Alexander Wassiljewitsch Bortnikow

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Alexander Bortnikow (2020)

Alexander Wassiljewitsch Bortnikow ( Russian : Александр Васильевич Бортников ; born November 15, 1951 in Molotow , today Perm) has been the head of the Russian domestic intelligence service FSB since May 12, 2008 .

After President Medvedev took office, Bortnikov succeeded FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev , who later became Secretary of the Security Council . He has the military rank of army general .

On July 25, 2014, he was placed on the European Union's sanctions list in connection with Russian policy on Ukraine .

In a speech in December 2017, Bortnikov not only warned against foreign secret services, but also made statements that were immediately criticized by members of the Academy of Sciences because, for the first time since the CPSU party congress in 1956, he was a “top official of the masses”. Repression from 1930–1940 would have justified ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 810/2014 of the Council of 25 July 2014 implementing the Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014 of the Council on restrictive measures in the face of acts that undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine or threaten . In: Official Journal of the European Union .
  2. ^ Secret police weren't all that bad during Stalin purges, says spy chief Alexander Bortnikov , the Times, December 21, 2017
  3. ^ Statement by a group of academics and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the interview with the Director of the Federal Security Service Bortnikov , Echo Moskvy, December 22, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Bortnikow, Alexander Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бортников, Александр Васильевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian military, head of the Russian domestic intelligence service FSB
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Molotov