Nikolay Bordyuzha
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Bordyuzha (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Бордю́жа, b. 1949, Oryol) is a Russian general and politician.
Biography
In 1972, he graduated from Perm Military School of the High Command of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces and later attended KGB intelligence courses in Novosibirsk.
From 1989 to 1991, he was Head of KGB human resources, and from 1992 to 1998 served as First Deputy Chief and later Chief of Russia's Federal Borderguard Service.
On December 7, 1998, he was appointed Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, and also Chief of the Russian presidential administration.[1] He served in this position until March 18, 1999. During this period he was viewed by some analysts as a possible successor to President Boris Yeltsin.
From 1999 to 2003, Bordyuzha served as the Russian ambassador to Denmark.
On April 28, 2003, he was appointed Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a military pact of Commonwealth of Independent States.
He holds the rank of Colonel General.
Honours and awards
Russian Federation
- Order For Merit to the Fatherland, 4th class
- Order of Courage
- Order of Friendship
- Medal For Distinction in Protection of the State Borders
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Soviet Union
- Medals "For Distinction in Military Service" 1st and 2nd classes
- Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Medals "For Impeccable Service" 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes
Foreign
- Order of Friendship (Kazakhstan)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus)
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References
- 1949 births
- Living people
- People from Oryol
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Russian politicians
- Russian generals
- Soviet Army officers
- KGB officers
- Recipients of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th class
- Recipients of the Order of Courage
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship
- Recipients of the Medal for Distinction in Protection of the State Borders
- Recipients of the Medal for Distinction in Military Service, 1st class
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus)