Vladimir Medinsky

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Vladimir Medinsky

| image = Medinskiy RVIO.jpg

| office = Aide to the President of Russia

| term_start = 24 January 2020

| term_end =

| president = Vladimir Putin

| office1 = Minister of Culture

| primeminister1 = Dmitry Medvedev

| term_start1 = 21 May 2012

| term_end1 = 15 January 2020

| predecessor1 = Aleksandr Avdeyev

| successor1 = Olga Lyubimova

| birth_name = Vladimir Rostislavovich Medinsky

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|07|18|df=y}}

| birth_place = Smila, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR ({{small|today}} Ukraine)

| death_date =

| party = Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Before 1991)
Independent (1991–1995)
Our Home-Russia (1995–2000)
Unity (1999–2001)
United Russia (2001–present)

| spouse =

| children =

| alma_mater = Moscow State Institute of International Relations

| profession = Professor
Doctor of Sciences in political and historical studies

| signature =

| website = http://www.medinskiy.ru/

| native_name = {{nobold|Владимир Мединский}}

| native_name_lang = ru

| caption = Medinsky in 2020

}}

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Vladimir Rostislavovich Medinsky ({{langx|ru|Владимир Ростиславович Мединский}}; born 18 July 1970) is a Russian political figure, academic and publicist who served as the Minister of Culture from May 2012 to January 2020.[http://echo.msk.ru/news/890779-echo.html Состав нового Правительства РФ], New government's structure, Ekho Moskvy radio (Russian) He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.{{cite act|type=Decree|index=163|date=5 March 2020|legislature=President of Russia|title=О присвоении классных чинов государственной гражданской службы Российской Федерации федеральным государственным гражданским служащим Администрации Президента Российской Федерации|language=ru|url=http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?searchres=&bpas=cd00000&a3=102000503&a3type=1&a3value=&a6=102000070&a6type=1&a6value=&a15=&a15type=1&a15value=&a7type=1&a7from=&a7to=&a7date=05.03.2020&a8=163&a8type=1&a1=&a0=&a16=&a16type=1&a16value=&a17=&a17type=1&a17value=&a4=&a4type=1&a4value=&a23=&a23type=1&a23value=&textpres=&sort=7&x=29&y=20}} He is a member of the General Council of the United Russia party.

Biography

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Medinsky was born in the city of Smila in the Cherkasy Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR.{{cite news |title=Why ethnopolitics doesn't work in Ukraine |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/ethnopolitics-doesn-work-ukraine-190409093526620.html |work=al-Jazeera |date=9 April 2019}}

=Education=

1987–1992 – Student in the International Journalism Faculty in the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (МГИМО МИД России).
1993–1994 – graduated in the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

=Career=

1991–1992 – trainee in the Press Service of the Embassy of the USSR, and then Russia, in the United States, in Washington D.C.
1992–1998 – Chairman of the Advertising agency called "Ya-Corporation".
1998–1999 – adviser to the Director of the Federal Tax Police Service of the Russian Federation, and later become as Chairman of Department for Informational Policy in the Ministry of Tax and Revenue.
1999–2000 – Chairman of the Directorate of Central Election Commission Headquarters for Fatherland - All Russia Block, than a member of Unity Party.
2000–2002 – Adviser to the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, Georgiy Boos
2002–2004 – Head of the Executive Committee of Moscow Organization of United Russia, Head of the Political campaign staff of "United Russia", in Moscow.
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.[http://old.er.ru/er/text.shtml?15/6894 Мединский противостоит фальсификации истории], Medinsky become as a member of Presidential Commission, ER.RU
November 2011 – Head of the Committee for Culture in the State Duma.
May 2012–January 2020{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dmitry-medvedev-resign-russia-prime-minister-putin-quit-latest-a9284741.html |title=Russian PM resigns in shock move as Putin announces dramatic constitutional shake-up |last=Carroll |first=Oliver |date=January 15, 2020 |website=The Independent |language=en |access-date=January 17, 2020}} – Minister of Culture in the Medvedev Cabinet.
January 2020 – Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation{{Cite web |url=http://www.medinskiy.ru/|website=www.medinskiy.ru|title=Vladimir Medinsky |language=ru|access-date=February 28, 2022}}
28 February 2022 – Head of the Russian delegation in negotiations with Ukraine in Homel Belarus following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine{{Cite web |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-talks-belarus/31727584.htm|website=wwww.rferl.org|title=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|language=en|access-date=March 1, 2022}}

