12 Facts About Igor Panarin

Igor Nikolaevich Panarin is a Russian professor and political scientist.

Igor Panarin is best known for predicting in 1998 that the United States would disintegrate by 2010.

Igor Panarin has written 15 books and a number of articles on information warfare, psychology, and geopolitics.

Igor Panarin has led electoral campaigns in Russia and abroad, and his students have included parliamentary deputies, regional leaders, Kremlin officials, and Foreign Ministry spokespeople.

Igor Panarin began his career in the KGB of the Soviet Union in 1976.

Igor Panarin did strategic forecasts for the then President Boris Yeltsin.

From 2006 to 2007, Igor Panarin was the Press Secretary of the Russian Federal Space Agency.

Igor Panarin started his teaching career in 1989 and has taught in the Moscow State University, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the Russian Academy of Public Administration, and the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, where he has worked since 1999.

Igor Panarin opposes the Houston programme of 1990 and criticises the Russian finance minister Alexey Kudrin for following it, saying the 2008 financial crisis in Russia is a part of it.

Igor Panarin recommends selling oil and gas to Ukraine only for roubles and withdrawal of all Russian funds from the American "financial Titanic", buying gold and creating powerful Russian banks.

In March 2009, Igor Panarin gave a speech at the Diplomatic Academy in which he stated that "There is a high probability that the collapse of the United States will occur by 2010" and predicted that Russia and China, which will soon become economic superpowers, will need to collaborate to rebuild the world economy with a new currency once the United States cease to exist.

Igor Panarin conceived a number of other ideas, given below in chronological order, which reflect his views on the respective subjects.