Sergei Stepashin

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Vadimovich and the family name is Stepashin.

Sergei Stepashin
Сергей Степашин
Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin 2017 (cropped).jpg
Stepashin in 2017
Prime Minister of Russia
In office
12 May 1999 – 9 August 1999
PresidentBoris Yeltsin
Preceded byYevgeny Primakov
Succeeded byVladimir Putin
First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
In office
27 April 1999 – 19 May 1999
Prime MinisterYevgeny Primakov
Acting PM himself
Preceded byVadim Gustov
Succeeded byNikolai Aksyonenko
Minister of Internal Affairs
In office
30 March 1998 – 12 May 1999
Prime MinisterSergey Kiriyenko
Yevgeny Primakov
Preceded byAnatoly Kulikov
Succeeded byVladimir Rushaylo
Minister of Justice
In office
2 July 1997 – 30 March 1998
Prime MinisterViktor Chernomyrdin
Preceded byValentin Kovalev
Succeeded byPavel Krasheninnikov
Director of the Federal Security Service
In office
2 March 1994 – 30 June 1995
PresidentBoris Yeltsin
Preceded byNikolai Golushko
Succeeded byMikhail Barsukov
Personal details
Born
Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin

(1952-03-02) 2 March 1952 (age 70)
Port-Arthur, Kvantun Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR (now Lüshunkou, China)
NationalityRussian
Spouse(s)Tamara Stepashina
ChildrenVladimir
Alma materLenin Political-Military Academy, Finance Academy
AwardsOrden of Courage.png Order of Courage
Military service
RankColonel general

Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin (Russian: Сергей Вадимович Степашин; born 2 March 1952) is a Russian political and public figure. Served as Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 (May through August).[1]

The second and last Director of the Federal Counterintelligence Service (1994—1995). First Director of the Federal Security Service (1995). Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation (1997—1998). First Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of the Interior of the Russian Federation (1998—1999). Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of Russia (2000—2013).

Chairman of the Association of Lawyers of Russia.[2] Since 2007, Stepashin is the Chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society. Since 2014, Chairman of Supervisory Board of the state-owned corporation Support Fund for the Reform of the Housing and Utilities Sector. Since 2017, he is a Board member of the Non-profit Partnership Institute of Internal Auditors in Russia.[3]

Since 2001, President of the Russian Book Union. Member of the board of directors of the Russian Railways.

Early life and education[edit]

Stepashin was born in Port-Arthur, Kvantun Oblast, USSR (now Lüshunkou, China) on 2 March 1952. He was born into a family of a Soviet Navy officer. His father — Vadim Dmitrievich Stepashin – was doing his service at the Soviet Navy military base in Port Arthur. Died on March 18, 2016 in Saint Petersburg.

In 1958, his family moved to Leningrad. His mother is currently residing in Saint Petersburg. She was awarded the Medal for the Defense of Leningrad, survivor of the Siege of Leningrad.

He graduated from the Higher Political School of the USSR Ministry of the Interior (1973), in 1981 from the Lenin Military-Political Academy, and in 2002 from the Finance Academy.[4]

He is a Doctor of Law, Professor, and has a rank of the State Advisor on Justice of the Russian Federation. His military rank is colonel general.[5]

Career[edit]

As a Russian public officer, Sergey Stepashin has a unique service record. In post-Soviet Russia, there is no other politician to have held so many of the highest offices in the country’s ministries and agencies.

In 1973, he graduated from the USSR Ministry of the Interior Political Academy.

In 1973-1981, he did his service in the Internal Troops of the Ministry of the Interior. In 1981-1990, he taught at the Ministry of the Interior Political Academy named after the 60th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. He defended his dissertation for Ph.D. of Historical Sciences on "Party leadership of fire-fighting organizations in Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War".[6][7] In 1987, he was appointed deputy head of the Department of History of the Communist Party of the USSR.

In 1987-1990, he has been repeatedly taking on the task of enforcement of law in such crisis spots as Baku, Ferghana, Sumgait, Nagorny Karabakh, Sukhumi.

In 1990, he was elected the people's deputy of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR).

