13 Facts About Sergei Stepashin

Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin is a Russian political and public figure.

Since 2007, Sergei Stepashin is the Chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society.

Sergei Stepashin was born in Port-Arthur, Kvantun Oblast, USSR on 2 March 1952.

Sergei Stepashin was born into a family of a Soviet Navy officer.

Sergei Stepashin's was awarded the Medal for the Defense of Leningrad, survivor of the Siege of Leningrad.

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Sergei Stepashin graduated from the Higher Political School of the USSR Ministry of the Interior, in 1981 from the Lenin Military-Political Academy, and in 2002 from the Finance Academy.

Sergei Stepashin is a Doctor of Law, Professor, and has a rank of the State Advisor on Justice of the Russian Federation.

Sergei Stepashin was one of the commanders in charge of disarmament of illegal military groups in Chechnya during the First Chechen War.

In 1998, Sergei Stepashin was appointed Minister of the Interior of Russia in the Cabinet of Sergey Kiriyenko.

Cabinet formed by Sergey Sergei Stepashin remained unchanged under the next Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, and largely under Mikhail Kasyanov.

The initial plan was to create a pre-election political wing, which, in addition to Sergei Stepashin, would include Kiriyenko, Nemtsov and Ryzhkov, but this did not work out due to an internal conflict.

Grigory Yavlinsky offered Sergey Sergei Stepashin to join Yabloko, but during the election campaign, Sergei Stepashin found himself in disagreement with the former's statements, and he then announced that he would be supporting Vladimir Putin, instead of Yavlinsky, in the upcoming presidential elections.

Sergei Stepashin said he had hoped to transform Yabloko into "a real social democratic party of intellectuals", but failed because of Yavlinsky's bloated self-importance.