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Sergei Borisovich Ivanov (; born 31 January 1953) is a Russian senior official and statesman. He was Minister of Defense of Russia from March 2001 to February 2007, Deputy Prime Minister from November 2005 to February 2007, and the First Deputy Prime Minister from February 2007 to May 2008. After the election of Dmitry Medvedev as President of Russia, Ivanov was reappointed a deputy prime minister in Vladimir Putin's second government. Since December 2011 he is the Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office. Before joining the federal administration in Moscow, Ivanov, a fluent speaker of English, served from the late 1970s in Europe and in Africa as a specialist in law and foreign languages. As an employee of the KGB in Soviet Union era he became a friend of his then colleague Vladimir Putin,〔(''Иванов, Сергей — Руководитель администрации президента России'' ). Lenta.ru (Russian)〕 who appointed him as his deputy in the late 1990s. == Youth, education, and early career == Ivanov was born in Leningrad. In 1975 he graduated from the English translation branch of the Department of Philology at Leningrad State University, where he majored in English and Swedish. In the late 1970s Ivanov began a two decades career on the staff of the external intelligence service. In 1976 he completed postgraduate studies in counterintelligence, graduating from Higher Courses of the KGB in Minsk. Upon graduating in 1976, Ivanov was sent to serve for the Leningrad and Leningrad Oblast KGB Directorate, where he became a friend of Vladimir Putin, then a colleague of his.〔〔(Biography ) by Vladimir Pribylovsky (in Russian).〕〔(Russia Profile - Who's Who? )〕 In the 1980s Ivanov served as the Second Secretary at the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki, working directly under the KGB resident Felix Karasev.〔Heikki Hellman: (''Who remembers 2nd Secretary Ivanov?'' ). hs.fi 3 April 2007 (archived 2007-06-22)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sergei Ivanov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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