In 1991-1992, Deputy Director General – Head of Department of the Federal Security Agency of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic for Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

In August 1991, Sergey Stepashin made a stand against the actions of the State Committee for the State of Emergency (GKChP) and supported the president-to-be Boris Yeltsin. Starting from August 26, 1991, he was in charge of the State Commission on Investigation into the Activities of the Committee for State Security and the State Committee for the State of Emergency set up at the instruction of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.[8]

In 1991-1993 – Head of the defense and security committee of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR).

In 1991-1992 – Deputy Minister for Security – Head of the Department of the Russian Ministry of Security for Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region.

During the political infighting between the Supreme Soviet and President Boris Yeltsin in September-October 1993, Stepashin came down on the side of the latter. On September 22, 1993, he resigned his post as Chairman of the Defense and Security Committee of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. For three months starting from September 24, 1993, he acted as the First Deputy Minister for Security of the Russian Federation.

Member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation in 1994—1995, 1997—1998. In 1999 – permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. 1996-1998 – member of the Defense Council of the Russian Federation.

From December 21, 1993 through to March 3, 1994, Stepashin was the First Deputy Director, and from March 3, 1994 through to June 30, 1995, Director of the Federal Counter-Intelligence Service of Russia, which later became the Federal Security Service of Russia. He was one of the commanders in charge of disarmament of illegal military groups in Chechnya during the First Chechen War.

In June 1995, after the terrorist attack in Budennovsk, Stavropol Territory, when terrorists led by the Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev occupied a hospital, Stepashin, director of the Federal Security Service at that time, decided to resign following a failed hostage rescue operation. In other situations, Sergey Stepashin always sought to preserve his integrity as an officer, which he values above all.

On November 9, 1995, he became head of the administrative department of the Executive Office of the Government of the Russian Federation, was in charge of security, defense and law enforcement agencies. At the same time, he was in office as the executive secretary of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for the crisis management in the Chechen Republic.

From July 1997 through to March 1998, he was the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.

In 1998, Stepashin was appointed Minister of the Interior of Russia in the Cabinet of Sergey Kiriyenko.

Starting from September 11, 1998, he continued his work in the Cabinet of Yevgeny Primakov. From April 27 through to May 19, 1999, he was in office as the First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia – Minister of the Interior of Russia. Since May 19, 1999, as the Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation.

After resigning from the post of Prime Minister, which came as a surprise to many, Stepashin had a meeting with Boris Yeltsin and the new Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, where he was offered the post of Secretary of the Security Council. However, he did not accept this proposal.

Later on, he was one of the people whom Boris Yeltsin considered for his successor in the presidential capacity. One of the halls in the Yeltsin Center displays their portraits: Vladimir Putin, Boris Fedorov, Boris Nemtsov and Sergey Stepashin.[9]

The Cabinet formed by Sergey Stepashin remained unchanged under the next Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, and largely under Mikhail Kasyanov.

On December 19, 1999, he was elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for the 209th Northern District of Saint Petersburg from the Yabloko electoral association. The initial plan was to create a pre-election political wing, which, in addition to Stepashin, would also include Kiriyenko, Nemtsov and Ryzhkov, but this did not work out due to an internal conflict. Grigory Yavlinsky offered Sergey Stepashin to join Yabloko, but during the election campaign, Stepashin found himself in disagreement with the former’s statements, and he then announced that he would be supporting Vladimir Putin, instead of Yavlinsky, in the upcoming presidential elections. He said he had hoped to transform Yabloko into "a real social democratic party of intellectuals", but failed because of Yavlinsky's bloated self-importance.[10]

On February 23, 2000, he was elected Chairman of the Permanent Anti-Corruption Committee of the State Duma. His State Duma Deputy's mandate was prematurely terminated on April 26, 2000 in view of his appointment to the post of Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation.

From April 19, 2000 through to September 20, 2013, Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation – the country's supreme supervisory agency.[11] He describes his work as follows: "We have created a new chamber, in fact, the most European of all the European ones." Analysis of the processes of privatization of Russia's state-owned assets in 1993-2003 carried out by the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation under the supervision of Sergey Stepashin sparked a massive public outcry. The report, published in 2004, contained data on gross violations of the economic interests of the state in the course of such privatization.

