SITE MAP	Unclassified	14 March 2003
FBIS/Central Eurasia Program Directory of RF Defense Related Agencies and Personnel
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	Head of the State Committee to Oversee the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Trade (Trud, 12 Mar 03).
	See article:  Красной звезды полпред, Konservator, 14 Mar 03

(Voyeninform Military News Agency, 27 Jul 00).

• Plenipotentiary representative of the Russian President in the North Western Federal District
• Born in 1950 in Leningrad.
• Graduated from the law department of Leningrad State University in 1975 and joined the staff of the KGB department for Leningrad.
• 1988-92:   Head of the investigation section of the KGB Department for Leningrad.
• 1992-98:   Head of the FSB department for St.   Petersburg and Leningrad Region.
• From August 1998:   First Deputy Director of the FSB.
• Appointed plenipotentiary representative of the Russian President in the North Western Federal District by Presidential Decree No.   896 of 18th May 2000. . (Voyeninform Military News Agency, 27 Jul 00).