Nikolai Bordyuzha

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Nikolai Bordyuzha. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev
Nikolai Bordyuzha. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev

Nikolai Nikolayevich Bordyuzha (Russian: Николай Николаевич Бордюжа, b.1949, Oryol) is a Russian General and politician.

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. 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 Nikolai 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 the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Bordyuzha has been awarded with Russia's Medal of Courage and Medal of Friendship (2005).

He has the rank of Colonel General.

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    Preceded by
    Andrei Kokoshin
    Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
    1998 - 1999
    Succeeded by
    Vladimir Putin
    Preceded by
    Valentin Yumashev
    Chief of the Russian presidential administration
    December 7, 1998, – March 1999
    Succeeded by
    Alexander Voloshin
    In other languages