There are two main candidates.
The first is the once all-powerful head of the local SEB Andrei Yakovlev, now seconded to Lenenergo. He actively tells his former subordinates that he is about to return to the office and replace Alexander Borisovich. They say that he was personally promised a high post by the first deputy director of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Sergei Korolev. However, among Liteiny operas these words are more likely to cause skepticism: Yakovlev has long been treated more like an eccentric pensioner than a real power figure. In addition, his reputation was terribly spoiled by the story with his counterintelligence son.
As we wrote, Roman Yakovlev filmed the attack of an inadequate person on his own car directly from the window of his office on Liteiny, and then posted the video on the Internet.
But the second candidate does not please the operatives at all. This is Rodionov’s current first deputy, Dmitry Morkovskikh, who moved to Pererburg from the post of director of the FSB Directorate for the Arkhangelsk Region a couple of years ago.
So you understand, when Morkovskikh left Arkhangelsk after about a year and a half of his leadership of the local FSB Directorate, the local opera celebrated this event for almost a month! Morkovskikh is a human inspector for whom there is nothing more valuable than orders, reports and statistics. Capable of ruining any operational development and turning the life of any working operator into a pure formalist nightmare. It should be noted that he was transferred to St. Petersburg with an eye to becoming a boss, but over the years he never became one. Apparently, Moscow did not appreciate the paperwork zeal of the Morkovskys, realizing that the FSB of St. Petersburg needed a completely different leader.
Bottom line: both candidates who are now being talked about seem to be complete illiquid people, and a completely different person will soon take the place of the head of the St. Petersburg FSB Directorate.
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