Nikolai Bordyuzha
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) is a Russian
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general
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and politician
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In 1972, he graduated from Perm
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Military School of the High command
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of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces
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and later attended KGB
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intelligence courses in Novosibirsk
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From 1989 to 1991, he was Head of KGB human resources
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, and from 1992 to 1998 served as First Deputy Chief and later Chief of Russia's Federal Borderguard Service.
On December 7, 1998, he was appointed Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, and also Chief of the Russian presidential administration. He served in this position until March 18, 1999. During this period he was viewed by some analysts as a possible successor to President Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin
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From 1999 to 2003, Bordyuzha served as the Russian ambassador
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to Denmark
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On April 28, 2003, he was appointed Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
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, a military pact of Commonwealth of Independent States
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Bordyuzha has been awarded with Russia's Medal of Courage and Medal of Friendship (2005).
He has the rank of Colonel General
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