Born July 13, 1950 in Leningrad in a working-class family, Russian. Parents Vasily Vasilyevich and Maria Petrovna worked at the Petrozavod shipbuilding enterprise.
In 1973 he graduated from the law faculty of the Leningrad state university(LGU) im. A.A. Zhdanova. Contrary to a common misconception (for example, in the book by Boris Mazo "Petersburg against Moscow, or Who is who surrounded by V.V. Putin". M., EKSMO "ALGORITHM", 2003. P. 81), he did not study with Vladimir Putin, and two years older (it appears in the official list of graduates of 1973, not 1975); at the university I crossed paths with V. Putin only on Komsomol work.
In 1973-75. He served in the Armed Forces of the USSR in the Leningrad Military District.
For a short time he worked in the prosecutor's office.
Since 1975 - in the service of state security agencies; from 1975 to 1991 - worked in the KGB Directorate for Leningrad and the Leningrad Region, started in 1975 as an operative of the Moscow Regional Department of the Leningrad Directorate; then he was an investigator of the 5th department (engaged in the fight against dissent), head of the department, deputy head of the 5th department, head of the 5th department, head of the investigative service of the department.
According to the Profil magazine, V. Cherkesov sent his first dissident to jail (Profil, March 10, 2003) (probably referring to Vladimir Poresh). In 1979, he led the case of the samizdat religious magazine "Obshchina" and its editor V. Poresh. Participated in events in the case of the previously convicted founder of the magazine "Obshchina" Alexander Ogorodnikov (who received a new term - for the magazine - without leaving the camp).
In 1980, he investigated the case of activists of the Leningrad feminist movement: Natalia Maltseva and Galina Grigorieva, G. Grigorieva was searched, N. Maltseva was sentenced to 2 years probation for this case.
In 1981-82, he was involved in the affairs of the independent trade union SMOT ("Free Interprofessional Association of Workers"). Interrogated witnesses in the case of Mark Morozov, who later died in prison.
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He interrogated Vyacheslav Dolinin in the SMOT case (V. Dolinin: a former political prisoner: "... Cherkesov was not very memorable to me - a gray, mediocre person who does not have pronounced qualities. The only thing that distinguished him was the ability to lie in the eyes without blushing" - "Versiya", 06/17/2002; "Cherkesov jumped up and pulled himself to attention" every time someone from the leadership came into his office, "Dolinin said. ... in those days, Cherkesov was proud of his work. Interrogating those under investigation, he he insisted in every possible way on the fact that the persecution of dissidents is nothing but the most responsible party business." - "Profil", March 10, 2003).
In 1982, he led the case of Smoto (and member of the NTS) Rostislav Evdokimov, who received 5 years in a strict regime and 3 years in exile.
V. Cherkesov became famous in dissident circles for the fact that in the protocol of interrogation of R. Evdokimov he called Vienna the capital of Switzerland (R. Evdokimov: "I was arrested on July 22, 1982, more than a month after the search and arrest of Dolinin. ... I was sentenced to 5 years strict regime camp and 3 years of exile.It was Cherkesov, being a KGB captain, who interrogated Dolinin and me at the beginning and at the end of the investigation. investigative actions was distinguished by illiteracy, including general education: during interrogation, I personally somehow had to correct the protocol where Vienna was called the capital of Switzerland ... Cherkesov sinned with ambition and special cynicism - he directly stated that KGB officers could and should violate written laws for the sake of preservation of "higher", that is, party laws." - "Today", 02/15/2000).
In 1983, he headed a team investigating the case of Mikhail Meilakh, a philologist who edited the foreign publications of Kharms and Vvedensky (Meilakh received 4 years in the camps and 2 years of exile).
In 1984, he participated in the capture of an American spy, for which he was awarded.
He dealt with the case of Irina Turkova, who became the last person in the USSR to be sentenced for political jokes ("Grani.Ru", 03/25/2004).
From 1988 to 1992 - head of the investigative department of the Leningrad department of the KGB-AFB-MBR.
In 1988, he initiated the last case in the USSR under Article 70 - the case of the St. Petersburg branch of the Democratic Union (DS) party and the distribution of the DEC newspaper Free Word (Ekaterina Podoltseva, Yuli Rybakov, Valery Terekhov, etc.). Gathered a press conference, at which he declared the members of the DES to be participants in an anti-Soviet conspiracy with Western participation, presenting as evidence the "fax machine" seized from Evdokimov as a model of spy equipment with which you can transmit classified information abroad. ("Version", June 17, 2002). Directly investigating the case of the leaders of the St. Petersburg DS was led by Alexander Fedorov, who later became Cherkesov's first deputy in the embassy, where he oversaw legal issues. ("Profile", March 10, 2003).
