Who is Pushkov? Alexey Pushkov: biography, personal life, family, photo. Awards and regalia

Russian public figure, politician and political scientist, journalist Alexey Pushkov is well known to Russian television viewers as the host of a popular analytical program on the TVC channel “Postscriptum”. Alexey Konstantinovich has made a great contribution to the development of Russian television and has been advising senior officials in the Russian government for many years.

In addition, Alexey Pushkov is a member of the presidium of the Council on Internal and External Security of our country, and has been a permanent expert at the forum in Davos for many years.

Childhood, family

Alexey was born in Beijing on August 10, 1954 in the family of a Soviet diplomat, who at that time was serving in the capital of China. Konstantin Mikhailovich, his father, held a serious post at the Consulate General of the Soviet Union in the capital of the People's Republic of China.

Margarita Vladimirovna, his mother, also worked there as a translator from Chinese. Alexey Pushkov's nationality is Russian. The boy lived in the Celestial Empire for only a few years. He became a first-grader in Moscow. It was an elite metropolitan school where in-depth study of foreign languages was conducted.

The child had good abilities, and therefore there were no problems with his studies: he was diligent and assiduous, was interested in history, and read a lot. Having successfully completed high school, Alexey Pushkov easily entered MGIMO. He graduated from the Faculty of International Relations in 1976 and was assigned to Geneva, where he received a position at the UN Office.

In 1980, a significant event occurred in the biography of Alexei Pushkov - after graduating from his master's degree, he became a candidate of historical sciences. Three years later he was sent to Prague, where he became editor-in-chief of the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism. Upon returning to Moscow in 1988, Alexei Konstantinovich was offered a job in the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee, where he began to engage in analytics.

Few people know that it was he who wrote speeches for M. S. Gorbachev, who differed from his predecessors in his love of public speaking. For some time, Pushkov was an adviser to Gorbachev.

Journalism

When the USSR collapsed, his biography did not undergo fundamental changes. Alexey Pushkov was still actively involved in journalism, first becoming a political commentator, and a little later took the post of deputy editor-in-chief of Moscow News, which was published every week. In addition, he was the curator of the newspaper's publications abroad, in which he later took the post of chief editor.

Alexey Konstantinovich was invited to Washington in 1993 to work for Foreign Policy magazine. At the same time, he represented the economic interests of our country in Davos.

A television

The next serious stage in Alexei Pushkov’s career was the ORT television channel, where he first became director of public relations and later headed the international relations directorate. In the period from 1995 to 1998, Pushkov was deputy general director of Channel One. He became the director, author and permanent presenter of the Postscript program in 1998.

In this author's program in the studio, he receives famous Russian and foreign politicians, cultural and scientific figures. Pushkov’s popular program is distinguished by the competence of experts, balanced assessments and conclusions, accuracy of facts and analyses, which made it popular not only among millions of television viewers, but also among the highest political elite of our country.

The heated discussions that sometimes arise between the guests invited to the studio and the presenter arouse constant interest among the audience. The program is often criticized for its expressed anti-Western position and negativity towards the Russian opposition. Nevertheless, the program has no less regular viewers than critics - experts estimate its audience at tens of millions of viewers.

Alexey Pushkov, whose photo is posted in this article, was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Culture for his services in the field of media in 2004.

Creation

Many fans of journalism, social psychology, and documentary literature are known as the writer Alexey Konstantinovich. The most famous of them:

"Grandmasters of the Looking Glass."
“Global chess.
"Russian Party".
“Confrontation. Obama versus Putin."
"Putin's swing."

In his books, Alexey Pushkov expresses his own point of view on many events in political life in our country and in the world, and gives his assessment of the actions of famous political figures.

Alexey Pushkov in 2011 was elected as a deputy from the Perm region to the State Duma of the VI convocation, and a year later he headed the Russian representation in PACE. It was he who initiated the withdrawal of the Russian delegation from this organization, which followed after the delegation of our country was denied the right to vote in 2015.

Pushkov became a member of parliament (upper house) from the Perm region in September 2016. Because of his clear position regarding Donbass and Crimea, Pushkov’s name was included in the sanctions list first by Ukraine, and a little later by the EU, Australia and Canada.

