Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov Russian: Михаи́л Ефи́мович Фрадко́в, IPA: ; born 1 September 1950 is a Russian politician who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 2004 to 2007. An Independent, he was the longest serving director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service from 2007 to 2016. Since 4 January 2017, Fradkov has been Director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies.
Boris Vyacheslavovich Gryzlov also spelled Grizlov; Russian: Борис Вячеславович Грызлов, Russian pronunciation: ; born December 15, 1950, is a Russian politician. He was Interior Minister from 2001 to 2003 and Speaker of the State Duma (the lower house of parliament) from 2003 to 2011. He is one of the leaders of the largest Russian political party, United Russia. Boris Gryzlov is a close ally of President Vladimir Putin. Contents 1Early career
Yegor Timurovich Gaidar Russian: Его́р Тиму́рович Гайда́р; pronounced ; 19 March 1956 – 16 December 2009 was a Soviet and Russian economist, politician, and author, and was the Acting Prime Minister of Russia from 15 June 1992 to 14 December 1992. He was the architect of the controversial shock therapy reforms administered in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which brought him both praise and harsh
Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin Russian: Ви́ктор Степа́нович Черномы́рдин, IPA: ; 9 April 1938 – 3 November 2010 was a Russian politician and businessman. He was the first chairman of the Gazprom energy company and the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of Russia (1992–1998) based on consecutive years. He was a key figure in Russian politics in the 1990s, and a participant
Dmitriy Nikolayevich Abramenkov born April 24, 1947 is a Russian government official and political figure. Abramenkov was the vice-governor of the Smolensk Oblast and was a deputy in the State Duma during the second (1995–1999) and third (1999–2003) sessions. Abramenkov graduated from the Roslavl Technical School for Rail Transport, and the highest party school of Leningrad. He worked as a crane operator
Nikolai (Nikolay) Ivanovich Yezhov Russian: Николай Иванович Ежов, IPA: ; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940 was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the height of the Great Purge. He presided over mass arrests and executions during the Great Purge. Yezhov eventually fell from
Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev Russian: Генна́дий Ива́нович Яна́ев; 26 August 1937 – 24 September 2010 was a Soviet politician who served as the first and only Vice President of the Soviet Union. Yanayev’s political career spanned the rules of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and culminated during the Gorbachev years. Yanayev was born in Perevoz, Gorky Oblast.
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov Russian: Михаи́л Андре́евич Су́слов; 21 November 1902 – 25 January 1982 was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as unofficial Chief Ideologue of the Party until his death in 1982. Suslov was responsible for party democracy and
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov Russian: Яков Михайлович Свердлов; 3 June 1885 – 16 March 1919, was a Bolshevik Party administrator and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1917 to 1919. He is sometimes regarded as the first head of state of the Soviet Union although it was not established until 1922, three years after his
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov /ˈmɒlətɒf, ˈmoʊ-/; né Skryabin; (OS 25 February 9 March 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s. Molotov served as Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars from 1930 to 1941, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1956. Born in Kukarka,