Security Council of Russia


The Security Council of the Russian Federation is a constitutional consultative body of the Russian president that supports the president's decision-making on national security affairs and matters of strategic interest. Composed of Russia's top state officials and heads of defence and security agencies and chaired by the president of Russia, the SCRF acts as a forum for coordinating and integrating national security policy.

History, status, and role

The Security Council of the RSFSR was legally set up by Congress of People's Deputies of Russia in April 1991 along with the office of the President of the RSFSR. The 1993 Constitution of Russia refers to the SCRF in Article 83, which stipulates that the SCRF is formed and headed by the president of Russia, also saying that the status of the SCRF is to be defined by a federal law.
The 2010 Law on Security defines the legal status of the SCRF as a "constitutional consultative body" concerned with elaboration of decisions by the president in the fields of Russia's defence and national security. The SCRF comprises its chairman, the Secretary of the SCRF, its full members, and members, as appointed by the president. Under the law, the Secretary of the SCRF is appointed by the president and reports directly to him.
Decisions of the SCRF are adopted by its full members and approved by the president, who may issue decrees or orders for the purpose of implementing them.
The Presidential Decree of 6 May 2011 enacted the Statute of the SCRF as well as a host of other statutes pertaining to the structure and composition of the SCRF.
It has been argued that the coordinating role defined for the Security Council in the National Security Strategy to 2020, published in May 2009, represents a strengthening of the council's influence and importance within Russian governance under its new Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.
On 16 January 2020, president Vladimir Putin signed a decree that amended the relevant laws and established a new state office of Deputy Chairman of the Security Council. On the same day, president Putin appointed Dmitry Medvedev as Deputy Chairman of the Security Council.

Composition

;Permanent members
NameOffice
Vladimir PutinChairman of the Security Council
Dmitry MedvedevDeputy Chairman of the Security Council
Sergei ShoiguSecretary of the Security Council
Mikhail MishustinChairman of the Government
Anton VainoChief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office
Sergei IvanovSpecial Presidential Envoy on Issues of Environmental Activities, Ecology and Transport
Valentina MatviyenkoChairwoman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly
Vyacheslav VolodinChairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly
Andrey BelousovMinister of Defence
Sergei LavrovMinister of Foreign Affairs
Vladimir KolokoltsevMinister of Internal Affairs
Alexander BortnikovDirector of the Federal Security Service
Sergei NaryshkinDirector of the Foreign Intelligence Service
Nikolai PatrushevAide to the President of Russia

;Non-permanent members
NameOffice
Rashid NurgaliyevFirst Deputy Secretary of the Security Council
Denis ManturovFirst Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
Aleksandr KurenkovMinister for Affairs of Civil Defence, Emergency Situations and the Liquidation of Consequences of Natural Disasters
Konstantin ChuichenkoMinister of Justice
Anton SiluanovMinister of Finance
Valery GerasimovChief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and First Deputy Minister for Defence
Viktor ZolotovDirector of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops and Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard Forces Command
Igor KrasnovProsecutor General
Sergei SobyaninMayor of Moscow
Alexander BeglovGovernor of Saint Petersburg
Aleksey DyuminAide to the President of Russia
Gennady KrasnikovPresident of the Russian Academy of Science
Veronika SkvortsovaDirector of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency
Aleksandr LinetsHead of Main Directorate of Special Programs
Igor ShchyogolevPresidential Envoy to the Central Federal District
Aleksandr GutsanPresidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District
Vladimir UstinovPresidential Envoy to the Southern Federal District
Artem ZhogaPresidential Envoy to the Ural Federal District
Yury ChaikaPresidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District
Igor KomarovPresidential Envoy to the Volga Federal District
Anatoly SeryshevPresidential Envoy to the Siberian Federal District
Yury TrutnevPresidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District and Deputy Chairman of the Government

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council