Alexey Pushkov was nominated for numerous government awards for his activities for the benefit of Russia. He has four letters of commendation from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Personal life

Alexey Pushkov has been happily married for a long time. At the beginning of his career, almost after graduating from college, he met his future wife Nina, who at that time was a graduate of the Theater School. Shchukin. Alexey Konstantinovich recalls that he had strong feelings for the beautiful Nina at first sight.

After the young people formalized their relationship and got married (1977), they never parted for a single day, since Pushkov’s wife abandoned her career for the sake of her family and devoted her entire life to her husband and daughter, who was born in the same 1977.

Today, Alexei Pushkov’s only daughter Daria, is married and lives in London. She headed the bureau of the RT television channel, which broadcasts exclusive materials from around the world around the clock. Daria gave her parents a luxurious gift for their thirty-third wedding anniversary - she gave the heroes of the day a charming granddaughter, who was born in one of the Moscow maternity hospitals. Alexey Konstantinovich loves his granddaughter very much and dreams of spending as much time as possible with her.

Interests and hobbies

Alexey Konstantinovich loves to travel. With his wife and daughter, they visited 70 countries around the world both as part of the politician’s official trips and as tourists. Alexey Pushkov is actively involved in sports - he loves tennis, skiing, and swimming. In addition, Alexey Konstantinovich is a collector of metal jugs and teapots, and more recently, figurines of soldiers dressed in knightly armor appeared in his extensive collection.

Director of the Institute of Current International Problems of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, author, director and presenter of the television analytical program “Postscript”, Member of the Council for Human Rights and Civil Society Development under the President of the Russian Federation, professor

