The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB;its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995. The three major structural successor components of the former KGB that remain administratively independent of the FSB are the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR),the Federal Protective Service (FSO),and the Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President of the Russian Federation (GUSP).
Raul Jumkovich Khajimba is an Abkhazian politician,and served as President of Abkhazia from 25 September 2014 until 12 January 2020. He was also Chairman of the Forum for the National Unity of Abkhazia from 2010 to 2015. Khajimba previously held the offices of Vice President (2005–2009),Prime Minister (2003–2004) and Defence Minister (2002–2003). He unsuccessfully ran for president in 2004,2009 and 2011. He resigned the presidency in 2020 due to protests against him.
Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov is a Russian politician who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 2004 to 2007. An Independent,he was the longest serving director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service from 2007 to 2016. Since 4 January 2017,Fradkov has been Director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies.
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov was a Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999. During his long career,he also served as Foreign Minister,Speaker of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union,and chief of the intelligence service. Primakov was an academician (Arabist) and a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Sergei Borisovich Ivanov is a Russian senior official and politician who has been serving as the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on the Issues of Environmental Activities,Ecology and Transport since 12 August 2016. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
Andrey Nikolayevich Illarionov is a Russian economist and former senior policy advisor to Vladimir Putin,the President of Russia,from April 2000 to December 2005. Since April 2021,he is a senior fellow at the non-governmental organization Center for Security Policy,which is based out of Washington,D.C. in the United States.
Russian oligarchs are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The failing Soviet state left the ownership of state assets contested,which allowed for informal deals with former USSR officials as a means to acquire state property.
Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev is a Russian politician,security officer and former intelligence officer who has served as the secretary of the Security Council of Russia since 2008. He previously served as the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) from 1999 to 2008. Belonging to the siloviki faction of president Vladimir Putin's inner circle,Patrushev is believed to be one of the closest advisors to Putin and a leading figure behind Russia's national security affairs. He played a key role in the decisions to seize and then annex Crimea in 2014 and to invade Ukraine in 2022. He is considered as very hawkish towards the West and the US. Patrushev is seen by some observers as one of the likeliest candidates for succeeding Putin.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Boyarsky is a Russian actor and singer. He is best known for playing swashbucklers in historical adventure films;the role of d'Artagnan in the 1978 Soviet adaptation of Alexander Dumas' Three Musketeers elevated Boyarsky to the nationwide fame.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation is the central government institution charged with leading the foreign policy and foreign relations of Russia. It is a continuation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic,which was under the supervision of the Soviet Ministry of External Relations. Sergei Lavrov is the current foreign minister.
Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin was a Russian diplomat. As a child actor,he starred in three films The Blue Notebook,Nol tri,and A Mother's Heart. Churkin served as Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2006 until his death in 2017.
Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko is a Russian politician and diplomat serving as a Senator from Saint Petersburg and the Chairwoman of the Federation Council since 2011. Previously she was Governor of Saint Petersburg from 2003 to 2011.
Sergey Yevgenyevich Naryshkin is a Russian politician and businessman who has served as the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service since 2016. Previously,he was Chairman of the State Duma (2011–2016) and Kremlin Chief of Staff (2008–2012);he was also chairman of the Historical Truth Commission from May 2009 until it was dissolved in February 2012.
Brazil–Russia relations have seen significant improvement in recent years,characterized by increased commercial trades and cooperation in military and technology segments. The two countries maintain important partnerships in areas such as space,military technologies,and telecommunications.
The Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation is the minister responsible for the Russian Armed Forces. Marshal of Aviation Yevgeny Shaposhnikov was the last Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union. General Colonel Konstantin Kobets supported then President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Boris Yeltsin during the August coup of 1991. From 19 August until 9 September 1991,Konstantin Kobets was Defense Minister of the RSFSR,though there was no ministry. This post was then abolished.
The 2000 Moscow Victory Day Parade was held on 9 May 2000 to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. The parade marks the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The political career of Vladimir Putin concerns the career of Vladimir Putin in politics,including his current tenure as President of Russia.
The Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List,also known as the SDN List,is a United States government sanctions/embargo measure targeting U.S.-designated terrorists,officials and beneficiaries of certain authoritarian regimes,and international criminals. The list is managed by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). When individuals are added to the list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN),their U.S. assets are blocked. Moreover,their names are added to automated screening systems used by banks in the United States and many foreign countries,making it difficult for them to open or hold accounts,transfer money,or transact properties internationally. Any individual or entity that provides support related to terrorism,drug trafficking or unauthorized military use to any person or entity appearing on the SDN list risks being penalized under the USA PATRIOT Act.
Yuri Alekseyevich Ryzhov was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of fluid dynamics,political and social activist,diplomat,Doctor of Technical Sciences (1970),member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,former Russian Ambassador to France (1992-1998).
The Russian International Affairs Council is a non-profit academic and diplomatic think tank established by the presidential decree dated 2 February 2010. The founders of the RIAC are the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation,Ministry of Education and Science,Russian Academy of Science,the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and Russian news agency Interfax.
