State Secretary of the FSB. How the daughters of an FSB general do business

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.

General secretaries came and went, one country fell apart and another rose, presidents changed, but Lubyanka is alive, survived everything and came to power, photo June 24, 2016

Each of these resignations is interesting in its own way, but the resignation of the super-influential head of department “K” of the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB (counterintelligence in the credit and financial sector), General Viktor Voronin, stands apart. It is alleged that Colonel Ivan Tkachev, the head of the 6th Service of the FSB Internal Security Directorate, is expected to take his place, who was directly involved in the high-profile arrests of officials in uniform and without in the last five years.

Bank curator

Until recently, no one believed the intensified rumors about Voronin’s resignation. Voronin, as they say, is lucky: he sat in his chair after the escape in 2008 to the United States of a former employee of the “banking” department of the FSB “K” department, Alexei Artamonov, who told FBI agents and The Guardian journalists how his colleagues, under the cover of “crusts,” transport from bank to bank multi-million dollar cash. In his homeland, Artamonov has been put on the federal wanted list for particularly large-scale fraud and criminal case No. 41326 has been opened against him. According to investigators, he allegedly cheated clients of one of the capital’s banks out of several million dollars.

General Viktor Voronin is no longer the curator of banks

Then General Voronin was rinsed with might and main in the media after Sergei Magnitsky was included in the list, and it was like water off a duck’s back for him. As is known, the starting point for the prosecution of Magnitsky, a lawyer for the Hermitage Capital fund, was the report of the operative of Directorate “K” of the SEB of the FSB of Russia, Alexander Kuvaldin, addressed to Voronin, who left his resolution on the report and sent it to the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate to initiate a criminal case against Magnitsky (in November 2009 Magnitsky died in a pre-trial detention center under unclear circumstances. NT ).

Then, in 2013, a loud scandal broke out with Voronin’s deputy, Colonel Dmitry Frolov: expensive real estate was registered for the relatives of the security officer in the Italian town of Strese, which is very popular among millionaires - but even here Voronin was carried away: he was protected by numerous connections accumulated over the years of service in the KGB of the USSR.

Voronin, as they say, is lucky: he sat in his chair after the escape in 2008 to the United States of a former employee of the “banking” department of the FSB “K” department, Alexei Artamonov, who told FBI agents and The Guardian journalists how his colleagues, under the cover of “crusts,” transport from bank to bank multi-million dollar cash

He started as a leading Komsomol worker in Leningrad, then graduated from the Higher Courses of the KGB in Minsk, worked as the first deputy head of the Federal Tax Police Service for St. Petersburg and the head of the Main Directorate of the State Drug Control Service for the North-Western Federal District. He was a man close to Putin, General Viktor Cherkesov, who lost the bureaucratic battle between the KGB clans in 2007-2009 and left the political scene. He was closely associated with the head of the St. Petersburg Drug Control Department, Alexander Karmatsky, who was put on the federal wanted list for smuggling in 2009 (investigation case No. 333).

Since 2004, Voronin was often seen as part of official delegations of the Federal Tax Service (FTS), together with its then head Anatoly Serdyukov and Colonel Igor Medoev, seconded from the FSB. +

In 2006, Voronin was appointed head of the “K” department of the SEB FSB, and for ten years, almost the entire banking sector of the country was under his direct supervision.

Reference NT : Directorate “K” (in the jargon of security officers “kashniks”) is part of the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB. In addition to the “K” department, the structure of the FSB SEB includes the “T” department (counterintelligence in transport) and the “P” department (counterintelligence in industrial enterprises). Other tasks of the FSB SEB are the fight against counterfeiters, drug trafficking, and the illegal sale of explosives and toxic substances. The department's employees have a very large network of agents among bankers, fraudsters and drug addicts. In addition to FSB service IDs, they use police “corks” and cover passports in other people’s names.

Castling

Active movement in the central apparatus of the FSB began last year: in March, the State Secretary of the FSB, 65-year-old Colonel General of Justice Yuri Gorbunov, was dismissed. Gorbunov supervised the FSB investigation for almost eleven years and was nicknamed the Old Man for his gray beard. The Old Man was replaced by 48-year-old Colonel General of Justice Dmitry Shalkov, who moved to the FSB from the Main Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee.

