Sergei Markov

Date of Birth: April 18, 1958

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Dubna, Moscow Oblast. In 1986, graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University (Faculty of Philosophy). Doctor of Political Sciences.

Career. 1977-1980 - Military service in the border troops of the KGB of the USSR in the Arctic.

From 1986 to 1989, he taught social sciences at the Dubna branch of MIREA.

Since 1989, he has been working at MSU (Assistant, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy).

1990-1999 - Staff member, senior research advisor at the National Democratic Institute (USA).

1991-1993 - Advisor to the Security Council of the Russian Federation. In 1993, he completed an internship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA).

1994-1997 - Research associate at the Moscow Carnegie Center.

From 2007 to 2011, he was a deputy of the State Duma of the RF for the United Russia party (Party Chairman - Vladimir Putin).

From 2009 to 2012, a member of the commission to combat attempts to falsify history in the interest of Russia.

Lecturer at the Department of State Theory of the Faculty of Philosophy at MSU, Professor at the Faculty of Political Science at MGIMO, Director of the Institute of Political Science.

On February 6, 2012, he was officially registered as the trusted person of the presidential candidate of the RF and the acting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

2011-2013 - Vice-Rector for Relations with State and Public Organizations at the Russian Economic University G.V. Plekhanov.

A regular guest on public and political programs on radio and television.

Persona non grata. During the 2004-2005 presidential elections in Ukraine and the Orange Revolution, he traveled as the leader of a large group of Russian political scientists who attempted, using 'political technologies', to manipulate the elections to promote one of the candidates - Viktor Yanukovych - to the presidency of Ukraine.In his statement after the election of Viktor Yushchenko as President of Ukraine, he repeatedly publicly criticized his policies as well as specific actions of the Ukrainian government that had no connection to Russia.

From 2006-2008, he actively intervened in the politics of several post-Soviet countries. He admitted in 2007 at a press conference that one of his assistants organized cyberattacks on state facilities in Estonia, which led to him being declared persona non grata in Estonia.

Sergei Markov also called Ukraine's attitude towards the Holodomor and the activities of the UPA a falsification. In 2008, he, together with some deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, tried to hold a demonstration of the controversial Russian film'08.08.08. War in Direct Transmission' about the war in Georgia in Kiev. On September 4, 2008, Sergei Markov was prevented by the Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy from entering Ukraine and was declared persona non grata.

April 15, 2022