Born on August 10, 1954 in Beijing (People's Republic of China). Father - Pushkov Konstantin Mikhailovich (born 1921), participant in the Great Patriotic War, diplomat. Mother - Margarita Vladimirovna Pushkova (1927–2007), sinologist, translator, Chinese language teacher. Wife – Nina Vasilievna Pushkova, trained as an actress. Screenwriter and producer of documentary television films. Daughter – Daria Alekseevna (born 1977), head of the London bureau of the English-language TV channel “Russia Today” of the Russian International Information Agency “RIA Novosti”.
A.K. Pushkov was born into the family of a diplomat. His father was an employee of the USSR Consulate General in Beijing. Konstantin Mikhailovich walked the most difficult front roads, from the first to the last day of the Great Patriotic War he was on the front line. He took part in the bloody battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, and participated in the battles for Warsaw and Prague. He was awarded many military awards, including the Order of the Red Banner, two medals “For Courage”, “For the Defense of Stalingrad”, “For the Liberation of Warsaw”, “For the Liberation of Prague”. Konstantin Mikhailovich became the founder of the Pushkov dynasty of diplomats and international relations, already known for three generations. This happened by chance. In 1946, after the war, he submitted documents to enter the construction institute, but at the last moment he made a choice in favor of the Moscow Institute of International Relations (since 1994 - MGIMO-University) - on the advice of his fellow soldier. There, of course, they could not refuse admission to an honored front-line soldier, a party member. And the successful career of Konstantin Mikhailovich himself, as well as his son and granddaughter, indicates that the choice was successful. The mother of Alexei Pushkov was most directly related to diplomatic work. Margarita Vladimirovna, who graduated from the Institute of Oriental Languages (after 1972 - the Institute of Asian and African Countries), worked for seven years in China at the Soviet diplomatic mission. Then she became the chief translator in a group of Soviet specialists and advisers to the PRC government, which was headed by the future Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR I.V. Arkhipov. The group, which included 1,300 people, helped the Chinese solve the problems of creating industry in the country, mainly heavy industry. Margarita Vladimirovna worked as a translator with the Premier of the State Council (Government) of the People's Republic of China, Chairman of the All-China Committee of the People's Political Consultative Council of China Zhou Enlai. She was awarded the Order of Friendship, the only award in the PRC that can be awarded to foreigners along with the Chinese, and the Prime Minister himself left his autograph on the certificate for the order.
His parents worked, as a rule, late and little Alyosha spent most of his time with his nanny, a Chinese woman named Han, who came from a noble family repressed after the revolution. And when she was away on business, she often whiled away the time in the company and under the supervision of a large white shepherd. As a result of communicating with the nanny, the first language Alexey spoke was Chinese. By the age of three, he spoke Chinese better than Russian. In 1957, the Pushkovs returned to Moscow: their father was to study at the Diplomatic Academy of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the end of 1959, after graduation, he was sent to a leadership position at UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, whose headquarters are located in Paris.
France became for Alexey the first foreign country that he perceived quite consciously. In 1960, at the age of six, and not seven, as was customary in the Soviet education system, he went to a local French school. Adaptation to an unfamiliar language environment took Alexey six months. In class I just sat and listened. One day, the teacher, who asked him an unexpected question, received an answer from the always silent student in excellent French. From that moment on, the language problem no longer existed for him. During my school years I became very interested in geography. One of the relatives gave Alexey a Small Atlas of the World, 1960 edition, for his seventh birthday. The Atlas became for him a pocket book with which he never parted. Later, already at the institute, he set himself the goal of visiting six countries that were completely closed to Soviet people in those years: Israel, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, South Africa and Albania - and later he would consistently do this. Closer to the age of 10, Alexey became interested in the world of underwater fauna. This happened under the influence of the famous French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, whose underwater adventures the teenager admired. He had a chance to meet him personally at one of the receptions at UNESCO. The famous explorer seemed to show genuine interest in the proposal of the Russian boy, who spoke French like a real Frenchman, to descend together into the Mariinsky Trench - the deepest point of the world's oceans. Alexey dreamed of ichthyology even after returning to the USSR. He studied at the 12th special school where a number of subjects were taught in French, and thought about entering the ichthyological department of the Faculty of Biology of the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, but, according to him, he “broke down” on organic chemistry, which “finished off” him with its chains and connections with names that are difficult to pronounce. Ultimately, the very environment in which he was brought up and grew up pushed him to choose a diplomatic career and continue the family dynasty. By that time, he had already hosted a youth radio program at the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of the USSR, intended for a French youth audience, on the Voice of Russia radio.
In 1971, Alexey Pushkov entered the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He studied academic disciplines with a broad regional specialization: he studied Canada, Australia, Great Britain, and the USA in his senior years. He graduated from the institute in 1976 with honors, having a good idea of what awaited him ahead. Even in his 4th year, he was offered to enroll in graduate school. Next - three years of full-time postgraduate study at MGIMO. He completed it in 1979, defending his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences, dedicated to the ideological and theoretical foundations of US foreign policy towards the USSR.
