Chairman of the Association of Lawyers of Russia.[2] Since 2007, Stepashin is the Chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society. Since 2014, Chairman of Supervisory Board of the state-owned corporation Support Fund for the Reform of the Housing and Utilities Sector. Since 2017, he is a Board member of the Non-profit Partnership Institute of Internal Auditors in Russia.[3]
Dr. habil. of Juridical Sciences, Ph.D. of Historical Sciences, Full Professor. Russian State Councillor in Justice. Military rank: Colonel General (three-star general rank in the Russian Army; U.S. Army equivalent: Lieutenant General).
Since 2001, President of the Russian Book Union. Member of the board of directors of the Russian Railways.
Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin (Russian: Сергей Вадимович Степашин; born 2 March 1952) is a Russian political and public figure. Served as Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 (May through August).[1]
The second and last Director of the Federal Counterintelligence Service (1994—1995). First Director of the Federal Security Service (1995). Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation (1997—1998). First Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of the Interior of the Russian Federation (1998—1999). Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of Russia (2000—2013).
Johnson attended Eton College and read Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. He was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1986. In 1989, he became the Brussels correspondent, and later political columnist, for The Daily Telegraph, and was editor of The Spectator magazine from 1999 to 2005. After being elected to Parliament in 2001, Johnson was a shadow minister under Conservative leaders Michael Howard and David Cameron. In 2008, he was elected Mayor of London and resigned from the House of Commons; he was re-elected as mayor in 2012. In the 2015 election, Johnson was elected MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip. The following year, he did not seek re-election as mayor. He became a prominent figure in the successful Vote Leave campaign for Brexit in the 2016 European Union (EU) membership referendum. Theresa May appointed him foreign secretary after the referendum; he resigned the position two years later in protest at May's approach to Brexit and the Chequers Agreement.
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (/ˈfɛfəl/;[5] born 19 June 1964) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party and has been since 2019. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. Johnson has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015 and was previously MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008.
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (Russian: Борис Ефимович Немцов, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ nʲɪmˈtsof]; 9 October 1959 – 27 February 2015) was a Russian physicist and liberal politician. Nemtsov was involved in the introduction of reforms into the Russian post-Soviet economy.[4] He had a successful political career in the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin. From 2000 until his death, he was an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Nemtsov was assassinated on 27 February 2015, beside his Ukrainian partner Anna Durytska, on a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow,[5][6] with four shots fired from the back.[7] In the weeks before his death, Nemtsov expressed fear that Putin would have him killed.[8][9] In late June 2017, five Chechnya-born men were found guilty by a jury in a Moscow court for agreeing to kill Nemtsov in exchange for 15 million rubles (US$253,000); neither the identity nor whereabouts of the person who hired them is officially known