Valine Alexey Konstantinovich

Valine Alexey Konstantinovich

Aleksei Konstantinovich Volin (January 31, 1964, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian media manager and specialist in PR technologies.

Biography

Born in a family of engineers (father - designer of nuclear submarines, mother - mathematician-programmer^[1]. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Institute of Asia and Africa at Moscow State University (Indonesian branch).

1986-1996

• Since 1986 - an employee of the Asian edition of the Press Agency "News."
• In 1989-1991 - APN correspondent in Jakarta.
• Since 1992 - a special correspondent for RIA Novosti, was a member of the journalistic pool of the Russian government.
• Since 1995 - First Deputy General Director of the General Directorate of Information RIA Novosti, member of the Management Board^[1].
• Since 1996 - General Director of the TV channel "Business Russia" (a joint project of RIA Novosti, VGTRK and Video International). Participated in the election campaign of B.N. Yeltsin.

1996-1998

• In 1996-1997 - Head of the Media Department for Public Relations of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation.
• In 1997-1998 - First Deputy Head of the Public Relations Department of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. Together with the head of the Department, Mikhail Margelov, they were preparing radio addresses of President Boris Yeltsin, whose health at that moment did not allow him to be shown on TV. In addition, the Office specialized in leaks to media that were sharper and more informal than official information, and therefore very popular with journalists. They did not disdain outright misinformation, primarily to discredit political opponents. According to available evidence, the heads of the Office carried out special information operations on a continuous basis, both authorized and unauthorized. (The magazine "Power" from the 31.03.1998 "Guys with Connections").

1998-2003

• From 1998 to 2000 - Head of the Government Information Department of the Government Apparatus of the Russian Federation (premiership of Sergei Kiriyenko), Chairman of the Board of the RIA Novosti news agency. During the hostilities in Chechnya in 1999, together with Mikhail Margelov, he took part in the creation of the Rosinformtsentr, a body to coordinate all outreach work in the Chechen direction. After joining the government in 2000 until the end of January 2003, he continued to have a serious influence on the activities of RIA Novosti and even had a working office there. The head of the agency was appointed his protege (and former classmate) Alexei Zhidakov. ("Profile" from 31.03.2003 "Souffler in White")

• From 2000 to 2003 - Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation.
• In the Government, he was responsible for public relations and also oversaw media, culture, education, tourism and sports. In 2003, he was one of the hundred most influential politicians in Russia (Nezavisimaya Gazeta from the 01.07.2003 100 Leading Politicians of Russia in June).
  • Advocated the informational openness of the Cabinet of Ministers. Together with the Head of the Government Apparatus Igor Shuvalov, he promoted a government decree that for the first time obliges all ministries and departments to acquire their own Internet sites and regularly publish information about their activities there. The phrase "The situation in which Moscow prostitutes have their own sites, and federal ministers do not, seems to me somewhat strange" brought him particular fame at that time.
  • Opposed the introduction of exam in schools and the teaching of religious disciplines there. ("Newspaper" from 15.11.2002 "From this document is led by the Middle Ages and obscurantism"). In this regard, he was included in the "General List of Aggressive Anti-Christian Xenophobes and Swordsmen" together with other well-known media figures, such as Sergey Dorenko, Alexander Nevzorov and Pavel Gusev^[2])
  • Actively opposed attempts to increase import duties on used cars.
  • Believed that the number of state-owned media should be radically reduced.
  • Was a supporter of the refusal of direct state interference in the field of mass media.
  • He came up with the idea that the media should not be managed, but manipulated.

• September 11, 1997 - awarded the class rank of Acting State Adviser of the Russian Federation of the 2nd class (Presidential Decree^[3] of the^[4]"
• October 12, 2000 - Full State Adviser of the 1st class (Presidential Decree No. 1744)^[5]which corresponds to the military ranks of Lieutenant General and Colonel General (Presidential Decree No. 720 of June 7, 2011^[6]

2003-2011

• In the spring of 2003, in a conflict between Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and head of the Government Apparatus Igor Shuvalov, he supported Shuvalov. Therefore, in July 2003 he left the cabinet (Moskovsky Komsomolets from 18.07.2003 "Fired. The White House lost sparkling PR "). With the departure of Volin from the government, openness and offensive disappeared in the information policy of the Cabinet of Ministers (Kommersant from the 17.07.2003 "Their heads were removed from the White House")

• In the summer of 2003, together with the owner of IBSAnatoliy Karachinsky, Volin created the Medialogy search information and analytical system. (Vedomosti from the 23.07.2003 Dream of the PR Man)

• From 2003 to May 2007 - President of EID Rodionov. During this period, the publishing house significantly increases the number of business magazines - the weekly Company is acquired and a license for the Russian publication BusinessWeek was obtained. Dmitry Gubin, who headed the magazine "FHM Russia," after the sale of the magazine ID Rodionov, according to him, addressed the president of the holding Alexei Volin, which he spoke about in an interview (Slon.ru, 2011)^[7]:

Lesha is a cheerful cynic, and I appreciate him for the ease of his cynicism and do not even put cynicism in his reproach. He was extremely honest with me. He told me something about the internal structure of the IDR, which I cannot convey, because after that either Rodionov should be imprisoned or me. I realized that I would never go there.

