Konstantin Olegovich Romodanovsky headed the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation for more than ten years. In April 2016, he left his post in connection with the abolition of this structure and the transfer of its powers to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, where they created the Main Directorate for Migration.
Konstantin Romodanovsky: biography
The future general was born on 10/31/1956 in the capital of our country. His parents were doctors.
After graduation, Konstantin Romodanovsky became a student at the First Medical Institute.
In 1980, having received a doctor’s diploma (specialty "medical business"), he was assigned to work at the Research Institute of Forensic Medicine. He worked as a surgeon, and later a pathologist. For some time he was a trainee at the on-site expert of MUR.
Since 1982, Romodanovsky Konstantin Olegovich came to the bodies of the KGB of the USSR. He was immediately sent to the KGB Higher Courses. He explains his choice of switching to service 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 KGB Directorate, which was engaged in counteracting ideological sabotage.
Since 1988, he moved to the unit involved in the fight against organized crime.
Since 1992, he was transferred to the newly created division of his own security at the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation.
Since 2000, Konstantin Romodanovsky took the post of first deputy head of the FSB’s own security department .
Transition to the GUSB Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
May 2001 was a significant for Romodanovsky his appointment to the post of head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Many media outlets regarded this as the creation of a controlling structure in the Ministry of Internal Affairs that would allow President V.V. Putin to receive timely information on problems arising within this department. Konstantin Romodanovsky did not try to hide that he was a seconded state security officer.
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." According to Kommersant, the author of this action was Viktor Ivanov , an assistant to the President of Russia for human resources, civil service and the protection of human rights. Journalists believe that it was Ivanov who initiated the secondment of a former colleague in the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the post of head of the GUSB.
Since 2004, Konstantin Romodanovsky received a Ph.D. in law. He wrote a dissertation on the criminal liability that ensues in the event of disclosure of data on the safety of judges.
Konstantin Romodanovsky: FMS
Since July 2005, Romodanovsky headed the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation, which was subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He replaced A. Chernenko, who retired due to poor health.
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 in favor of not rushing to legalize migrants who entered the territory of our country illegally.
Konstantin Romodanovsky, whose awards indicate his significant contribution over the period of his activity as head of the migration service, is the holder of the Order of Courage and other orders and medals.
Further activities
Since 2007, K.O. Romodanovsky received the rank of Colonel-General of the Police, but in connection with the reorganization measures from 9.06.2011, he headed the Federal Migration Service as a civilian.
As a charitable aid, he was actively engaged in the restoration of the monastery, where the burial place of fifteen members of his family, of which nine were princes.
Since 2013, Romodanovsky acquired the status of a federal minister, in which he remained until the abolition of the Federal Migration Service.
FMS abolition
Some experts believe that President Putin decided to abolish the FMS due to the weak efficiency of its activities and corruption.
Soon after Romodanovsky left the post of head of the FMS in 2016, the prosecutor's office began checking him. There were suspicions that on the eve of his resignation he was allocated large subsidies for the purchase of housing for some service workers who were close to him.
For example, his secretary Yekaterina Khoroshikh received in this way about 22 million, while the average salary of employees in the department did not exceed fifteen thousand rubles.
It is interesting that the former deputy Romodanovsky explained the need to issue such subsidies as one of the ways to prevent levies from the staff of the migration service.
Critical remarks about the FMS
Often, some officials criticized Romodanovsky as head of the FMS.
There was an increase in ethnic crime due to the uncontrolled entry of migrants into Russia.
In 2013, Moscow Chief Prosecutor Sergei Kudeneev noted that foreign migrants committed every second crime related to rape, every third robbery and every fifth murder.
By 2016, the situation with crime in the migration environment has not undergone any changes in the direction of improvement. Deputy Head of MUR M. Trubnikov said that 75 percent of rape crimes were committed by migrants, most of whom came from the former Soviet republics.
The weakly 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.