Igor Shchyogolev

Russian politician (born 1965)
Игорь Щёголев
Shchyogolev in 2019
Minister of Communications and Mass MediaIn office
12 May 2008 – 20 May 2012PresidentVladimir PutinPreceded byPosition createdSucceeded byNikolay Nikiforov Personal detailsBorn
Igor Olegovich Shchyogolev

(1965-11-10) November 10, 1965 (age 58)
Vinnitsa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Vinnitsa, Ukraine)EducationMoscow State Linguistic University
Leipzig University

Igor Olegovich Shchyogolev (also improperly transliterated as Shchogolev and Shchegolev) (Russian: И́горь Оле́гович Щёголев; born 10 November 1965) is a Russian politician. From May 2008 to 20 May 2012, he has served as the Russian Minister of Telecommunications.[1][2] He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[3]

Early life and education

Shchyogolev was born in Vinnitsa, Ukraine SSR and went to the Moscow State Linguistic University (1982–1984) and the Leipzig University (1984–1988), graduating as a philologist fluent in French, German, and English.[2][4][5][6] While Shchyogolev was in Leipzig from 1984 to 1988, Vladimir Putin was a KGB officer at Dresden from 1985 to 1990 and also headed the House of Soviet-German Friendship in Leipzig (Russian: Дом советско-германской дружбы).[7][8]

Career

After graduating from university, he allegedly joined the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (later, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia or ITAR-TASS) in their American office until 1993. He then moved to Paris as a foreign correspondent,[a] and in 1997 moved back to Russia as deputy editor-in-chief and political correspondent of ITAR-TASS's main news service. At the same time he also worked in the 1st Main Directorate (PGU) of KGB of the USSR (foreign intelligence).[8][12]

Government service

In 1998, Shchyogolev left ITAR-TASS to work for the Russian government, initially as deputy head of the government corps of press officer, then briefly as Yevgeniy Primakov's press secretary before returning to lead the press officer corps. In early 2000, he was appointed as press secretary for Vladimir Putin, then-acting President of Russia, where he stayed until the end of 2001 when he became head of Presidential Protocol, co-ordinating presidential trips overseas and in Russia. In 2004, his job was expanded to be head of Kremlin Protocol, where he stayed until he was appointed "Minister of Communications and Mass Media" as part of Putin's second cabinet on 12 May 2008, replacing Leonid Reiman.[6] He held that position until resigning from that post in May 2012 when he became an assistant to the president and is Vladimir Putin's speechwriter and organizer of his meetings.[7][13]

Shchyogolev actively supports the activities of the ultraright Black International (Russian: «Черный Интернационал»), which supports neo-Nazi activities, and is the main sponsor of Konstantin Malofeev events.[11][14]

Sovetnik magazine

He is an expert on European countries for press releases and is an editor-in-chief of the Sovetnik magazine (Russian: журнала «Советник») which is a magazine about public relations (PR) (Russian: общественных связей (ОС)) and the PR market.[13] At Sovetnik, he replaced Boris Lvovich Eryomin (also transliterated as Boris Lvovich Eremin) who had been at the journal for 14 years.[7][15]

League of Safe Internet

He is chairman of the board of trustees of League of Safe Internet (LSI) (Russian: Лига безопасного интернета) which is sometimes transliterated as the Safe Internet League (SIL).[b] Ekaterina Mikhailovna Mizulina (Russian: Екатерина Михайловна Мизулина; born 1 September 1984, Yaroslavl), who is the daughter of Yelena Mizulina, leads the League of Safe Internet which was established in January 2011 by the July 2007 established and Konstantin Malofeev associated St Basil the Great Charitable Foundation (Russian: Благотворительным фондом Святителя Василия Великого).[16] Through the League of Safe Internet and with support from both Shchyogolev and Roskomnadzor, Mizulina supports internet censorship especially internet coverage of events involving Russian invasion of Ukraine and, on 24 May 2022, threatened Google and Wikipedia by stating "First, we will clear Ukraine of the Nazis and Banderites, and then we will get to Google and Wikipedia" (Russian: «Сначала зачистим Украину от нациков и бандеровцев, а потом дойдём до Гугла и Википедии»)[17][18][19]

U.S. sanctions target

In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 6 April 2022 the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury added Shchyogolev to its list of persons sanctioned pursuant to Executive Order 14024.[20]

Personal life

His wife Rimma Viktorovna Shchyogoleva (Russian: Римма Викторовна Щёголева; born 5 April 1963)[12][21] is, since 1998, a professor in German language at Academy of Foreign Trade (Russian: Академия внешней торговли) and often travels to Germany for internships.[13]

Their son Svyatoslav Igorevich Shchyogolev (Russian: Святослав Игоревич Щёголев; born 29 June 1989) is a producer at RT, which was formerly Russia Today or Rossiya Segodnya (Russian: Россия Сегодня) and is a brand of ANO TV-Novosti, and, since 8 November 2011, is a consultant in the Department of International Cooperation of the Directorate of International Law and Cooperation (Russian: консультанта отдела международного сотрудничества Управления международного права и сотрудничества) with the Supreme Court of Arbitration (VAS) (Russian: (ВАС)).[22][23][24]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Allegedly, he served as an undercover KGB official while he was posted in Paris to ITAR-TASS and ran a network for Russian intelligence which included persons recruited in the 1980s including both Count Serge de Pahlen (born 1944), who is a member of the Pahlen family of the Russian nobility and, since 1981, the husband of Margherita Agnelli de Pahlen who is the daughter of the principal shareholder of Fiat Gianni Agnelli, and Prince Alexander Trubetskoy (born 1947), who lives in France and, since 2010, is a member of the board of Svyazinvest and is the son of a White émigré prince of the Trubetskoy family of the Russian nobility.[9][10] Alexander Trubetskoy was a business partner of Konstantin Malofeev.[11]
  2. ^ Konstantin Malofeev was chairman of the board of the League of Safe Internet (LSI) until 2015.

