1. Alexander Prokhanov's grand-uncle Ivan Prokhanov was a leader of the All-Russian Union of Evangelican Christians and the one-time vice-President of the Baptist World Alliance who left the USSR in 1928 and died as an emigre.
12 Facts About Alexander Prokhanov
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In 1955, Prokhanov enrolled into the Moscow Aviation Institute where for the first time he started to write poetry and prose.
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Alexander Prokhanov was the first to report on the March 1969 events on Damansky Island during the Sino-Soviet border conflict.
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In 1972, Alexander Prokhanov became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers.
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In 1990, Alexander Prokhanov emerged as a candidate for the post of Literaturnaya Gazeta editor-in-chief, but the staff ignored him, preferring Fyodor Burlatsky, Mikhail Gorbachev's protege.
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In December 1990, Alexander Prokhanov founded Den, and became its editor-in-chief.
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In 1991, during the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic presidential election, Alexander Prokhanov worked for the campaign of General Albert Makashov, an ultra-conservative candidate.
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In September 1994, as one of the organizers of the All-Russian Congress of Patriotic Forces, Alexander Prokhanov was among those who signed the petition demanding the President's resignation.
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In November 1993, Prokhanov's son-in-law Alexander Khudorozhkov registered the newspaper Zavtra.
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In 1999, together with Konstantin Kasimovsky, Alexander Prokhanov invited former klansman David Duke to visit the Russian Federation.
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Alexander Prokhanov founded Izborsky Club, a Eurasian think tank, in 2012.
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In November 2014, a Russian court ordered Alexander Prokhanov to pay 500 thousand rubles to Andrey Makarevich whom he falsely accused of entertaining paratroopers in Sloviansk while the singer in fact performed in Sviatohirsk, singing for refugees.