1. Sergei Alexandrovich Markov is a Russian political scientist, journalist, former close advisor and supporter of the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
17 Facts About Sergei Markov
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Sergei Markov is a Doctor of Political Science, assistant professor of Public Policy department of Faculty of Philosophy at Moscow State University, professor of the Faculty of Political Science at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, director of the Institute of Political Studies.
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Sergei Markov was a member of the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests, which existed between 2009 and 2012.
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Sergei Markov denies Russian involvement in the November 2006 poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, with Polonium-210.
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In 2007, having been accused of being behind cyberattacks on Estonian government's systems, Sergei Markov was declared persona non grata in Estonia and in 2008 he was expelled from Ukraine.
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Sergei Markov seems not to have been re-elected in the 2011 Russian legislative election.
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Sergei Markov has criticized historians from states formerly under Soviet occupation, claiming they distort the historical record with the documentation of events like the Katyn massacre.
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In early May 2010, Sergei Markov demanded a "radical" change in Ukrainian textbooks about the history of Ukraine.
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Sergei Markov stated Ukrainian history textbooks can not be considered an internal affair of Ukraine, as they often displayed a negative attitude to Russia.
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On 25 June 2024 Sergei Markov was still complaining about the "terroristic, Neo-Nazi" regime of Ukraine.
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Sergei Markov said that Russia was in the midst of a "humanitarian intervention".
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In late August 2023, after the Wagner rebellion ended limply and Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in uncertain circumstances, Sergei Markov went on UK radio and said that to doubt the sincerity of Putin's condolences was in poor taste.
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Sometime after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Sergei Markov's opinion was that World War Three had already started.
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Sergei Markov has supported the prosecution and conviction of three members of Pussy Riot, a group which he sees as part of a foreign conspiracy against Russia.
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Sergei Markov claimed in Aleksandr Dugin's newspaper Eurasia Daily that there is "a huge ethnic bias" within the State TV's presenter Vladimir Solovyov's propaganda media pool.
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Sergei Markov criticized that two ethnic minorities, Jews and Armenians, have had been too influential when discussing about the position of "Great Russia" towards Israel and Armenia.
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Sergei Markov implied that ethnic minorities could not be fully loyal to the regime and thus to Russia itself.