 From May 18, 2000, to March 11, 2003, he was President Vladimir Putin's plenipotentiary envoy to the Northwestern Federal District.Since March 11, 2003, he was Head of the State Committee for the Control of the Circulation of Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances of the Russian Federation (since March 2004 – Federal Service for the Control of the Circulation of Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances).He has been married twice.