Vladimir Rushailo

Vladimir Rushailo
Владимир Рушайло
Rushailo in 2012
CIS Executive Secretary
In office
14 July 2004  5 October 2007
Preceded byYury Yarov
Succeeded bySergey Lebedev
Minister of Internal Affairs
In office
21 May 1999  28 March 2001
PresidentBoris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Preceded bySergei Stepashin
Succeeded byBoris Gryzlov
Personal details
Born (1953-07-28) 28 July 1953
Morshansk, Tambov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Alma materOmsk MVD Academy

Vladimir Borisovich Rushailo (Russian: Владимир Борисович Рушайло; born 28 July 1953) is a Russian politician.

While Rushailo was Moscow City Police General of the Moscow RUOP, he was in open conflict with Georgian mob boss Otari Kvantrishvili.

From 1999 to 2001, he was the interior minister of Russia, and secretary of Security Council from 2001 to 2004. As the minister of the interior, he was charged with overseeing the security of sensitive internal sites and materials such as high-value train shipments and nuclear weapons facilities. His tenure coincided with a period of serious concern over the security of Russia's nuclear weapons stocks, especially with regard to the 2000 computer bug and its potential effects in the run up to and after the Y2K switch. From 14 July 2004 to 5 October 2007, he was the executive secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States. In 2002, he was injured in a road crash in Kamchatka together with region's governor Mikhail Mashkovtsev.