Head of the Public Relations Center (later Head of the Assistance Programs Department) of the FSB Alexander Zdanovich

The participation of the head of the FSB Public Relations Center (later the head of the FSB Assistance Programs Department), General Alexander Zdanovich, in disseminating information about the events in Chechnya in the first months of the second campaign was minimal. Its role is noted as significant, especially in public accusations against journalists. On December 16, 1999, he said that the reports of the AR and Reuters agencies about the deaths of several dozen Russian soldiers and officers "are part of a political plan to denigrate Russia." "It is absolutely clear that these 'news bulletins' indicate that foreign special services are conducting an active operation using correspondents," Zdanovich said.

The role of the FSB in disseminating information boiled down to the fact that the Russian press took part in some "information sabotage" aimed at discrediting the Chechen separatists. As a rule, the information disseminated by the FSB after some time was denied by journalists or was not confirmed by events. For example, on September 5, 2000, the agency RosBusinessConsulting, with reference to the FSB board for the Chechen Republic, reported that “the international terrorist Khattab, according to operational data, left the territory of Chechnya and went to Tajikistan to participate in hostilities in Central Asia. According to the source, Khattab came to the conclusion that it is futile to continue the struggle of the militants against the federal forces. "

• On March 29, 2001, the KM-Novosti agency, with reference to the Russian FSB, reported that “an explosive device was found on a section of the Kavkaz federal highway near the village of Dzhalka, not far from Gudermes. It consisted of 10 land bombs connected in one chain of detonation. FSB officers note that a large group of foreign journalists was supposed to pass through this section today.
• On April 30, 2001, the NTV television company aired in a news release a story about how a 30-year-old Chechen came to the FSB department of the Voronezh region, who "confessed" in cooperation with French intelligence under the "code name" Adventurer. The story does not mention the name of the "agent", but it is mentioned that he is a Chechen, worked as a press secretary former chairman Of the Supreme Soviet of Russia Ruslan Khasbulatov.
• On August 10, 2001, the Interfax agency reported on a certain agreement between the FSB of Russia and representatives of the leading Russian media "on cooperation in covering the actions of the special services." The meeting was organized by the head of the Department of Assistance Programs Alexander Zdanovich, who "is determined to cooperate constructively with the media." No remedy named in the message mass media or the name of any media executive.

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Public Relations Center of the Financial University implements a set of measures for the development, application and improvement of the university's PR activities aimed at developing and strengthening the competitiveness of the Financial University as one of the leading research, educational, methodological and consulting centers in Russia.

Over its almost 20-year history, the Public Relations Center has undergone a large professional way and made a significant contribution to the formation of a favorable public opinion and enhancing the reputation of the Financial University.

Currently, the Center includes three structural divisions:

• press service (headed by M.V. Davydova);
• corporate portal service (headed by A.A. Popov);
• corporate media department (head V.I. Vinnik).

The Center's activities are supervised by the First Vice-Rector for External Relations of the Financial University, a leading Russian political scientist.

FUNCTIONS OF THE PUBLIC RELATIONS CENTER

• Implementation information support in the media of the events of the Financial University.
• Preparation and distribution of official statements, messages, congratulations and other information materials in the media.
• Organization and provision of mailing of congratulations and greetings from the Rector of the Financial University.
• Generalization and analysis of materials broadcast by the media about the activities of the Financial University.
• Formation of a group of speakers regularly covering the activities of the Financial University in the media
• Stylistic and decoration printing and souvenir products.
• Continuous Information Support activities of the corporate portal www.site, as well as the official pages of the Financial University in in social networks Internet, including: text, graphic, multimedia, audio, photo, video content.
• Organization of work on the publication of printed and electronic editions of the Financial University: the journal “Financier. News, events, activities of the Financial University ".

In the conditions of fierce competition in the market of scientific and educational services, one of the most important areas of activity of the Center for Public Relations is the implementation of effective communicative interaction of the Financial University with the media. Among the information partners of the university are key news agencies (TASS, Interfax, MIA Rossiya Segodnya (RIA Novosti), IA Reuters, Bloomberg News, REGNUM) and leading business media (“ Russian newspaper"," Vedomosti "," Forbes "," Kommersant "and others).