In 1991, he became the hero of an advertising "documentary" film about the activities of the St. Petersburg department of the KGB, directed by Vermisheva. The central episode of the film (5 seconds of footage) is the KGB operation (apparently, 1984) against American spies, during which the wife of an employee of the US Consulate General in Leningrad, Austenborg, was detained on the side of Primorskoye Highway while removing a certain container from a cache.
Claims that the KGB has never been persecuted for dissent: "There was no persecution for beliefs, for the fact that a person thought differently! There was always some kind of action. Illegal" ("Smena", December 20, 1996). “I consider it fundamental that the verdicts in all these cases were passed not in my office, but in court ... And the fact that these cases ended in guilty verdicts, in my opinion, confirms that the actions of the security officers and investigators turned out to be lawful” (“Russia” , February 27, 2001).
In 1992 he was appointed head of the IBR Department for St. Petersburg. With 117 votes in favor (27 against, 15 abstained), the Petrosoviet session adopted an appeal to Russian President B. Yeltsin with a request to cancel the appointment of "a person who participated in organizing political trials against participants in the democratic movement of the 80s." However, on December 13, 1992, the then Minister of Security Viktor Barannikov stated that this appointment was agreed with the mayor of St. Petersburg A. Sobchak.
He headed the department of the MBR-FSK-FSB in St. Petersburg until August 1998.
In 1996, he initiated the case of Captain Alexander Nikitin on charges of espionage (in 1999, environmentalist A. Nikitin was acquitted of all charges).
On August 27, 1998 - First Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). It was approved at the suggestion of the new director of the FSB, V. Putin.
According to the newspaper "Izvestia" (27.01.2000), in early 2000, V. Cherkesov was one of the key figures in the preparation of V. Putin's election campaign.
In early 2000, he was considered (along with Sergei Stepashin and Valentina Matvienko) as a possible candidate for the Kremlin in the election of the governor of St. its administrative resource in favor of Putin in the presidential elections, and the Kremlin withdraws its candidates from the gubernatorial elections in St. Petersburg (Cherkesov did not run, and Stepashin and Matvienko withdrew their candidacies).
May 18, 2000 was appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-Western Federal District. The Board of the Human Rights Society "Memorial" turned to Putin with a statement saying that the appointment of Cherkesov is contrary to the ideas of building rule of law and consolidation of society. The application was left unanswered.
May 27, 2000 included in the new Security Council of the Russian Federation. The residence of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-Western Federal District was located in the building that was previously occupied by the Wedding Palace on the Petrovskaya embankment of St. Petersburg. Representatives of the St. Petersburg intelligentsia spoke out against the transfer of the building to Cherkesov's residence, and young St. Petersburg residents held protest rallies. However, in March 2001 the residence was still open.
In January 2001, the Segodnya newspaper reported that Sergey Sviridov, a high-ranking security officer at Cherkesov, had been seen meeting Alexander Malyshev and Vladimir Kumarin from the Tambov community. An employee of Cherkesov's apparatus, Valery Bolshakov, worked for some time in the apparatus of the former vice-speaker of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Viktor Novoselov, also known for his friendship with Kumarin (Segodnya, January 10, 2001).
On March 11, 2003, V. Cherkesov was relieved of his post as plenipotentiary in the Northwestern Federal District and appointed to the post of chairman of the newly formed State Committee for the Control of Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. Deputy of the State Duma and journalist Yury Shchekochikhin commented on the new appointment of Cherkesov: “From his [Cherkesov] experience in the fight against drugs, I have only one episode in my memory - namely the fifth department (correctly: the fifth DEPARTMENT - V.P.) of the Leningrad KGB, in which Cherkesov worked in the eighties, threw 5 grams of marijuana famous writer Konstantin Azadovsky, for which he received two years in Kolyma (subsequently, all sentences were canceled, Azadovsky was rehabilitated and the entire secret operation of the "five" of the Leningrad KGB was documented exposed"). ("Novaya Gazeta", March 13, 2003).
In March 2004, the State Committee for the Control of Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was transformed into the Federal Service for the Control of drugs and psychotropic substances, V. Cherkesov remained its leader. In accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of March 9, 2004 on the structure of federal executive bodies, the Federal Service for Control over the Circulation of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances belongs to the federal services and departments, the management of which is exercised by the President.
On January 28, 2005, he submitted proposals to President Putin to toughen the punishment for supplying components for the production of drugs.
Since June 2006 - Chairman of the Government Commission for Combating Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
On November 23, 2006, he stated that compulsory drug treatment was needed: "I take this as a serious opportunity to save people, and not as a tightening public policy"According to Cherkesov, 700-800 thousand people die every year from drug use in Russia, primarily young people. In total, about 6 million people in Russia have experience of drug use, 1.8 million are drug addicts, 350 thousand are registered in drug dispensaries.
