Sergei Jurjewitsch Glasjew

Sergei Glazyev (2016)

Sergei Jurjewitsch Glasjew ( Russian : Сергей Юрьевич Глазьев ; born January 1, 1961 in Zaporozhye , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian economist and politician who served in the Russian government in the early 1990s and ran in the 2004 presidential election. He is one of the key advisers to President Putin during the 2014 Ukraine crisis .

biography

Born in 1961 into a working-class family, Sergei Glasjew began studying chemistry at Moscow's Lomonossow University in 1978 , then business cybernetic from the second year of studies . He graduated from this subject in 1983 with distinction. He then worked at a Moscow research institute for economics and mathematics, later as the head of an economic laboratory. In 1989 he completed his habilitation in economics and became the youngest lecturer in economics in what was then the Soviet Union . Until his habilitation, Glazyev worked with several young economists who a few years later would play an important role in the economic reforms of post-Soviet Russia, for example with Anatoly Chubais .

After several months of work in Vienna , Glazyev became deputy head of the (now defunct) Ministry for Foreign Economic Relations of Russia in December 1991. In July 1992 Glazyev took up the post of minister and was then a member of the liberal government of the reformer Yegor Gaidar for several months . Glazyev resigned from this office in September 1993 in protest against the unconstitutional dissolution of parliament by President Boris Yeltsin , which led to the constitutional crisis in which Glazyev sided with the putschists against Yeltsin.

In December 1993, Glazyev was elected Duma deputy from the list of the Democratic Party of Russia in the 1993 election. In the election two years later , he ran as a member of the Congress of Russian Municipalities under the leadership of Dmitri Rogozin , but failed to meet the five percent threshold. In the following years Glasjew worked mainly as a consultant. He always criticized the economic policy under Yeltsin and supported General Alexander Lebed in the 1996 presidential election .

In the 1999 Duma election , Glazyev managed to move into parliament again, this time as a member of the KPRF parliamentary group . In the follow-up elections in 2003 , Glasjew successfully ran as a co-initiator of the Rodina election bloc . On February 8, 2004, he was registered as a candidate for this bloc for the March 14, 2004 presidential election . In the election, Glazyev received 4.18 percent of the vote.

Shortly after the election, Glazyev lost his post as parliamentary group leader in disputes with Rodina chairman Dmitri Rogozin . Rogozin became the new group leader. Thereupon Glasjew resigned from Rodina and tried to found a successor organization with the Alliance for a Dignified Life . Glazyev later considered participating in the Putin- critical movement The Other Russia , which failed because of the political concept of ex-prime minister Mikhail Kassyanov , one of the movement's leaders , which was too liberal for Glazyev .

In February 2009, Glazyev became head of the secretariat of the unified economic area (Russian: KTS) formed by Russia , Belarus and Kazakhstan . In July 2012, he was appointed Putin's advisor on Eurasian economic integration. Glazyev was a candidate for the leadership of the Russian Central Bank in 2013 , but did not get a chance against the economically liberal candidate Elwira Nabiullina . In mid-December 2014, he criticized their policy of skyrocketing key interest rates, saying that they would lead “full throttle into disaster”.

According to media reports, Glazyev became one of the most important advisers to President Putin during the Ukraine crisis in 2014 and is seen as a representative of a tough stance towards Ukraine. Among other things, he described the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko , who was elected in May 2014, as a “Nazi” and related the wish for Ukraine to be linked to the West in relation to the Nazi occupation . Instead of becoming the “colony” of the West, Ukraine should orient itself as “the historical and spiritual center of the Russian world” towards Russia. In April 2014, the European Union put Glazyev on a sanctions list that, among other things, prohibits him from entering the member states of the EU. Even at the beginning of May 2019, he regretted that Russia had not invaded Ukraine with its army, he also wrote about neo-Nazi mob, genocide and the (lost) gene pool of the beautiful Ukrainians who did slave labor in the EU. He counted the losses of Russia and Ukraine together as the losses of the Russian world and called Ukraine "occupied by the US".

Glazyev is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. To date, he has published around 150 scientific publications. He is married and has two children.

Web links

• Personal web presence (Russian)
• Glasev's biography on Lentapedia (Russian)
• Michael Stürmer : “Why not a referendum in the whole of Ukraine?” Interview with Glazyev. In: Die Welt , March 20, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eurasian economic integration is picking up speed. Dossier of the Federal Agency for Civic Education from June 3, 2013.
2. ↑ Benjamin Bidder: The Crash of the Currency: The Kremlin's Fatal Ruble Strategy. In: Spiegel Online , December 16, 2014.
3. ↑ Benjamin Bidder: Economic crisis in Russia: "Putin will claw at power until the end". Conversation with the economist Konstantin Sonin . In: Spiegel Online , December 11, 2014.
4. ↑ Ukraine: Putin aide brands Poroshenko 'Nazi' ahead of EU deal , BBC website of June 27, 2014.
5. ↑ Susanne Spahn: The help of the big brother. How Russia sees the crisis in Ukraine. In: Research Center Eastern Europe (Ed.): Russia analyzes. No. 273, March 14, 2014, p. 4 ( PDF ).
6. ↑ Russia: These names are on the sanctions lists. In: Zeit.de , April 15, 2014.
7. ↑ Putin's adviser wrote a column about Kiev's plans to settle the Donbass with Jews. The Kremlin called it the author's "personal opinion". , Novaya Gazeta, May 7, 2019 on Glazyev's text