RALF Private Company of multipurpose & multilevel protection & security was established as an agency in 1997 by a group of professional bodyguards. This step has been caused by necessity to provide safety of clients under the international standards and criteria corresponding to specificity: professionalism, reliability, efficiency, competence, and good manners. From the very first days of Ralf existence the main emphasis in the business arrangement of the venture was determined to attentive selection the staff. Top rank officeholders in the company are the reserve officers of the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) and they are the people, having high professional knowledge, skills and huge vital experience. More than half of the agency employees are combatants of special military forces of the Ministry of Defense and internal security troops, which participated in various military conflicts from Afghanistan up to The Chechen Republic. Many of them have awards and medals for personal courage and heroism in combat. Skilled professionals in the field of protection of individuals who are members of the International Association of Bodyguards (1ВА), champions and prize-winners of professional Russian and international competitions are working in the agency. Средний возраст сотрудников предприятия — 30 лет. Average age of the agency employees is 30 years.

A lot of attention is dedicated to the professional training of security guards. The team of the venture’s hand-to-hand fighters has repeatedly become the prize-winner of the All-Russia competitions in various kinds of martial arts. Men and women teams of bodyguards annually act in the international, national and regional championships amongst bodyguards and have a high command rating. A set of army discipline and modern methods of management plus the tough system of selection of the staff and professionalism of employees all this allows to provide safety of clients on a very high level. In 1999 Ralf was listed in the catalogue of the best non-state protection organizations Gold collection of guardians in Moscow and St. Petersburg.