Key facts
- Preceded by
- Khachim Karmokov
- Succeeded by
- Tatyana Golikova
- President
- Boris Yeltsin
- Deputy
- Himself , Nikolay Aksyonenko , Mikhail Zadornov , Viktor Khristenko
- Prime minister
- Yevgeny Primakov , Himself (acting)
- Born
- Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin , ( 1952-03-02 ) 2 March 1952 (age 74) , Port-Arthur, Kvantun Oblast , Russian SFSR , USSR (now Lüshunkou, China )
- Spouse
- Tamara Stepashina
- Children
- Vladimir
- Alma mater
- Lenin Political-Military Academy , Finance Academy
- Awards
- Order of Courage
- Allegiance
- Soviet Union (1970–1991), Russia (1991–1999)
- Branch service
- Internal troops , Federal Counterintelligence Service , Federal Security Service
- Years of service
- 1970–1999
- Rank
- Colonel general
- Battles wars
- 1991 Soviet coup attempt , 1993 Russian constitutional crisis , First Chechen War , War in Dagestan (1999)
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sergey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Lüshunkou District
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- V. I. Lenin Military-Political Academy
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Religion
- Russian Orthodox Church
- Military branch
- Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
- Official website
- www.ach.gov.ru/eng/about/chairman.php
- Image
- StepashinSV-2002.jpg
- Work location
- Moscow
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Encyclopedic overview
Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin (Russian: Сергей Вадимович Степашин; born 2 March 1952) is a Russian politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Russia in 1999. Subsequent to his tenure as Prime Minister he was elected to the State Duma, but resigned to serve as Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of Russia, from 2000 to 2013.
Stepashin served in the Soviet Internal Troops and graduated from the Lenin Military-Political Academy. Prior to his premiership, Stepashin became a member of the Russian Congress of People's Deputies in the 1990 election. He defected from the parliament during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis and was appointed as director of the Federal Security Service by President Boris Yeltsin in 1994. Stepashin resigned in 1995 as a consequence of the Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis. He later served as Minister of Justice from 1997 to 1998 and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1998 to 1999. During his brief tenure as prime minister, he succeeded in negotiating an IMF loan for Russia and a restructuring of its debt. He also represented Russia at the G8 summit in 1999.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sergei Stepashin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.