Broad prospects opened up for the well-prepared young specialist... Having become a teacher at MGIMO, he also in 1979-81. For a year he worked as a translator from French and English at the UN in Geneva, as part of the Soviet delegation to the Disarmament Committee. Since 1981, for three years he gave a course of lectures at the Department of History of Foreign Policy and International Relations. In 1984, he was offered a position as editor in the more than reputable monthly theoretical and information magazine of the communist and workers' parties, Problems of Peace and Socialism, which was published in Prague. The publication was published in 28 languages and distributed in 500 thousand copies in 145 countries. Many future well-known specialists in the field of international relations, domestic and foreign policy of the Soviet Union passed through him. This period in the biography of A.K. Pushkov can be called the time of his formation as a political analyst. In the editorial office of the magazine, he constantly encountered different views on the world. It was impossible not to take them into account, and this fostered in him the ability to approach the study of the problems under consideration comprehensively and deeply, in other words, analytically. In Prague, Pushkov becomes a reliable link in covering the activities of left-wing parties in the international arena. He is appointed as a consulting editor.
It was quite logical that A.K. Pushkov was subsequently invited to the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee, dealing with relations with socialist countries (later this department was merged with the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee). In 1988, he was appointed senior assistant, and soon a consultant to the group of consultants of this very important unit for the country's leadership. In his new position, his responsibilities included preparing the texts of speeches on foreign policy issues for the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee M.S. Gorbachev, members of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee V.A. Medvedev, A.N. Yakovlev, as well as preparing analytical notes for the Politburo. These were serious developments on the basis of which political decisions were made at the highest levels of government. In 1991, the candidacy of an excellent international specialist was considered for appointment to the post of head of a department in the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but these plans were confused by the events of August 19, which opened a completely new page in the history of the country.
Alexey Pushkov learned about the August putsch on board a plane heading for Foros, where at that moment M.S. Gorbachev, practically removed from power, was at the Crimean state dacha. Pushkov spent three days in Foros, after which it turned out that he was unemployed. However, he received many invitations, in particular from the new Minister of Foreign Affairs A.A. Kozyrev, who invited him to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an adviser to the minister. But Pushkov had the feeling that a long-term crisis was coming for the state apparatus with an inevitable voluntaristic and adventurous approach to issues of international relations and the country’s foreign policy, ignoring objectively existing conditions and not taking into account the opinion of experts. Therefore, he turns to a different field of activity and becomes deputy editor-in-chief for international issues of the weekly newspaper Moscow News, and at the same time editor-in-chief of its foreign publications. At that time, the newspaper was one of the most authoritative political publications and was a “desktop newspaper” for the political elite of the new Russia. Through his regular column in the newspaper (its circulation was then 2-2.5 million copies), he could convey his opinion on events not only to the country’s leadership and the Western community, but also to millions of compatriots. He worked at the newspaper for four and a half years. During this time, he managed to firmly establish himself in international circles as a prominent expert in the field of foreign policy, earning a reputation as one of the best political analysts in Russia. In 1993, A.K. Pushkov became a permanent expert at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the elite of world politics and business gather. He spoke more than once at forum sessions on Russian domestic and foreign policy issues, was a member of the group of “media leaders”, and in 1997 received the honorary title of “Global Leader of Tomorrow”, which is given annually in Davos to the brightest young politicians, scientists, journalists and businessmen. During these years, Pushkov also gave lectures at a number of American universities, wrote articles for the New York Times (USA) and the Wall Street Journal, Japanese, French, and German press.
In 1995, a serious turn took place in the life of A.K. Pushkov: at the invitation of the General Director of Public Russian Television (ORT), he became
S.E. Blagovolina as his deputy director for public and international relations of the TV channel. Being well known in international circles, a well-known expert, A.K. Pushkov established connections with Russian government agencies, international organizations (Eurovision), as well as Russian and foreign media. As the head of the channel's press service, he interviewed major political figures for ORT - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette, British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, NATO Secretary General Javier Solana. At the same time, from 1995 to 1996 he remained a political observer for Moscow News, and from 1997 to 1998 he had his own column in Nezavisimaya Gazeta. At that time, he had the idea to create his own analytical program, but the notorious oligarch B.A. Berezovsky, who controlled ORT at that time, refused him. To suppress his political and economic opponents, Berezovsky needed “aggressive” programs that excluded any decency. A.K. Pushkov was clearly not suitable for the role of a “telekiller”. His relationship with B.A. Berezovsky and his entourage became increasingly complex. They were especially bad with the first deputy general director of the channel for finance and the right hand of the oligarch B. Sh. Patarkatsishvili. Therefore, at the beginning of 1998, when S.E. Blagovolin left his post, A.K. Pushkov also left the channel.
