Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin - statesman, former Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation (1997-1998), Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998-1999), Chairman of the Accounts Chamber (2000-2013), Chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the State Corporation "Fund for Assistance to Housing Reform -municipal services."

Childhood and youth

Sergei was born on March 2, 1952 in the Chinese city of Port Arthur in the family of a Soviet naval officer and a doctor at a psychiatric clinic. In 1955, my father was transferred from a military base in the Pacific Ocean to Leningrad.

After graduating from secondary school in 1969, Sergei entered the Higher Political School of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. From 1973, he served in the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for 19 years. In 1977 he entered the Military-Political Academy named after. Lenin, where in 1986 he also graduated from graduate school and received the title of Candidate of Historical Sciences, having defended his dissertation “Party leadership of fire-fighting units of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War.”

In 1980, Sergei Vadimovich got a job as a teacher at the Higher Political School of Leningrad, where he worked until 1992. Starting from the second half of the 80s, as part of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he regularly went on business trips to the North Caucasus, Armenia, Fergana, Sukhum, and Baku. In 1991, he was hired as the head of the Department of the AFB of the RSFSR for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

Policy

Since 1990, the political biography of Sergei Stepashin began. The military man was elected to serve as a people's deputy of the RSFSR. In the Supreme Council, Sergei Vadimovich headed the Committee on Affairs of the Disabled, WWII and Labor Veterans, Military Personnel and Their Families. A year later he became head of the Security Committee of the Supreme Soviet of Russia. Stepashin joined the Presidium of the Russian Armed Forces and headed the council to investigate the activities of the State Emergency Committee.

Since 1992, Stepashin has been appointed Deputy Minister for Security Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Leningrad Region; a year later, the politician holds the post of Deputy Minister of this unit for the Russian Federation. Since 1993, Sergei Vadimovich has worked in the Counterintelligence Federal Service as first deputy head and then director of the FSB. In 1995 he took control of the administrative department of the Russian government.

In 1997, Sergei Stepashin was appointed Minister of Justice of Russia, and in 1998 - head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Since 1999, he has served as the first deputy chairman of the Russian government, and then as prime minister. In May 1999, after the resignation of the cabinet, he received the post of Prime Minister for three months. In December 1999, he assumed parliamentary duties from the Yabloko faction and headed the anti-corruption committee in the State Duma.

Since 2000, he served as Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, where from the very beginning of his activities he began to restructure and optimize the department. The Accounts Chamber under Stepashin interacts with the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Tax Office. Sergei Vadimovich built a single departmental vertical of accountability.

One of the first cases of the joint venture was an investigation into the financial activities of Gazprom management in the person of Rem Vyakhirev, after which he was forced to resign. Inspections were also carried out across ministries and regions. As a result of the identified violations, Minister Nikolai Aksenenko and the head of Yakutia were removed.

In 2002, Stepashin took over as head of EUROSAI for three years. In the same year, Sergei Vadimovich is trying to bring the Accounts Chamber to the international level, enlisting the support of the Swiss prosecutor's office in the case of a loan from the IMF in the amount of $ 4.8 billion that disappeared on the eve of the 1998 crisis.

But the president rejects the initiative of the chairman of the joint venture and stops the investigation of the high-profile case. Sergei Vadimovich, having understood the matter, explains the misunderstanding by the transaction being carried out in the United States, which was initially not taken into account by the Russian Accounts Chamber.

In 2005, Sergei Stepashin was elected for a new term as Chairman of the Accounts Chamber. In 2007, an internal scandal broke out over the discovery of bribery by the heads of subordinate departments of the joint venture Vasily Koryagin, Sergei Klimantov and Sergei Dubovitsky. The involvement of these persons in receiving bribes on an especially large scale was proven.

In the same year, a case was opened against Accounts Chamber employees Zarina Farnieva and Yuri Gaidukov, who were charged with abuse of power and illegal receipt of monetary compensation in the amount of € 7 million. Both defendants were released from custody on bail.

In 2008, Sergei Stepashin, after checking the former president of Transneft Semyon Vainshtok, revealed the misuse of $4 billion. In the same year, Sergei Stepashin himself was involved in the case of the disappearance of $150 million, which were invested by the Svyaz-Bank organization in the Eclipse Aviation company , after which the company declared bankruptcy without repaying the loan.

With the assistance of Sergei Stepashin, the non-profit enterprise “Russian Charitable Foundation named after Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna” was created. The statesman has served as chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society since 2007.

Thanks to the efforts of Sergei Vadimovich, in 2011 the IOPS secured the support of the administration of the President of the Russian Federation in the improvement of the Sergievsky Metochion in the center of Jerusalem. In order to highlight the activities of the Elizabeth Foundation and the Imperial Society, official websites were created for each of them.