On April 13, 2005, a group of human rights activists issued an appeal stating: "Massive violations of human rights and freedoms - unjustified detentions, beatings, humiliation of personal dignity, etc. - must be thoroughly investigated, but personal responsibility lies with the Minister of Internal Affairs Nurgaliyev and the director FSKN Cherkesov. We demand their immediate resignation." The chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, said: "We were promised a vertical of power, after which order, peace and laws will be observed in our country," but in reality this does not happen. "That is why we demand that the one who is at the head of the police vertical must be removed, if it is such a vertical." Specifically, Cherkesov was blamed for the operation carried out shortly before by a division of his department in the city of Bezhetsk, Tver Region, during which, according to human rights activists, innocent citizens suffered.
After the arrest in early October 2007 of three of his closest employees (including the head of the department for operational support of the Federal Drug Control Service, General Alexander Bulbov, he published an article in Kommersant on October 9, 2007, in which he opposed "civil strife within the so-called KGB community."
On October 20, 2007, President Putin signed a decree establishing the State Anti-Drug Committee (SAC) in Russia to more effectively combat drug trafficking. The committee was headed by Cherkesov. NB: The SAC was created on the model of the National Anti-Corruption Committee (NAC) - that is, it did not replace the Federal Tax Service, but was created in addition to it, as an advisory body.
May 2008 new president Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree appointing V. Cherkesov as the head of the Federal Agency for the Supply of Arms, Military, Special Equipment and Materials (he was replaced in Gosnarkokontrol by Viktor Ivanov).
Colonel General. On December 9, 2003, Putin awarded Cherkesov a special rank - "Police General" (corresponds to the general military rank of Army General).
He was awarded the Order of the Red Star (1984, for investigating a case of espionage), the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, and the Order of Honor.
Deduced as "General Chaplin" in the political adventure novels of the Minsk writer Dmitry Cherkasov (who died in February 2003). In one of the novels, "General Chaplin" on the orders of the President nicknamed "Stasi" organizes the poisoning of a certain "Mayor Stool".
Controls (through his wife) the Rosbalt agency.
Married with a second marriage, two children from his first wife. The second wife is Natalya Chaplina, general director of the Rosbalt news agency, former editor-in-chief of the St. Petersburg newspaper Chas Peak. We met when Chaplin (on the advice of Vice Mayor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Putin) interviewed Cherkesov.
Cherkesov, Victor
Deputy State Duma sixth convocation from the Communist Party; former leader Rosoboronpostavki
Deputy of the State Duma of the sixth convocation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption. Previously - Head of the Federal Agency for the Supply of Arms, Military, Special Equipment and Materiel (Rosoboronpostavki) from May 2008 to June 2010, Director of the Federal Drug Control Service (2003-2008), Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-West Federal District (2000-2003), First Deputy Director of the FSB (1998-2000), Head of the FSB Department for St. Petersburg (1992-1998). Staff member of the KGB.
Viktor Vasilyevich Cherkesov was born on July 13, 1950 in Leningrad. Father and mother are workers at the Petrozavod shipbuilding enterprise. In 1973, Cherkesov graduated from the law faculty of Leningrad State University (two years after him, the future president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin graduated from the law faculty of Leningrad State University). In 1973-1975, Cherkesov served in the Leningrad Military District, after which he worked for several months in the prosecutor's office,,.
Since 1975, Cherkesov worked in the KGB department for Leningrad and the Leningrad region. He began his service as an operative officer of the Moscow regional department, then he was an investigator of the fifth department (for combating ideological sabotage), deputy head, head of the department,,.
According to media reports, in 1979 Cherkesov led the case of the religious magazine "Obshchina", in 1980 he investigated the case of activists of the Leningrad feminist movement Galina Grigorieva and Natalia Maltseva. The latter was sentenced to two years probation. In 1981-82, he worked on the affairs of the independent trade union "Free Interprofessional Association of Workers" (SMOT). In particular, he led the case of Rostislav Yevdokimov, a member of the SMOT and the emigrant anti-Soviet People's Labor Union (NTS), who was sentenced to five years in a strict regime colony. In 1983, he led a team investigating the case of philologist Mikhail Meilakh, who was sentenced to four years for editing foreign publications of the poet and writer Daniil Kharms,,,.
Cherkesov himself subsequently stated in an interview with the media that he was not engaged in the persecution of dissidents. Moreover, he argued that the KGB, in principle, never engaged in persecution for dissent: "There was no persecution for beliefs, for the fact that a person thought differently! There was always some kind of action. Illegal",. Cherkesov also said: "I consider it fundamental that the verdicts in all these cases were not passed in my office and not at a meeting with the head of the KGB, but in court - subject to all the conditions of an open trial. Judges, prosecutors, lawyers, defendants, the public. And the fact that these cases ended in guilty verdicts, in my opinion, confirms: the actions of the security officers and investigators turned out to be lawful ",,,.