In December 2015, another deputy director of the FSB, 57-year-old Colonel General Yevgeny Sysoev, was sent into honorable exile to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). He was replaced by 56-year-old Igor Sirotkin, who was in the personnel reserve, who previously served as deputy head of the St. Petersburg FSB Directorate - he oversaw the local customs.

In 2009, Baltic customs detained 23 containers with Chinese contraband worth $1 million. The recipient of the cargo was a shell company registered in St. Petersburg, and the goods were sent to Moscow to the Cherkizovsky market. However, the seized containers mysteriously disappeared in an unknown direction - and a loud scandal broke out. Soon, an FSB commission arrived from Moscow and, based on the results of the inspection, Sirotkin and another group of senior officers received severe reprimands or were removed from their posts.

Other recent reshuffles include the transfer to the “paradise group” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the post of deputy minister, former head of counterintelligence of the FSB, 63-year-old General Oleg Syromolotov, who was responsible for the security of the Sochi 2014 Olympics. He was replaced by a native of Russian Technologies, 57-year-old Lieutenant General Vladislav Menshchikov, who headed the Almaz-Antey concern for ten years and then headed the Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President (serves secret bunkers for the top officials of the state. - NT ).

The case about iPhones

But let us now return to the former head of the FSB department “K”, Viktor Voronin. Some media outlets associate his resignation with a criminal story that happened in November 2015, again at St. Petersburg customs: employees of the FSB department “K” detained in Pulkovo a cargo with 50 thousand smuggled iPhones, tablets and 15 thousand Lenovo A560 smartphones, which are not yet sold in Russia .

After some time, when transferring a bribe in the amount of 2 million rubles. Vyacheslav Naumov, a former representative of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation in Finland, was detained. Next came searches at the carrier company ULS Global, whose owners are the famous St. Petersburg businessman Igor Khavronov and Turkish citizen Jebrail Karaarslan, who has repeatedly boasted of his close friendship with Turkish President Recep Erdogan.

“When we come to the service, we change into military uniform and constantly work out in the gym. After the start of events in Crimea and Donbass, we were transferred to a special position"

According to investigators, Pavel Smolyarchuk, an operative for particularly important cases of combating customs crimes of the Main Directorate for Combating Smuggling of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation, took on the task of resolving the situation with the seized electronics. Moreover, the sister of operative Smolyarchuk, Svetlana, is the wife of the head of the 7th department of Directorate “K” of the SEB FSB, Vadim Uvarov, whose employees are in charge of St. Petersburg customs and seized the cargo.

It is possible that the criminal case would have been collecting dust on the investigators’ desks for a long time, but on April 22, 2016, in St. Petersburg, two unknown assailants brutally beat the former head of the ULS Global security service, Ivan Lapshin, who was a key witness in the criminal case. The victim did not wait to be quietly finished off in the hospital room, and turned to the St. Petersburg media: “They hit me mainly on the head, they also hit me hard in the stomach and legs. They didn’t ask me for money, they didn’t steal my phone and they weren’t going to steal my car, they wanted to kill me.”

There is an important detail here: the operational support of the criminal case of electronics smuggling is carried out not by local special officers from Liteiny, but by the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB, whose office is located in Lubyanka.

"Sechinsky special forces"

The 6th Service of the FSB Internal Security Directorate was formed in 2004, after the reorganization of the FSB: employees nicknamed it “Sechin’s special forces.” According to some reports, the initiator of the creation of the “six” was the current head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, who at that time held the position of deputy head of the presidential administration and oversaw the security forces (now the main supervisor of the security forces is Putin’s colleague in the GDR, Evgeniy Shkolov. - NT ).

According to the special officer, with whom the correspondent spoke on condition of strict anonymity NT , the “six” have strict rules: “When we come to work, we change into military uniform and constantly work out in the gym. After the events began in Crimea and Donbass, we were transferred to a special position.”

