Vladimir Medinskiy

Vladimir Medinsky has been at the helm of Russian culture for 7 years. During this time, what they did not talk about and did not write about. Say, they made a minister of a person with paradoxical views, accusing scientists and journalists of incompetence and disconnection from reality. At the same time, Medinsky is one of the few high-ranking officials who listens to the opinion of bloggers, writes books on which films are made.

The biography of the politician began in the Ukrainian city of Smela, Cherkasy region. Father Rostislav Ignatievich, a career officer in his youth, participated in the introduction of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia, passed through Afghanistan, liquidated the consequences of the Chernobyl accident and the earthquake in Armenia. Mom Alla Viktorovna is a general practitioner. The family also brought up a daughter, Tatyana.

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Vladimir graduated from school in Moscow and, following the example of his father, went to the military command school, and having received a refusal from the medical commission, he entered MGIMO, the faculty of international journalism. At the same time, he attended open lectures at the history department of Moscow State University. At the university, Medinsky was distinguished by an extraordinary memory for historical events and achievements of Russian rulers.

Then the holder of the diploma with honors went to graduate school in the direction of political science, defended his Ph.D. and doctoral dissertations, became a professor at the Department of International Information and Journalism at the alma mater.

Together with a group of classmates, Vladimir organized an advertising agency "Corporation" Ya "", which in the early 90s became a major player in the market. The company served tobacco corporations and financial pyramids, promoted Avtobank and Tveruniversalbank. Due to the bankruptcy of the latter, troubles arose.

The firm was renamed the United Corporate Agency, and Medinsky remained its shareholder until 2003, until he was in the State Duma, after which he “sold” the shares to his father.

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In addition, the future Minister of Culture served as Vice President of the Russian Association for Public Relations and Image Advisor to the Director of the Federal Tax Police Service of Russia. Later he became the head of the ministerial department for information policy.

In the last year of the 20th century, Vladimir Medinsky started working with the press on behalf of the Fatherland - All Russia bloc. Then he became an adviser to the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, and in 2003 he was elected a deputy of parliament on the all-federal list of the party and registered in the United Russia faction. The official has become one of the most ardent supporters of President Vladimir Putin, whom he calls "the absolute genius of modern politics."

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As a statesman, Medinsky proposed a number of bills that were approved. For example, he participated in the development of amendments to the law "On Advertising", which limited the promotion of medical products, alcohol and tobacco products, gambling establishments through television and print media. During the 2008 economic crisis, Vladimir Rostislavovich oversaw the work with office workers who were fired or were under threat of dismissal. And since 2011, by personal decree of the President, he joined the board of the Russkiy Mir Foundation and took up the issues of popularizing Russian culture, language, history.

On the initiative of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Medinsky took over as Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation. This appointment caused a resonance and polarity assessment. Among those who supported the politician's candidacy were LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Federation Council chairman Valentina Matvienko, Mosfilm director Karen Shakhnazarov, theater director Roman Viktyuk, actor and head of the Moscow Art Theater Oleg Tabakov.

At the same time, many cultural figures, including actress Lia Akhedzhakova, director Yuli Gusman, director of the All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature Ekaterina Genieva, criticized this decision. The leader of the Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, also spoke out sharply negatively, and the Duma faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation expressed an official protest against this appointment.

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As minister, Vladimir Medinsky proposed to rename a number of Moscow streets, replacing the names of the revolutionaries with the names of the royal and imperial persons. Also, new rules for subsidizing Russian cinema appeared, a list of 100 Soviet films recommended for viewing as part of the school curriculum was created, an initiative was lobbied for adapting cinemas to the needs of viewers with disabilities, including the introduction of subtitling and special technologies with audio commentary.

By the way, the program for supporting directorial projects was adjusted not without the influence of the Internet community, in particular, video blogger Evgeny Bazhenov, who appears on the Web under the nickname BadComedian. He did not like that the Ministry of Culture allocates millions for incompetent remakes of famous films, humiliating the memory of the authors of the originals, or for special effects that are created “on the knee” for much less money.

Under Medinsky, the Soviet system of subsidizing theater tours was revived, and a program was launched to co-finance the renovation of technical equipment, which was not the case either in the Soviet Union or in modern Russia. Substantial sums have been allocated for the organization of museum security systems.

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Among the initiatives of Vladimir Rostislavovich is to bury the body of Vladimir Lenin, since burial in the mausoleum contradicts the norms of Orthodox morality. However, the government rejected this proposal, considering it outside the competence of the department.

The execution of ministerial powers did not prevent Medinsky from acting as a writer and publicist. He published a series of documentary prose "Myths about the USSR", which expresses his own opinion about the reasons for the outbreak of World War II, shows what the help of the "allies" cost and how the financial system worked in the postwar years.

The book Crisis, written together with Alexander Khinstein, touches upon the causes of economic turmoil. Based on the novel "The Wall", Dmitry Meskhiev made a series with the participation of Alexei Serebryakov and Anatoly Bely.

Like many politicians, Vladimir Medinsky does not tolerate his personal life in public. He has long and happily been married to Marina Olegovna Nikitina, who took her husband's surname after the wedding. The couple have four children, the youngest of whom was born in 2017. By the way, unlike his colleagues, for example, Vice-Speaker Sergei Zheleznyak, the Minister of Culture has registered children to study in Moscow schools.

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And Vladimir's wife gave birth not in Germany or America, but in an ordinary Moscow maternity hospital. Thus, Medinsky demonstrates that he is proud of the Russian nationality and lives in Russia. Here are just in the accounts of "Twitter", "Instagram" and "VKontakte" photos of loved ones can not be found. It publishes reports from official events, meetings with cultural figures, congratulations, news of subordinate institutions.

Marina Olegovna has her own business, which brings the family a very tangible income: LLC "NS IMMOBILARE" is engaged in real estate management. The politician's sister Tatyana Zuykova is the CEO of the company.

In January 2020, an acting prefix was added to the post of Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation. This happened after the government, headed by Dmitry Medvedev, resigned. The Cabinet took such a step so that the President of the country would have a field for action to implement the program voiced in the message to the Federal Assembly.

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Before the New Year, Vladimir Medinsky managed to present awards to outstanding artists, made a decision to reconstruct the first in the USSR Children's Musical Theater named after Natalia Sats, discussed the progress of the restoration of the Novodevichy Convent and the results of the cross-year of culture and tourism Russia - Turkey, closed the "Russian Seasons" in Germany and opened in France.

It is not yet clear how the reform of the circus will proceed, which has a new leadership in 2019. The Minister was going to take part in the discussion of the new draft law "On Culture". Now this is the task of the new government and, possibly, the new head of the department.

Order of Honor Order of Friendship Three thanks from the President Certificate of honor of the President Order "Dostyk" 2nd degree (Kazakhstan) Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit (Principality of Monaco) Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh II degree from the Russian Orthodox Church

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