In 1984, Cherkesov participated in the capture of an American spy - the wife of an employee of the US Consulate General in Leningrad, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In 1991, the KGB came out about this operation documentary , .
In 1988, Cherkesov was appointed head of the investigative service of the Leningrad department of the KGB. In the same year, he initiated the last case in the USSR under Article 70 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (“anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda”). At a special press conference, Cherkesov called members of the St. Petersburg branch of the Democratic Union party, led by human rights activist Valeria Novodvorskaya, participants in an anti-Soviet conspiracy and accused them of having links with governments. Western countries. As evidence, he presented a seized "fax machine" as a sample of spy equipment, with the help of which, in his opinion, it was possible to transmit secret information abroad. Subsequently, the case was closed , , , , .
In 1992, Cherkesov was appointed head of the Department of the Ministry of Security (MB) for St. Petersburg. In response, the session of the Petrosoviet, with 117 votes in favor (27 votes against, 15 abstained), adopted an appeal to Russian President Boris Yeltsin with a request to cancel the appointment of "a person who participated in organizing political trials against participants in the democratic movement of the 80s ". The appeal, however, was left without consideration, , , . In 1993, when the MB was reorganized into the Federal Security Service (FSB of the Russian Federation), Cherkesov underwent a recertification procedure for the leadership of the state security agencies, including the passage of a commission, which included representatives of the presidential administration, the Security Council of the Russian Federation, the Prosecutor General's Office, as well as public figures. Cherkesov especially emphasized that his candidacy was approved by the well-known human rights activist Sergei Kovalev, a member of the commission,.
In 1996, Cherkesov initiated the case of Navy captain Alexander Nikitin, accused of espionage (in 1999, Nikitin was acquitted of all charges),. Since 1997, Evgeny Murov has been Cherkesov's deputy for the FSB (since May 2000 - director of the Federal Security Service, FSO),.
On August 27, 1998, Cherkesov was appointed First Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. He was approved in this position at the suggestion of the new head of the FSB, Putin,,. In early 2000, after Putin became acting president, Cherkesov, along with the head Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin and Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko were considered as a possible candidate for the Kremlin in the election of the governor of St. Petersburg. However, in the end, the current head of the city Vladimir Yakovlev became the governor,,,.
On May 18, 2000, Cherkesov was appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-Western Federal District (NWFD),. The institute of plenipotentiary representation was introduced by Putin a month after his election as president of the Russian Federation. The President's representatives also became: former Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko in the Volga Federal District (VFD), General Viktor Kazantsev in the North Caucasian Federal District (NCFD, since June 2000 - Southern federal district, (SFD) ), retired general Konstantin Pulikovsky in the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD), diplomat Leonid Drachevsky - in the Siberian Federal District (SFD), tax police general Georgy Poltavchenko - in the Central Federal District (CFD) and police general Pyotr Latyshev - in the Ural Federal District (UFO) , , , .
According to media reports, as plenipotentiary, Cherkesov did not conduct active public activities, limiting himself to protocol meetings, meetings and receptions. At the same time, the plenipotentiary avoided meetings with journalists. The transfer at the end of 2000 of the building of the Palace of Weddings on the Petrovsky embankment of St. Petersburg to the residence of Cherkesov received a wide response. There were several unsuccessful rallies against the transfer, including a protest by brides in wedding dresses , , , .
In early March 2003, the media suggested that a new power structure might appear in Russia - the Federal Investigation Service (FSR), which would unite, by analogy with the American FBI, the investigative apparatuses of all law enforcement. The post of head of the new service, according to media reports, was supposedly to be taken by Cherkesov. However, in the end, the FSR was never created.
On March 11, 2003, Cherkesov was relieved of his post as plenipotentiary in the Northwestern Federal District and appointed chairman of the newly formed State Committee for the Control of Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Gosnarkokontrol). The place of the plenipotentiary was taken by Matvienko, who in October 2003 became the governor of St. Petersburg,,,. On December 9 of the same year, Putin awarded Cherkesov a special rank - police general,. In July 2004, Gosnarkokontrol was transformed into the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN).
Under Cherkesov, the Federal Drug Control Service initiated a number of so-called "ketamine cases" in which veterinarians were accused of using narcotic substance ketamine as an anesthetic for animals during operations. In 1998, the Ministry of Agriculture excluded ketamine from the list of drugs allowed in veterinary medicine, but doctors continued to use it as one of the most effective and cheapest means,. On charges of using ketamine in November 2003, right during the operation, drug control officers detained a veterinarian Alexander Duka. In September 2004, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court sentenced the veterinarian to one year's suspended sentence. In December of the same year, the Frunzensky Court of Vladimir sentenced veterinarian Olga Tanaeva to three years in prison, who sold eight ampoules of ketamine to a female veterinarian she knew. Cases of the use of ketamine received a wide public outcry and were actively discussed in the media,. In particular, it was alleged that instead of stopping the activities of criminal groups, drug police officers persecute doctors. It has also been said that after the start of the "anti-ketamine" campaign, many veterinarians were forced to abandon the use of adequate anesthesia during operations. As a result, at the end of 2004, ketamine was returned to the list of approved drugs.