The staff of the Center has developed and implemented a program to increase the media activity of the faculty of the university, thanks to which the Financial University invariably occupies high places in the prestigious media rating of Russian higher education institutions. educational institutions held by the Medialogia company.

Information portal of the Financial University. meets all modern requirements and is, according to experts, one of the best information platforms among domestic universities.

Contributing to the strengthening of the traditions of the succession of generations of the Financial University, the Public Relations Center maintains a photo chronicle of the university, which is constantly updated with new photographs of important events in the educational, cultural, scientific, social and sports life of the Financial University.

The Financier. News, events, events of the Financial University ”is a modern and high-quality print publication, with its goals and objectives going far beyond the corporate media. The informational journalism of the journal evokes the most lively response from readers, and the design of the publication, the efficiency of publications and the professionalism of the editors are an example of the organization of the work of a periodical.

Improving the work to attract wide public attention to the activities of the university, the Public Relations Center largely determines the leading position of the Financial University in terms of its presence in the information educational space, contributing to the increase in the competitiveness of the university in the modern scientific and educational market.

The structure of the security agencies

Nowadays, tell in the media about the structure of state security bodies, its states, functions separate departments has become as commonplace as giving advice to gardeners. Whether it is bad or good is not for me to judge. Previously, it was not customary to talk about the structure of predecessor organs, and for staffing table intelligence agencies around the world could give a lot ... Now everyone knows everything "for good".

The NKVD of the RSFSR of the period 1917-1930 consisted of the police department - the Central Administrative Directorate (CAU), the fire extinguishing department - the Main Directorate utilities(TsUKH), and the management of places of detention - GUZM. The NKVD of the USSR was formed on the basis of the OGPU of the USSR, which merged with the NKVD as an independent Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB). There were formed the main boards: the 1st Main Directorate (PSU) - intelligence abroad, the 2nd Main Directorate of the Voronezh State University) - counterintelligence, the 3rd Main Directorate - the Secret-Political (SP), the Main Economic Directorate (GEM), the Main Transport Department(GTU), Office of Special Departments. The GUGB existed until February 1941, when the People's Commissariat of State Security of the USSR (NKGB of the USSR) was created on its basis.

In addition to state security, under the auspices of the NKVD of the USSR there were - the police, border guards, fire brigades, the department for prisoners of war and internees, camps, construction - Glavgidrostroy, Glavpromstroy, Dalstroy, as well as the nuclear industry, mining and metallurgical enterprises, highway and railways, airfields and defensive structures, management of state surveying and cartography, measures and weights, forest protection, storage of gold reserves and archives, mining of diamonds, oil and coal, protection of palaces and government dachas, sports society "Dynamo" and "Intourist".

In 1960, the NKVD was liquidated, and its functions were transferred to other ministries and departments.

The structure of the KGB: intelligence - the first divisions, counterintelligence - the second (secrecy, exit, etc.), third (special departments), fourth (transport), fifth (combating ideological sabotage), sixth (industry, defense industry). The rest of the units were power, technical, operational and economic service; auxiliary - border guards, government communications, encryptors, codebreakers, security, outdoor surveillance, economic, financial, military construction and others.

The decree provided for a 25% reduction in the number of security agencies. The decree determined the goals, objectives and the number of the ministry - 138 thousand people, excluding service personnel. The structure of the MB had nothing in common with the KGB. Good advisers, professionals were caught: the blow was struck in the very heart - in his management activities! A headquarters appeared, which, from the old links of the former KGB, included the Secretariat, the Inspection Directorate, the editorial office of the Vestnik Kontrrazvedka collection (instead of the USSR KGB Collection, where I was still the chief editor), as well as the Service legal support(former legal department), the newly created Public Relations Center and the management apparatus - assistants, consultants, assistants.

Nobody knew what would come out of the ministry that was being created, what would give an infusion of "police blood" into its leadership? The hastily appointed leaders did not know, and even more so a thousand subordinates who remained overnight outside the state.

Bakatin had five deputies - A.A. Oleinikov (first deputy), N.A. Sham (from 6 KGB directorates), F.A. Zhukovsky, famous democrat), S. A. Orlov. After Bakatin left, only the unsinkable Oleinikov remained in the apparatus.