In May 2008, he ran for the Associate Member of the Department of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).[12] Along with S.V. Stepashin, the list of contenders included over a dozen public officers and business executives, such as Andrey Belousov, Garegin Tosunyan, Artur Chilingarov, etc. However, the members of the Academy dismissed all the top-notch contenders at the level of scientific departments.[13] In 2013, he again ran for the Associate Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), but the elections were not held due to reorganization of the national academies of sciences.[14]

Public life[edit]

President of the Russian Book Union (since 2001).

Chairman of the Association of Lawyers of Russia (since December 3, 2021; before that he was a Co-Chairman of the Association of Lawyers of Russia).

President of the European Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (2002—2005).

Chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society since 2007.

Member of the Executive Committee of the Football Union of Russia.

Board Member of Football Club Dynamo Moscow.

President of the Board of Guardians of the Moscow Et Cetera Theater.

Member of the Editorial Board of Legal Issues, Russian National Academic Periodical.

Since April 2006 – Member, and since May 2008 – President of the Editorial Board of the Union State newsmagazine.

President of the European Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (2002-2005).

Chairman of the Association of Russian Agencies of Control and Accounts.

Member of the board of directors of the Russian Railways.

Board of directors of SoyuzNefteGaz International Group of Companies.

Panel Member of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Member of the Public Council of Rossotrudnichestvo (Federal Agency for CIS Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation).

President of the Board of Guardians of the Interfaith Council of Russia.

President of the Organizing Committee of the Festival “Russia – Greece. Together through the ages”.

Family[edit]

Wife – Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina, Honored Economist of the Russian Federation.[15] Senior Vice-President of VTB Bank. Currently, she is deeply involved in welfare activities. Honors: Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd, 3rd and 4th class. Order of Courage. Order of Alexander Nevsky. She was also awarded a number of foreign orders. Tamara’s father, Vladimir Mitrofanovich Ignatyev, is a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Son – Vladimir Sergeevich Stepashin, born in 1975. In 1998, graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. Ph.D. of Political Sciences. Self-employed businessman.

Granddaughter, Anya, schoolgirl.

Honours and awards[edit]

Honors of the Russian Federation and USSR[edit]

Honors of Foreign Countries[edit]

  • Order of Diplomatic Service Merit, 1st class (Republic of Korea, 2004);
  • Order of Merit, 2nd class (Ukraine, March 2, 2012) – for great personal contribution to the development of state-to-state relations between Ukraine and Russia;[28]
  • Order of Honor (Armenia, February 25, 2017) – for enhanced federal cooperation between the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation, and for great contribution to the strengthening and development of friendly relations between Armenia and Russia;[29]
  • Commander of the Legion of Honour (France);
  • 1st class Commander of the Order of the Polar Star (Sweden);
  • Order of the Star of Jerusalem (Palestinian National Authority, 2014).[30]

Religious Honors[edit]

  • Order of Glory and Honor, 1st class (Russian Orthodox Church, 2012) – in consideration of work for the good of the Russian Orthodox Church and in recognition of the 60th anniversary;[31]
  • Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov, 1st class (Russian Orthodox Church, 2009) – in consideration of his commitment to the restoration of Volsk cathedral;[32]
  • Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov, 2nd class (Russian Orthodox Church, 2006) – for his contribution to the restoration of Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Murom;[33]
  • Order of the Faithful Saint Prince Daniel of Moscow, 3rd class (Russian Orthodox Church, March 2, 2017);[34]
  • Jubilee Medal “In memory of the 1000th Anniversary of Repose of the Great Prince Vladimir, Equal of the Apostles” (Russian Orthodox Church, 2017).[35]

Public and Regional Honors and Awards[edit]