In October 2007, Cherkesov's name was mentioned in the press in connection with the detention of several FSKN officers. So, on October 3, 2007, a number of news agencies reported that the day before at the airport, FSB operatives and employees of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation detained the head of the operational support department of the Federal Drug Control Service, Lieutenant General Alexander Bulbov, two senior detectives of the same department, Grigory Cherevko and Sergei Donchenko and former deputy head of the security service of the Federal Drug Control Service Yuri Geval. It was reported that all four were suspected of illegal tapping of telephones , , , , , , , . The media connected the incident with the conflict of special services and indicated that all this could damage Cherkesov's reputation,,.
The court issued a warrant for the arrest of Bulbov, Geval and Donchenko, and Cherevko was released from the pre-trial detention center,,. On October 9, 2007, the investigative committee charged the three arrested under several articles of the Russian Criminal Code. In particular, it was reported that Bulbov was accused of illegal "wiretapping" of telephone conversations. Information about what else the general and the other two arrested were accused of was not reported to the press. It was not even reported on exactly how many articles they were charged with, it was only known that all three of those arrested refused to admit their involvement in the crimes they were charged with. Bulbov linked the detention of all three with his official activities. According to the suspect, he and his subordinates carried out separate instructions for investigators in cases of smuggling furniture and smuggling Chinese consumer goods. Information about what the detainees were working on was also confirmed by the head of the Federal Drug Control Service. On October 9, the Kommersant newspaper published his article, in which Cherkesov acknowledged the existence of a "war of special services" that affected the Federal Drug Control Service. In this article, the FSB was not directly mentioned anywhere, although in fact Cherkesov confirmed that there was a confrontation between this department and the FSKN and made it clear that Gosnarkokontrol officers could be detained precisely for this reason. The head of the Gosnarkokontrol expressed claims against the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office, reproaching it for insufficient independence (again, without saying directly which structures the newly created committee lacks independence from). Cherkesov explained his speech with the interests of maintaining stability in the country: in his opinion, the problem has become so serious that it should be discussed, and not hushed up or turned into a "big squabble",.
On October 19, it became known how the President of Russia assessed the speech in the press of the head of the Federal Drug Control Service. Putin stated that he had not read the article itself, but after listening to a retelling of its main ideas from a Kommersant journalist, he agreed to comment on the publication. Answering the question about whether there is a war between the special services, Putin said that he considers it incorrect to bring out in the media the problems of relations between the special services in Russia and that he himself, "in the place of the people who defend the honor of the uniform, did not begin to accuse everyone in response, especially through mass media". According to Putin, the one who acts in this way "must first be impeccable", .
In March 2008, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev won the presidential election,. On May 7, 2008, Medvedev took office as President of Russia. At the same time, he proposed to the State Duma to approve Putin as chairman of the government of the Russian Federation. On May 8, at a meeting of the State Duma, Putin was approved as prime minister. On May 12, 2008, Putin made appointments to the government of the Russian Federation. On the same day, Medvedev dismissed Cherkesov from the post of head of the Federal Drug Control Service. At the same time, Putin appointed him head of the Federal Agency for the Supply of Arms, Military, Special Equipment and Materiel (Rosoboronpostavka). In this position, he replaced Alexander Denisov,.
On June 13, 2010, it became known that Medvedev dismissed Cherkesov from the post of head of the Federal Agency for the Supply of Arms, Military, Special Equipment and Materiel. As noted in the Vedomosti newspaper, the agency, created in 2007 in order to reduce the cost of purchasing weapons and equipment through larger batches for all law enforcement agencies, did not have any premises or even employees, since until recently the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov was not sure of the need for this structure. Nadezhda Sinikova, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Defense, was appointed to replace Cherkesov.
In October 2011, Cherkesov, remaining non-partisan, was included under the eighth number in the federal electoral list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the December elections of deputies of the State Duma of the sixth convocation (headed by party chairman Gennady Zyuganov). Explaining his decision to run for parliament from the Communist Party, Cherkesov said in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets that, in his opinion, "the country has stopped developing and requires deep, fundamental changes in governance", while calling United Russia "the locomotive of the current state of affairs ", . After being elected to the State Duma, Cherkesov received the post of First Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Irina Yarovaya,.