True, Nikolai Alekseevich Sham was offered an offer to stay in the swing, but he refused for health reasons. Fyodor Alekseevich Myasnikov headed the Russian Representative Office in Israel. Stanislav Aleksandrovich Orlov said that he would rest, and was actively engaged in the development of the newly received suburban land plot.

The former first head of the Russian AFB Viktor Valentinovich Ivanenko, not joining Yeltsin's team, went to the vice-presidency oil company YUKOS: he arrived in Moscow at one time from the oil Tyumen.

Employees are tired of the constant twitching and reassignment. There are even record holders who have changed up to a dozen positions in six months. Most of the employees have been out of the state for a long time. As soon as an order appears on the formation of a unit and the appointment of a head takes place, everything is immediately abolished by a presidential decree, and start over.

With a shudder I remember how they were tug-of-war for the right to have the former "Collection of the KGB". As an editor, I said that the professional Chekist press should be subordinate to Ivanenko at the AFB. This is reasonable - Russia and its security agency really exist, the Bakatinsk department without the USSR is a fiction. The premises in which the editorial office of the Collection was located was transferred to the AFB, and I, despite the persuasions of the then head of the Inspection Directorate Mezhakov I.A., to “surrender” to Bakatin, refused to move to the territory of the FSB. I was supported by the moral support of Viktor Ivanenko, his assistant Andrey Przhezdomsky, and the editorial staff. Nevertheless, the proud Bakatin would not have forgiven me for this trick, if he himself were not soon fired.

So, from two structures (SME and AFB), an MB was finally created, headed by Barannikov, who came from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and a new team came with him. The deputy ministers are:

Oleinikov Anatoly Avvakumovich (first deputy) - a former senior inspector of the Inspection Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, supervised the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, in other words, a liaison officer with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he often visited Barannikov with various KGB papers. Before transferring to the Inspection Department, he worked as the head of the KGB in the Perm region.

Golushko Mykola Mikhailovich, the head of the KGB of Ukraine who remained out of work (before that - the head of the department for combating nationalism in the 5th department), promoted former first Deputy Chairman of the KGB of the USSR, patriarch of the state security units to combat the ideological sabotage of the enemy, General of the Army F. D. Bobkov.

Frolov Vasily Alekseevich (deputy for personnel), yesterday's chief of police in Sverdlovsk.

Bykov Andrey Petrovich, former boss Operational and technical management (OTU).

Miroshnik Viktor Mikhailovich - chief of staff of the MB (as a deputy minister), and his first deputy, Major General Stanislav Pavlovich Pyatakov, was transferred to the Center from the post of chief of the KGB of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.

Other less colorful figures, whose names will go down in the history of the Russian security service with the addition of "pioneers" and "pioneers".

Whatever it was, but for the opening of the three-day meeting-seminar on the occasion of the creation of the Ministry of State Security, the heads of the central administrations had already been named. Among those appointed to new positions in the management and independent divisions of the new MB were:

Bondarenko Vladimir Alexandrovich - Chief of the Minister's Administration, Lieutenant General (from the Ministry of Internal Affairs).

Izotov Evgeny Ivanovich - Head of the Secretariat.

Andrey Grigorievich Chernenko - Head of the Public Relations Center of the MB, journalist, yesterday’s head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’s DSP, and the famous detective of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, Major General Alexander Ivanovich Gurov, was appointed his first deputy.

Ippolitov Ksenofont Khristoforovich - Head of the Information and Analytical Directorate, he is also Deputy Chief of Staff, Former Deputy Chief High school KGB.

Rastorguev Vladimir Nikiforovich - head of the duty service, major general, former head of the investigation department of the KGB of the USSR.

Klishin Vladimir Aleksandrovich - Head of the Counterintelligence Directorate, Major General of the KGB.

Kamalov V.M. - First Deputy.

Molyakov Alexey Alekseevich - Head of the Office of Military Counterintelligence, Major General, former head of the Special Department of the Moscow Military District.

Tselikovsky Anatoly Ivanovich - Head of Department economic security, former head of the KGB for the Murmansk region, major general.

Trofimov Anatoly Vasilyevich - Head of the Department for Combating Corruption and Smuggling, former KGB investigator, Deputy Head of the Moscow KGB.