In April of the same year, he was invited to the television channel “TV Center” (TVC), owned by the Moscow government. Pushkov became the author and presenter of that same analytical program, the idea of which he hatched on ORT. He gave it the name "Postscript". If in his previous place he had to solve a lot of organizational issues, then at TVC
A.K. Pushkov switched to purely intellectual work, which, of course, was much more difficult. This concerned both running the program and understanding current events.
A.K. Pushkov set his goal on TVC to a program that could compete with the analytical programs of large leading TV channels and track major national and international problems. By 2000, he achieved this, which was greatly facilitated, in his words, by the “benevolent neutrality” of the capital’s government towards him. From time to time, various wishes arose from the management of the TV channel, but, according to Pushkov, he does not remember a single case when he was required to express views that he does not share. The program, which has gained great popularity, especially among the thinking and socially active part of the country’s population, has been on television for the eleventh year. Its main audience is educated viewers aged 45 to 65 years. Literaturnaya Gazeta, noting the merits of A.K. Pushkov’s brainchild, wrote: “In his “Postscript” there are no dancing bears, no gypsy songs, ... no investigative reporting, ... no leaking of incriminating evidence... He is not rude and does not attack political opponents ... Pushkov is interesting to those who value a systematic approach, logic, and a serious evidence base. His program gives you a pleasant feeling that you are not being taken for a gullible fool who is so easy to manipulate. It is not so important whether you share the views of the presenter, the main thing is that you are guaranteed compact and sensibly presented information for your own thoughts. Thoroughness and depth are qualities more characteristic of newspaper than television journalism. But Pushkov came to television from a newspaper, and to journalism from political science.”
The main thing in the work of a TV presenter
A.K. Pushkov considers respect for the viewer: according to the author of “P.S.”, the viewer should be given the opportunity to think for himself, without trying to impose any rigid attitudes. One of its main principles is to reveal the appearance and get to the essence. He strives to be honest with those he addresses on screen. He compares his program to political television theater. In the stalls of the “theater” there is a spectator who does not always understand what is happening behind the scenes. He, the presenter, appears from behind the scenes in order to reveal the appearance of what was happening on stage, show the real course of events and outline their consequences. The enormous experience accumulated in the scientific, political, diplomatic and international spheres helps A.K. Pushkov maintain the rhythm of life he himself has set. He remains an expert at the World Economic Forum in Davos; is a member of the presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, which is engaged in understanding the Russian foreign policy strategy. Since 2003, he has been a professor at MGIMO, giving a special course on Russian foreign policy. Since 2005, he has been a member of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation. Pushkov is also a member of the presidium of the independent organization “Civil Society”, the National Civil Committee for Interaction with Law Enforcement, Legislative and Judicial Bodies. In the mid-90s. was a member of the working analytical group on strategic issues under the Secretary of the Defense Council of the Russian Federation, and was repeatedly involved in advising Russian President B.N. Yeltsin and Russian Foreign Minister E.M. Primakov on foreign policy issues.
In September 2007, A.K. Pushkov was appointed director of the Institute of Current International Problems of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The Institute studies problems of modern global and regional development, international security, publishes monographs, collections of articles, textbooks and teaching aids. In 1993-2000, A.K. Pushkov was a member of the editorial board of the journal “Foreign Policy” (USA), and since 2002 he has been a member of the editorial board of the journal “The National Interest” (USA) (chaired by Henry Kissinger).
As a political commentator, he hosts a weekly hour-long program on the Voice of Russia radio, which broadcasts to foreign countries. A.K. Pushkov is a member of the London Institute for Strategic Studies, senior consultant (on a voluntary basis) at the R. Nixon Center (Washington, USA). He has repeatedly spoken at the Foreign Policy Council (USA), other leading foreign research centers, foundations and institutes. A.K. Pushkov is the author of more than 400 articles in scientific monographs, collections, in leading Russian and foreign periodicals, gave more than 300 interviews to CNN, BBC, CBS, NBC and other television and radio companies.
A.K. Pushkov is a laureate of the International Yalta Telefilm Forum in the category
“Publicistic programs” (2001, 2002), laureate of the Moscow government prize in the field of journalism (2002, 2007), laureate of the Golden Pen award of the Union of Journalists of Russia (2004), laureate of the All-Russian literary and theatrical award “Crystal Rose of Viktor Rozov” (2005 ), established by the Moscow Intellectual and Business Club, laureate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Prize “For the Revival of Russia” (2006), laureate of the Prize of the Union of Writers of Russia (2006). Awarded the Order of Honor, the Order of St. Sergei of Radonezh III degree and the Order of Daniel of Moscow of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Order of Friendship of the Republic of South Ossetia, silver and gold honorary badges of the National Foundation for Public Recognition and the Independent Organization Civil Society (2004). He is an Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, Honorary Professor of the Russian-Armenian State University, Moscow University for the Humanities.
A.K. Pushkov visited almost 70 countries of the world. He plays sports: plays tennis, swims, and skis. He loves cinema, prefers conceptual films that give room for interpretation. Among the foreign directors he singles out the Italians M. Antonioni and L. Visconti, and among the domestic ones - A.A. Tarkovsky and N.S. Mikhalkov. He collects metal jugs and teapots, and more recently, soldiers, mainly in knight's armor.

