Who got Putin into power

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Alexander Vasilyevich Korzhakov 

Russian: Александр Васильевич Коржаков, born 31 January 1950 in Moscow) is a former KGB general who served as Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard, confidant and adviser for eleven years.  He was the head of the Presidential Security Service (PSB) in 1993–1996, State Duma deputy and retired Lieutenant-general.  Korzhakov had been Yeltsin's bodyguard since 1985, and on 19 August 1991, he stood next to his boss on top of a tank during Yeltsin's historic speech.

Being the Chief of the Security Service, Korzhakov was widely criticized for interfering in government affairs and business.  In 1996 he was finally sacked after losing a power struggle with the Prime Minister. He then successfully ran for a seat in the State Duma where he received immunity from prosecution.  In 1997 Korzhakov published a biography based on his experience at the very top of Russian politics.  In the biography he contends that he and the Security Service "governed the country for three years"....

 In 1970–1989 he served in the KGB 9th Chief Directorate, "Protection of Higher Party and Government Officials".  As a KGB official he became a member of the Communist Party in 1971, being a member of the Party bureau of subdivisions and member of the committee of the Komsomol for the 9th administration.

In 1978 he was transferred into a KGB subdivision, which dealt with personal protection.  In 1980 he graduated "by Correspondence" from a Moscow Law Institute (Russian: Всесоюзный юридический заочный институт Moskovskiy Yuridichesky Institut, Zaochny fakultet).  Following service in Afghanistan in 1981–1982, he was one of president Yuri Andropov's personal bodyguards in 1983–1984.  In 1985 he became one of three personal bodyguards of Boris Yeltsin, who at the time was the leader of the Communist Party organization in Moscow....

On 28 September 1989 when Boris Yeltsin fell from a bridge, Korzhakov set up a unit of former KGB agents to protect Yeltsin.  Following the election of Yeltsin in June 1991 as President of the RSFSR, Korzhakov became the Chief of Yeltsin's Security Service, which was later transformed into the Presidential Security Service when the Soviet Union was dissolved.  He was responsible for the protection of Yeltsin during the August coup attempt in 1991 and on 4 October 1993, when the White House of Russia was stormed....

Korzhakov contends that the Kremlin was run by various unconventional leaders such as body guards like Korzhakov, himself.  In his biography Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk (1997), Korzhakov confessed that he and the FSB chief Mikhail Barsukov, another member of Yeltsin's guard, "governed the country for three years".    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Korzhakov 

AK born 1-31-1950 at Moscow: