Professor Doctor of Sciences in political and historical studies
Website
http://www.medinskiy.ru/
Vladimir Medinsky's voice
recorded December 2012
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Vladimir Rostislavovich Medinsky (Russian: Владимир Ростиславович Мединский; born July 18, 1970) is a Russian political figure, academic and publicist who served as the Minister of Culture from May 2012 to January 2020.[1] He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[2] He is a member of the General Council of the United Russia party.
Biography
Golden Mask award in 2015Medinsky and Greece's Deputy Foreign Minister Ioannis Amanatidis at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, 24 June 2016Medinsky and Sergey Naryshkin at Memorial park of World War I victims in August 2018
2003 – elected as member of 4th session of the State Duma.
2004–2005 – Deputy Chief of Central Executive Committee of "United Russia" for Information and Analysis.
2006–2008 – President of the Russian Association of Social Communications.
2007 – elected as member of 5th session of the State Duma, from regional group of the United Russia from Lipetsk Oblast. Worked as Coordinator from State Duma with the Parliament of South Korea.
2010–2012 – Member of the Presidential Commission to counter the attempts to falsify history.[4]
November 2011 – Head of the Committee for Culture in the State Duma.
1997 – defended Doctoral dissertation in political science
1999 – defended Higher Doctoral dissertation in political science[8]
June 2011 – defended Higher Doctoral dissertation in history in the Russian State Social University: "Problems of objectivity in the coverage of Russian history from the second half of the 15th to 17th centuries".
The third thesis of 2011 has been widely debated in the Russian media and a large number of fragments have been shown to bear a significant resemblance to existing academic works, which caused numerous accusations of plagiarism.[9][10]
On 23 May 2014, the Dissernet community, an informal group of academics and journalists concerned with dissertation plagiarism, declared to have found plagiarism in two previous dissertations by Medinsky, of 1997[11] and 1999.[12] According to Dissernet's expertise, in the first thesis 87 pages out of 120 have been borrowed from the thesis of Medinsky's scientific advisor S. A. Proskurin. In the second thesis, 21 pages textually coincide with other people's works.[8][13]
On 3 October 2017 the top Russian academic council recommended revoking Medinsky's 2011 doctorate.[14] However, on 20 October 2017 a committee of a government agency that oversees the awarding of higher academic degrees ruled in the minister's favour by 16 to 6.[15]
Views
Vladimir Medinsky has been described as a "nationalist enamoured of classicism and traditional values".[16]
Medinsky believes that statues of Joseph Stalin should be erected in places where the majority of local people are in favour.[19]
In 2013, Medinsky's Culture Ministry proposed an updated cultural policy blueprint. Calling for "a rejection of the principles of tolerance and multiculturalism", it emphasizes Russian "traditional values" and cautions against "pseudo-art" that may be at variance with those values.[20]
In 2015, Medinsky called for the creation of a Russian "patriotic Internet" to combat Western ideas, adding that those who are against Russia are against the truth.[21]
In 2019, Medinsky called the Chernobyl series “masterfully made” and “filmed with great respect for ordinary people”.[22] Medinsky's father was one of the Chernobyl liquidators.[23]
Myths about Russia (Мифы о России), Series of books by Vladimir Medinskiy
Legal basis for commercial advertising by Vladimir Medinskiy and Kirill Vsevolozhskiy, ISBN 5-901084-01-2
Scoundrels and geniuses PR. From Rurik to Ivan the Terrible by V. Medinskiy, 2011, ISBN 978-5-388-00487-1
References
^Состав нового Правительства РФ, New government's structure, Ekho Moskvy radio (Russian)
^"О присвоении классных чинов государственной гражданской службы Российской Федерации федеральным государственным гражданским служащим Администрации Президента Российской Федерации". Decree No. 163 of 5 March 2020 (in Russian). President of Russia.
^"Why ethnopolitics doesn't work in Ukraine". al-Jazeera. 9 April 2019.
^Мединский противостоит фальсификации истории, Medinsky become as a member of Presidential Commission, ER.RU
^Carroll, Oliver (January 15, 2020). "Russian PM resigns in shock move as Putin announces dramatic constitutional shake-up". The Independent. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
^"Vladimir Medinsky". www.medinskiy.ru (in Russian). Retrieved February 28, 2022.
^"Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty". wwww.rferl.org. Retrieved March 1, 2022.
^ ab"Dissernet's" Experts found plagiarism
^Balmforth, Tom (4 June 2012). "Profile: Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's Controversial New Culture Minister". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
^Министр культуры предлагает торжественно похоронить Ленина,Minister of Culture has offer to solemnly bury Lenin – Russian source
^Мединский: Тело Ленина пора выносить из мавзолея, Medinskiy: The Time as come to remove Lenin's body from the Mausoleum, er.ru
^"A battle for truth and glory as Russia marks Victory Day". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-06.
^"Минкультуры изложило "Основы государственной культурной политики"" [Culture Ministry lays out "Basis of national cultural policy"]. Izvestia (in Russian). 2014-04-10. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
^"Russia's culture minister calls for new 'patriotic Internet' to combat Western spin". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-06-06.
^"Мединский назвал сериал "Чернобыль" "мастерски сделанным фильмом"". RBC. 6 June 2019. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
