Igor Wilenowitsch Eidman

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Igor Wilenowitsch Eidman ( Russian Игорь Виленович Эйдман ; born September 25, 1968 in Gorki , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian sociologist.

Life

Igor Eidman was born the son of a doctor. He is a younger cousin of the Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered in 2015 . He studied history at the Lobachevsky University , worked as a journalist and editor and as a political advisor for liberal members of the Duma .

Eidman worked as a communications director at the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (WZIOM), the largest of its kind in Russia. In his articles and lectures he analyzes the social and political consequences of the Internet and the development of social networks and published a study on this in 2007. In the aftermath of a report by a correspondent for the New York Times about a corruption case in which he was named as a witness, he lost his job at WZIOM and became socially hostile. He then left Russia with his family in 2011 and moved to Leipzig .

Journalistic contributions that he published in support of the Pussy Riot group at Echo Moskwy in 2012 led to a lawsuit by the Russian Orthodox Church .

In 2016 he explained that the Russians under Putin's government (“homo putinicus” based on the “ homo sovjeticus ”) were “anti-Westerners”, in whom Soviet revanchism was paired with newly accepted religiosity. This is the result of the “total Putin propaganda” parallel to the adoption of such a state ideology that creates the atmosphere of a “besieged fortress”. Nevertheless, Eidmann is of the opinion that the Russian citizens will lose fear in Putin's regime just as they did under the communist dictatorship, because even "the most cunning, ambitious and self-confident dictatorships" in today's modern world would eventually fail. However, he also mentioned the danger of the European democratic state and legal system being infiltrated by corrupt business practices in Russia, which Mikhail Khodorkovsky also addressed in a very similar way.

Since December 2019 he has been editor-in-chief of M.NEWS, an international online medium for news and analysis.

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Monographs
  • Proryv v buduščee. Sociologija internet-revoljucii (The breakthrough into the future. Sociology of the Internet revolution). Moscow: OGI, 2007. ISBN 978-5-94282-433-4 (Russian)
  • Novaja nacionalʹnaja ideja Putina (Putin's new national idea). Moscow: Algoritm, 2014. ISBN 978-5-4438-0818-5 (Russian)
  • The Putin system. Where is the new Russian empire headed? Munich: Ludwig Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3-453-28083-0 ( publisher's website )
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Igor Eidman , short biography at Oslo Freedom Forum
  2. ↑ The rise and fall of “homo putinicus” - the Russians will not crouch forever , NZZ, November 22, 2016
  3. ↑ 7 Reasons He's the Most Dangerous Man in the World , Watson, March 4, 2016
  4. ↑ Khodorkovsky: Putin is unlikely to run for election , Deutschlandfunk, March 14, 2018
  5. ↑ Делаем СМИ вместе // Blog post by Igor Eidman, December 3, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Eidman, Igor Wilenowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eidman, Igor; Эйдман, Игорь Виленович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorky , RSFSR , Soviet Union