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The Security Council of the Russian Federation (SCRF; Russian: Совет безопасности Российской Федерации (СБРФ); Sovet bezopasnosti Rossiiyskoiy Federatsii (SBRF)) is a consultative body of the Russian President that works out the President's decisions on national security affairs. Composed of key ministers and agency heads and chaired by the President of Russia, the SCRF was established to be a forum for coordinating and integrating national security policy. It is the successor of the Security Council of the USSR.

History, status, and role

Meeting place of the Security Council in the Moscow Kremlin′s Senate building

The Security Council of the RSFSR was legally set up in April 1991 along with the creation of the post of the President of the RSFSR (the RSFSR was then one of the constituent republics of the USSR). The 1993 Constitution of Russia refers to the SCRF in Article 83, which stipulates (as one of the president′s prerogative) that the SCRF is formed and headed by the president of Russia, also saying that the status of the SCRF is to be defined by a federal law.

The 2010 Law on Security defines the legal status of the SCRF as a "constitutional consultative body" concerned with elaboration of decisions by the president in the fields of Russia′s defence and national security.^[1] The SCRF is composed of its chairman – the president of Russia, the Secretary of the SCRF, its full members, and members, as appointed by the president.^[2] Under the law, the Secretary of the SCRF is appointed by the president and reports directly to him.^[3]

Decisions of the SCRF are adopted by its full members and approved by the president, who may issue decrees or orders for the purpose of implementation thereof.^[4]

The Presidential Decree of 6 May 2011 enacted the Statute of the SCRF^[5] as well as a host of other statutes pertaining to the structure and composition of the SCRF.^[6]

It has been argued that the coordinating role defined for the Security Council in the National Security Strategy to 2020,^[7] published in May 2009, represents a strengthening of its influence and importance within Russian governance under its new Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.^[8]

Composition

As of 7 September 2018:

Permanent members

Non-permanent members

Secretaries of the Security Council

• Yury Skokov (3 April 1992 – 10 May 1993)
• Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (11 June 1993 – 18 September 1993)
• Oleg Lobov (18 September 1993 – 18 June 1996)
• Aleksandr Lebed (18 June 1996 – 17 October 1996)
• Ivan Rybkin (19 October 1996 – 2 March 1998)
• Andrei Kokoshin (3 March 1998 – 10 September 1998)
• Nikolai Bordyuzha (14 September 1998 – 19 March 1999)
• Vladimir Putin (29 March 1999 – 9 August 1999)
• Sergei Ivanov (15 November 1999 – 28 March 2001)
• Vladimir Rushailo (28 March 2001 – 9 March 2004)
• Igor Ivanov (9 March 2004 – 17 June 2007)
• Valentin Sobolev (acting) (17 June 2007 – 12 May 2008)
• Nikolai Patrushev^[9] (since 12 May 2008)

First Deputy Secretaries of the Security Council

• Mikhail Mityukov (7 December 1996 – 24 April 1998)
• Vyacheslav Mikhailov (8 June 1998 – 25 May 1999)
• Vladislav Sherstyuk (31 May 1999 – ? March 2004)
• Mikhail Fradkov (31 May 2000 – 28 March 2001)
• Nikolai Solovyov (24 June 2002 – ? March 2004)
• Vladimir Bulavin (30 May 2008 – 11 March 2013)
• Yury Averyanov (since 29 March 2013)

Deputy Secretaries of the Security Council

• Vladislav Nasinovsky (23 December 1992 – 30 August 1993)
• Yury Nazarkin (11 January 1993 – 30 August 1993)
• Vladimir Rubanov (9 August 1993 – 25 June 1996)
• Aleksandr Troshin (26 October 1993 – 25 June 1996)
• Valery Manilov (27 October 1993 – 18 September 1996)
• Vladimir Denisov (25 June 1996 – 29 October 1996)
• Sergei Kharlamov (25 June 1996 – 29 October 1996)
• Nikolai Mikhailov (31 June 1996 – 11 September 1997)
• Boris Berezovsky (29 October 1996 – 4 November 1997)
• Leonid Mayorov (29 October 1996 – 30 May 1998)
• Yury Deryabin (5 December 1996 – 30 March 1998)
• Boris Agapov (9 June 1997 – 8 June 1998)
• Aleksandr Ageyenkov (17 October 1997 – 8 August 1998)
• Vladimir Potapov (21 August 1998 – ? ? 2004)
• Grigory Rapota (21 August 1998 – 27 November 1998)
• Aleksei Molyakov (30 May 1998 – ? ? 1999)
• Aleksei Moskovsky (8 June 1998 – 28 March 2001)
• Viktor Melnikov (8 August 1998 – 16 September 1998)
• Oleg Chernov (4 January 1999 – ? ? 2004)
• Aleksei Ogaryov (2 February 1999 – 2 August 1999)
• Vladimir Vasilyev (31 May 1999 – 28 March 2001)
• Valentin Sobolev (31 May 2000 – 23 March 2012)
• Vyacheslav Soltaganov (28 March 2001 – ? ? 2004)
• Nikolai Solovyov (19 May 2001 – 24 June 2002)
• Valentin Stepankov (5 August 2003 – 1 June 2004)
• Yevgeny Nazdratenko (30 August 2003 – ? ? 2004)
• Yury Zubakov (28 May 2004 – 3 June 2011)
• Nikolai Spassky (28 May 2004 – 24 June 2006)
• Vladimir Nazarov (9 August 2006 – 17 October 2016)
• Yury Baluyevsky (3 June 2008 – 9 January 2012)
• Nikolai Klimashin (3 June 2011 – 3 December 2013)
• Yury Averyanov (20 January 2012 – 29 March 2013)
• Yevgeny Lukyanov (23 March 2012 – 15 December 2016)
• Rashid Nurgaliyev (since 22 May 2012)
• Mikhail Popov (since 29 March 2013)
• Sergei Buravlyov (since 14 December 2013)
• Sergei Vakhrukov (since 31 October 2016)
• Aleksandr Grebenkin (since 23 December 2016)

Assistants to the Secretary of the Security Council

• Anatoly Krivolapov (2 August 2004 – 10 December 2008)
• Vladislav Sherstyuk (16 September 2004 – 24 December 2010)
• Vladimir Nazarov (25 January 2005 – 9 August 2006)
• Yury Averyanov (17 May 2006 – 20 January 2012)
• Vladimir Zavershinsky (11 June 2008 – 21 October 2013)
• Nikolai Klimashin (29 October 2010 – 3 June 2011)
• Yevgeny Lukyanov (24 December 2010 – 23 March 2012)
• Mikhail Popov (20 January 2012 – 29 March 2013)
• Aleksandr Grebenkin (25 May 2012 – 23 December 2016)
• Ilya Shinkaryov (15 November 2013 – 25 February 2016)
• Sergei Vakhrukov (6 December 2013 – 31 October 2016)
• Aleksei Pavlov (since 19 March 2009)
• Nail Mukhitov (since 2 April 2016)
• Aleksandr Abelin (since 1 December 2016)
• Aleksandr Venediktov (since 23 December 2016)

Heads of the Departments of Staff of the Security Council (current)

• Aleksandr Grebenkin
• Vladimir Kryazhev
• Aleksandr Kudryavtsev
• Anatoly Naumov
• Yevgeny Nikitenko
• Viktor Rodionchev
• Aleksandr Stoppe
• Anatoly Streltsov
• Valentin Valyukov
• Aleksandr Vidanov

References

External links

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