In 2013, Sergei Stepashin was replaced as chairman of the Accounts Chamber. In January 2014, Sergei Vadimovich was appointed head of the supervisory board of the Fund for Assistance to Housing and Communal Services Reform under the Ministry of Construction. The fund's competence includes the introduction of energy-saving technologies into the housing and communal services system, coverage of issues of relocation of citizens from dilapidated housing, control over major repairs, and improvement of the investment background in the housing and communal services system.

Personal life

Sergei Stepashin is married to Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina. The statesman's wife is engaged in banking; she owned a five percent stake in Promstroibank worth $30 million, which in 2005 passed into the hands of the owners of VTB. Tamara Stepashina, in turn, received the position of senior vice president of VTB Bank. Sergei Stepashin's wife also owned controlling stakes in the companies Nord-Service Co LLC and RusEconomInvest LLC.

The son of Sergei Stepashin, Vladimir, was born in 1975, and graduated from the Financial Institute of St. Petersburg in 1998. Vladimir manages the family business - the corporations RusEconomInvest, Real Estate SV, Project VS, Real Estate ST, and finances the agricultural holding OJSC Parnas-M. Vladimir Stepashin's daughter is growing up.

Sergey Stepashin now

Now Sergei Stepashin pays great attention to social activities. Photos of the politician appear in the media in connection with the work of the Russian Book Union, the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society and the Elizabeth Feodorovna Charitable Foundation.

Sergei Vadimovich is involved in the return of the Alexander Metochion in Jerusalem to Russia. In 2017, the IOPS faced Ukraine’s claim to the territory of the compound.

Achievements

• Order of Courage - 1998
• Imperial Military Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - 2002
• Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov - 2006
• Certificate of Honor from the Government of the Russian Federation - 2006
• Honorary Doctor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry - 2011
• Imperial Order of St. Anne - 2012
• Order of Glory and Honor, 1st degree - 2012
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" - 2012
• Order - 2014
• Order of Honor - 2017
• Medal. - 2017
• Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow - 2017

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Born March 2, 1952 in Port Arthur (China), Russian. Father is a naval officer, mother is a psychiatrist.

In 1973 he graduated from the Higher Political School (HPU) of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs in Leningrad; in 1981 - Military-Political Academy (VPA) named after V.I. Lenin; In 1983-86 he studied at the graduate school of the V.I. Lenin Military Academy. Candidate of Historical Sciences (1986, dissertation on the topic “Party leadership of fire-fighting units of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War”), Doctor of Law (1994, dissertation on the topic “Theoretical and legal aspects of ensuring the security of the Russian Federation”).

After graduating from the Leningrad VPU, he served in 1973-76. in the special forces of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.

From 1980 to 1992 he taught at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) VPU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He took part in the actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs troops in Fergana in 1989, where, in his own words, he “participated in ensuring order.”

He was a member of the team of authors of the practical guide “Forms and methods of work of internal affairs bodies with amateur organizations” published in 1989 by the Political Directorate of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Leningrad City Executive Committee under the heading “For official use.”

In November 1989, at a rally of Leningrad communists, he spoke out against inciting ethnic conflicts. On the eve of democratic rallies on February 25, 1989, he spoke on Leningrad television and urged not to take part in them.

In December 1989, the team of the Leningrad VPU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs nominated him as a candidate for people's deputies of the RSFSR. In the election struggle, he relied on the support of the school staff and opposed the head of the KGB Directorate of the Leningrad Region, Anatoly Kurkov, who was supported by party and state bodies.

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In March 1990, he was elected people's deputy of the RSFSR in the 112th Krasnoselsky territorial constituency of Leningrad. At the First Congress in June 1990, he was elected to the Supreme Council of the RSFSR and headed the subcommittee of the Supreme Council Committee on Affairs of the Disabled, War and Labor Veterans, Social Protection of Military Personnel and Members of Their Families.

From February 1991 to September 1993, he was Chairman of the Committee of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR (then the Russian Federation) on Defense and Security.

At the Second Congress of People's Deputies in December 1990, together with Dmitry Volkogonov and Sergei Shakhrai, he became one of the organizers of the Yeltsinist moderate democratic faction "Left Center" (since December 1992 - "Left Center - Cooperation"), which at that time united about 1 /8 of the entire parliamentary composition. He was the co-chairman and coordinator of the faction.

During the coup attempt in August 1991, the State Emergency Committee was in the White House, taking part in the resistance to the coup. Later he said that at that time he had a sprained ligament, and he went to the White House on crutches. Immediately after the failure of the coup attempt, he headed the State Commission to Investigate the Activities of the KGB, created by order of Mikhail Gorbachev (the “Stepashin Commission”). The result of the work of this commission was an unpublished report in several volumes. Stepashin nevertheless stated that the leadership of the KGB played one of the key roles in the preparation and conduct of the August events, which had been going on since at least the fall of 1990. The commission refrained from publishing materials, as Stepashin said, at the request of Prosecutor General Valentin Stepankov.

