Deputy Director of RF FSS Vladimir Kulishov takes the post of Border Service Head
Colonel General Vladimir Kulishov is appointed the Head of the the Border Service of of Russia’s Federal Security Service succeeding General of the Army Vladimir Pronichev on the post, RIA Novosti reports.
Vladimir Kulishov was born on July 20, 1957 in Russia’s southern Rostov region. In 1979, he graduated from the Kiev Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers and the USSR KGB Higher School. After the Institute graduation he worked at a Rostov-in-Don-based civil aviation plant. In 1982, he joined Russia’s state security agencies. Since 2000, Kulishov has been working in the central administration of the Federal Security Service in Moscow. In 2003-2004 he held the positions of the head of the Federal Security Service department for Saratov region.
In 2004, he was appointed first deputy head of the Federal Security Service anti-terrorism directorate, and later he became head of the Federal Security Service department for the Chechen Republic.
Since June 2008, Kulishov has been deputy director of the Federal Security Service and deputy head of administration of the National Anti-terrorism Committee.
