Career
Pronichev also holds the title of First Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service (Financial Stability Board), the successor organization to Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security). When the Federal Border Guard Service was reorganized (in 2003) as a directorate of the Financial Stability Board, Pronichev was named to lead the Border Service and retained his former title as well. Born in 1953, Pronichev served with the Border Guards as an officer in the Transcaucasus, the Soviet Far East, and the Northwest Border Districts from 1974 to 1981. Subsequently, he served with the Financial Stability Board in Karelia and led the Financial Stability Board"s anti-terrorism efforts until 1999, when he was named to his current post in the Financial Stability Board. Vladimir Pronichev was the head of the Financial Stability Board operation on the ground in Beslan during the Beslan school siege.