In December 1991, he was appointed head of the department of the Ministry of Security and Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region (at the beginning of January 1992, the MBIA was renamed the Federal Security Agency, and on January 24, 1992 - the Ministry of Security of Russia). At the same time, he was deputy to the then Minister of Security Viktor Barannikov. During Stepashin's work in the Leningrad security agencies, several cases related to major economic crimes were solved.

In January 1992, Stepashin expressed doubts about the effectiveness of Vadim Bakatin's reduction of the KGB staff, since the average age of department heads remained 57-58 years.

In April 1992, he resigned from the post of chairman of the Supreme Council committee, remaining deputy minister of security. He took an active part in the creation of Russian security agencies and the transfer of territorial structures of the KGB from Union to Russian subordination.

Stepashin’s resignation was not accepted by the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, which appealed to President Yeltsin with a request to keep him in parliamentary work. In September 1992, Stepashin, having left the Ministry of Security, returned to full-time work in the Supreme Council. At the same time, he was appointed head of a group of deputies of the Supreme Soviet of Russia, which visited the North-Western Group of Forces stationed in the Baltic States. On the issue of the economic consequences of the withdrawal of Russian troops from Latvia and other regions of the so-called “near abroad,” he spoke in favor of strict consideration of Russian property and political interests.

The legislative activity of the Committee headed by Stepashin represented the filling of the legal vacuum in the field of security with departmental rule-making. According to some experts, the laws “On Security” and “On Federal State Security Bodies” prepared by the Committee and adopted by the Russian Parliament do not ensure the implementation of human rights and can be used as a weapon to suppress democracy.

In February 1992, regarding the numerous human rights violations committed by the Soviet security forces throughout their history, Stepashin said that we cannot throw out all the dirt in which we have lived for seventy years, it must be dosed, because it is not known “to whose mill it will flow.” . In June 1992, he spoke about the inadmissibility of involving Russian special services in political games. At the same time, he put his signature on the appeal of 72 deputies to President Yeltsin to suppress mass provocative actions at the Ostankino television studio, organized by the leader of Labor Russia Viktor Anpilov (the so-called “Siege of the Empire of Lies”).

In December 1992, at the VII Congress of People's Deputies, he presented a draft resolution on the situation in the Armed Forces and on the military policy of the Russian government. In his speech, he stated that the Armed Forces exist according to their own laws, and the principle of unity of command in them must be inviolable.

In the spring of 1993, he was one of 8 members of the Supreme Council who announced their condemnation of Ruslan Khasbulatov for his failure to take into account the results of the referendum, which indicated voter support for President Yeltsin in his conflict with parliament.

After the dissolution of parliament by decree, President Yeltsin arrived at the session of the Supreme Council. On September 22, 1993, he resigned from the post of chairman of the parliamentary committee, and the resignation was accepted. On September 24, by decree of Yeltsin, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Security. In connection with this appointment, on September 27, by decision of the Congress of People's Deputies, he was deprived of his parliamentary powers.

In November 1993, he was nominated in St. Petersburg as a candidate for deputy of the State Duma in the Western electoral district No. 206, but withdrew his candidacy.

After the liquidation of the MGB and the creation of the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) in December 1993, he remained Nikolai Golushko’s deputy. Three months later, on March 3, 1994, he took his place after N. Golushko refused to prevent the amnestied leaders of the October revolt from leaving Lefortovo.

On November 30, 1994, he was included in the Group for the Management of Actions to Disarmament of Bandit Formations in Chechnya.

In December 1994 - January 1995, from the headquarters in Mozdok, he directly supervised counterintelligence activities in Chechnya.

On June 14, 1995, a detachment led by Shamil Basayev attacked the city of Budennovsk, Stavropol Territory. Terrorists arrived in the city in KAMAZ vehicles and attacked the police department building, the city administration, a communications center and a market. They then seized the city hospital and held 1,600 hostages there. The authorities were presented with an ultimatum: a cessation of hostilities in Chechnya and the withdrawal of troops from there. On the same day, Stepashin arrived in Budennovsk.

On June 19, 1995, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Chernomyrdin guaranteed Basayev’s safety in exchange for hostages. The terrorists (73 people), along with 114 hostages, 9 deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and 16 journalists, left the hospital on buses. (Power, June 14, 2004)

On June 30, 1995, Stepashin was fired of his own free will in connection with the events in Budennovsk. Nine years later, Stepashin said: “It would be better if we weren’t there.” (“Kommersant Vlast”, June 14, 2004).

On November 10, 1995, he was appointed head of the administrative department to the Government Office. Supervised law enforcement agencies.

In 1996 - executive secretary of the State Commission for Resolving the Crisis in Chechnya.

Since January 21, 1997 - member of the working group to resolve disagreements that arose during the development of basic documents identifying the identity of a citizen of the Russian Federation on the territory of the Russian Federation.

