Who is Bortnikov, the head of the FSB that part of the Russian elite would like in Putin’s place

The 007 Ukrainians claim that “a group of people is forming in the Russian elite opposed to Putin who would be considering his end “going so far as to hypothesize three possible deaths: poisoning, sudden illness, accident. And, according to Ukrainian intelligence, it could take the place of the ‘tsar’ the director of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation Alexander Bortnikov

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In Russia, therefore, there would be a group of influential figures opposed to the president. And a certain part of this political elite would like the name of Bortnikov as Putin’s successor

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Bortnikov was born in 1951, in Perm, and graduated in engineering. He has known Putin for a long timethat is, since the 1970s, when both were in the KGB

As the Guardian at the beginning of February, that of Bortnikov is one key figure in Putin’s entourage. He is the head of security of the Russian Federation and, for this very reason, he plays a fundamental role “in ensuring that Putin maintains control over the nation”

Bortnikov checks an apparatus which employs hundreds of thousands of people and is responsible for everything from counter-terrorism to national border security

He also directs the cheap arm of the FSB, thus playing a key role in building the growth of post-Soviet Russia

According to various analyzes circulated in recent months, his figure is indeed critical, but not so influential and so close to Putin than others, such as that of Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Defense