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Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia (1999–2008), Secretary of the Security Council of Russia (incumbent)

PATRUSHEV, Nikolai Platonovich (b.1951) is a current Secretary of the Security Council of Russia.

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Born in Leningrad, he graduated from Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute in 1974. In 1975, he was recruited by the KGB. He attended intelligence and security courses at the KGB School in Minsk, and later at the Higher School of the KGB in Moscow.

At the same time, he served as a KGB security officer in Leningrad, becoming the head of its anti-smuggling and anti-corruption unit. There, he became a close friend of Vladimir Putin.

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From 1992 to 1994 he was Minister of Security of the Republic of Karelia. In 1995, he became deputy chief of the FSB's Organization and Inspection Department. His career skyrocketed when Putin became the Director of the FSB.

In April 1999, he became FSB First Deputy Director. In August th