Sergei Nikolaevich Lebedev (Russian: ?????´? ??????´???? ??´?????, IPA: [s??r'g?ej n??k?'laj?v??t? 'l?eb??d??f]; born 9 April 1948) is an Uzbekistan-born Russian political figure who has been the Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) since 2007.
He had previously been
General of the Army in the Russian Armed Forces and Director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) from 2000 to 2007.