Dissertations and accusation of plagiarism

1997 – defended Doctoral dissertation in political science
1999 – defended Higher Doctoral dissertation in political science[http://rupaper.com/post/27419 "Dissernet's" Experts found plagiarism]
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.{{cite news|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-profile-culture-minister-vladimir-medinsky/24602133.html|title=Profile: Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's Controversial New Culture Minister|newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=4 June 2012 |last1=Balmforth |first1=Tom }}{{cite web|url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/people/article/vladimir-medinsky/459497.html|title=Vladimir Medinsky}}

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{{cite web|url=http://www.dissernet.org/expertise/medinskivr1997.htm|title=Мединский Владимир Ростиславович}} and 1999.{{cite web|url=http://www.dissernet.org/expertise/medinskyvr1999.htm|title=Мединский Владимир Ростиславович}} 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.{{cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/117896/vladimir-medinsky-russias-culture-minister-putin-toady|title=Meet the Second-Rate Academic Who is Vladimir Putin's Culture Cop|magazine=The New Republic |date=24 May 2014 |last1=Lipman |first1=Maria }}

On 3 October 2017 the top Russian academic council recommended revoking Medinsky's 2011 doctorate.{{cite news|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-medinsky-culture-ministry-thesis-scandal/28771952.html|title=Russia's 'Myth'-Busting Culture Minister Embroiled In Doctoral Thesis Scandal|newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date=10 August 2018 |last1=Balmforth |first1=Tom }} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.expatica.com/ru/news/country-news/Russia-politics-education-culture_1504853.html|title=Russian minister keeps doctorate despite plagiarism claims|date=20 October 2017 }}

Views

Vladimir Medinsky has been described as a "nationalist enamoured of classicism and traditional values".{{Cite news |title=Russian culture wars take centre stage |url=https://www.economist.com/europe/2017/08/19/russian-culture-wars-take-centre-stage |access-date=2024-07-10 |work=The Economist |issn=0013-0613}}

Medinsky supports the removal of Vladimir Lenin's body from Lenin's Mausoleum to bury it.[http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=817324&cid=5 Министр культуры предлагает торжественно похоронить Ленина],Minister of Culture has offer to solemnly bury Lenin – Russian source[http://old.er.ru/er/text.shtml?18/0804 Мединский: Тело Ленина пора выносить из мавзолея], Medinskiy: The Time as come to remove Lenin's body from the Mausoleum, er.ru

Medinsky believes that statues of Joseph Stalin should be erected in places where the majority of local people are in favour.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11594290/A-battle-for-truth-and-glory-as-Russia-marks-Victory-Day.html|title=A battle for truth and glory as Russia marks Victory Day|work=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=2017-06-06|language=en}}

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.{{Cite news|url=http://iz.ru/news/569016|title=Минкультуры изложило "Основы государственной культурной политики"|date=2014-04-10|work=Izvestia|access-date=2017-06-28|language=ru|trans-title=Culture Ministry lays out "Basis of national cultural policy"}}

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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/01/15/russias-culture-minister-calls-for-new-patriotic-internet-to-combat-western-spin/|title=Russia's culture minister calls for new 'patriotic Internet' to combat Western spin|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=2017-06-06}}

In 2019, Medinsky called the Chernobyl series “masterfully made” and “filmed with great respect for ordinary people”.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/5cf93eba9a7947628d44156c|title=Мединский назвал сериал "Чернобыль" "мастерски сделанным фильмом"|website=RBC|date=6 June 2019 |access-date=June 14, 2019}} Medinsky's father was one of the Chernobyl liquidators.{{cite web|url = http://www.rbc.ru/society/13/07/2015/559e8f459a7947860ab1f73a|title = Расследование РБК: зачем Мединскому Военно-историческое общество|author = Светлана Рейтер, Иван Голунов |date = 2015-07-13|publisher = РБК|access-date = 2015-11-02}}

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Medinsky stated that “We stand for peace”.[https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-27-22/h_bc14116932215c033e577e7d60e23dbf "There are now 368,000 Ukraine refugees, UN estimates"], CNN, 27 February 2022

In August 2023, a history textbook written by Medinsky claimed that the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was a fascist uprising organised by the West.{{Cite news |date=2023-09-12 |title=Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong, Putin says |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66784638 |access-date=2023-09-25}} In response, Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said "labelling these people as fascists is simply unacceptable".{{Cite web |date=2023-09-25 |title=Hungary's Energy Supply is Guaranteed, Says Russian Foreign Minister |url=https://hungarytoday.hu/hungarys-energy-supply-is-guaranteed-says-russian-foreign-minister/ |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=Hungary Today |language=en}}

Honours

2015: Commander in the Order of Cultural Merit.Ordonnance Souveraine n° 5.660 du 17 décembre 2015

Bibliography

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The Wall (Стена), 2012, {{ISBN|978-5-373-04522-3}}
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}}