Leonid Petrovich Reshetnikov

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovich and the family name is Reshetnikov.
Leonid Reshetnikov
Леонид Решетников
Reshetnikov in 2014
Director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies
In office
29 April 2009 – 4 January 2017
Preceded byEvgeny Kozhokin
Succeeded byMikhail Fradkov
Personal details
Born (1947-02-06) 6 February 1947 (age 77)
Lieutenant-General

Leonid Petrovich Reshetnikov (Russian: Леонид Петрович Решетников; born 6 February 1947) is a Soviet and Russian secret service agent,

Lieutenant-General of Foreign Intelligence Service, director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (29 April 2009 – 4 January 2017) where he actively supported interference in the United States elections. He is called "the right hand of Mr. Putin on the Balkans."[1][2][3]

Biography

Reshetnikov was born in

USSR Academy of Sciences.[6]

KGB and later SVR activities

From April 1976 to April 2009, he served in initially the

rezident KGB in the Balkans.[7] One posting was at Yugoslavia where he was on a business trip for five years returning to the Soviet Union in 1984.[6] From 1988 to 1993, he used the pseudonym Oleg Alekseev in Literaturnaya Rossiya (Russian: «Литературная Россия» или «ЛитРоссии») articles.[6] Beginning in March 1991, he attended services at the Russian Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Sofia.[6] Beginning in March 1995, he became a parishioner at Novospassky Stavropegic Monastery in Russia as an assistant vicar to Archbishop Alexy (Frolov) and from 2004-2010 he headed its board of trustees, which later grew into the Heritage Charitable Foundation.[6] From 2001 to 2004, he was on a business trip to Greece and supported numerous monuments to honor Russia's cultural closeness to Greece.[6]

At the end of his service he held the post of the head of Analysis & Information department of the Russian SVR with the rank of Lieutenant-General. In April 2009, he was dismissed in the reserve for the age limit.[6]

On 29 April 2009 he became a director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS). According to presidential decree of 2 November 2016, he was dismissed from 4 January 2017.[8] In this position, he actively supported interference in the United States elections.[1][2][3][9][10]

Since 2010, he has supported the Foundation of St. Basil the Great K.V. Malofeev.[6]

In February 2017 after the United States elections in 2016, Reshetnikov called Donald Trump a "patriot".[11]

He actively supported the failed pro Russia, pro Kremlin, pro Putin

2016 Montenegro coup, which failed on 16 October 2016 and after which Vladimir Putin supposedly fired him from RISS.[12][13]

As of January 2017, he is the chairman of the supervisory board of

Alexander Dugin, and former Fox News news director from 1996 to 2011 and Fox News co-founder John "Jack" Hanick (Russian: Джек Хэник), who moved to Moscow in 2013 to help Malofeev launch the channel.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] Through Reshetnikov and Malofeev, Hanick is close to the pro Russia former Greek defense minister Panos Kammenos and Vladimir Putin.[21] Putin stronly supports Tsargrad TV which according to Malofeev is the Russian equivalent to Fox News.[9][21][a]

In November 2016, he initiated the creation of the "Double-headed Eagle" Society (

United States Department of Treasury, is a Russia-registered organization which has been accused of involvement in espionage on behalf of Russia and is under United States sanctions since 20 April 2022.[33][34][b]

He is fluent in Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian, and can explain himself in Greek.[6]

United States sanctions

Since 2016, the United States sanctioned Reshetnikov under

Syrian sanctions because he is on the supervisory board of TEMPBANK (Russian: ТЕМПБАНК) which provides assistance to Bashar al-Assad.[35][36][37]

Banned from Bulgaria

On 10 September 2019 he was banned from entering Bulgaria for a period of ten years, as was Malofeev. According to investigators, Reshetnikov's organizations (RISI and the "Double-headed Eagle") paid for espionage activities in Bulgaria and supported the pro-Russia actions of the Bulgarian politician Nikolai Malinov (Bulgarian: Николай Малинов). In particular, a memorandum was found with intentions to change the "geopolitical orientation" of Bulgaria, which was to be oriented away from the West, the European Union, and NATO and instead toward pro-Russia and pro-Putin, the creation of a television channel and an own party was supposed.[38][39][40][41][c] Reshetnikov supports Rumen Radev, Korneliya Ninova and the Bulgarian Socialist Party.[1] Rosen Plevneliev has called Reshetnikov "the right hand of Mr. Putin on the Balkans."[1]

Memberships

He is a member of the Scientific Council under the

Security Council of the Russian Federation and the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense
.

