Nikolai Patrushev is the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, an influential body that answers directly to Putin and issues guidance on military and security issues within Russia.

With Putin reportedly about to go under the knife for a cancer surgery, Putin’s right-hand henchman, Nikolai Patrushev, is poised to temporarily take over, and he could be even worse than his ...

Nikolai Patrushev, the powerful Security Council secretary and close Putin ally from their days together at the KGB in St. Petersburg, told the Russian president that the United States was behind ...

Vladimir Putin’s right-hand man, Nikolai Patrushev, was allegedly behind the suspected assassination of Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin. Connor Surmonte Dec. 22 2023, Published 12:45 p.m. ET ...

Nikolai Patrushev is the Kremlin's backchannel to London ... Patrushev, the 73-year-old former secretary of Russia’s Security Council turned presidential aide, ...

"Nikolai Patrushev leads the country," the General SVR channel said in another post on October 30. "Russian President Vladimir Putin is dead. His place is occupied by an impostor!

And Nikolai Patrushev, part of the Russian president's inner circle and former Secretary of the Security Council, told the Russian newspaper Kommersant that Trump was duty-bound to act on his words.

The former head of MI6 predicted Nikolai Patrushev will replace Putin if the president falls ill. Patrushev, a top security official, is one of few people known to have Putin's ear. Richard ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin demoted Nikolai Patrushev, a Cold War warrior who crafted the Kremlin's national security strategy, to a job overseeing the shipbuilding industry while raising two ...

So says Nikolai Patrushev, the second-most powerful man in Moscow. Currently the head of Russia’s Security Council, Patrushev has been a colleague of Vladimir Putin’s since the two served in ...

In this photo provided by the Serbian Interior Ministry, Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin, left, poses with Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Kremlin’s Security Council, in Moscow ...