Alexander Bortnikov
Web-site: http://www.fsb.ru/fsb/leadership.htm
Alexander Bortnikov (Александр Васильевич Бортников) was born on Nov. 15, 1951, in Perm.
Education: Leningrad Railway Engineering Institute, 1973.
1975: Joined the KGB. Served as a counterintelligence agent and administrator in the Leningrad region.
June 2003: Head of the FSB in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region
2004: Replaced Yury Zaostrovtsev to become head of the FSB's economic security division
2004-2008: Member of the board of directors of Sovcomflot (a government-owned shipping company)
2005: Member of Federal Exports Commission
2006: Attained the rank of army general
May 2008: Named director of the FSB
October 2008: Joined a newly created presidential commission on financial markets
Bortnikov is married and has one son.
Senior officials of the security services — the Federal Security Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Federal Guard Service — have declared their incomes for 2011, and, in contrast to other government officials, most don't own vehicles and are the main breadwinners for their families.
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A 17-year-old high school student has been detained on suspicion of trying to blackmail billionaire Suleiman Kerimov and a St. Petersburg city official into paying him a combined $11 million, news reports said Wednesday.
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Federal Security Service head Alexander Bortnikov has ordered that FSB employees must free themselves of any property they own outside Russia by Dec. 1.
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Security forces have killed a leader of an Islamist rebel group in the North Caucasus who was accused of plotting a botched suicide attack in Moscow and calling for more bombings.
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A group of North Caucasus insurgents attempted to bomb a Sapsan bullet train last month, but their plot was foiled by the Federal Security Service, a news report said Monday.
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Any discussion of who controls Russia typically focuses on the ruling tandem and the differences between the two leaders' public statements and political positions. But this discussion does not fully answer the question of how the elite are perceived by Russians and how stable the social order in the country is.
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