Cherkesov is married for the second time, he has two children from his first wife. Second wife - Natalia Chaplina, CEO information agency "Rosbalt", former editor-in-chief of the St. Petersburg newspaper "Peak Hour",. According to media reports, in September 1995, Chaplin, with the permission of the mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak, acquired a seven-room apartment on Nevsky Prospekt from the city at the book value. The payment was made in installments for four years with a down payment of six percent of the cost of the apartment. In March 2007, Chaplin was tentatively approved by the Pskov political council of the United Russia party, which owned the majority in the local parliament, as a member of the Federation Council from the Pskov Regional Council. However, she later refused the appointment in favor of the leader of the "Young Guard" of "United Russia" and the son of Putin's friend, the President of JSC "Leninets" Anatoly Turchak - Andrey Turchak. She motivated her refusal by the fact that she did not want to "spawn undesirable consequences". Cherkesov is fond of visiting theaters and reading,.
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Irina Yarovaya, who was given her mandate by President Medvedev, will head the Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption in the State Duma. - Echo of Moscow, 17.12.2011
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Married. Has two daughters and two grandchildren.
04.08.2017
Cherkesov Viktor Vasilievich
Former Deputy of the State Duma
Viktor Cherkesov was born on July 13, 1950 in St. Petersburg. Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Leningrad State University in 1973. After training, he served in the military. From 1973 to 1975 he worked in the prosecutor's office of Leningrad.
Since 1975, Cherkesov has been an employee of state security agencies. He served in the positions of detective, investigator, head of department, deputy, head of department, head of the investigative service of the Leningrad Department of the KGB of the USSR. Investigated cases of corruption, espionage, anti-Soviet activities, smuggling. He was appointed investigator for the Leningrad dissidents and dissidents.
Viktor Vasilievich received two additional educations, having graduated from the special school of the KGB of the USSR and the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR. Since 1992, for six years, he served as head of the Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. He was a member of the collegium of the FSB of the Russian Federation.
In 1998, he was appointed First Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia V. V. Putin. In the spring of 2000, Cherkesov participated in the presidential election campaign of V.V. Putin, working in his campaign headquarters. In May 2000, he assumed the position of Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District. From 2000 to 2003 he was a member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
During his service in the FSB of Russia, he was awarded the military rank of Colonel General of the Reserve.
By a Presidential Decree of March 11, 2003, Viktor Cherkesov was appointed Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Controlling the Circulation of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. Then he becomes the director of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation. On October 20, 2007 Viktor Vasilievich was appointed Chairman of the State Anti-Drug Committee. During the service he was given the special rank of police general.
In May 2008, Cherkesov was appointed head of the Federal Agency for the Supply of Arms, Military, Special Equipment and Materiel. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 11, 2010, he was relieved of his post and dismissed.
In 2011, he was elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the federal list of the Communist Party. Appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for Security and Anti-Corruption. He is the chairman of the Standing Committee on Defense and Security of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of States - Members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Viktor Vasilyevich has various state awards: the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree; Order of Honor; Order of the Red Star; order "Commonwealth"; Order of the Holy Martyr Tryphon I degree. He holds the title of Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation and Honorary Counterintelligence Officer.
In the federal list of candidates of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the State Duma under the eighth number was the ex-head of the State Drug Control Service, in the past one of Putin's closest associates, Viktor Cherkesov. On Saturday, this list will be approved by the Congress of the Communist Party. After his public revelations about the war between the special services, he lost his post in the Federal Drug Control Service, and after that he lost another post in power. According to the expert, Cherkesov is offended by the authorities and personally by Putin and intends to publish some compromising evidence on the prime minister.
The federal list of the Communist Party will include the former head of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Cherkesov. The closed plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party approved the draft federal list, in which Cherkesov is number eight. This is definitely a passing place for any result of the communists above 7% of the vote. On Saturday, the congress must approve the final decision on the list of the Communist Party in the upcoming elections to the State Duma
In the morning, a source close to the leadership of the Communist Party confirmed to Gazeta.Ru the likelihood of Cherkesov appearing on the party list of candidates for the State Duma. The final decision will be made in the evening at the plenum of the Central Committee, says the interlocutor of Gazeta.Ru, noting that the party leadership is divided on the inclusion of Cherkesov in the list.
Zyuganov personally promotes the inclusion of the ex-head of the Federal Drug Control Service in the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, but not everyone agrees with him, the source says.
Other members of the federal ten are Gennady Zyuganov, Zhores Alferov, Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, head of the Communist Youth Union Yuri Afonin, deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Ivan Melnikov, deputy chairman of the Union of Communist Parties Kazbek Taysaev, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya and State Duma deputy Vladimir Kashin.
The inclusion of Cherkesov in the list did not raise objections at the plenum, Pavel Shcherbakov, a spokesman for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, told Gazeta.ru.
