Romodanovsky Konstantin Olegovich headed the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation for more than ten years. In April 2016, he left his post due to the abolition of this structure and the transfer of its powers to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, where the Main Directorate for Migration was created.
Konstantin Romodanovsky: biography
The future general was born on 1956-31-10 in the capital of our Motherland. His parents were doctors.
After graduating from school, Konstantin Romodanovsky became a student at the First Medical Institute.
In 1980, having received a medical degree (speci alty "General Medicine"), he was assigned to work at the Research Institute of Forensic Medicine. He worked as a surgeon and later as a pathologist. For some time he was an intern at the MUR's duty expert.
Since 1982 Romodanovsky Konstantin Olegovich came to the bodies of the KGB of the USSR. He was immediately sent to the Higher Courses of the KGB. He explains his choice of transferring to serve in this structure by the presence of a certain romance in such a profession.
At the beginning of his career in state security, he was an employee of the Fifth Directorate of the KGB, which de alt withcountering ideological sabotage.
Since 1988, he has moved to the anti-organized crime unit.
Since 1992, he was transferred to the newly created internal security unit in the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation.
Since 2000, Konstantin Romodanovsky has taken the post of First Deputy Head of the Internal Security Department of the FSB.
Transition to the Main Directorate of the Interior Ministry of the Russian Federation
May 2001 was significant for Romodanovsky by his appointment to the post of head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Many mass media regarded this as the creation of a controlling structure in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, allowing President Vladimir Putin to receive timely information about problems arising within this department. Konstantin Romodanovsky did not try to hide the fact that he was a seconded employee of the state security.
This, in particular, became widely known after the GUSB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation began to actively identify "werewolves in uniform". The author of this action, according to "Kommersant", was Viktor Ivanov - assistant to the President of Russia for personnel, civil service and protection of human rights. Journalists believe that it was Ivanov who initiated the assignment of a former colleague to the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the post of head of the GUSB.
Since 2004, Konstantin Romodanovsky received a PhD in Law. He wrote his dissertation work on criminal liability arising in the event of disclosureinformation on the safety of judges.
Konstantin Romodanovsky: FMS
Since July 2005, Romodanovsky headed the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation, which was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He replaced A. Chernenko at this post, who retired due to poor he alth.
In an interview, the newly appointed director of the FMS said that he sees this department not as a repressive apparatus, but as a structure that optimizes the migration situation. He believes that repressive measures should go by the wayside.
In relation to violators of migration legislation, he spoke out for the fact that one should not rush to legalize migrants who illegally entered the territory of our country.
Romodanovsky Konstantin, whose awards speak of his significant contribution over the period of his activity as head of the migration service, is the owner of the Order of Courage and other orders and medals.
Further activities
Since 2007, K. O. Romodanovsky received the rank of Colonel-General of Militia, but due to reorganization measures, from 2011-09-06 he headed the Federal Migration Service as a civilian.
As a charity, he was actively involved in the restoration of the monastery, where the burial place of fifteen members of his family, nine of whom were princes.
Since 2013, Romodanovsky has the status of a federal minister, in which he was untilabolition of the Federal Migration Service.
Abolition of FMS
Some experts believe that President Putin decided to abolish the Federal Migration Service due to its poor performance and corruption.
Shortly after Romodanovsky left the post of head of the Federal Migration Service in 2016, the prosecutor's office began checking against him. There were suspicions that on the eve of their resignation, they were given large subsidies for the purchase of housing for some service workers who were close to him.
For example, his secretary Ekaterina Khoroshikh received about 22 million in this way, while the average salary of employees in the department did not exceed fifteen thousand rubles.
Interestingly, the former deputy of Romodanovsky explained the need to issue such subsidies as one of the ways to prevent extortion from the migration service.
Critical remarks to the FMS
Often, some officials criticized Romodanovsky as the head of the FMS.
There has been an increase in ethnic crime due to the uncontrolled entry of migrants into Russia.
Chief Moscow prosecutor Sergei Kudeneev noted in 2013 that foreign migrants committed every second crime of rape, every third robbery and every fifth murder.
By 2016, the situation with crime in the migration environment has not undergone any changes towards improvement. MUR Deputy Head M. Trubnikov said that 75 percent of crimesrape committed by migrants, most of whom came from the former Soviet republics.
The poorly controlled migration flow exceeded, according to some observers, the need for them in the economic sphere, which led to the loss of jobs by Russian citizens.