On February 22, 1997, he became a member of the Federal Commission under the Government of the Russian Federation to ensure control over the management and privatization of objects, enterprises and organizations of the defense complex

Since March 1997 - member of the federal commission on problems of Chechnya.

On July 2, 1997, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, and on July 21, 1997, he was appointed a member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of July 16, 1997, he was introduced to the State Commission for the Protection of Investor Rights in the Financial and Stock Markets of Russia.

From October 28, 1997 to July 1998 - coordinator of the Presidential Commission for Countering Political Extremism.

On March 6, 1998, he became a member of the Government Commission for the implementation of the Concept of State National Policy.

On April 28, 1998, he was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs in the reorganized Government of the Russian Federation headed by Sergei Kiriyenko.

Since May 1998 - member of the State Commission for Military Construction.

On May 15, 1998, he headed the Government Commission to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

On August 23, 1998, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the government of Sergei Kiriyenko was dismissed. Before the appointment of the new Government, he was acting. minister.

On September 11, 1998, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was again appointed Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the cabinet of Yevgeny Primakov. He was included in the Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Since November 1998 - member of the Council for Local Self-Government under the President of the Russian Federation.

On November 18, 1998, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was included in the new composition of members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

On November 27, 1998, at a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Federation, Sepashin stated, “We have made an attempt to destroy the economic base of organized crime. And by putting pressure on society, it is trying to prevent this, creating conditions for its survival and further development. The law enforcement system accepts this challenge.” (Quoted from NG, 1998, December 1). This statement was regarded by the media as a statement by the security forces as an independent political force.

In March 1999, he ordered that General Gennady Shpigun, kidnapped in Chechnya, be found and released at all costs and publicly gave the officer’s word that “Shpigun will be released and the guilty will be punished.” Shpigun was not released; his body was found a year later, in March 2000. (Kommersant Vlast, April 25, 2005)

On April 27, 1999, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, retaining the post of Minister of Internal Affairs.

On May 12, 1999, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed acting Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation instead of E. Primakov, who was dismissed. On the same day, President Yeltsin submitted Stepashin’s candidacy for approval to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

On May 19, 1999, he was approved by the State Duma of the Russian Federation as Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. 301 deputies voted “for”, 55 “against”, 14 abstained. On the same day, by Decree of the President, he was appointed Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.

In July 1999, during a visit to the United States, he said: “As a former director of the FSB, I can tell you a secret: the communists will never win in Russia, they will never return, no one will allow this.” On August 3, 1999, the press service of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation issued a statement about the intention of the leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to ask the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation to consider the issue of compliance with the current legislation of the Prime Minister's statements. According to the leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, this statement contains “a call for a forcible retention of power and a forcible change in the constitutional system of Russia, since the Russian people are deprived of the right provided for by the Constitution to exercise their power both directly and through bodies of state power and local self-government.” In addition, according to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Stepashin’s statements contain signs of crimes falling under paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of official powers).

At the beginning of August 1999, he signed a new distribution of responsibilities between the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Government.

On August 21, 1999, he refused to head the “Right Cause” election bloc, citing the refusal as a result of infighting among ambitious politicians: “... You cannot unite disunited people. There are too many personal ambitions, they pay too much attention to surnames, place on the list” (Interfax, August 21, 1999).

On August 24, 1999, he agreed to run for the Duma on the Yabloko list at number 2 on the federal list and confirmed his intention to run in the Northern electoral district No. 209 (St. Petersburg). Gennady Seleznev intended to run in the same constituency.

At the end of August 1999, a number of media outlets published a report that Stepashin’s son headed his father’s election headquarters in the district in which Stepashin was running for the Duma. Stepashin said that his son would indeed help him in the elections, but would not head the headquarters.

On August 31, 1999, he met with Yuri Luzhkov, according to the official version, to coordinate candidates from Yabloko and Fatherland - All Russia (OVR) in single-mandate constituencies. But according to the Kommersant newspaper (09/01/99), Stepashin asked Luzhkov not to field a candidate from the OVR bloc in the single-mandate district in which Stepashin was running for the Duma.

On September 29, 1999, he was elected chairman of the public National Anti-Corruption Committee (NAC).

On December 19, 1999, he was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation in the Northern single-mandate electoral district No. 209 (St. Petersburg), receiving 49.41% of the votes in the elections (his closest rival Alexey Vorontsov - 15.13%).

In the State Duma in January 2000, he joined the Yabloko parliamentary faction. He was nominated by the faction as a candidate for the post of Chairman of the State Duma.

