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Pavel Pavlovich Borodin (russian: Павел Павлович Бородин) (born 25 October 1946) is a Russian official and politician. Borodin was born in the town of Shakhunya, near the city of Nizhny (Formerly known as Gorky during Soviet times) in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to the city of
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in the Tuva Region, which is situated in the far south of Siberia. From 1993 to 2000, he was Head of the Presidential Property Management Department of the
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. According to the investigative journalist Jake Bernstein (2019), in that role Borodin signed a contract with a Swiss to renovate the Grand Kremlin Palace. Other contracts followed, as well as around $30 million on kickbacks that Borodin distributed to friends and fellow officials, including to then-president
Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
(p. 92). From 2000 to 2011, he was the State Secretary of the Union of Russia and Belarus. In 2001, he was arrested in New York for
money-laundering Money laundering is the process of concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source. It is a crime in many jurisdictio ...
. Later, he was released on bond of five million
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s. In 2002, his case was closed and the bond was returned while further details are not disclosed.Pavel Borodin, the State Secretary of Russia and Belarus Union


Honours and awards

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Order of Merit for the Fatherland Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
, 2nd class (3 October 1996) - for outstanding services to the state and many years of diligent work * Order of Francisc Skarina (Belarus) * Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus) (11 December 2006) - for his great personal contribution to the development of comprehensive cooperation between Belarus and the Russian Federation, strengthening the Belarusian-Russian friendship * Order of Merit (Moldova) (18 October 2001) * Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation (23 October 2006) - for services to the state and the contribution to the development and strengthening of Russian-Belarusian relations * Order of Honour (21 November 2011) - for his contribution to the establishment and development of the Union State and the expansion of Russian-Belarusian cooperation * Order "For Services to the Motherland", 3rd class (October 25, 2011 Belarus) * Order of Merit (
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, October 18, 2001) * Diploma of the Russian Federation (23 October 2006) - for services to the state and personal contribution to the development and strengthening of Russian-Belarusian relations *
State Prize of the Russian Federation The State Prize of the Russian Federation, officially translated in Russia as Russian Federation National Award, is a state honorary prize established in 1992 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. In 2004 the rules for selection of laureates ...
- for the Restoration of the
Kremlin The Kremlin ( rus, Московский Кремль, r=Moskovskiy Kreml', p=ˈmɐˈskofskʲɪj krʲemlʲ, t=Moscow Kremlin) is a fortified complex in the center of Moscow founded by the Rurik dynasty. It is the best known of the kremlins (Ru ...
(1996) * Honoured Worker of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) * Honorary Citizen of the
City of London The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London fr ...
(2009)


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See also

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Carla Del Ponte Carla Del Ponte (born February 9, 1947) is a former Chief Prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals. A former Swiss attorney general, she was appointed prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former ...
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Moscow Kremlin The Kremlin ( rus, Московский Кремль, r=Moskovskiy Kreml', p=ˈmɐˈskofskʲɪj krʲemlʲ, t=Moscow Kremlin) is a fortified complex in the center of Moscow founded by the Rurik dynasty. It is the best known of the kremlins (R ...
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Former Kremlin aide freed on bail
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Kremlin aide flies home on bail
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, April 13, 2001.
The Kremlin's Keeper, the World at His Fingertips, Is Under a Cloud
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Yeltsin Linked to Bribe Scheme
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Biography
(in Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Borodin, Pavel 1946 births Living people 1st class Active State Councillors of the Russian Federation People from Shakhunya Russian politicians Russian businesspeople in real estate Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class Recipients of the Order of Francysk Skaryna Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class