Rashid Nurgaliyev

Nurgaliyev was born in Zhetikara, Kazakh SSR, on 8 October 1956 and is of Volga Tatar ethnicity. He graduated from Kuusinen State University in Petrozavodsk in 1979. He later received a doctoral degree in economics. His thesis was on the “economic aspects of the formation of business undertakings in modern Russia".

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From 1981 to 1995, he worked in the KGB Directorate of Karelia and its successor, Security Ministry of Karelia, in 1992-1994 led by Nikolai Patrushev.

In 1995, he moved to Moscow and was appointed chief inspector of the Inspectorial Directorate of FSK (FSB) and head of a section of FSB Internal Security Department led by Nikolai Patrushev.

In 2002, he became first deputy minister of interior of Russia. In 2003, he became minister of the MVD. He was removed from office on 21 May 2012 and Vladimir Kolokoltsev replaced him in the post.{{cite web|title=Scandal-Plagued Interior Minister Appointed To Security Council|url=https://reportingproject.net/occrp/index.php/en/ccwatch/cc-watch-briefs/1518-russia-scandal-plagued-interior-minister-appointed-to-security-council|work=OCCRP|accessdate=13 September 2013|date=23 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204213330/https://www.occrp.org/index.php/en/ccwatch/cc-watch-briefs/1518-russia-scandal-plagued-interior-minister-appointed-to-security-council|archive-date=4 February 2017}} Two days after his dismissal he was made deputy secretary of the Security Council on 23 May.

He holds the rank of Army General.

In February 2023, by decree of President Putin, Nurgaliyev was appointed First Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council.{{Cite web|lang=en|url=https://247newsagency.com/opinion/136620.html|title=PUTIN APPOINTED NURGALIYEV FIRST DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION |website=247newsagency.com |date=2023-02-06}}

He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2014 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War. {{cite web |title=CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1150217/Russia.pdf |access-date=16 April 2023}}

In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 6 April 2022 the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury added Nurgaliyev to its list of persons sanctioned pursuant to {{Executive Order|14024}}.Office of Foreign Assets Control. "[https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/04/18/2022-08183/notice-of-ofac-sanctions-actions Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions]." Published 2022-0418. {{Federal Register|87|23023}}

Nurgaliyev is married and has two children. He is an Orthodox Christian.{{Cite web|url=https://survincity.com/2011/12/the-priests-said-interior-minister-nurgaliyev/|title = The priests said Interior Minister Nurgaliyev — Encyclopedia of safety}}{{cite web |url=http://www.islamnews.ru/news-8292.html |title=Какие традиции продолжает глава МВД Рашид Нургалиев | История и современность | Новости | |website=www.islamnews.ru |access-date=12 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407064628/http://www.islamnews.ru/news-8292.html |archive-date=7 April 2014 |url-status=dead}}

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd and 4th classes
• Order of Honour
• Order of Saint Righteous Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy, 1st class (2005, Russian Orthodox Church)
• Order of Akhmad Kadyrov (2006, Chechen Republic)
• Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Karelia
• Yuri Andropov Award
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan"
• Medal for Distinction in Military Service, 2nd class
• Medal of Merit in the conduct of national census
• Jubilee Medal "100 Years of the Trans-Siberian Railway"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"
• Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• Medal for Strengthening Military Cooperation(Defence)
• Medal "200 Years of the Ministry of Defence"
• Medal "For Military Merit" (MIA)
• Medal "For Impeccable Service", 1st class

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20050228035025/http://eng.mvdrf.ru/index.php?docid=2 Information on Nurgaliyev on the site of the Russian ministry of the interior]
• {{in lang|ru}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20071021003257/http://anticompromat.ru/nurgaliev/nurgalbio.html Biography]
• {{in lang|ru}} [http://lenta.ru/lib/14161086/ Biography]

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