BAKATIN, Vadim Viktorovich. Born 1937 in Kiselevsk, Kemerovo Oblast′. Graduated from the Novosibirsk Engineering-Construction Institute in 1960 and the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1985. Served as: secretary of the Kemerovo Oblast′ Committee of the CPSU (1977–1983) and as its first secretary (1987–1988); thereafter as Minister of Internal Affairs USSR until 1990; as Chairperson of the KGB from August 1991 until its abolition in October; and as Chairperson of the Inter-Republican Security Service (successor to KGB) from October till December 1991.

BAKHMIN, Vyacheslav Ivanovich. Born 1947 in Tver'. Studied at the Moscow Physics-Technical Institute (1966–1970) and graduated from the Correspondence Division of the Moscow Economics-Statistics Institute (1974). Since 1968, a participant in the human rights movement. Headed the Department of Global Problems and Humanitarian Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from 1991 to 1992, and the Department of International Humanitarian and Cultural Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1992–1995).

BOLDYREV, Yurii Yur'evich. Born 1960 in Leningrad. Graduated from the Leningrad Electro-Technical Institute (1983) and Leningrad Financial-Economics Institute (1989). Elected people's deputy of the USSR (1989–1991). Headed Control Administration of the President of the Russian Federation (1992–1993). Elected: deputy to the Council of the Federation (1993–1995) as a leader of the Yabloko electoral organization (1993–1995); Deputy Chair of the Accounting Chamber of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (1995–2001).

BURBULIS, Gennadii Eduardovich. Born 1945 in Sverdlovsk Oblast′.