• From the summer of 2007 to September 2008 - General Director of Amedia, a company engaged in the production of films and television series.

• Since 2008 - Member of the Supreme Council of the Right Cause Party. It is believed that it has good contacts with two of its three co-chairs: Boris Titov and George Bovt. He sharply criticized the party leadership for the inability to achieve unity of command and passivity in political life. Since the fall of 2009, he has not taken any part in the activities of the party.

• Since 2009, collaborates with Amedia as a screenwriter and co-producer of historical films. He prepared and shot five historical dramas commissioned by Channel One: "An Informed Source in Moscow" (about journalist Victor Louis), "Tukhachevsky. Conspiracy of the Marshal, "" One step from the third world, "" And Shepilov who joined them, "" Promised land from Joseph Stalin. "
• According to Elena Tregubova, after the appointment of V.V. Putin as prime minister and "successor" to B.N. Yeltsin, he predicted that only a "small victorious war" could raise the rating of the announced "successor[1]."

• Since 2011, he has been appointed President of A3, the developer of a new remote payment system in the field of payment for housing and communal services, the Internet, pay TV, telephony and other services. [2]

2012-2020

• In February 2012, by presidential decree, he was included in the working group on the formation of the Open Government system (Decree No. 150 of February 8, 2012).^[8]"

• On June 22, 2012, it was reported that the new Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov was completing the selection of candidates for the posts of his deputies, which he should submit for approval to the Government of the Russian Federation. As it became known to^[9] from sources close to the Government of the Russian Federation, one of them will be Alexey Volin.

Nikiforov and Volin know each other personally on joint work. In particular, since February 2012, they have been together in a working group to prepare proposals for the formation of the Open Government system in the Russian Federation. Both Nikiforov and Volin are members of the subgroup on the development of systems used to provide public services in electronic form and for modern means of communication.

According to Marker.ru sources, as deputy minister, Volin will mainly perform the functions that were previously assigned to Alexander Zharov, who became the head of Roskomnazdor. Volin will be responsible for managing media and mass communications policy. In addition, he may be entrusted with part of the functions of leading the creation of "electronic government," in particular the system of electronic public services. In the previous team of the ministry, Deputy Minister Ilya Massukh, who left the department in June 2012, was engaged in this direction.

• On July 5, 2012, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev appointed Alexei Volin as Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, according to the government website. According to the distribution of duties, Volin will be responsible for conducting state policies in the field of media development.

In October 2020, Alexei Volin resigned as deputy minister. Instead, Bella Cherkasova from the Kremlin administration was appointed deputy minister in charge of the media industry and the Internet.

2021: Appointment as head of FSUE "Space Communications"

Alexey Volin was appointed Director General of FSUE Space Communications (GP KS). The corresponding order of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation No. 353-k was signed on June 23, 2021, and after 5 days the former deputy head of the Ministry of Digital Affairs took up his duties.

The main tasks of Alexei Volin as head of the State Council of the Constitutional Court will include:

• strengthening and upgrading the existing satellite constellation;
• retention in the market in an increasingly competitive environment;
• Providing secure communications to remote areas of the Far North;
• participation in international cooperation and, above all, in the work of the international space communications organization (IAMC) Intersputnik.

Under the leadership of Volin, FSUE Space Communications will also continue to develop technologies related to the development of digital television and audiovisual services.

Mikhail Seslavinsky, Deputy General Director for Interaction with State Authorities of the UESEM Holding Company, a long-term colleague of Alexei Volin told TASS that the appointment was long awaited after the completion of public service.

Energy, design thinking, enormous experience and fantastic sociability - competencies that always help Alexei Konstantinovich achieve his goals. I am sure that the new appointment will reveal Volin's potential with renewed vigor, "he said.

"Space Communications" since 2009 was headed by Yuri Prokhorov. Earlier, his deputy Ksenia Drozdova left the enterprise and became the head of the aforementioned Intersputnik organization.

While working in the Ministry of Digital Affairs, Alexei Volin oversaw the development of the media industry. Under his leadership, the translation of analog television broadcasting into digital format was implemented.^[10][11]Space^[12]

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