Rashid Nurgaliyev

Rashid Nurgaliyev
Рашид Нургалиев
Rashid Nurgaliyev; Рашид Нургалиев
	Nurgaliyev, 22 February 2011
Minister of Internal Affairs
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 31 December 2003
Prime Minister	Mikhail Kasyanov; Viktor Khristenko (Acting); Mikhail Fradkov; Viktor Zubkov; Vladimir Putin
Preceded by	Boris Gryzlov
Personal details
Born	10 August 1956 (age 68); Zhetikara, Kazakh SSR (now Kazakhstan)
Political party	United Russia
Alma mater	Kuusinen State University
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Rashid Gumarovich Nurgaliyev (Russian: Рашид Гумарович Нургалиев) is a Russian general and politician from Tatarstan. Since 2002, he has been the minister of the Internal Affairs of Russia.

Early years

He was born in Zhetikara, Kazakh SSR, on October 8, 1956. He is an ethnic Tatar.^[1] He graduated from Kuusinen State University in Petrozavodsk in 1979. He later received a doctoral degree in economics. His thesis was on the “economic aspects of the formation of business undertakings in modern Russia".

KGB career

From 1981-1995 he worked in the KGB Directorate of Karelia and its successor, Security Ministry of Karelia, in 1992-1994 led by Nikolai Patrushev.

In 1995 he moved to Moscow and was appointed Chief Inspector of the Inspectorial Directorate of FSK (FSB) and Head of a section of FSB Internal Security Department led by Nikolai Patrushev.

He was head of the inspectorial office of the FSB.

Political career

In 2002 he became first deputy minister of the interior of Russia. In 2004 he became minister of the MVD. Currently holds the rank of Army General. Dr Nurgaliyev is an Orthodox Christian.^[1] He is married, and has two sons, Maxim, and Rashid.