“Gennady Andreevich described in detail and clearly the biography and qualities of Cherkesov, which we find important and useful. There were no objections, no sounds from the audience about him, ”said Shcherbakov.
Cherkesov has long been one of Vladimir Putin's key associates in the KGB and FSB. He, like the prime minister, is a graduate of the law faculty, and in the 1990s, when Putin was vice-mayor of St. Petersburg, he headed the St. Petersburg department of the FSB in the city. In 1998, Cherkesov became Putin's first deputy when he headed the FSB. When Putin was elected president, Cherkesov was appointed plenipotentiary to the Northwestern Federal District. Here, his important task was to prepare the city for a change of power and removal from office of the governor, Putin's opponent Vladimir Yakovlev.
When the task was successfully completed, in 2003 Cherkesov headed the State Committee for Drug Control (FSKN) specially created for him, a fundamentally new special service with 20,000 employees. At the end of 2004, after the attack on the Federal Drug Control Service in Nalchik, Cherkesov publicly published an article in " Komsomolskaya Pravda”, where he accused intelligence officers who were dissatisfied with him of being involved in the incident.
In October 2007 he published new article“We must not allow the soldiers to turn into merchants,” in which he publicly acknowledged the “civil strife of the special services,” primarily between the FSKN and the FSB, and spoke of the “Chekist hook” on which Russia found itself.
By this time, a serious confrontation had unfolded between the FSKN and the FSB, one of Cherkesov's associates, drug control general Alexander Bulbov, was arrested. The article caused a wide response, Putin reacted to it, attacking Cherkesov with criticism.
“If someone acts in this way, makes such claims about the war of the special services, he himself must first be impeccable,” Putin said. For some time, Cherkesov remained the head of the department, but in 2008 he was relieved of his duties and transferred to another position. He headed the Federal Agency for the supply of weapons, military, special equipment and materiel (Rosoboronpostavka). In 2010, Dmitry Medvedev dismissed Cherkesov from this position and criticized how the work of the department was organized.
According to political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky, the former head of the Federal Drug Control Service intends to come out with strong criticism of the authorities and the prime minister personally.
“Cherkesov is a man deeply offended by Putin. Recently, he has been hanging out in opposition circles, promising to pass on some compromising evidence to the prime minister, ”Belkovsky notes.
Cherkesov intends to demand an international investigation and trial of Putin. It is important for the ex-head of the Federal Drug Control Service to enter the federal list in order to ensure immunity, Belkovsky believes. “Circassians are needed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in order to wet Putin and United Russia. At least he himself is aiming for it, ”the political scientist is sure. At the same time, Belkovsky doubts that the leadership of the Communist Party will be ready to enter into a sharp conflict with the authorities. “If Zyuganov is instructed not to give Cherkesov his word, he won't. If he is required to throw Cherkesov off the list of the Communist Party, he will throw him out,” Belkovsky believes. The expert rejects the version that Cherkesov was sent to the Communist Party by the Kremlin to tighten control over the Communist Party. According to Belkovsky, Cherkesov has no influence left, although in the 2000s he headed the powerful intelligence agency, the Federal Drug Control Service. “After 2007, he was consistently cut off from all resources,” the political scientist notes.
Cherkesov Viktor Vasilievich
(b. 07/13/1950)
Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation
V. V. Putin in the Northwestern Federal District from May 18, 2000 to
March 11, 2003, Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Control over
illegal circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances since March 11, 2003 in
the first presidential term of VV Putin; Head of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for
control over the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances since March
2004 in the second presidential term of V. V. Putin.
Born in Leningrad in the family of a shipbuilding worker
enterprises. Educated at the Faculty of Law of the Leningrad
State University. A. A. Zhdanova (1975), two years older than V.
V. Putin. After graduating from high school, he served in the Soviet army. Some
months worked in the city prosecutor's office. Service in public authorities
security began in 1975 as an operative officer of the Directorate
KGB of the USSR for the city of Leningrad and the Leningrad region. Served with V.V.
Putin. Since 1988, head of the investigative department of the Leningrad
management of the KGB. Opened the last case in the history of the USSR under Article 70 of the Criminal Code
- "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" - against one of the leaders of "DemRussia",
the future deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of several convocations Yu. Rybakov. According to
well-known journalist M. Deutsch, V. V. Cherkesov opened criminal cases on the 70th
article against 39 people. Since 1992, head of the department of MB, FSK in St. Petersburg.
Nominee S. V. Stepashina. During the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR in
1990, when lieutenant colonel of special units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs S. V. Stepashin fought for
deputy seat in the same district with the head of the USSR KGB Directorate for
Leningrad and Leningrad region A. A. Kurkov, B. V. Cherkesov was
confidant of A. A. Kurkov and rather harshly opposed S. V.
