Russian President Vladimir Putin included in the Presidential Security Council of the President of the Kurchatov Institute Research Center Mikhail Kovalchuk. The corresponding decree is posted on the official Internet portal of legal information, Sota drew attention to it.

Kovalchuk became part of the Interdepartmental Commission on ensuring the technological sovereignty of the state in the field of development of critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation.
The new story-gazeta called Mikhail Kovalchuk and his brother, the main owner of the Bank of Russia Yuri Kovalchuk, Putin's friends. The publication of the publication says that Mikhail Kovalchuk is considered a person who seriously affects the natural science worldview of the Russian president.
In 2015, in a speech before the Federal Assembly, he spoke about the "genetic experiments of the Americans." Then, Putin spoke about the genetic experiments of the United States aimed at the Russians in 2017 at a meeting of the Human Rights Council.
In early February, “important stories” published an investigation according to which Yuri Kovalchuk owns property in the annexed Crimea worth more than 8.2 billion rubles. In addition, under the control of the Russian Bank, Simferopol Airport and Belbek airport in Sevastopol are located.