Alexey Konstantinovich Pushkov (born August 10, 1954) is a Russian journalist, TV presenter, political scientist and deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 6th convocation. He heads the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, teaches at MGIMO, and is the author of more than 400 publications in various international publications. He hosts the weekly program “Postscriptum”, which airs on the TV-Center channel.

My program is a way of self-expression. But I don't dwell on it. This is just a springboard for new future projects, including in politics.

Childhood

Alexey Pushkov was born on August 10, 1954 in China. Such an unusual place of birth for a Soviet citizen is easily explained. Father - Konstantin Mikhailovich Pushkov at that time worked at the USSR Consulate General in Beijing. Margarita Vladimirovna Pushkova, Alexei’s mother, also had a direct connection to China. She was a translator and teacher of Chinese.

So Alexei spent his childhood far from his homeland, although by his school years the Pushkov family returned to the Soviet Union. Alexey already studied in Moscow; at school he learned his first foreign language - French. After school, Pushkov entered MGIMO, from which he successfully graduated in 1976 with a degree in International Relations.

Career

It is interesting that Alexey Pushkov did not begin his creative career as a journalist and TV presenter in Ostankino. For three years (1988-1991) he worked in the international department of the Central Committee. It was he who wrote speeches for the first president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. Pushkov also compiled analytical materials for the head of state. It was in this position that Alexey Pushkov gained his first invaluable experience in big politics.

True, after Gorbachev left the post of president, Pushkov also gave up politics for a while. And he finally turned his face to journalism. From 1991 to 1995, Pushkov worked for the weekly Moscow News. He was hired immediately to the position of deputy editor-in-chief. He was responsible for the international direction of the magazine. In particular, he supervised the English, Spanish, German and French versions of the publication.

In parallel with this, Alexey Pushkov is making a career abroad. He is on the editorial board of the American journal Foreign Policy and a permanent expert at the Davos World Economic Forum.

From 1995 to 1998, Alexey Pushkov was part of the management of Channel One (then it was still called ORT), and was deputy general director. But Alexey Pushkov always valued independence, so he soon chose his own program. From 1998 to the present day, his weekly analytical program “Postscript” has been broadcast on the TV Center channel, in which the presenter, together with a team of correspondents, analyzes the most important events in world politics.

Awards and regalia

For his long and successful career, Alexey Pushkov was awarded numerous awards. And naturally, he was not limited to one work in “Postscript”.

Since 2002, Pushkov has been a member of the editorial board of the National Interest magazine.
Since 2005 - member of the Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
2008-2011. Director of the IAMP (Institute of Current International Studies) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
In 2011, he became a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a member of the United Russia faction.
In 2012, he headed the Russian delegation to Strasbourg at PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe).

Alexey Pushkov has several government awards. In 2004, he was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation. In 2007 he was awarded the Order of Honor, and in 2009 - the Order of Friendship. The TV presenter has 4 thanks from the president.

Alexey Pushkov is also known for his scientific and analytical articles. It is published all over the world, in many well-known international publications. For one of his works, “Putin’s Swing” (2008), Pushkov was even awarded the prestigious Bunin Prize for writers.

Member of the Federation Council and host of the “Postscriptum” program Alexei Pushkov has unchanging things. In all controversial situations, the United States and European countries are always to blame, and Russian President Putin is invariably right. Another Pushkov constant is the celebration of holidays outside the Fatherland. The Pushkov family celebrated last New Year in the Spanish Pyrenees. The senator’s wife happily reported this on Facebook. Nina Pushkova is a creative person: she used to act in films, and now writes books. Therefore, she spoke lyrically about the journey: “And again the rotorcraft takes us to other lands, to other seas...”

The avid lover of his homeland again went to celebrate 2018 in a foreign land. On the eve of the holiday, he was identified outside of Russia.

– I met Pushkov at the airport in Rome. He was flying somewhere on an intra-European flight. I don’t know him personally, but it was definitely him,” said political scientist Alexander Kynev.

Judging by Nina Pushkova’s Facebook, she and her husband travel often. Moreover, she accompanies a member of the Federation Council both on tourist trips and on official business trips. In recent months alone, the couple have vacationed in Spain, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, and Finland.

“Every person has his own Paradise. But there are so many paradises in the world, and everyone can choose according to their taste,” this is how the senator’s wife presented a photo report from a family vacation on the Amalfi Coast of Italy.

You will have to disappoint Nina Vasilievna - not everyone. 400 thousand residents of the Perm Territory, whose interests are represented in the Federation Council by Pushkov, certainly cannot afford to travel to Italy, since they have incomes below the subsistence level. 15% of Perm residents are below the poverty line. Some people cannot even pay for housing and communal services, despite the fact that they are not lazy, but work for a salary that does not allow them to pay for housing and communal services and feed their family at the same time.

Alexey Pushkov himself visits his voters infrequently.

“I don’t see his real work in the region,” said Olga Kolokolova, deputy of the Zemsky Assembly of the Krasnokamsk District from Yabloko.

Of course, her assessment can be attributed to political bias. But even if you believe the website of the Perm United Russia, Senator Pushkov held receptions for citizens only three times over the entire last year. He visits abroad much more often.

