Aleksey Pushkov

Aleksey Konstantinovich Pushkov (Russian: Алексе́й Константи́нович Пушко́в; born 10 August 1954) is a Russian politician who has been Senator from Perm Krai since 29 September 2016. He is also a former Deputy of the State Duma and former head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament.[2] As a member of the United Russia political party in the federation council, he is the chairman of the Commission on Information Policy.[3]

Aleksey Pushkov
Алексей Пушков
Russian Federation Senator
from Perm Krai
Assumed office
29 September 2016
Preceded byIgor Shubin
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs
In office
21 December 2011 – 18 September 2016
Preceded byKonstantin Kosachyov
Succeeded byLeonid Slutsky
Deputy of the State Duma
In office
21 December 2011 – 18 September 2016
Personal details
Born
Aleksey Konstantinovich Pushkov

(1954-08-10) 10 August 1954
Beijing, China
Political partyUnited Russia[1]
SpouseNina Pushkova
ChildrenDaria Alekseevna Pushkova
Parents
  • Konstantin Mikhailovich Pushkov (1921-2019) (father)
  • Margarita Vladimirovna Pushkov (1927-2007) (mother)
Alma materMoscow State Institute of International Relations
Website(in Russian) Пушков Алексей Константинович

Biography

Pushkov was born in 1954 to a family of a Soviet diplomats in the capital of China. His father, Konstantin Mikhailovich Pushkov (1921—2019) was an employee of the Consulate General of the USSR in Beijing. His mother, Margarita Vladimirovna Pushkova (1927–2007) was a translator and a teacher of the Chinese language. He studied at the Moscow special school #12 in his youth, graduating in 1972. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1976 with a degree in international relations before getting a job at the United Nations mission in Geneva. Between 1988 and 1991, he worked as the speechwriter for Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1991–1995, he was deputy editor-in-chief of the Moscow News Weekly in international affairs, editing the English, French, German and Spanish editions of the newspaper. From 2008 to 2011, Pushkov was the Director of the Institute of Contemporary International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Russia.[4] He was elected to the State Duma on 4 December 2011 on the United Russia Party list.

Pushkov and former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in 2018

Pushkov is a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He has the title of honoris causa from the Moscow University for the Humanities, the Russian-Armenian State University (Yerevan), and the Azerbaijan University of Languages.

Since 1998, Pushkov has been the lead author of the information and analytical program, Postscriptum, on TV channel TV Tsentr.[5]

In 2014, Pushkov suggested that Petro Poroshenko dismiss Andrii Deshchytsia, who was accused by Sergei Lavrov of calling Vladimir Putin a dickhead during the rioting near the Russian Embassy in Ukraine. He also said that if this issue is not resolved, Russia will have the right to cut down gas supplies to the neighboring nation.[6]

Pushkov is fluent in French and English.[7][8]

Sanctions

He has been on the list of personal sanctions imposed by the US (since 2014), Canada, Australia, and Ukraine.

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [9]

Criticism

Pushkov has appeared on a state-run Russian TV station, TV Centre. Main criticism boils down to open anti-Western propaganda, and unfounded claims about Russian politicians and public figures.[10][11][12][13][14]

References
  1. "Pushkov Alexey Konstantinovich". The State Duma. State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  2. Alexey Pushkov (March 12, 2014). "A Top Russian Lawmaker on Ukraine". The National Interest. Archived from the original on April 15, 2014. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
  3. "Алексей Пушков возглавил комиссию по взаимодействию со СМИ в Совете Федерации". United Russia. The United Russia Party. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  4. ПУШКОВ АЛЕКСЕЙ КОНСТАНТИНОВИЧ Archived 2014-03-11 at the Wayback Machine, referring to either Moscow State Institute of International Relations or the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
  5. "Постскриптум".
  6. Timothy Heritage and Alissa de Carbonnel (June 15, 2014). "Ukraine minister under fire for swearing about Putin". Yahoo! News. Reuters. Archived from the original on June 15, 2014. Retrieved June 15, 2014.
  7. Video on YouTube
  8. Video on YouTube
  9. "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  10. "Ирина Петровская. "Постскриптум": в "Известиях" обнаружен враг России". Лениздат. 2005-12-02.
  11. "В обстановке доминирующей паранойи. Антон Орех — о новом выпуске "Постскриптума" Алексея Пушкова". Открытая Россия. 2017-09-25. Archived from the original on 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  12. "Винтажная пропаганда. Антон Орех — о смеси ужастиков и "русофобии" в программе Пушкова". Открытая Россия. 2017-12-04. Archived from the original on 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  13. ""Ша, ребята!"". Известия. 2003-04-25.
  14. ""Терпимость понятно к чему". За что Пушков мочит Улицкую?". Собеседник. 2015-07-26.
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