Nikolay Kovalev (FSB)

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Nikolai Dmitrievich Kovalev (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Ковалёв) (born 1949) was the former Director of the FSB from July 1996 to July 1998, and was succeeded by Vladimir Putin.

He joined the KGB in 1974. He was appointed General of the Army in 1997. In 1999 he was elected a deputy to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

He said in 1996: "There has never been such a number of spies arrested by us since the time when German agents were sent in during the years of World War II." [1]

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• Federal Service of Security
• Nikolay Kovalev: If the world had listened to Russia, it would have been possible to avoid a lot of mistakes - Pravda on-line