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NURGALIYEV, Rashid Gumarovich
Minister of the Interior of the Russian Federation
 Rashid Nurgaliyev (Рашид Гумарович Нургалиев) was born October 8, 1956 in Zhetiqara, Kustanaj Region, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan). He is an ethnic Tatar.
In 1974 he entered into O.V. Kuusinen Petrozavodsk State University, where he graduated in 1979, receiving a diploma in economics.
From 1979 to 1981, Nurgaliyev worked as a teacher of physics in a school in the town of Nadvoitsy in Karelia.
In 1981 Nurgaliyev began to work in the KGB Directorate in Karelia, starting out as an official in the police management in the Kalevala Regional Division and Kostomuksha City Department and finishing as head of Medvezhyegorsk Regional Division and head of the department of Combat against Terrorism in the Republic of Karelia. From 1992 to 1994 Nurgaliyev served under Nikolai Patrushev, the then Minister of Security in Karelia, who subsequently became the director of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).
In 1995 Nurgaliyev was transferred to the central apparatus of the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK), which would then be reorganized as the FSB. There he was made Chief Inspector of the Inspectorial Directorate and Head of a section of FSB Internal Security Department.
In 1998-1999 Nurgaliyev was in charge of the Main Control Directorate of the President of Russia. From 1999 he was chief within the Department of Economic Security, at the Directorate for Combat against Contraband and Illegal Circulation of Narcotics. Later on he served as Deputy Director and Chief of the Inspectorial Directorate.
In August 1999 Nurgaliyev was a part of the commission on issues regarding international humanitarian aid, serving there until September 2000. In April 2000 he became a member of a interdepartmental operational group for the control of implementing deliveries of wheat from the USA.
In July 2000 Nurgaliyev was appointed Deputy Director of FSB and chief of the Inspectorial Directorate. In 2002 he was made First Deputy Minister of the Interior of the Russian Federation, as well as head of the Criminal Police Service. Nurgaliyev also supervised assignments from the divisions of the Ministry of the Interior (MVD) on the combat against organised crime, the narcotic trade, international terrorism and extremist groups.
From January to March 2004 Nurgaliyev fulfilled the responsiblities as the head of the Ministry of the Interior. In March he was made head of the Ministry. In the same year the "Associated Press of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia" Publishing House released a book written by Nurgaliyev on the history of the MVD from 1902 to 2002.
In June 2005 members of the Beslan Mothers' Committee accused Nurgaliyev and other officials, namely the FSB director Patrushev, his assistant Vladimir Pronichev, former president of Northern Osetia Alexander Dzacokhov and former head of FSB Directorate for Northern Osetia Valery Andreev, of "carelessness and negligence in the days of the Beslan tragedy." They brought the case of Nurpasha Kulaev to the state prosecutor Nikolai Shepel with a petition for excitation concerning specified individuals in the criminal case. 331 people died as a result of the terrorist siege on Beslan School No. 1.
In December 2005 the military rank of "Army General" was conferred on Nurgaliyev. He became the first head of MVD during Vladimir Putin's presidency to receive such a high title.
In 2006 Nurgeliyev was proclaimed as an honorary citizen of the Repulbic of Karelia for his personal contribution to the strengthening of legality and law and order within the region.
In the spring of 2005 Nurgaliyev declared "legal and valid" the police operation on December 10-14, 2005 in Blagoveshchensk, Republic of Bashkortostan, which, according to legal experts, left hundreds of members of the public illegally detained and beaten; according to official accounts, 341 individuals were recognized as victims in the mass brawl.
At the time the minister did admit that "serious infringements" resulted in the carrying out of the police operation. He made these remarks after accusations regarding the excess of powers of office or the abuse of such powers were brought against ten police officials, including the chief of Blagoveshchensk Internal Affairs, the operative team from OMON (Special Purpose Police Squad) and the deputy chief of the municipal criminal investigation department.
On September 12 2007 Mikhail Fradkov's government resigned, and Nurgaliyev was given temporary responsibilities as Minister of the Interior. On September 14 Viktor Zubkov was confirmed as Prime Minister; on September 24 Putin announced the new cabinet. Nurgaliyev was appointed as Minister of the Interior.
Following Dmitry Medvedev's inauguration as President of Russia, on May 12 2008 Putin as the newly appointed Prime Minister announced his cabinet, with Nurgaliyev retaining his position as Minister of the Interior.
Nurgaliyev is a Kandidat of Economic Sciences (Ph.D) (his thesis was on the "economic aspects of the formation of business undertakings in modern Russia." He is a member of the Academy of Issues on Security, Defense and Law and Order. He is a laureate of the Andropov Award for his contribution to the security of the Russian Federation.
Nurgaliyev is married and has two sons, both officers. Maksim is a graduate of the Moscow Military Academy; Rashid is studying at the Academy of FSB.
Related Sources
Ministry of the Interior, Home Webpage
BBCRussian.com, MVD concerned about "preventive measures in Bashkortostan", February 8 2005 (In Russian)
Last updated June 26, 2008
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