  • Imperial Order of Saint Anna, 1st class (Russian Imperial House, June 4, 2012) – for great contribution to consolidation of the Russian statehood, in consideration of work for the good of the Russian Orthodox Church, in commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society;[36]
  • Order of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, 1st class (Russian Imperial House, July 15, 2002);[37]
  • Medal for Selfless Service (Social Movement “Orthodox Russia”, May 25, 2004);[38]
  • Order of Ivan Kalita (Moscow Region, August 31, 2012) – for many years of efficient service, high standards of professionalism, and great contribution to the development of the Moscow Region;[39]
  • Order of Kadyrov (Chechnya, May 24, 2007) – in recognition of protection of national interests related to the development of statehood, great contribution to the social and economic recovery of the Chechen Republic;[40][41]
  • Order of Merit (Ingushetia, January 15, 2010) – for services to the people of the Republic of Ingushetia in the strengthening of the state financial control and many years of dedicated work;
  • Order of Saint Nina, Equal of the Apostles, the Illuminator of Georgia, 4th class (Dzalisa Society of Russian-Georgian Общество Friendship, 2017).[42]

Titles of honor[edit]

  • Doctor Honoris Causa of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry (October 25, 2011);[43]
  • Honorary Citizen of the National Palestinian Autonomous Territories (January 2012) – for great contribution to the development and strengthening of relations between Russia and Palestine; [44]
  • Ludwig Nobel Prize Winner (2016) – for Excellence in professional sphere
  • Honorary Citizen of Murom (2006);
  • Honorary Citizen of the Volgograd Region;[45]
  • National prize winner – Best Books and Publishers of 2013 (2014; for development of book publishing);[46]
  • Winner of the national law prize named in honor of Gavriil Derzhavin (March 25, 2016) – for great contribution to improvement of law and legal awareness in Russia, education in the law for the citizens and enforcement of their constitutional rights;[47]
  • Doctor Honoris Causa of the Kazan University (April 26, 2017);[48]
  • Doctor Honoris Causa of the Russian State Social University (January 2006);[49]
  • Professor emeritus of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL) (June 28, 2021).[50]

Military Ranks and Titles[edit]

  • Colonel general (three-star general rank in the Russian Army; U.S. Army equivalent: Lieutenant General) (1998);
  • Russian State Councillor in Justice (1997).

Academic Degrees and Titles[edit]

  • Ph.D. of Historical Sciences (1986);
  • Dr. habil. of Juridical Sciences (1995);
  • Full Professor.

Major works[edit]

