- Nikolai Bordyuzha
Nikolai Nikolayevich Bordyuzha ( _ru. Николай Николаевич Бордюжа, b. 1949,
Oryol ) is aRussia nGeneral andpolitician .In 1972 he graduated from
Perm Military School of theHigh command of the RussianStrategic Rocket Forces and later attendedKGB intelligence courses inNovosibirsk .From 1989 to 1991 he was Head of KGB
human resources , and from 1992 to 1998 served as First Deputy Chief and later Chief of Russia's Federal Borderguard Service.On
December 7 ,1998 he was appointed Secretary of theSecurity Council of the Russian Federation , and also Chief of theRussian presidential administration . He served in this position untilMarch 18 ,1999 . During this period he was viewed by some analysts as a possible successor to PresidentBoris Yeltsin .From 1999 to 2003 Nikolai Bordyuzha served as the
Russia nambassador toDenmark .On
April 28 ,2003 he was appointedSecretary General of theCollective Security Treaty Organization , a military pact of theCommonwealth of Independent States .Bordyuzha has been awarded with
Russia's Medal of Courage and Medal of Friendship (2005).He has the rank of
Colonel General .External links
* [http://viperson.ru/wind.php?ID=1487 Bordyuzha's BIO in Russian]
ee also
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Shanghai Cooperation Organization
*NATO References
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