At the first meeting of the State Duma on January 18, 2000, he withdrew his candidacy for the post of Chairman of the Duma in protest against the “conspiracy” of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Unity factions, which agreed to vote for the election of Gennady Seleznev to this post. The Yabloko faction refused all leadership positions in the Duma, including the posts of chairmen and deputy chairmen of committees. Yabloko was supported by the SPS and OVR factions; candidates for the post of Chairman of the Duma from these factions also withdrew their candidacies, and the factions refused to occupy leading positions in the Duma. After this, deputies of three factions and part of the “Regions of Russia” group left the meeting, and Gennady Seleznev was elected chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation in uncontested elections.

In January 2000, he expressed his intention to support Vladmir Putin in the presidential elections in March 2000: “Grigory Yavlinsky is supported by the Yabloko party, and I am not a member of it. I believe that Vladimir Putin now has the best chance of becoming president and he needs help.”( NG, 14.01.00).

On February 11, 2000, a group of representatives of the creative intelligentsia of St. Petersburg turned to S. Stepashin with a request to take part in the elections of the governor of St. Petersburg on May 14, 2000. The appeal was signed by writers Boris Strugatsky, Mikhail Chulaki, Victor Krivulin, Nina Katerli, historian Lev Lurie, artists Dmitry Shagin and Kirill Miller, lawyer Yuri Shmidt, human rights activist Yuri Vdovin and others.

On February 23, 2000, he was elected chairman of the permanent State Duma Commission on Combating Corruption.

On February 24, 2000, one of the leaders of the Union of Right Forces (SPS), deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Boris Nemtsov, said that the SPS would support Sergei Stepashin if he ran in the elections for governor of St. Petersburg. On February 25, Stepashin said that he was ready to take part in the elections, but had not yet made a final decision.

On February 28, 2000, the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko decided to support the candidacy of S. Stepashin in the gubernatorial elections. The St. Petersburg branch of the Democratic Russia party also announced its support for S. Stepashin.

On March 1, 2000, Stepashin announced that he would not run for governor of St. Petersburg.

In March 2000, the National Anti-Corruption Committee opened the first public reception. The committee also included G. Satarov, A. Krasnov, E. Pamfilova and N. Gonchar.

At the end of March 2000, the State Duma factions “Unity”, “SPS”, “LDPR” and others supported the proposal to appoint Stepashin as chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation.

On April 13, 2000, the State Duma budget committee recommended Stepashin for the post of chairman of the Accounts Chamber.

On April 19, 2000, at a meeting of the State Duma, he was appointed chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation (309 in favor, 29 against, 10 abstained).

The powers of a State Duma deputy in connection with his appointment to the post of Chairman of the Accounts Chamber were terminated early on April 26, 2000.

Soon after his appointment, Stepashin made the following proposals aimed at strengthening the department: The Accounts Chamber, in his opinion, should receive the right to write off money without authorization from the accounts of malicious budget violators, the right to directly appeal the chamber to the court, create local territorial bodies of the chamber and change the principle of financing . Stepashina expressed the opinion that the customer of the budget estimate of the Accounts Chamber should not be the Ministry of Finance, but the State Duma. This should have allowed the chamber to gain even greater independence, including financial. (Vremya Novostei, December 14, 2001)

On April 23, 2001, he was elected president of the Russian Book Union, a non-profit organization that includes the largest publishing houses, distributors, as well as enterprises in the printing and paper industry.

In April 2002, he spoke out in favor of stopping the broadcast of Radio Liberty, funded by the US Congress, to Russian territory, in particular to Chechnya. At the same time, he emphasized that in this matter he acts not as the head of the Accounts Chamber, but “as simply Sergei Stepashin,” noting that “the United States itself does not hesitate to introduce elements of military censorship, does not hesitate to carry out the most active ideological elaboration in solving the specific tasks and goals set ". (Interfax, April 12, 2002)

On July 1, 2003, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich reached an agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Chelsea Village, an English company that owns, in particular, the London football club Chelsea. The purchase cost Abramovich 60 million pounds sterling ($99.5 million). Stepashin sharply condemned Abramovich, saying that revenues from oil exports should be used “to develop the Russian economy and drill new oil wells, and not to buy football clubs.” In this regard, Izvestia recalled that Stepashin himself is on the board of trustees of the Moscow Dynamo: “According to a persistent behind-the-scenes version, the recent agreement for 18 million USD between Dynamo and YUKOS on sponsorship cooperation was preceded by a call from Stepashin to Khodorkovsky But even if this is a vile lie, and YUKOS simply, without any calls, considers Dynamo an excellent advertising platform, member of the board of trustees Stepashin said nothing about the fact that money should be invested in new drilling rigs, and not in unpromising, non-convertible ones. Russian football. He did not say that this was a “demonstrative challenge to the entire country.” And he did not support his thesis with “competent information” (Izvestia, July 17, 2003).