The daughter of parliamentarian Daria Pushkova also likes to spend time outside the country. In early January, she was gathering strength in the heart of the Finnish Santa Claus village. Daria also added a geotag to one of the photos on Instagram: Santa Claus Holiday Village Hotel in Rovaniemi. Spending two nights there costs 40 thousand rubles. Thus, the weekend cost her more than the average monthly salary in Perm.

Daria Pushkova does not hide the fact that an economical vacation is not for her. On Facebook, she directly informed her subscribers that she prefers ski resorts in Austria and Switzerland. But in French she doesn’t like the service and food. “It’s just that on the mountain in France I was mostly offered some kind of pommes frites (French potatoes), self-service or a bunch of snobbish attitude on the part of the waiters,” she explained.

At the same time, Daria Pushkova herself is a television propagandist. She started her career with the London bureau of Russia Today, then returned to Moscow and in 2015 got a job at VGTRK. She prepared reports for another pro-Kremlin journalist, Dmitry Kiselev. True, Daria has not been on air on the channel for six months now. She left the question about her current place of work, asked in the messenger, unanswered.

By the way, Pushkov can move freely throughout Europe. Unlike the USA, where he is included in the sanctions lists. He also has one more reason not to like the States: at one of the receptions at the American Embassy, Nina Pushkova’s fur coat was stolen.

Senator Pushkov

– I have been living with a TV star with 20 years of experience for more than 40 years. And I triumphantly affirm that this man was not deformed by fame, was not spoiled by his well-being and prosperity, and was not bent by reality,” characterizes his wife Nina Pushkova.

“Prosperity and prosperity” is not a boastful exaggeration. According to the senator’s declaration, his annual income is more than 16 million rubles. In Pushkov’s garage there are a Mercedes-Benz and a Jaguar XJ (the cost of a British car starts from 5 million rubles). The apartment is located in the elite residential complex "Triumph Palace". Housing of a similar area (about 200 sq. m) is sold here for approximately 150 million rubles.

However, the main real estate of the parliamentarian’s family is already registered in the name of Pushkov’s wife, who herself earns almost no money. As journalists found out, it is she who owns a house in the village of Gorki-2 on Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway. The area of the cottage is more than a thousand square meters, and the cadastral value is 69 million rubles. An apartment near Luzhniki was also registered in Nina Pushkova’s name. According to an extract from Rosreestr, it has 93.6 square meters. m (more than indicated in the declaration). But on the first floors there is everything you need: a bathhouse, a beauty salon, a wine store and the quest “Cheat Death”.

Postscript by Alexey Pushkov

On one salary of a member of the Federation Council (385 thousand rubles), it would be difficult for Alexei Pushkov to maintain such a lifestyle. But his work on TV is paid even better than in the upper house of parliament.

At the end of December last year, TV Center signed a contract with Pushkov for “the provision of services for creative direction, preparation and hosting of the cyclical television program “Postscript”. During the year, he must prepare a maximum of 39 programs for 10.2 million rubles. It turns out that one issue of “Postscript” costs TV Center 262 thousand rubles.

It was not possible to find out why the channel values the services of Alexey Pushkov so highly. In the public relations directorate, in response to a request to comment on the situation, I was redirected to the head of the TV Center procurement department, Vadim Borisov, and he forwarded all questions back to the directorate.

At the same time, “TV Center” is a state television channel. And far from profitable. At the end of 2016, the loss of TV Center JSC amounted to 484 million rubles. In 2018, the channel, along with First, NTV, Fifth, Match TV and Karusel, will share 9 billion rubles in state subsidies.

It is curious that last year the politician was supposed to give a paid lecture to TV Center employees on the topic “Russia and the West: continuation of confrontation or transition to parliamentarism?” But the government purchase worth 523 thousand rubles was canceled for an unknown reason. So Pushkov missed another opportunity to talk about the decay of the West for budget money, and then spend his earnings on it.

Meanwhile, the hosts of the “60 Minutes” program on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, Olga Skabeeva and Evgeny Popov, were criticized on the Internet because of their vacation in Austria. The couple spent their winter holidays in the Alps, and Skabeeva actively published photos on Instagram. The TV presenter’s subscribers were left perplexed: why do Skabeeva and Popov criticize Europe and its values on television, and go on vacation not to Russian winter resorts, but to the “decaying West”?

