Security Council of Russia
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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
Since its formation, it apparently has gradually lost influence in competition with other power centers in the presidential administration. However, the June 1996 appointment of former army general and presidential candidate Alexander Lebed to head the Security Council improved prospects for the organization's standing. In July 1996, a presidential decree assigned the Security Council a wide variety of new missions. The decree's description of the Security Council's consultative functions was especially vague and wide-ranging, although it positioned the head of the Security Council directly subordinate to the president. As had been the case previously, the Security Council was required to hold meetings at least once a month.
After President Medvedev removed Yury Baluyevsky as Chief of the General Staff and appointed him to the Security Council, several Russian analysts suggested that the Security Council was a sinecure for military and security officials on their way to retirement. Its limited role also may have been indicated during the 2008 South Ossetia war, when the Security Council met on the second day of warfare, after Medvedev had already directed the engagement of Russian forces against Georgia.[1]
Role
The Security Council draws up crucial documents defining conceptual approaches to national security. Regular meetings of the Security Council are held according to a schedule set by the Chairman (the President of Russia); if necessary, the Council can hold extraordinary meetings. The Chairman defines the agenda and order of the day based on recommendations by the Secretary of the Security Council. The Chairman presides over meetings, while the Secretary holds working meetings with Council members on a regular basis.
It has been argued that the coordinating role defined for the Security Council in the National Security Strategy to 2020,[2] published in May 2009, represents a strengthening of its influence and importance within Russian governance under its new Secretary Nikolay Patrushev.[3]
A Presidential decree on the Security Council issued by President Medvedev in early May 2011 appeared to strengthen the role of the presidential administration in overseeing military affairs. The edict clarified that the Security Council examines issues and prepares "presidential decisions" on the "organization of defense, military organizational development, defense production, and military and military-technical cooperation of Russia with foreign states",[4] as well as the formulation and implementation of foreign policy, and the monitoring of public expenditure on defence, national security and law enforcement. The Secretary will also make proposals to the Secretary Council for coordinating the work of federal and regional executive bodies in national emergencies.[5]
Composition
As of 1 July 2017:
- Permanent members
- Non-permanent members
| Name | Post |
|---|---|
| Vladimir Puchkov | Minister for Affairs of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters |
| Aleksandr Konovalov | Minister for Justice |
| Anton Siluanov | Minister for Finance |
| Aleksandr Galushka | Minister for Development of the Russian Far East |
| Valery Gerasimov | Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and First Deputy Minister for Defence |
| Yury Chaika | Prosecutor General |
| Sergei Sobyanin | Mayor of Moscow |
| Georgy Poltavchenko | Governor of Saint Petersburg |
| Aleksandr Beglov | Plenipotentiary Representative of the President to the Central Federal District |
| Nikolai Tsukanov | Plenipotentiary Representative of the President to the Northwestern Federal District |
| Vladimir Ustinov | Plenipotentiary Representative of the President to the Southern Federal District |
| Oleg Belaventsev | Plenipotentiary Representative of the President to the North Caucasian Federal District |
| Mikhail Babich | Plenipotentiary Representative of the President to the Volga Federal District |
| Igor Kholmanskikh | Plenipotentiary Representative of the President to the Ural Federal District |
| Sergei Menyailo | Plenipotentiary Representative of the President to the Siberian Federal District |
| Yury Trutnev | Plenipotentiary Representative of the President to the Far Eastern Federal District and Deputy Chairman of the Government |
| Yury Averyanov | First Deputy Secretary of the Security Council |
| Rashid Nurgaliyev | Deputy Secretary of the Security Council |
| Mikhail Popov | Deputy Secretary of the Security Council |
| Sergei Buravlyov | Deputy Secretary of the Security Council |
| Sergei Vakhrukov | Deputy Secretary of the Security Council |
| Aleksandr Grebenkin | Deputy Secretary of the Security Council |
| Aleksei Pavlov | Assistant to the Secretary of the Security Council |
| Nail Mukhitov | Assistant to the Secretary of the Security Council |
| Aleksandr Abelin | Assistant to the Secretary of the Security Council |
| Aleksandr Venediktov | Assistant to the Secretary of the Security Council |
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[6] (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
- ^ Russian Military Reform and Defense Policy
- ^ Text of the Strategy in English
- ^ Review of National Security Strategy to 2020 by Keir Giles, NATO Defense College
- ^ Russian Military Reform and Defense Policy
- ^ "The 2012 Presidential Elections in Russia: What Future for the Medvedev-Putin Tandem?"
- ^ Russia trolls world by saying it cannot stop its citizens from fighting in Ukraine, Kyiv Post (25 June 2015)
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