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.
Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov was a Russian politician who served as mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010. Before the election of Gavriil Popov as the first mayor of Moscow,he also headed the capital in 1990-1991 as chairman of the Mosgorispolkom. He was the vice-chairman and one of the founders of the ruling United Russia party. During Luzhkov's time,Moscow's economy expanded and he presided over large construction projects in the city,including the building of a new financial district. At the same time,he was accused of corruption,bulldozing historic buildings,and poor handling of traffic,as well as the city's smog crisis during the 2010 Russian wildfires. On 28 September 2010,Luzhkov was fired from his post by a decree issued by then-President Dmitry Medvedev.
Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu is a Russian politician and military officer who has served as Secretary of the Security Council since 2024. He served as Minister of Defence of Russia from 2012 to 2024. Shoigu has served as the chairman of the Council of Ministers of Defense of the Commonwealth of Independent States since 2012.
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 served as the secretary of the Security Council of Russia from 2008 to 2024. 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.
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.
Viktor Petrovich Ivanov is a Russian politician and businessman,former KGB officer,who served in the KGB Directorate of Leningrad and its successors in 1977–1994. He was the director of The Federal Narcotics Service of Russia from 2008 until 2016.
Sergey Yevgenyevich Naryshkin is a Russian politician 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. Naryshkin has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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.
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,the Ministry of Education and Science,the Russian Academy of Science,the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Russian news agency Interfax.
