Zharov Alexander Aleksandrovich

Zharov Alexander Aleksandrovich

Zharov Alexander Alexandrovich - Head of the Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor).

Biography

Born August 11, 1964 in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

In 1987 he graduated from Chelyabinsk State Medical University.

Candidate of Medical Sciences. In January 2004 he defended his thesis on the topic "Promotion of a healthy lifestyle"^[1].

2006 - graduated from the Law Faculty of the Russian Academy of Civil Service under the President of the Russian Federation^[2].

He speaks English and French.

1987-1996 - Anesthesiologist and resuscitator in Chelyabinsk.

1997 - columnist, deputy editor-in-chief of the Moscow magazine "Family Doctor: Practical Advice on Medicine"^[1].

1998-1999 - Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of RIA Vesti.

1999-2004 - Press Secretary of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

2004-2006 - Assistant, and then press secretary of the Chairman of the Government of Russia Mikhail Fradkov.

2006-2007 - worked as Deputy General Director of the Federal Unitary Enterprise "All-Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company."

2007-2008 - Director of the Department of Press Service, Information and Protocol of the Government of the Russian Federation.

2008: Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications

2008 - Appointed Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation in the team of Igor Shchegolev.

2012: Head of Roskomnadzor

May 3, 2012 - by order of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin of the Chairman of the Government of May 3, 2012 No. 702-r A.A. Zharov was appointed Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor)^[3]

On March 31, 2015, the Anonymous International hacker group posted an archive on the network containing about 40 thousand SMS messages. They were pumped out, presumably from the mobile phone of Timur Prokopenko, who from the fall of 2012 to the winter of 2014 oversaw in the Presidential Administration Russia Internet (and then was appointed responsible for the federal elections). In the archive, correspondence begins in the summer of 2011 and ends in October 2014. It can be used to trace the rise of Prokopenko's career - from an activist and leader of the pro-Kremlin movement "Young Guard" to an official to Presidential administrations whom, among other things, media leaders report. Roskomnadzor

The Meduza edition studied the correspondence and published a fragment of the alleged correspondence between Timur Prokopenko and Alexander Zharov^[4]

Timur Prokopenko, according to this correspondence, spoke with the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov not often.

In particular, "Zharov" agreed on a decision on the groups of Ukrainian nationalists "VKontakte" and complained about the founder of VK Pavel Durov ("turned on the fool, does not allow further blocking"). "Prokopenko" proposed to use the Prosecutor General's Office and "squeeze."

It also follows from the correspondence of officials that the AP could patronize the nationalist website Sputnik and the Pogrom. Zharov found signs of extremism and separatism in one of the articles published on the site. "Sputnik behaves well, so we are still monitoring," Prokopenko insisted. "In general, all the Nazis are positive now," the alleged head of Roskomnadzor agreed.

In one of the last conversations, officials discussed a possible meeting with Volodin. "The topics of the meeting are skinny to prepare," Zharov asked. To which Prokopenko replied: "I will prepare materials under the conditional name-who is next.))))."

2014: Income - 4.7 million rubles, spouse income - 19.8 million rubles

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, increased his income in 2014 compared to 2013 by almost 1 million rubles - from 3.8 to 4.7 million, follows from his declaration published on the website of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications.

His wife earned 19.8 million rubles in 2014 (including through the sale of real estate), while for the previous year her income was 26.4 million.

Thus, in total, the Zharov family in 2014 was able to receive income of 24.2 million rubles against 30.2 million for the previous reporting period.

In 2014, the head of Roskomnadzor owned a new land plot with an area of ​ ​ 644 square meters. m. And now he has three of them (the other two have an area of ​ ​ 869 square meters. m. And 2677 square meters. m.). In addition, Zharov owns two residential buildings (137.5 sq. m. And 320 sq. m.) and a share in the apartment (174.1 sq. m.), as well as a Toyota Land Cruiser car.

Judging by the declaration, Alexander Zharov has five minor children, one of whom, together with his father and mother, is a co-owner of the apartment, and others use it.

In 2013, Zharov's wife owned 5 apartments, which are not listed in the 2014 declaration. Roskomnadzor previously reported to CNews that the spouse of the head of the department is engaged in individual entrepreneurial activity (her name and scope of professional activity is not disclosed), and the specified real estate was acquired for investment purposes. "For this, borrowed bank funds are attracted, which are disclosed in the declaration," noted in Roskomnadzor.

