Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov is a Russian politician and businessman.
37 Facts About Vladislav Surkov
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Vladislav Surkov was First Deputy Chief of the Russian Presidential Administration from 1999 to 2011, during which time he was often viewed as the main ideologist of the Kremlin who proposed and implemented the concept of sovereign democracy in Russia.
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From December 2011 until May 2013, Surkov served as the Russian Federation's Deputy Prime Minister.
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Vladislav Surkov was removed from this duty by presidential order in February 2020.
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Vladislav Surkov has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Vladislav Surkov is perceived by many to be a key figure with much power and influence in the administration of Vladimir Putin.
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Journalists in Russia and abroad have speculated that Vladislav Surkov writes under the pseudonym Nathan Dubovitsky, although the Kremlin denies it.
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Vladislav Surkov's parents, the ethnic Russian Zinaida Antonovna Surkova was born on 1935 and and the ethnic Chechen Yuriy Danil'bekovich Dudayev, were school teachers in Duba-yurt, Checheno-Ingush ASSR.
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Vladislav Surkov has claimed to be a relative of Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
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From 1982 to 1983, Vladislav Surkov attended MISiS, but did not graduate from it.
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From 1983 to 1985, Vladislav Surkov served in a Soviet artillery regiment in Hungary, according to his official biography.
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However, former defence minister Sergei Ivanov stated in a 2006 TV interview that Vladislav Surkov served in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff during the same time period.
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Vladislav Surkov graduated from Moscow International University with a master's degree in economics in the late 1990s.
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In September 2004, Vladislav Surkov was elected president of the board of directors of the oil products transportation company Transnefteproduct, but was instructed by Russia's prime minister Mikhail Fradkov to give up the position in February 2006.
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Since 2006, Vladislav Surkov has advocated a political doctrine he has called sovereign democracy, to counter democracy promotion conducted by the US and European states.
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Vladislav Surkov sees this concept as a national version of the common political language that will be used when Russia talks to the outside world.
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Vladislav Surkov drew an explicit parallel between Roosevelt and Russian president Putin, praising the legacy of Roosevelt's New Deal, and between the US of the 1930s and present-day Russia.
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In October 2009, Vladislav Surkov warned that opening and modernization of Russia's political system, a need repeatedly stressed by President Dmitry Medvedev, could result in more instability, which "could rip Russia apart".
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Vladislav Surkov condemned the party as a puppet of the Kremlin and named Surkov the "main puppet master of the political process", according to a report in Russian-language magazine Korrespondent picked up by The New York Times.
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Prokhorov had hoped that Vladislav Surkov would be fired from the Kremlin, but the Kremlin stood behind Vladislav Surkov and said he would not disappear from the political stage.
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Vladislav Surkov met with their leaders and participants several times and gave them lectures on the political situation.
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When Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, Vladislav Surkov became marginalized as Putin "pursued a path of open repression over the cunning manipulation favoured by Vladislav Surkov".
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The Committee stated he offered to resign on 7 May 2013, whereas Vladislav Surkov stated he offered to resign on 28 April 2013.
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On 17 March 2014, the day after the Crimean status referendum, Vladislav Surkov became one of the first eleven persons who were placed under executive sanctions on the Specially Designated Nationals List by President Barack Obama, freezing his assets in the US and banning him from entering the United States.
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In February 2015, Ukrainian authorities accused Vladislav Surkov of organizing snipers to kill protesters and police during the Ukrainian Euromaidan in January 2014.
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On 11 February 2019, Vladislav Surkov published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta the article "The Long State of Putin", which describes the main points of the term "Putinism" proposed by him.
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On 18 February 2020, Vladislav Surkov was removed from his role of advisor.
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Vladislav Surkov added that he was primarily involved with Donbas and Ukraine, but since the "context" had changed he decided to leave.
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Inside Russia, Vladislav Surkov has drawn criticism from activists and opposition groups: In September 2010, Lyudmila Alexeyeva appealed to then-president Dmitry Medvedev to dismiss him.
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In May 2013 after his dismissal as Deputy Prime Minister, Vladislav Surkov was characterized by The Economist as the engineer of "a system of make-believe", "a land of imitation political parties, stage-managed media and fake social movements".
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Vladislav Surkov is at the centre of the show, sponsoring nationalist skinheads one moment, backing human rights groups the next.
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Vladislav Surkov has had articles written about him and his influence on the war in Donbas by Japanese academics curious about his leaked emails and his "political technology".
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Vladislav Surkov described the Minsk agreements as an act that "legitimised the first division of Ukraine".
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Vladislav Surkov is depicted as the main character Vadim Baranov in the 2022 French novel Le Mage du Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli.
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Vladislav Surkov has four children: Artem, the biological child of Yulia he adopted during his first marriage; and Roman, Maria, and Timur, biological children of himself and Natalya.
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Vladislav Surkov has composed songs and written texts for the Russian rock-musician Vadim Samoylov, ex-member of the band Agata Kristi.
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Vladislav Surkov speaks English and is fond of poets of the Beat Generation such as Allen Ginsberg.