Stepashin. At the end of 1992 he passed the attestation of the Petrosoviet. A number of deputies
demanded repentance from V. V. Cherkesov: “Moreover, they believed that if I said,
that I used to commit crimes, but now I promise them what to do
I won’t, then they have the right to agree that I continue the service. I don't
did it - it was always somehow not right for me to look away and repeat other people's words
from the hand" ( TVNZ. 03/02/2000). Relationship with A. A.
Sobchak was not easy to form. At the end of 1992 A. A. Sobchak
joined the protests of the Petrosoviet regarding the appointment of V. V. Cherkesov to
the post of head of the St. Petersburg Department of the MB, officially applied to
Moscow with a proposal to release V. V. Cherkesov from his post with
considering his past. “Not knowing at all, neither what really happened then, nor
what kind of person am I. This irritation about me ended somewhere in the year
in 1994 or even later…” ( Ibid). V. V. Cherkesov caused
surprise that with the complete, absolute trust of A. A. Sobchak to a career officer
KGB V.V. Putin, who was part of his inner circle, the mayor of St. Petersburg for a long time
for some time he felt some irrational feeling of suspicion towards V.V.
Cherkesov, to his contacts with V.V. Putin. During the October events
1993 in Moscow, from the very beginning he declared his support for the mayor, discussed with A.A.
Sobchak, a plan of special measures to localize possible centers of the uprising.
He considers it his merit that in those days no blood was shed in St.
there was no center of power. At the end of 1993, during the liquidation of the Ministry
security, all employees of the St. Petersburg Department of the MB were withdrawn
state. Passed the certification procedure for the generals, which was carried out specially
created by the State Commission from among the heads of the Presidential Administration, the Council
Security, Prosecutor General's Office. The committee also included the well-known
human rights activist S. A. Kovalev. “He attended meetings with entire folders of documents,
where “compromising” data were collected about a number of state security officers.
So, like everyone else, I had such a conversation with Sergei Adamovich - it lasted,
though a little more than the others. And after the interview, he signed
protocol, in which it was written in black and white: General Cherkesov is completely
worthy to continue serving as head of the St. Petersburg Administration and
Leningrad Region" ( The same). In August 1998, immediately after
appointment of V. V. Putin as director of the FSB, was transferred to Moscow to the post of the first
Deputy Director of the FSB He spoke with concern that the FSB -
the only special service in the world that lived for several months with the withdrawn
for the staff, and in such a "hanging" state continued and operational
events, and analytical work. In his opinion, this is very dangerous for both
capacity of the system itself and the people who are in it, and for
society. In 2000 he was a member of the campaign headquarters and. about. President of the Russian Federation V.V.
Putin, who ran for President of the Russian Federation. Plays one of the key roles
in the "St. Petersburg team", which dominates the highest authorities in Russia. From May
2000 Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin in
Northwestern Federal District. Since March 2003 Chairman
State Committee of the Russian Federation for Combating Illicit Trafficking
narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Since March 2004 Head
Services for the control of the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
Signed an order to ban veterinary services from holding ketamine,
used to treat animals. This decision caused an uproar.
among cat and dog owners. According to V.V. Cherkesov, the decision was made
because ketamine is included in the list of psychotropic substances approved
conventions that Russia signed: “They cannot be kept without permission
in the laboratory, operating room, doctor's office. The press accused him of being
subjected domestic animals to suffering. He acknowledged that it was necessary to act differently.
Awarded the Order of the Red Star for his work on the case of the American spy Pavlov
- Chief Inspector of the Nuclear Inspectorate of the State Maritime Register.
Pavlov dealt with nuclear power plants, was complex
secret carrier for the Russian nuclear submarine fleet. AT
foreign business trips held 12 meetings with German and American intelligence officers.
For the information he provided, Pavlov was transferred 104,000 rubles to a bank account.
dollars. Sentenced to 15 years in prison. On account of V. V. Cherkesov in
being the head of the St. Petersburg Department of State Security is also an exemption
tons of cocaine, which passed all customs, border and other cordons on
way out Latin America to Russia in a container with canned Colombian food;
return to the Hermitage of the stolen priceless Egyptian bowl of the third millennium
BC, ancient books worth tens of millions of dollars (the case
"General" D. O. Yakubovsky) and others Colonel General of the FSB, General
police (the highest rank established in the law enforcement service of the Russian Federation).
Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation. Honorary Counterintelligence Officer. Awarded with the Order
Honor, medals. Married to Natalya Chaplina, journalist, editor
democratic newspaper "Petersburg Rush Chas" and news agency
Rosbalt. According to him, despite the fact that his wife is a democrat, and he is a General of State Security,
get along remarkably, no discrepancies are found in anything,
family life without political overtones.
The only head of the federal level,