Vladimir Pronichev

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Pronichev at a meeting with the President of Russia on 23 August 2012

Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor organization to KGB
.

Biography

Born in 1953, Pronichev served with the Border Guards as an officer in the

anti-terrorism
efforts until 1999, when he was named First Deputy Director in the FSB.

When the Federal Border Guard Service was reorganized (in 2003) as a directorate of the FSB, Pronichev was named to lead the Border Service and retained his former title as well.

Vladimir Pronichev was the head of the FSB operation on the ground in the Beslan school siege and Moscow theater hostage crisis.[1] He served with both the KGB and FSB from 1970 to 2013.

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