Sergei Stepashin

Sergei Stepashin
Сергей Степашин
Stepashin in 2021
2nd Chairman of the Accounts Chamber
In office 19 April 2000 – 20 September 2013
Preceded by	Khachim Karmokov
Succeeded by	Tatyana Golikova
Member of the State Duma
In office 18 January 2000 – 26 April 2000[1]
Prime Minister of Russia
In office 12 May 1999 – 9 August 1999
President	Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by	Yevgeny Primakov
Succeeded by	Vladimir Putin
First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
In office 27 April 1999 – 19 May 1999
Prime Minister	Yevgeny Primakov Acting PM himself
Preceded by	Vadim Gustov
Succeeded by	Nikolai Aksyonenko
Minister of Internal Affairs
In office 30 March 1998 – 12 May 1999
Prime Minister	Sergey Kiriyenko Yevgeny Primakov
Preceded by	Anatoly Kulikov
Succeeded by	Vladimir Rushaylo
Minister of Justice
In office 2 July 1997 – 30 March 1998
Prime Minister	Viktor Chernomyrdin
Preceded by	Valentin Kovalev
Succeeded by	Pavel Krasheninnikov
Director of the Federal Security Service
In office 2 March 1994 – 30 June 1995
President	Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by	Nikolai Golushko
Succeeded by	Mikhail Barsukov
Personal details
Born	Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin (1952-03-02) 2 March 1952 (age 72) Port-Arthur, Kvantun Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR (now Lüshunkou, China)
Nationality	Russian
Spouse	Tamara Stepashina
Children	Vladimir
Alma mater	Lenin Political-Military Academy, Finance Academy
Awards	Order of Courage
Sergei Stepashin's voice Stepashin's interview with Echo Moscow Recorded 16 March 2015

Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin (Russian: Сергей Вадимович Степашин; born 2 March 1952) is a Russian politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Russia in 1999. Prior to this he had been appointed as federal security minister for counterintelligence by President Boris Yeltsin in 1994, a position from which he resigned in 1995 as a consequence of the Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis. Subsequent to his tenure as Prime Minister he served as Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of Russia from 2000 until 2013.