Viktor Pavlovich Barannikov (; 20 October 1940 — 21 July 1995) was the Soviet

Interior Minister An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a Cabinet (government), cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and iden ...

in 1991 and

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Interior Minister from 1992 to 1993.

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He was the interior minister of Russian SFSR from September 1990 to September 1991, the interior minister of the USSR after the

August Coup The 1991 Soviet coup attempt, also known as the August Coup, was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to Coup d'état, forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was President ...

against

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from August 1991 to January 1992. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he became the Minister of Security and Home Affairs of the Russian SFSR (December 1991 - January 1992). General Director of the Federal Security Agency of the RSFSR (January 1992). Minister of Security of the Russian Federation (January 1992 - July 1993). Barannikov initiated the transfer of power under the responsibility of the Interior Ministry to individual republics and ordered the militia to stay away from the political chaos engulfing the capital. He was dismissed by the President at the end of July 1993. As an excuse, an incident involving the Border Guard forces on the Soviet-Afghan border and the wasteful lifestyle of his wife Ludmila, which cost taxpayers around $100,000, was used. During the

Russian Constitutional Crisis In September and October 1993, a constitutional crisis arose in the Russia, Russian Federation from a conflict between the then Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the country's parliament. Yeltsin performed a self-coup, dissolving parliament a ...

in September–October 1993, he tried to mediate between

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to ...

and

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, who wanted to drag him to her side by nominating him as the Minister of Security. He was arrested and imprisoned for several months, soon after his release he died of a

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on July 22, 1995. He was close to

Boris Birshtein Boris Joseph Birshtein (; born 11 November 1947 in Vilnius or Chișinău) is a Soviet-born Israeli-Swiss-Canadian businessman and the former chairman of Seabeco, an investment and trading company. Career Birshtein emigrated to Israel in 1979, and ...

and Birshtein's Seabeco.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20060225155559/http://www.agentura.ru/english/dosie/fsb/story/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20060614194250/http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/russia.htm

Баранников Виктор Павлович. История Современной России
1940 births 1995 deaths People from Primorsky Krai Defenders of the White House (1993) People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union Generals of the army (Russia) {{Russia-politician-stub

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