Kovalenko Gennady Yakovlevich - head of the Anti-Terrorism Department, former head of the BSSR Directorate of State Security for Minsk and the Minsk Region, Major General;

Voiko Evgeny Mikhailovich - Head of the Operational and Technical Directorate, former head of the KGB of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region.

Zorin Viktor Mikhailovich - Head of the Operational Search Directorate, former Deputy Head of the 7th Directorate, Major General.

Lakontsev Viktor Mikhailovich - Head of the Inspection Department.

Lukonin Yuri Alekseevich - Head of the Department of Personnel and Work with Personnel, a former personnel officer of the KGB.

Semenkin Evgeny Alekseevich - head of the military mobilization department.

Ponomarenko Boris Fedoseevich - head of the Scientific and technical department, former deputy. chief of the KGB OTU, colonel.

Gorshkov Vladimir Nikolaevich - head of the Mobilization and Operations Directorate, former head of the 15th Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, Lieutenant General.

Shchurov Nikolai Ivanovich - Head of the Financial and Economic Department, Major General.

Morgunov Vladimir Fedorovich - head of the Department of material and technical support, the former KGB housekeeping department, rear admiral.

Aleksey Alekseevich Afonin - Head of the Military Construction Directorate, he was also its head, Lieutenant General of the KGB.

Mikheev Nikolai Mikhailovich - Head of the Medical Support Department, Colonel of the Medical Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Balashov Sergei Dmitrievich - Head of the Investigation Department, Major General, former head of the Investigation Department of the KGB for Moscow and the Moscow Region.

Demin Yuri Georgievich - head of the legal support service, colonel.

Klimenko Vladimir Ivanovich - Head of the International Relations Service.

Pronin Anatoly Petrovich - Head of Service own safety, a former KGB investigator, inspector of the Inspection Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Krayushkin Anatoly Afanasyevich - head of the department of registration archival funds, an employee of the former 10th department of the KGB.

The author of these lines, Yarovoy Arkady Fedorovich - Chief Editor collection of MB "Counterintelligence Bulletin". The collection marked "Top secret" as an independent department of the central apparatus is the successor to the "Collection of the KGB of the USSR" with the same security stamp.

In two years, a new reform will take place. Instead of the Ministry of Security (MB), there will be federal Service counterintelligence (FSK). By presidential decree of January 5, 1994, the regulation and the new structure will be approved.

In this structure, there will be no “police” headquarters that has not taken root. Restore the Secretariat and the Inspection Office, disappear operational management, administration of the minister.

The Office of Counterintelligence will be renamed the Office of Counterintelligence Operations, as if the word "operations" would add effectiveness. By the way, counterintelligence operations are carried out by both military counterintelligence and Economic management, and the Office of Counter Terrorism.

The Economic Security Directorate was renamed the Economic Counterintelligence Directorate.

Medical Support Department - to the Medical Directorate.

We raised the status of the registration department, archival funds and our own security service, making them Departments!

As well as the legal support service, which has become a contractual and legal management.

The editorial staff of Vestnik Kontrrazvedka remained the same.

Some divisions, as we can see, have expanded, the staff has increased. Others have disappeared. The Office for Combating Corruption and Smuggling has disappeared, and the scale of corruption and smuggling has increased dramatically!

Apparently, this management of the highest echelons of power was not to the court!

The Military-Mobilization Department and the Mobilization-Operations Directorate have disappeared. But a completely new Directorate for Counterintelligence Support of Strategic Objects appeared. There will be many reforms. For now, let's get back to creating MB ...

I have no reason to be happy with this change. But there is no reason to be dissatisfied with the appointment of the above comrades to high positions. Moreover, out of the 25 named chiefs of line units, only three were "newcomers" from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Bondarenko, Chernenko and Mikheev). True, the heads of the leading departments in the country, Moscow and St. Petersburg, were appointed not professionals, but especially trusted persons of the President - Savostyanov and Stepashin.

Subsequently, I often had to communicate with them at work and I must say that both, without appropriate training, without skills and work experience, quickly fit into the state security system, which rarely succeeds.

Stepashin was very pedantic, careful in dealing with people and in working with documents. I remember that after Stepashin's speech at one meeting, I called him in St. Petersburg.

- The text of your speech is ready for publication without abbreviations and changes, - I told him more out of politeness than out of duty. How he reacts the first time, so he will behave in the next.

- Be sure to send the text, I'll see ...