Viktor Barannikov

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Viktor Barannikov
Виктор Баранников
Minister of Interior of the USSR
In office
29 August 1991 – 26 December 1991
PresidentMikhail Gorbachev
Preceded byBoris Pugo
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Minister of Interior of the RSFSR
In office
8 September 1990 – 13 September 1991
Prime MinisterIvan Silayev
Preceded byVasily Trushin
Succeeded byAndrey Dunayev
Personal details
Born
Viktor Pavlovich Barannikov

(1940-10-20)20 October 1940
General of the Army


Viktor Pavlovich Barannikov (

Interior Minister in 1991 and Russian
Interior Minister from 1992 to 1993.

Career

He was the interior minister of Russian SFSR from September 1990 to September 1991, the interior minister of the USSR after the

Gorbachev
from August 1991 to January 1992. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he became the Minister of Security and Home Affairs of the Russian SFSR (December 1991 - January 1992). General Director of the Federal Security Agency of the RSFSR (January 1992). Minister of Security of the Russian Federation (January 1992 - July 1993).

Barannikov initiated the transfer of power under the responsibility of the Interior Ministry to individual republics and ordered the militia to stay away from the political chaos engulfing the capital. He was dismissed by the President at the end of July 1993. As an excuse, an incident involving the Border Guard forces on the Soviet-Afghan border and the wasteful lifestyle of his wife Ludmila, which cost taxpayers around $100,000, was used. During the

heart attack
on July 22, 1995.

He was close to Boris Birshtein and Birshtein's Seabeco.[2]

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Jeanne Vronskaya (16 August 1995). OBITUARY : Viktor Barannikov. Archived from the original on 2022-08-17. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Хлебников, Пол (Klebnikov, Paul) (September 4, 2000). "Как Березовский нажил свой первоначальный капитал. Отрывок из книги "Крестный отец Кремля". Взлет олигарха" [How Berezovsky made his initial capital. Excerpt from the book "The Godfather of the Kremlin". The rise of the oligarch]. compromat.ru (in Russian). Retrieved December 15, 2020 – via Forbes.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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