Vladimir Rostislavowitsch Medinsky

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Vladimir Medinsky

Vladimir Rostislawowitsch Medinski ( Russian Владимир Ростиславович Мединский ; born July 18, 1970 in Smila , Cherkassy Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian politician and writer. From May 21, 2012 to January 15, 2020 he was Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Life

From 1987, Medinski studied at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations, MGIMO , a cadre forge for the training of young diplomats and journalists. After he had initially embarked on a career in the diplomatic service, he became an advisor to then Deputy Duma Chairman Georgi Boos in 2000 . From 2002 he held leadership positions in the United Russia party . Among other things, Medinski joined the party's central council and headed the party's executive committee in Moscow until 2004 . In 2003 he took over the management of the polling station. From 2004-2005 he was vice-chairman of the Central Electoral Commission of United Russia. Medinski was elected to the Duma in the 2003 and 2007 elections. He now holds a professorship at MGIMO. In autumn 2017, the Advisory Council recommended that the Higher Certification Commission revoke his doctorate in history.

Medinski belonged to the by then President Medvedev commission established in 2009 to prevent the falsification of history to the detriment of Russia's interests in (Комиссия при Президенте Российской Федерации по противодействию попыткам фальсификации истории в ущерб интересам России ). On several occasions Medinsky advocated a permanent burial of Lenin and the conversion of the Lenin mausoleum into a museum. He is the author of several books, including the multi-volume work Myths about Russia ("Мифы о России"), in which he tries to refute alleged "negative myths" of Russian history. In a report on Viktor Erofejew , the FAZ called Medinski's book "The Wall" a "patriotic historical fantasy thriller". In the book, Medinsky described Russian orthodoxy as an effective means of Russian fighting morale. In 2015 he described Vladimir Putin as an "absolute genius of modern realpolitik ".

In 2015 he headed the Russian Military Historical Society , which, according to Katja Gloger, is promoting the rehabilitation of Stalin.

On May 21, 2012, Medinsky was appointed Minister of Culture in the Government of the Russian Federation .

International awards

2017: Order of Dostyk , Class I (Kazakhstan)

2015: Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit of the Principality of Monaco

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Досье: Мединский Владимир Ростиславович - Общество - Аргументы и Факты. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The minister's title is revoked, gazeta.ru, October 2, 2017
  3. ↑ Diplomatic Freethinker , FAZ, September 7, 2017
  4. ↑ Ulrich Schmid : Technologies of the soul: On the production of truth in contemporary Russian culture , Volume 2702 by Edition Suhrkamp, ​​2015, ISBN 978-3-518-12702-5 , page 198
  5. ↑ Расследование РБК: зачем Мединскому Военно-историческое общество. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Katja Gloger: Putin's World: The New Russia, Ukraine and the West , eBook Berlin Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8270-7854-4
personal data
SURNAME Medinsky, Vladimir Rostislavowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мединский, Владимир Ростиславович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 18th July 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Smila