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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. Prior to this he had been appointed as federal security minister for counterintelligence by President Boris Yeltsin in 1994, a position from which ...
May 21, 1999 · Prior to his nomination as prime minister, Stepashin was best known for masterminding a horribly botched an attempt to rescue 1,500 hostages taken by Chechen warlord Shamil Basaev in the southern Russian town of Budennovsk in the summer of 1995.
Sergei Stepashin's Cabinet was the Cabinet of Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin from May to August 1999. The Cabinet served under the presidency of Boris Yeltsin.
PortfolioMinisterTook OfficeLeft Office19 May 19999 August 1999Vladimir Putin (acting)9 August 199919 August 199921 May 199919 August 199925 May 199928 May 1999Sergey Stepashin. Biography. Chairman of the Audit Committee. Independent Director. Date of birth: Born in 1952. Education: Higher Political College of Ministry of the Interior of the USSR. Lenin Military Political Academy. Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation.
After a failed attempt of coup d'etat, Sergei Stepashin was appointed head of the group responsible for investigating the activities of participants in the uprising. After that he was...
Jul 23, 1997 · Sergei Stepashin, named as justice minister on July 2, has been appointed to Russia’s powerful Security Council by President Yeltsin. He takes the place of former Justice Minister Valentin Kovalev, sacked in wake of the "sex in the sauna" scandal.
May 24, 1999 · Sergei Stepashin, 47, is a baby-faced, tough-talking secret policeman whose loyalty to Yeltsin has allowed his career to survive repeated and spectacular debacles.
