Pavel Borodin
Pavel Pavlovich Borodin () (born 25 October 1946) is a Russian official and politician. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. Borodin was born in the town of Shakhunya, near the city of Nizhny (Formerly known as Gorky during Soviet times) in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to the city of Kyzyl in the Tuva Region, which is situated in the far south of Siberia. From 1993 to 1998, he was Head of the Presidential Property Management Department of the Russian Federation. His deputy and successor in this position was Vladimir Putin. According to the investigative journalist Jake Bernstein (2019), in that role Borodin signed a contract with a Swiss to renovate the Grand Kremlin Palace. Other contracts followed, as well as around $30 million on kickbacks that Borodin distributed to friends and fellow officials, including to then-president Boris Yeltsin (p. 92). From 1998 to 2000, he became a member of the Interdepartmental Commission of the Security Council on Economic Security. From 2000 to 2011, he was the State Secretary of the Union of Russia and Belarus. In 2001, he was arrested in