Security Council of the Russian Federation

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2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin has updated the composition of the Security Council. It includes Denis Manturov and Veronika Skvortsova

At the end of September 2024, the president Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree amending the composition. of the Security Council It included the assistant to the head, states Alexey Dyumin the first deputy chairman of the government, Denis Manturov the head of the Federal Scientific and Clinical Center Veronika Skvortsova and the head of the Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President Alexander Linets.

By his decree, Vladimir Putin expelled from the Security Council the acting secretary of the General Council of United Russia, Vladimir Yakushev, who was a member of the Security Council as presidential envoy to the Ural Federal District, and in September 2024 became a senator, took the post of first vice speaker of the upper house of parliament.

source = Kremlin Website

By his order, the President of the Russian Federation also extended the term of federal service to Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Alexander Grebenkin, he will hold the post until October 13, 2025.

Permanent members and members of the Security Council are appointed directly by the president, who is the chairman. The Council prepares decisions of the head of state on ensuring the protection of vital interests of the individual, society and the state from internal and external threats, as well as develops conceptual documents in the field of national security. The Security Council is formed by the President of the Russian Federation in accordance with the Constitution and the Law of the Russian Federation "On Security."

Putin is the chairman of the Security Council, and his deputy is Dmitry Medvedev. The permanent members of the Security Council include the heads of key executive and legislative bodies.

At the end of September 2024, the number of members of the Security Council of Russia increased to 34 people, among them the President of RANennadiy Krasnikov. The number of permanent members remained unchanged - 13 people.^[1]

2023: The Security Council of the Russian Federation began organizing scientific research for the development of biotechnology

In early October 2023, it became known about the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to which the commission of the Security Council of the Russian Federation under the leadership of its vice-president Dmitry Medvedev for protection against infections was transformed into a commission to combat biosecurity threats. Read more here.

2020: Medvedev and members of the Security Council banned from having an account abroad

At the end of October 2020, the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the third reading adopted amendments to the law "On Security," according to which, in particular, members of the Security Council are prohibited from having accounts and deposits on the territory of foreign states.

A ban is being introduced for the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, Secretary of the Security Council, permanent members of the Security Council and members of the Security Council - to open and have accounts (deposits), to store cash and valuables in foreign banks located outside the territory of the Russian Federation, the press service of the lower house of parliament reports.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted amendments to the law "On Security," according to which, in particular, members of the Security Council are prohibited from having accounts and deposits on the territory of foreign states

The functions of the Security Council have also been clarified: this is a constitutional advisory body that assists the head of state in the implementation of his powers on issues of ensuring "national interests and security of the individual, society and the state, as well as maintaining civil peace and harmony in the country, protecting the sovereignty of the Russian Federation, its independence and state integrity, preventing internal and external threats."

The author of the initiative to change the federal law "On Security" is the head of state Vladimir Putin. The project was introduced as part of the implementation of the adopted amendments to the Constitution.

Presidential laws in the development of amendments to the Constitution, including the new version of the law "On Security," were introduced at the end of September. Of these, the State Duma has already approved laws on a new procedure for forming a government, where the role of the State Duma is increasing, as well as on the reform of the Constitutional Court, in which the composition of the body is reduced to 11 judges, and their opinion of judges ceases to be public.^[2]

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