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| Sergey Naryshky is the new chief of Russian SVR |
Vladimir Putin has named Sergei Naryshkin, the outgoing Russian State Duma speaker, as new Russian Foreign Intelligence Chief (SVR).
According Russian website Vesti Putin made the offer at a meeting with Naryshkin and Mikhail Fradkov, the outgoing head of the SVR.
Putin said to Natyshkin that he want "offer you the job of head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia (SVR)."
Sergey Natyshkin replied to Putin "considerimg your offer to be an instruction by the head of state, the supreme commander".
BBC, Russian News Agency Interfax and Russian website Slon reported Sergey Naryshkin is:
- born on 27 October 1954 in Putin's home city of St Petersburg
- worked at the St Petersburg mayor's office in the 1990s at roughly the time Putin was there
- joined President Putin's office in 2004 as deputy head of the economic development directorate
- headed the president's office in 2008-11, when Dmitry Medvedev was president
- elected as Russian State Duma speaker shortly after the assembly convened following elections in 2011
- under him, the Duma has consistently toed the Kremlin's line.
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