  • S.V. Stepashin. Safety of People and Society (Political and Legal Issues). – St. Petersburg, 1994.
  • S.V. Stepashin. Theoretic and Legal Aspects of Safety and Security in the Russian Federation. St. Petersburg, 1994.
  • S.V. Stepashin. Statehood as a Phenomenon and Typology Subject: Theoretical and Methodological Analysis. St. Petersburg, 2001.
  • S.V. Stepashin. Comments to the Penal Code of the Russian Federation. 2001.
  • S.V. Stepashin. Military and Technical Cooperation of Russia at the Turn of the Century. 2002.
  • S.V. Stepashin. Strategy in the Works by Canonical Military Writers. 2003.
  • S.V. Stepashin. Analysis of the Processes of Privatization of Russia's State-owned Assets in 1993-2003. 2005.
  • S.V. Stepashin. Constitutional Audit. 2006.
  • S.V. Stepashin. Public Audit and Future of the Economy. 2008.
  • S.V. Stepashin. Government, Public Administration, Public Audit (Fundamental Nature and Delivery Mechanisms). Izhevsk, 2012.
  • S.V. Stepashin. Social Audit. Can Red Tape be Controlled by the Society? 2013.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Stepashin Confirmed as Russian Premier
  2. ^ Председатель Ассоциации юристов России — Степашин Сергей Вадимович
  3. ^ "Институт внутренних аудиторов" (in Russian). www.iia-ru.ru. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  4. ^ Степашин Сергей Вадимович
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 March 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ Личная биографическая справка
  7. ^ Каталог РНБ
  8. ^ Смертельная рана КГБ
  9. ^ "Сергей Степашин: «Я понимаю, почему Путин всё больше и больше обращается к Богу»". Бизнес Online.
  10. ^ "Сергей Степашин: Человек не должен сидеть у власти вечно". Сноб.
  11. ^ "Постановление Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации от 20 сентября 2013 года № 2859-6 ГД «О Председателе Счётной Палаты Российской Федерации»". 20 September 2013.
  12. ^ В четверг станут известны имена новых академиков РАН
  13. ^ Таких не берут в академики
  14. ^ Постановление Президиума РАН «Об отмене проведения Общего собрания Российской академии наук в декабре 2013 г.» № 233 от 08.10.2013
  15. ^ "Родня во власти". 24 September 2007.
  16. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 21 февраля 2022 года № 70 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»
  17. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 2 марта 2007 года № 266
  18. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 2 марта 2002 года № 248
  19. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 28 февраля 2012 года № 246
  20. ^ Сергей Степашин награжден орденом Александра Невского
  21. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 28 декабря 1998 года № 1652 «О награждении орденом Мужества Степашина С. В.»
  22. ^ Распоряжение Правительства Российской Федерации от 2 марта 2017 года № 375-р «O награждении медалью Столыпина П. А. I степени Степашина С. В.»
  23. ^ Распоряжение Правительства Российской Федерации от 13 марта 2012 года № 335-р «O награждении медалью Столыпина П. А. II степени Степашина С. В.»
  24. ^ Распоряжение Президента Российской Федерации от 14 июня 1997 года № 244-рп «О поощрении лиц, внесших большой вклад в проведение благотворительной акции для детей военнослужащих, погибших в вооружённых конфликтах и чрезвычайных ситуациях»
  25. ^ Распоряжение Президента Российской Федерации от 14 августа 1995 года № 379-рп «О поощрении лиц, внёсших большой вклад в подготовку и проведение празднования 50-летия Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 годов»
  26. ^ Распоряжение Правительства Российской Федерации от 2 октября 2006 года № 1367-р «О награждении Почётной грамотой Правительства Российской Федерации Степашина С. В
  27. ^ Степашина наградили почётным знаком «За заслуги в развитии парламентаризма»
  28. ^ Указ Президента України № 174/2012 від 2 березня 2012 року «Про нагородження орденом „За заслуги“ II ступеня»
  29. ^ Указ Президента РА от 25 февраля 2017 года
  30. ^ Президент Палестины Махмуд Аббас вручил ордена членам ИППО
  31. ^ В среду 3-й седмицы Великого поста Предстоятель Русской Церкви совершил Литургию Преждеосвященных Даров в Храме Христа Спасителя
  32. ^ Глава Счетной палаты Российской Федерации Сергей Степашин награждён орденом преподобного Серафима Саровского I степени
  33. ^ Святейший Патриарх Алексий наградил благотворителей Спасо-Преображенского монастыря
  34. ^ Святейший Патриарх Кирилл поздравил Сергея Степашина с днём рождения и удостоил его награды РПЦ
  35. ^ Сергей Степашин удостоен награды Русской Православной Церкви, которую ему вручил митрополит Волоколамский Иларион
  36. ^ Вручение Императорского ордена Святой Анны Сергею Вадимовичу Степашину
  37. ^ Степашины
  38. ^ Общероссийское общественное движение «Россия Православная» наградит председателя Счетной палаты Сергея Степашина
  39. ^ Шойгу наградил главу Счётной палаты РФ Степашина орденом Ивана Калиты
  40. ^ Указ Президента Чеченской Республики от 24 мая 2007 года № 220 «О награждении орденом Кадырова Степашина С. В.»
  41. ^ Президент Чечни наградил Степашина орденом Кадырова
  42. ^ Сергей Степашин удостоен ордена святой равноапостольной Нины
  43. ^ "Вручение Председателю Счётной палаты Российской Федерации, Председателю Совета Императорского Православного Палестинского Общества С. В. Степашину диплома и мантии «Почётного доктора Дипломатической академии МИД России»".
  44. ^ "Аббас вручил Степашину знак почетного гражданина Палестины". Взгляд. 23 January 2012.
  45. ^ Сергей Степашин — Почетный гражданин Волгоградской области
  46. ^ Национальная премия «Лучшие книги и издательства года — 2013»
  47. ^ Сергея Степашина наградили премией Гавриила Державина
  48. ^ Сергей Степашин удостоен звания «Почётный доктор Казанского университета»
  49. ^ Российский государственный социальный университет. Почётные доктора
  50. ^ Сергей Степашин стал почетным профессором МГЮА

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