2017: Total income with his wife 32.4 million rubles

In 2017, Alexander Zharov and his wife earned 38 million rubles, of which most, 32.4 million rubles, fell on the spouse's income. She has been receiving income from the sale of real estate for several years. For 2014-2017. she earned 136 million rubles.

According to the declaration, Alexander Zharov has three land plots with a total area of ​ ​ 4.2 thousand square meters. m, two houses with a total area of ​ ​ 457 square meters. m, apartment with an area of ​ ​ 174 square meters. m and non-residential premises with an area of ​ ​ 201 square meters. m.

2018: Inclusion on US sanctions list

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, was included in the list of Russians against whom new sanctions have been introduced. This list includes "seven Russian oligarchs and 12 companies that they have or control, 17 chief government officials, a state-owned company that supplies weapons and its structure, a Russian bank," the ^[5] US Treasury in April 2018].

"The Russian government is involved in a number of types of hostile activity around the world, including the ongoing occupation of Crimea and inciting hostility in eastern Ukraine, support for the Assad regime with weapons while they bomb their own citizens, an attempt to destroy Western democracy, as well as malicious cyber activity," said Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin (Steven T. Mnuchin).

Zharov and other persons involved in the list were under the CAATS sanctions regime, which implies sanctions not only for them, but also for counterparties who conducted "significant transactions" in their interests. Such counterparties may be prohibited from exporting goods from the United States, attracting American financing, entering the United States by the company's management and its controlling shareholders.

2019: Telegram registration

At the end of December 2019, it became known that Alexander Zharov began to use Telegram. As you know, it was Roskomnadzor, which he heads, who initiated the blocking of the messenger.

The fact that the account of a person using Alexander Zharov's phone number appeared in the Telegram messenger was reported by  Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT. In support of this information, she published a screenshot of a Telegram notification that a Zharov Roskomnadzor user had registered in the messenger.

Results of the year, - signed the screen Simonyan.

In addition, Echo Moskvy journalist Alexander Plyushchev said  on Telegram that this information was also confirmed by his acquaintance,  who has Zharov's phone in his contacts.

Social media users joke about this:

You can't win, lead. Can't lead, become a client, "@ AlmonerTw wrote.

Behind enemy lines, '@ vanderboyo jokes.

 The reception of Roskomnadzor told the URA.RU correspondent that Zharov was not on the spot at the time of the call and was  asked to contact the press service of the department during working hours.

Alexander Zharov in the spring of 2018, during a conversation with journalist Sergei Dorenko, admitted that he was using this messenger.

In 2019, Zharov admitted that the final solution to the issue of blocking Telegram  in Russia is one of the main goals of creating an autonomous Runet, while , in his opinion, so far the department can only disrupt the messenger.

In October 2019, Alexander Zharov announced that the new Telegram countermeasures system would completely block it in Russia in the coming year. 

Telegram has been officially blocked in Russia since April 16, 2018, but remains available to Russian users by the end of 2019.

2020

Mishustin dismissed Zharov from the post of head of Roskomnadzor

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on the resignation of the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov, the document was published on the government website.

As indicated in the document, Mishustin dismissed the head of the ILV at his own request.

Sources previously told RBC about the imminent departure of Zharov from the post of head of the department. According to them, he may head Gazprom-Media.

General Director of Gazprom-Media Holding

On March 24, 2020, Alexander Zharov was appointed General Director of Gazprom-Media Holding JSC.

2023: Early reassignment of Gazprom-Media Holding as CEO

The Board of Directors of Gazprom-Media Holding JSC decided on the early reassignment of Alexander Zharov to the post of General Director. The head has held this post since March 24, 2020, now his powers have been extended for another three years. The company announced this on January 18, 2023.

{{quote 'author = said Alexander Zharov, CEO of Gazprom-Media Holding.|I am grateful to the Board of Directors for their trust. For three incomplete years, we managed to do a lot of work and gain a foothold in high positions in the media industry. I am proud that we have powerful creative teams in the holding with the highest professionalism and unlimited potential. As before, I can assure you that I will always adhere to the principles of mutual respect and openness in managing the holding and its structures, }}

Awards

He was awarded the Order of Honor^[1].

Family

Married, six children^[1].

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