References

  1. ^ Ministry of Telecommunications of Russia (2009). Щёголев Игорь Олегович [Biography of I. O. Shchyogolev]. Official website (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2009-11-28. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
  2. ^ a b Digital October (2010). "Igor Shchyogolev". Tech Crunch 2010 Russia biography. Archived from the original on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  3. ^ "О присвоении квалификационных разрядов федеральным государственным служащим Администрации Президента Российской Федерации". Decree No. 1143 of 20 June 2000 (in Russian). President of Russia.
  4. ^ "Чем известен Игорь Щеголев" [What is Igor Shchegolev famous for?]. Kommersant (in Russian). 26 June 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Биография Игоря Щеголева" [Biography of Igor Shchegolev]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). 26 June 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  6. ^ a b Russia Profile (2008-07-28). "Igor Shchyogolev". BackGround :: People. Archived from the original on 2011-12-16. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  7. ^ a b c "Щеголев, Игорь: Помощник президента РФ" [Shchegolev, Igor: Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation] (in Russian). 15 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  8. ^ a b Рыцарева, Елена (Rytsareva, Elena) (13 May 2008). "Министерство пропаганды" [Minister of Propaganda]. «Эксперт Online» и журнала «Эксперт» (in Russian). Archived from the original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023 – via www.iksmedia.ru.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Belton, Catherine (29 April 2020). Putin’S People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West. HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 9780007578795. See Chapter 10 Obschak and notes 76 to 91 in Chapter 10 Obschak.
  10. ^ Шлейнов, Роман (Shleynov, Roman) (15 August 2011). "Как князя Александра Трубецкого завербовали в "Связьинвест": Потомок русских эмигрантов гражданин Франции князь Александр Трубецкой неспроста попал в список кандидатов в совет директоров "Связьинвеста". Князь – соратник, проверенный временем: он торговал еще с СССР" [How Prince Alexander Trubetskoy was recruited to Svyazinvest: Prince Alexander Trubetskoy, a descendant of Russian emigrants and a citizen of France, was included in the list of candidates for the board of directors of Svyazinvest for a reason. The prince is a time-tested ally: he traded with the USSR]. Ведомости (in Russian). Archived from the original on 10 November 2023. Retrieved 9 November 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ a b ""Черный интернационал". Как Москва кормит правые партии по всему миру" ["Black International". How Moscow feeds right-wing parties around the world]. The Insider (in Russian). 27 November 2014. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
  12. ^ a b "Shchegolev Igor Olegovich". tadviser.ru. November 2023. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023. И́горь Оле́гович Щёголев in Russian
  13. ^ a b c "Игорь Щеголев, помощник президента Российской Федерации: краткая биография, личная жизнь" [Igor Shchegolev, assistant to the President of the Russian Federation: brief biography, personal life] (in Russian). Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  14. ^ "Нацификация. Часть вторая: ультраправый интернационал" [Nazification. Part two: far-right international]. Центра «Досье» (dossier.center) (in Russian). 25 March 2022. Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
  15. ^ "ЕРЕМИН БОРИС ЛЬВОВИЧ" [EREMIN BORIS LVOVICH]. Российская академия общественных связей (РАОС) (pracademy.ru) (Russian Academy of Public Relations RAOS or RAPR) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  16. ^ ""Лига безопасного интернета"" [League of Safe Internet]. ruscharity.ru (in Russian). 18 April 2012. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  17. ^ "Дочь Мизулиной назвала уехавших из России "кукарекающими петухами"" [Mizulina’s daughter called those who left Russia “crowing roosters”] (in Russian). 24 May 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  18. ^ ""Мы себя не видим в углу". Как прошел пропагандистский форум про будущее нового мира" [“We don’t see ourselves in the corner.” How did the propaganda forum about the future of the new world go?]. ostorozhno.media (in Russian). 25 May 2022. Archived from the original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  19. ^ "Екатерина Мизулина" [Ekaterina Mizulina]. Telegram (in Russian). 24 May 2022. Archived from the original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  20. ^ Office of Foreign Assets Control. "Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions." Published 2022-0418. 87 FR 23023
  21. ^ "ЩЕГОЛЕВА Римма Викторовна" [SHCHEGOLEVA Rimma Viktorovna] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  22. ^ "ЩЕГОЛЕВ Святослав Игоревич" [SHCHEGOLEV Svyatoslav Igorevich]. rupep.org (in Russian). November 2023. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  23. ^ "Преемники 2.0 (аристократы)" [Successors 2.0 (aristocrats)]. Петербургская политика (fpp.spb.ru) (in Russian). 30 May 2018. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  24. ^ "ВАС по итогам конкурсов принял на работу группу юристов" [Based on the results of competitions, VAS hired a group of lawyers]. ООО «Правовые новости» (pravo.ru) (in Russian). 8 November 2011. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
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