Pavel Borodin

Pavel Borodin
Павел Бородин
Borodin in 2010
Born (1946-10-25) October 25, 1946 (age 78)
Shakhunya, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
OccupationPolitician
Pavel Borodin's voice
from the Echo of Moscow program, 18 May 2006

Pavel Pavlovich Borodin (Russian: Павел Павлович Бородин; born 25 October 1946) is a Russian official and politician. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[1]

Borodin was born in the town of Shakhunya, near the city of Nizhny (Formerly known as Gorky during Soviet times) in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to the city of Kyzyl in the Tuva Region, which is situated in the far south of Siberia.

From 1993 to 1998, he was Head of the Presidential Property Management Department of the Russian Federation. His deputy and successor in this position was Vladimir Putin. According to the investigative journalist Jake Bernstein (2019),[clarification needed] in that role Borodin signed a contract with a Swiss to renovate the Grand Kremlin Palace. Other contracts followed, as well as around $30 million on kickbacks that Borodin distributed to friends and fellow officials, including to then-president Boris Yeltsin (p. 92).

From 1998 to 2000, he became a member of the Interdepartmental Commission of the Security Council on Economic Security.

From 2000 to 2011, he was the State Secretary of the Union of Russia and Belarus.[2]

In 2001, he was arrested in New York for money-laundering. Later, he was released on bond of five million Swiss francs. In 2002, his case was closed and the bond was returned while further details are not disclosed.[3]

Honours and awards

  • Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class (3 October 1996) - for outstanding services to the state and many years of diligent work
  • Order of Francisc Skarina (Belarus)
  • Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus) (11 December 2006) - for his great personal contribution to the development of comprehensive cooperation between Belarus and the Russian Federation, strengthening the Belarusian-Russian friendship
  • Order of Merit (Moldova) (18 October 2001)
  • Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation (23 October 2006) - for services to the state and the contribution to the development and strengthening of Russian-Belarusian relations
  • Order of Honour (21 November 2011) - for his contribution to the establishment and development of the Union State and the expansion of Russian-Belarusian cooperation
  • Order "For Services to the Motherland", 3rd class[citation needed] (October 25, 2011 Belarus)
  • Order of Merit (Transnistria, October 18, 2001)
  • Diploma of the Russian Federation (23 October 2006) - for services to the state and personal contribution to the development and strengthening of Russian-Belarusian relations
  • State Prize of the Russian Federation - for the Restoration of the Kremlin (1996)
  • Honoured Worker of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
  • Honorary Citizen of the City of London (2009)

References and notes

  1. ^ О присвоении квалификационных разрядов федеральным государственным служащим Управления делами Президента Российской Федерации (Decree 992) (in Russian). President of Russia. 26 June 1996.
  2. ^ Григорий Рапота стал новым госсекретарем Союзного государства. Российская газета (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  3. ^ Pavel Borodin, the State Secretary of Russia and Belarus Union (in Russian)

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