of deputy director - head of the economic security department, and since 1999 he was the first deputy director of the FSB of Russia.
From August 1999 to May 2008, he managed the FSB of Russia with the rank of director.
On May 12, 2008, he assumed the position of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission on Strategic Planning and the Scientific Council under the Security Council.
Awards and titles
Army General, Honored Security Officer, Hero of the Russian Federation.
Awarded with orders:
"For Services to the Fatherland" I, II, III and IV degrees;
Alexander Nevsky;
Courage;
"For military merit";
Honor, as well as medals of the USSR, the Russian Federation and a number of foreign countries.
Winner of two state awards in the field of science and technology (of Russia and the government of the Russian Federation), as well as the award named after Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov in the field of military science.
Family
Married, has two sons. Wife, Elena Nikolaevna Patrusheva, doctor by education. The eldest son, Dmitry, has been the chairman of the board of Rosselkhozbank since 2010. The youngest, Andrey, holds the post of Deputy General Director for the Development of Offshore Projects and a member of the Management Board of Gazprom Neft PJSC.
Biography of the eldest son
Dmitry Nikolaevich was born on October 13, 1977 in St. Petersburg. Graduated from the State University of Management with a degree in management. Then he entered the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, where he studied the world economy for three years.
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