Sergei Lebedev

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Sergei Lebedev

General of the Army Sergei Nikolaevich Lebedev (; born 9 April 1948) became director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR

Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)

The Foreign Intelligence Service Unlike the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the SVR is responsible for intelligence and espionage activities outside the Russian Federation....
, on 20 May 2000. On 5 October 2007 Lebedev was elected the Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States

Commonwealth of Independent States

The Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics.The CIS is comparable to a confederation similar to the original European Community....

Lebedev graduated in 1970 from the Chernihiv

Chernihiv

Chernihiv, , is a historic city in northern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Chernihiv Oblast , as well as of the surrounding Chernihivskyi Raion within the oblast....
branch of Kiev

Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
's Polytechnical Institute. A 1978 graduate (cum laude) of the Diplomatic Academy of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Lebedev speaks German and English.

Career
Before intelligence work, Lebedev served in the Army during 1971-72.

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General of the Army Sergei Nikolaevich Lebedev (; born 9 April 1948) became director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR

Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)

Commonwealth of Independent States

Chernihiv

Kiev

Career

Before intelligence work, Lebedev served in the Army during 1971-72. He began his career in 1975 when he joined the KGB

KGB

KGB is the Russian language abbreviation of Committee for State Security , which was the official name of the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union's premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991....
. He began duties in the First Chief Directorate

First Chief Directorate

The First Chief Directorate of the KGB , was the organization responsible for foreign operations and Military espionage collection activities by the training and management of covert agents, intelligence collection management, and the collection of political, scientific and technical intelligence....
(foreign intelligence) in 1975. According to news reports, he was appointed to SVR director position because Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus....
wanted "an intelligence chief whom he knows well and has confidence in." Putin and Lebedev met while serving in East Germany.