The main task of the unit is operational support of high-profile criminal cases and witness protection. Among other things, this unit has its own “stompers” and a special forces group.

They were taken by the FSB "six"(from left to right) : Governor of the Sakhalin Region Alexander Khoroshavin, Head of the Komi Republic Vyacheslav Gaizer, Mayor of Vladivostok Igor Pushkarev

It was the “six” employees who in 2014 detained the head of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Police Lieutenant General Denis Sugrobov, and his deputy, Police Major General Boris Kolesnikov (according to investigators, he committed suicide during interrogation by the Investigative Committee .— NT ), who dared to take into operational development the deputy head of the 9th Directorate of the FSB Internal Security Service, Colonel Igor Demin.

In March 2015, they also detained the governor of the Sakhalin region, Alexander Khoroshavin, who was charged with accepting a bribe in the amount of $5.6 million. In the same year, soldiers of the 6th service handcuffed the head of the Komi Republic, Vyacheslav Gaizer, and officials of his administration, who are accused of creating a criminal group and fraud. Finally, on the night of June 1, it was the “six” who arrested the mayor of Vladivostok, millionaire (he owned the Park Group concern) Igor Pushkarev, who was immediately taken to Moscow - he is accused of abuse of power and commercial bribery.

Many people from the “six” can be found in Rosneft and its subsidiaries

Immediately after the arrest, information appeared on the Internet that Pushkarev was allegedly part of the team of the ex-director of the Federal Service for Drug Control, Colonel General Viktor Ivanov, who was dismissed in April.

What is curious: at one time, soldiers from the 6th service guarded the notorious banker Evgeny Dvoskin (aka Slusker, Shuster,
Kozin, Altman), who is wanted by the FBI. Moreover, Mr. Dvoskin with the KGB guards accidentally ended up in an outdoor photographic lens from the MUR, which recorded visitors to the “Old Phaeton” restaurant on Povarskaya Street, where, as is known, the office of the patriarch of the Russian underworld Aslan Usoyan (Grandfather Hasan, killed in 2013) was located. NT ).

Many people from the “six” can be found in Rosneft and its subsidiaries. For example, in 2013, the deputy head of the special forces of the FSB Internal Security Service, Nail Mukhitov, was seconded to head the Rosneft security service. True, Major General Mukhitov did not last long in his post and, after numerous complaints from suppliers, resigned.

In turn, the “six” is part of the 9th Directorate of the FSB Internal Security Directorate, which is headed by another native of the St. Petersburg FSB Directorate, General Sergei Korolev. The immediate tasks of the “nine” include catching “werewolves” in their own ranks.

Bottom line

Today, the FSB leadership has the following alignments: FSB Director General Alexander Bortnikov, First Deputy General Sergei Smirnov and simply Deputy Lieutenant General Igor Sirotkin - all from St. Petersburg.

Among the deputies (there are five in total), only Colonel General of Justice Dmitry Shalkov has Moscow roots, and even he was appointed on the recommendation of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, who is part of Putin’s closest “St. Petersburg” circle.

Crimean banker Evgeniy Dvoskin, now wanted by the FBI, at one time walked under the protection of the “six”

Apparently, key positions in the economic bloc of the FSB will now be occupied by people from the “Sechin special forces”: as we have already written, the head of the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB, Ivan Tkachev, who is called the right-wing by the hand of the Deputy Head of the FSB Internal Security Directorate Oleg Feoktistov (both served in the Sortavala border detachment. - NT ). In Lubyanka, Major General Feoktistov enjoys great influence and is called Oleg Bolshoi behind his back.

According to some reports, the head of the 9th Department of Internal Security of the FSB, General Sergei Korolev, will soon be promoted: he is tipped to lead the Economic Security Service of the FSB - as they say, the “tastiest” division of the Lubyanka. His former boss, General Yuri Yakovlev, had allegedly already submitted his resignation letter.

The general public can only wait to see how the opposing KGB clans will respond and who will be next to retire and be imprisoned.

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Deputy Directors

Heads of services (since 2004)

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.

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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 outer part 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, “stuff 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 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 sea transportation. 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 maritime transportation 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.