At the end of 2003, Stepashin made a proposal to analyze the results of privatization. He planned to check 140 companies and report on his work in early July 2004. During the audit, it turned out that 89% of the identified violations during the privatization process were committed by government officials, and only 11% were the fault of entrepreneurs. The Accounts Chamber estimated the total damage caused to the state at 45 billion rubles. However, the opinions of auditors were divided as to whether entrepreneurs who did not comply with the conditions of investment competitions or who purchased state blocks of shares at a reduced price at loans-for-shares auctions should be required to compensate for losses to the state budget. (Lenta.ru, July 5, 2004)

The announcement of the audit results was postponed by the Accounts Chamber to September 2004, and then to the spring of 2005.

On January 19, 2005, Stepashin announced that he had submitted his resignation and that this was due to the need to implement the provisions of the new federal law amending the procedure for forming the Accounts Chamber: “In accordance with the new procedure, candidates for appointment to the positions of chairman and deputy chairman The Accounts Chamber is submitted, respectively, to the State Duma and the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia by the President of Russia." Few doubted that Putin would again nominate Stepashin, and he would be confirmed again. (Lenta.ru, January 19, 2005)

On January 27, 2005, Stepashin’s candidacy was submitted to the State Duma for approval for the post of chairman of the Accounts Chamber of Russia.

On May 24, 2006, the meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) was supposed to elect 169 new academicians, including well-known politicians and entrepreneurs. According to unofficial information, the leadership of the Russian Academy of Sciences hoped to gain influential allies in disputes with the Ministry of Education and Science, which intended to take full control of the academy. Two days earlier, Stepashin officially notified the leadership of the Russian Academy of Sciences that he was withdrawing his candidacy: “In connection with the campaign launched in the media, which could damage the prestige of the Russian Academy of Sciences, I consider it impossible for me to participate in the election of a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (Kommersant ", May 23, 2006).

Associate Professor, Colonel General.

State Counselor of Justice of the Russian Federation (October 6, 1997). Awarded the Witte Medal "For Thoughts and Deeds" (2000).

Speaks English.

Hobbies - books, sports, theater.

His wife Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina, a bank employee, works at the Moscow representative office of the Industrial Construction Bank (St. Petersburg). She worked in a bank for a long time. In July 1999, she was appointed deputy chairman of the bank's board.

Son Vladimir (born 1976), graduated from the Financial and Economic Institute in St. Petersburg.

Quotes from his PhD thesis:

The creation of the Soviet fire department is inextricably linked with the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution, with the formation of the world's first socialist state. The tsarist government paid very little attention to the country's fire protection. Few, poorly equipped fire brigades were run by private insurance companies, essentially uninterested in the qualitative improvement of fire protection...

The efforts of individual progressive fire department workers encountered a wall of indifference from tsarist officials and did not produce positive results. Fires that broke out in the cities and villages of pre-revolutionary Russia brought losses in hundreds of millions of gold rubles a year...

To protect the people's property from fire, a completely new system of organizing fire protection was required. Its beginning should be considered April 17, 1918. On this day, V.I. Lenin signed the decree “On the organization of state measures to combat fire.” ("Kommersant-Vlast", July 24, 2001)

Childhood and youth of Sergei Stepashin

In 1977, he decided to continue his studies at the Military-Political Academy. Lenin, and 6 years later he became a graduate student there.

For 12 years, from 1980 to 1992, Sergei worked as a teacher in an institution well known from his youth - the Leningrad Higher Political School. In addition, as a member of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he repeatedly took part in peacekeeping operations in the troubled regions of the Union - Nagorno-Karabakh, Fergana and many others.

The beginning of the political career of Sergei Stepashin

Sergei Vadimovich's career developed more than rapidly - in 1991 he served as head of the RSFSR (later RF) Defense Committee. Almost until the collapse of the Union, Stepashin remained a member of the CPSU, giving up his party card only in August of ninety-one. This did not prevent him from becoming, together with D. Volkonogov and S. Shakhrai, one of the co-chairs of the pro-Yeltsin Left Center faction back in December 1990.

At that time, the Left Center, under whose banner a significant number of deputies united, became a serious political force in parliament. During the days of the 1991 coup, Sergei was present in the White House, and immediately at the time of the storming of the building he took part in resisting the protesters.

After an unsuccessful coup attempt, Sergei Stepashin was appointed to the position of head of a group investigating the activities of the participants in the uprising. After this, the politician was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Security. Stepashin’s activities in this post were remembered for the disclosure of a number of high-profile cases related to the shadow economy and organized crime, which then flourished in the country.

Sergei Stepashin reported about the money to Putin

During the Chechen conflicts, Stepashin actively tried to resolve the situation in the “hot spot”. In December 1994, he was appointed to the post of head of counterintelligence for the Caucasus region. Stepashin directed the activities of the structure entrusted to him directly from the field headquarters in Mozdok. Since 1997, Sergei Vadimovich became a permanent member of the commission for resolving the Chechen conflict, proving himself to be an experienced specialist in resolving such issues.