He is the president of the Non-profit Charitable Foundation "Heritage" ("Russian Lemnos") and a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Rodina".

Publications

He is an expert on the White movement.[30] In addition to his articles published under the pseudonym Oleg Alekseev in Literaturnaya Rossiya (Russian: «Литературная Россия» или «ЛитРоссии»), his publication topics include Soviet-Bulgarian relations in 1917-1945; the Russian emigration to Greece, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia after the Russian Civil War; and the current political situation in the Balkans. His books include books "Russian Lemnos" (Russian: «Русский Лемнос») (Moscow: Novospassky Monastery, 1st ed. Moscow, 2009; 2nd ed. Moscow, 2010; 3rd ed. Moscow, 2012; 4th ed. Moscow, 2013; 5th ed. Moscow, 2015) and "Return to Russia. The Third Way, or the Dead Ends of Hopelessness" (Russian: «Вернуться в Россию. Третий путь, или тупики безнадежности») (Moscow: "FIV" )Russian: «ФИВ»), 2013; 2nd ed. M. "FIV", 2015, published in Serbia 2014, Bulgaria 2014, Armenia 2014 in Serbian, Bulgarian and Armenian).[42]

Family

He is married to Olga Nikolaevna Reshetnikova, Candidate of Historical Sciences.[6] They have two daughters and four grandchildren.[6] One of his daughters, Elena Reshetnikova, supervises the project "Children's Camp on the Island of Lemnos", organized by the "Heritage".[43]

Notes

  1. ^ On 3 February 2022, John "Jack" Hanick, who allegedly was working to establish networks similar to Tsargrad TV in Greece and Bulgaria in support of Reshetnikov and worked at Fox News as a co-founder with producer Roger Ailes and was the news director at Fox News from 1996 to 2011, was arrested in London for sanction violations.[22][23][24][25][26][27] Hanick was the first person criminally indicted for violating United States sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War.[28]
  2. ^ Other names for the former "Two-headed Eagle Society" (Russian: Общество «Двуглавый Орёл») are ALL-RUSSIAN PUBLIC ORGANIZATION SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF RUSSIAN HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT TSARGRAD (Russian: ОБЩЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОБЩЕСТВЕННАЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ОБЩЕСТВО СОДЕЙСТВИЯ РУССКОМУ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОМУ РАЗВИТИЮ ЦАРЬГРАД) or ALL-RUSSIAN PUBLIC ORGANIZATION SOCIETY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN HISTORICAL EDUCATION DOUBLE-HEADED EAGLE (Russian: ОБЩЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОБЩЕСТВЕННАЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ОБЩЕСТВО РАЗВИТИЯ РУССКОГО ИСТОРИЧЕСКОГО ПРОСВЕЩЕНИЯ ДВУГЛАВЫЙ ОРЕЛ) or ALL-RUSSIAN PUBLIC ORGANIZATION TSARGRAD (Russian: ОБЩЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОБЩЕСТВЕННАЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ЦАРЬГРАД) or DOUBLE HEADED EAGLE SOCIETY (Russian: Общество «Двуглавый Орёл») or formerly known as SOCIETY OF THE DOUBLE-HEADED EAGLE FOR THE PROPAGATION OF RUSSIAN HISTORICAL ENLIGHTENMENT or the TSARGRAD SOCIETY (Russian: ОБЩЕСТВО ЦАРЬГРАД).[33]
  3. ^ Bulgarian politician Nikolai Malinov (Bulgarian: Николай Малинов) was chairman of the 2003 founded "Russophiles" National Movement (Bulgarian: Национално движение „Русофили“), which has as its co-chair the mayor of Kazanlak Galina Stoyanova (Bulgarian: Галина Стоянова) of the Boyko Borisov headed GERB political party. Nikolai Malinov headed the Bulgarian political party Russophiles for the Revival of the Fatherland (Bulgarian: Русофили за възраждане на Отечеството) that belongs to the Patriotic Front (Bulgarian: Патриотичен фронт) coalition which supports PASOK in Greece.[40][41] Malinov is very active on Tsargrad TV with documentaries, commentaries, and interviews.[13]

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