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, Donetsk Oblast

Donetsk Oblast

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, Ukraine

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, Soviet Union

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n businessman and security services official.

He graduated from Lugansk Machine-Building Institute and KGB Higher School.
Until 2000 he had worked for the KGB

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 and successor organizations to it. Until 1995 he had been the Chief of the Novosibirsk Oblast

Novosibirsk Oblast

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 FSB Directorate, and later, in 1995 – 2000, led the Counterintelligence Department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), in 1997 – 2000 as a Deputy FSB Director. Pechyonkin has been promoted to Lieutenant General

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Since 2001 he has been Deputy Director for assets protection of Oleg Deripaska

Oleg Deripaska

Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska is the Russian Chief executive officer of Basic Element company and a member of the Board of Directors and CEO of United Company RUSAL, a Russian aluminium industry company...

's SibAl (now renamed to Basic Element), a huge aluminium

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producing company, and a member of its Management Committee. http://www.basel.ru/ru/pechenkin.phphttp://www.vgd.ru/P/peshkov.htmhttp://www.politcom.ru/2002/jour107.php