Stepashin’s work in the Russian government

In March 1999, Sergei Stepashin appeared in all newspapers in connection with a loud statement about General Shpigun, who went missing in Chechnya. Stepashin said that he gives the officer’s word: Shpigun will be released, and those responsible will be punished. However, Shpigun, despite the promise given by Stepashin, could not be saved. The general's body was found a year later, in March 2000.

Sergei Stepashin said goodbye to the Accounts Chamber

In May 1999, the government of Yevgeny Primakov was dismissed by presidential decree; on the instructions of Boris Yeltsin, Sergei Stepashin was appointed as the new chairman of the government. Soon, however, Stepashin repeated the fate of his predecessors: his cabinet was removed from governing the country in its entirety on August 9.

Sergey Stepashin at the Accounts Chamber

After his appointment, Stepashin came up with a number of initiatives aimed at ensuring the financial independence of the department. In 2002, Stepashin again appeared in the press thanks to his statement that the broadcasting of Radio Liberty should be banned in Russia or, at least, in Chechnya. At the same time, Stepashin noted that his words should be regarded as the opinion of a Russian citizen, and not the official position of the chairman of the Accounts Chamber.

In 1986, Sergei Stepashin defended his dissertation for the title of Candidate of Historical Sciences. In 1994 he became a Doctor of Law. The topic of Sergei Stepashin’s doctoral dissertation is “Theoretical and legal aspects of ensuring state security in Russia.” Has the title of associate professor.

Personal life and hobbies of Sergei Stepashin

Stepashin’s personal life does not give rise to the yellow press. He has been married to bank employee Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina for many years. In the summer of 1999, Tamara Stepashina became deputy chairman of the PSB board. In 1976, the couple had a son, Vladimir. He chose the profession of a financier, graduating from the Economic Institute in St. Petersburg.

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Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina has been the wife of Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin, a statesman and the most important person on the political Olympus of our country, for 43 years. She received an excellent education and is a brilliant banker and financier.

In 1976, the Stepashins had a son, who was named Vladimir. He followed in his mother's footsteps and graduated from the St. Petersburg Economic Institute. The young man also studied at the Law Academy, after which he worked at Promstroibank (PSB).

Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina’s close connection with VTB and PSB is the subject of active discussion of this topic in the media. Every now and then information comes in about clans and continuity.

School, institute

The wife of Sergei Vadimovich was born on January 21, Uzbekistan, in the city of Fergana, in the family of an officer. The year was 1953, which did not turn out to be anything particularly outstanding for the Ukrainian SSR, except that it became the year of birth of Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina, a talented financier, banker and, as it turned out later, a reliable and intelligent life partner for the politician.

And indeed, the personal life of the Stepashins couple does not give reasons for serving “fried”. These people are not “clients” of the yellow press. Their union is an example of a strong marriage; the spouses have been married for many years and have not been convicted of infidelity or scandals.

Stepashina’s school years spanned the period from 1963 to 1970; she studied at school No. 16 in the city of Volsk in the Saratov region.

In 1974, the future banker graduated from the Kazan State Financial Institute.

Childhood

Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina is the daughter of Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Mitrofanovich Ignatiev, a native of the village of Pruzhinki. The district secondary school bears his name.

Tamara Vladimirovna, mother, father and sister Natasha - this is the Ignatiev family in its entirety. Parents raised the girls in strictness, but with great love.

Tamara Stepashina once published a book dedicated to her native village. There are only two similar books in Russia dedicated to the school - this one and dedicated to the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.

In an interview with journalists, the economist admits that she loved her father madly and keeps all his notes and diaries, as well as awards. Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina’s archive contains photographs that she and her dad printed on an old German Praktika camera.

The sisters always studied well and graduated from music school. Tamara Vladimirovna recalls that the family was very happy, as great love, comfort, empathy and mutual assistance reigned in it.

In interviews, Tamara Vladimirovna often recalls their life in Germany, where her father served. It turns out that her dad was an avid hunter, and, according to her, he brought home hares, elk, and other prey, and her mother cooked delicious meat, the smells of which spread throughout the main staircase of the house - then everyone knew that “Frau Maria” cooks wonderful dishes.

The Ignatiev family returned to Russia in 1963, and my father began teaching political economy and history at the Volsky Higher Military Logistics School.

Father

Tamara and Natasha have always been daddy's daughters and, although they were not always able to have a heart-to-heart talk with their father as much as they wanted, they looked at the world through his eyes. According to Tamara Vladimirovna, they always felt protected. The father's care was enough for the entire family - a family of four, grandmothers and all relatives. The father concentrated real male responsibility for loved ones and relatives. Every year the Ignatievs visited their native Pruzhinki and Donskoye - they had to help their grandmothers. Stepashina said that her parents helped her mother’s relatives move to Volgograd, where they still live.

Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina recalls that it was her father who always taught her and her sister not to be afraid of difficulties and any work, saying the phrase “The eyes are afraid, but the hands do the work.” She says that it was his hard work and decency, as well as responsibility for those who live and are nearby, and especially those who need help and support, that were passed on to him and his sister. Add to this a sense of justice, loyalty, love and respect for books.

According to Tamara Vladimirovna, her dad never did anything just like that, indifferently. He put his soul into every action. Maybe this distinguishes people of that generation from modern inhabitants of the planet?

She says that he was always interested in everything he did. The Ignatiev house has always been full and welcoming to guests.

My father always had a lot of energy for his family, for work, and for leisure,” Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina continues to share her memories.

According to her, Ignatiev Sr. was a true patriot of his Fatherland and sincerely believed that it was necessary to cultivate the spirit of patriotism in young people. I carried out this mission with pleasure and with all the responsibility possible. He was a very demanding person both to himself and to those around him.

Tamara Vladimirovna opens up: “Thank God that my father did not see the collapse of the USSR.”

Village of Pruzhinki

This unremarkable settlement in the Lipetsk region is the small homeland of Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina’s father, where the family’s ancestors lived since the 17th century, farming.

Our heroine’s dad mastered several professions, but at the beginning of the war he was forced to go to the front. The elder Ignatiev returned from the war as a sergeant major, a Hero of the Soviet Union. He met his wife Maria in the village of Donskoy, love at first sight lasted all his life. This loyalty in love was passed on to Tamara Vladimirovna.

Traditions of the Stepashin family

On July 30, 2013, the village of Pruzhinki turned 355 years old. The Stepashins gave a gift to their fellow countrymen - an illustrated book about the school with 240 pages. According to Tamara Vladimirovna, she and her husband are trying to maintain contact with the village, honor the traditions of their ancestors, and help people revive it.

Husband

The career of Tamara Vladimirovna’s husband, Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin, has always been going uphill. At one time, he was appointed to the post of director of the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK), where he worked from 1994 to 1995, becoming its second and last head. Sergei Vadimovich also served as the first director of the Federal Security Service of our country in 1995.

From 1997 to 1998, Stepashin was the Minister of Justice of our country, and then the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia from 1998 to 1999. From May to August 1999, he served as Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.

But he is best known as the chairman. She held this position from 2000 to 2013.

Budget

Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina and her husband know how to count money. Land plots with an area of ​​2307 square meters are registered in the name of Sergei Vadimovich’s wife. m, she owns a residential building with an area of ​​about 662 square meters, two apartments of 84.9 and 178.3 square meters each, as well as one twentieth share in the garage. Along with this, Tamara Vladimirovna is the owner of a Mercedes-Benz car.

She was lucky to marry a talented man. Doctor of Law and Professor, Colonel General Stepashin is a charming man, a faithful husband and an excellent family man. But Tamara Vladimirovna herself is a very valuable financier. She was indispensable for PSB and VTB; she took part in transactions for the sale of a stake in the credit institution.

Work and career

Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina’s work biography after university began with the State Bank of the USSR. From 1974 to 1980, she worked in the Vasileostrovsky branch of this credit organization.

The Stepashins' surname is closely associated with the Kogan surname. They say they help each other a lot. In 1980, the chairman of the supervisory board of the Industrial Construction Bank and at the same time the president of the Banking House, the well-known Vladimir Kogan, played an important role in the career of Tamara Vladimirovna Stepashina: PSB Bank received a new deputy chairman of the board in her person. In this bank, at the instigation of Kogan, Sergei Vadimovich’s wife went from a credit inspector at the Krasnogvardeisky branch and worked in the “deputy” until 1996, and in the period from 1996 to 2000 she was appointed manager of the PSB branch in Moscow.

Curator of bankers and those nearby

Further career growth of the wife of the chief controller of budgetary funds continued from May 2000 as vice president of JSC Banking House "St. Petersburg". At the same time, Tamara Vladimirovna’s promotion coincided with the appointment of Sergei Stepashin to the post of Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. In her new post, Tamara Vladimirovna oversaw the activities of the holding in the Russian capital, supervising the activities of about 200 organizations - all banks and institutions included in the Banking House.

In particular, they talked about the management company of the group, about Tamara Vladimirovna’s well-known PSB, about the banks “St. Petersburg”, “Vyborg Bank” and “Vitabank”, as well as about various brokerage and financial, as well as leasing and insurance companies, trading companies and industrial enterprises.

Stepashina Tamara Vladimirovna, VTB Bank and Promstroybank

In 2004, Stepashina acquired a 5% stake in Promstroybank; experts estimated this deal at $30 million. Previously, as a member of the supervisory board of PSB, Stepashina owned a 0.88% stake in the bank. The following year, 2005 (in March), Tamara Vladimirovna sold a 2.66% stake in PSB to Vneshtorgbank, while simultaneously taking up the position of senior vice president of this credit organization.