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Nikolai Patrushev

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Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev (Russian: Никола́й Плато́нович Па́трушев; born 11 July 1951) is a Russian politician, security officer and former intelligence officer who served as the secretary of the Security Council of Russia from 2008 to 2024. He previously served as the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) from 1999 to 2008. Belonging to the siloviki faction of president Vladimir Putin's inner circle, Patrushev is believed to be one of the closest advisors to Putin and a leading figure behind Russia's national security affairs. Patrushev has spoken favorably of the rise of KGB stalwarts to the highest echelons of power of Russia, referring to them as the "new nobility." He played a key role in the decisions to seize and then annex Crimea in 2014 and to invade Ukraine in 2022. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Patrushev is the 4,215th most popular politician (down from 3,207th in 2019), the 367th most popular biography from Russia (down from 312th in 2019) and the 112th most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nikolai Patrushev ranks 4,215 out of 19,576. Before him are Seleucus VI Epiphanes, Alfonso V of León, Lê Duẩn, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Vikramaditya, and Li Yuanhong. After him are Pir Muhammad, Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, Godigisel, Milan Milutinović, Francis IV, Duke of Modena, and Asif Ali Zardari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Nikolai Patrushev ranks 60. Before him are Kevin Keegan, John Kennedy, Kathryn Bigelow, Jean-Claude Duvalier, René van de Kerkhof, and Johnny Rep. After him are Anjelica Huston, Willy van de Kerkhof, Nicu Ceaușescu, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Blaise Compaoré, and Sergei Skripal.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Patrushev ranks 367 out of 3,761. Before him are Anton Arensky (1861), Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), and Jani Beg (1300). After him are Vera Menchik (1906), Onfim (1250), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), and Sergey Nechayev (1847).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Nikolai Patrushev ranks 112. Before him are Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779), Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (1783), Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832), Oleg Gordievsky (1938), Dmitry Ustinov (1908), and Jani Beg (1300). After him are Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (1886), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), Ramzan Kadyrov (1976), Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (1882), and Mengu-Timur (1235).

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