1985 Serves in East Germany "recruiting sources and assessing information," as he described it, until 1990; witnesses the decline of the Soviet empire firsthand.
June 1991 Appointed head of St. Petersburg city council's International Relations Committee, a body set up to attract foreign investment. In August, he quits the KBG and in 1994, becomes first deputy mayor of the city.
May 1998 Named as...
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