Nikolai Patrushev
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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 s
Patrushev in 2023
Russian president Putin and then-FSB director Patrushev at a meeting of the board of the Federal Security Service in 2002
Dmitry Medvedev with Sergei Lavrov and Patrushev at the 2010 SCO Summit in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Patrushev with Barack Obama at the White House in May 2013
Alexander Bortnikov
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Alexander Vasilyevich Bortnikov is a Russian intelligence officer who has served as the director of the Federal Security Service since 2008. He is one of the most powerful members of the silovik facti
Nikolai Patrushev
…States, in the event of a threat to its existence." According to Russian expert at the Carnegie Center, Alexander Sorkin, Patrushev and FSB director Alexander Bortnikov were formed by the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and "believe that a bloc confrontation with the West is a reasonable and…
Bortnikov in 2025
Bortnikov with Alexei Kuzyura at a meeting of the CIS security agencies and special services chiefs in 2010
Putin with Bortnikov, Shoigu, Viktor Zolotov, Sergey Naryshkin and other senior Kremlin officials on 11 April 2019
Bortnikov with Vladimir Putin and Sergei Shoigu