The Federal Customs Service of Russia (russian: Федеральная таможенная служба Российской Федерации, ''Federalnaya tamozhennaya sluzhba Rossiskoy Federatsii''; abbreviated , ''FTS Rossii'') is a Russian government service regulating

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. It is part of Russia's

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The

Customs Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country. Traditionally, customs ...

Services in

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were formed in 1865, as The Customs Department of the Ministry of Finance. In 1917 the Soviet Customs Service was operated as The Main Directorate for Customs Control as part of the MKTP - The People's Commissariat for Trade and Industry. In 1991, The Soviet Customs was replaced with The State Customs Committee (GTK) under the Ministry for Economic Development and in 2006 the GTK was renamed to current name. On January 15, 2016, a presidential

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placed the Federal Customs Service under the control of the

Heads of Customs of Russia

State Customs Committee

* Mikhail Vanin (1999 - 2004)

Federal Customs Service

* Aleksander Zherikhov (2004 - 2006) *

Andrey Belyaninov Andrey Yuryevich Belyaninov (in russian: Андрей Юрьевич Бельянинов, born July 14, 1957) is a Russian businessman and government official. He is a Chairman of the Eurasian Development Bank since 2017. Belyaninov graduated fr ...

(2006 - 2016) *

Vladimir Bulavin Vladimir Ivanovich Bulavin (russian: Владимир Иванович Булавин; born 11 February 1953) is a Russia military and security official, the Head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation (2016-2023). Biography B ...

(since 2016)

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