Organization · Security & foreign policy
Security Council
Presidential security body
The Security Council is a presidential security body whose official roster includes senior political, security, intelligence, defense, diplomatic, and financial officials.
WHY THIS ENTITY MATTERS
RH ASSESSMENT
The council matters because it is the clearest formal meeting point in this map for several branches of Russian state power. Membership indicates institutional connection, not agreement on every issue or attendance at every proceeding.
- Record type
- Organization dossier
- Primary role
- Presidential security body
- Network sector
- Security & foreign policy
- Documented links
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Profile
The Security Council is a presidential security body whose official roster includes senior political, security, intelligence, defense, diplomatic, and financial officials.
Scope note: this foundation dossier is limited to the selected public records behind the RH Russia network. It does not claim a complete biography, ownership history, command structure, or account of private influence.
Documented connections
Every relationship below is labeled by evidence type and carries the limitation recorded in the network source ledger.
The Kremlin identifies Putin as chairman of the Security Council.
Limit: Council membership establishes a formal institutional connection, not participation in every security decision.
Kremlin · Security Council rosterMedvedev is listed as deputy chairman and a permanent member.
Limit: Council membership establishes a formal institutional connection, not participation in every security decision.
Kremlin · Security Council rosterShoigu is listed as secretary and a permanent member.
Limit: Council membership establishes a formal institutional connection, not participation in every security decision.
Kremlin · Security Council rosterBelousov is listed as defense minister and a permanent member.
Limit: Council membership establishes a formal institutional connection, not participation in every security decision.
Kremlin · Security Council rosterBortnikov is listed as FSB director and a permanent member.
Limit: Council membership establishes a formal institutional connection, not participation in every security decision.
Kremlin · Security Council rosterNaryshkin is listed as SVR director and a permanent member.
Limit: Council membership establishes a formal institutional connection, not participation in every security decision.
Kremlin · Security Council rosterLavrov is listed as foreign minister and a permanent member.
Limit: Council membership establishes a formal institutional connection, not participation in every security decision.
Kremlin · Security Council rosterWhat to watch
- Does the publicly identified leadership of Security Council change?
- Do official or corporate records document new coordination with Vladimir Putin?
- Do later sources confirm, narrow, or supersede the relationships recorded here?
Source record
- 01Kremlin · Security Council roster
Official roster dated 16 February 2026.