during his working visit to
Bishkek in August 2011. In 1982, Naryshkin was appointed Deputy Vice-Rector of the
Leningrad Polytechnical Institute. From 1988 to 1992, he worked in the Soviet Embassy in
Brussels as an expert in the State Committee on Science and Technologies in the office of the economic adviser, but Alexei Pastyukhov, a childhood friend, stated that Naryshkin worked as third secretary. Some sources suggest that while there he began to work for the
KGB after he had been at a group of the KGB Higher School where he and
Vladimir Putin were fellow students.
Municipal and Oblast political staffer (1992-2004) From 1992 until 1995, he worked in the Committee for Economy and Finance of
Saint Petersburg Mayor Office. After he left, he became the chief of the external investment department of
Promstroybank, a position he would hold until 1997. From 1997 until 1998, Naryshkin led the Investment Department of the
Leningrad Oblast government. From 1998 until 2004, he was the Chairman of the Committee for External Economic and International Relations of the government of Leningrad Oblast.
Deputy Prime Minister (External affairs) and siloviki (2004-2008) In early 2004, he was a deputy head of the economic department of the
Russian presidential administration. From March through September 2004, Naryshkin was a deputy chief of staff of the
Russian government. Since 2004, he has been a member of the board of directors of
Sovkomflot and a deputy chairman of the board of directors of
Rosneft. Since 31 August 2004, Naryshkin has also been chairman of the Board of Directors of the state-owned television channel
Channel One. Since 13 September 2004, he has been a Minister, Chief of Staff of the Government of Russia. On 15 February 2007, President
Vladimir Putin announced that Naryshkin had been appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for external economic activity, focusing on collaboration with the
Commonwealth of Independent States.
Presidential Chieftain (2008-2011) In May 2008, Naryshkin was appointed chief of the
Presidential Administration of Russia. In May 2009, President
Dmitry Medvedev appointed him chairman of the
Historical Truth Commission, which was active until February 2012.
Chairman of the State Duma (2011-2016) with Chairwoman of the Federation Council
Matviyenko and Naryshkin, 2 September 2013 Naryshkin
was elected to the
State Duma, the
lower house of the
Russian parliament in December 2011. When the Duma began meeting for its new term on 21 December 2011, Naryshkin was elected as
Chairman of the State Duma; he received 238 votes in favor of his candidacy, while 88 deputies opposed him. In June 2012, Naryshkin signed a resolution on setting up a culture council under the State Duma speaker. The council is “a standing advisory body”. The tasks of the council are “the examination and drafting of initiatives on topical problems of legislative regulations in culture and associated industries, the development of recommendations on culture for the use in lawmaking”. On 2 September 2013, Naryshkin stated that there are no political prisoners in today's Russia. Since the rise of tensions between European Union and Russia in 2014, Naryshkin was perceived as one of the main coordinators of contacts with European far-right and far-left parties supporting Russian foreign policy in Europe.
Sanctions As a result of the
annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the federal government of the United States under Barack Obama blacklisted Naryshkin and other close friends of the
Russian president, including
Sergei Ivanov and
Gennadi Timchenko. Nevertheless, he officially visited the U.S., along with other Russian top security chiefs, at the end of January 2018. – war crimes of Ukrainian security forces", 28 March 2016 He was sanctioned by the
UK government in 2014 in relation to the
Russo-Ukrainian War. His son, Andrey Naryshkin, had EU residence in Hungary, a registered address in Budapest and actively appealed the decision against its revocation in 2022. Naryshkin's other relatives also frequently travelled across Europe between 2018 and 2021.
Chief of Foreign Intelligence Service (2016) In September 2016, Naryshkin was appointed as chief of Russia's
Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
2022 Russo-Ukrainian War In November 2021, Naryshkin dismissed reports of a possible
invasion of Ukraine asserting that it was "malicious propaganda by the US State Department". Days before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Naryshkin received widespread attention in the global press for visibly trembling and "stutter[ing] uncomfortably" as Putin humiliated him publicly for "fumbling" his response to the Russian President's questioning during a
Security Council of Russia meeting concerning the abandonment of the
Minsk agreements and recognizing the Russian-backed separatist regions of
Donetsk and
Luhansk. On 6 April 2022, in response to the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the
Office of Foreign Assets Control of the
United States Department of the Treasury added Naryshkin to its list of persons sanctioned pursuant to . On 15 August 2023, Naryshkin gave a speech at a security conference in Moscow, where he argued that for "a spiritually and physically healthy person, it’s unpleasant and sometimes even scary to travel to Europe–so many perversions of various kinds have thrived there". == Membership in advisory and scientific councils and commissions ==