PS. Nina Pushkova accompanies her husband on business trips abroad at her own expense, the senator said. The expenses of Alexei Pushkov himself in the event of his official visits to Europe are covered from the budget in accordance with the law.

Alexey Konstantinovich Pushkov- Russian statesman and public figure, deputy of the State Duma of the VI convocation, was chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs and head of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. On September 29, 2016, he became a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, where he works in the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building. Member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society. Political scientist, professor at MGIMO. Journalist, author and presenter of the analytical program “Postscript” on the TV Center channel. Alexey Pushkov is an Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation; Pushkov’s articles can be found on the Free Press website.

Childhood and education of Alexey Pushkov

Father - Konstantin Mikhailovich Pushkov (1921) - Soviet diplomat, worked as an employee of the USSR Consulate General in Beijing.

Mother: - Margarita Vladimirovna Pushkova (1927-2007) - teacher of Chinese language, sinologist, translator.

Alexey Pushkov spent his early childhood in China, in Beijing. After the father was transferred to work in Russia, the parents sent their son to a special school with in-depth study of the French language. At school, Alexey showed great ability to learn foreign languages. This subsequently influenced the choice of future profession.

Alexei Pushkov should not have been forced to do his homework as a child. He was always enthusiastic about his studies, so the young man graduated from school successfully. Pushkov also successfully passed the entrance exams at MGIMO and became a student at the Faculty of International Relations.

Career of Alexei Pushkov during the Soviet period

After graduating from university in 1976, Alexei Pushkov was sent to Geneva to work at the UN mission.

In the photo: TV-3 political commentator Alexey Pushkov, 2001 (Photo: Konstantin Krymsky and Alexander Yakovlev / TASS)

In parallel with his work, Pushkov continued his studies and in 1980 defended his PhD thesis in history. After defending his dissertation, Alexey Pushkov became a teacher at the Department of History of International Relations and Foreign Policy at MGIMO.

But Alexey Pushkov did not work at his native university for long. Already in 1983, he left for Prague, where he took the position of senior referent and consulting editor of the international journal Problems of Peace and Socialism.

Returning to Moscow 5 years later, Alexey Konstantinovich Pushkov was appointed speechwriter Mikhail Gorbachev— composed texts of speeches for speeches by the first and last president of the USSR (1988−1991).

Alexey Pushkov's career injournalism

After the collapse of the USSR, there were no significant changes in Pushkov’s biography. Alexey Pushkov continued his work in journalism, becoming a political commentator and deputy editor-in-chief of the Moscow News newspaper. Alexey Konstantinovich was also entrusted with the supervision of all foreign editions of the newspaper, and later he became their editor-in-chief.

The active and successful work of Alexey Pushkov led to career growth. In 1993, Pushkov became a member of the editorial board of the journal Foreign Policy (published by the Carnegie Endowment).

Then Alexey Pushkov took the position of director of public relations at the ORT television channel, and later became director of international relations.

From 1995 to 1998, Pushkov worked as deputy general director of Channel One. Since 1998, Alexey Konstantinovich Pushkov became the director and presenter of the popular program “Postscript”.

This program immediately appealed to viewers, since Alexey Pushkov always carefully and competently covered and assessed the events taking place in the world.

Alexey Pushkov's career in politics

Alexey Konstantinovich’s multifaceted activities brought him to a higher career level. In 2011, Pushkov became a State Duma deputy on the list of the United Russia party, although he was not a member of this party. Nevertheless, Alexei Pushkov was appointed to the post of head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs. And in 2012, Alexey Konstantinovich became vice-president and member of the PACE Bureau and headed the Russian delegation in Strasbourg.

In the photo: Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexey Pushkov at a meeting of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, 2012 (Photo: Mitya Aleshkovsky / TASS)

In 2016, Alexey Pushkov lost the United Russia primaries in the Perm Territory, but was nominated by this party as part of the party list to the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Territory. As a result of the elections on September 18, 2016, he won, and on September 29 of the same year, at a meeting of the regional parliament, he was elected as its representative - a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. He is a member of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building.

Views of Alexey Pushkov

Wherever Alexey Konstantinovich worked, he always resolutely defended the interests of Russia at all political levels. Alexey Pushkov has a sharply defined view of the situation that is now happening in Ukraine. Of course, Pushkov was included in the EU sanctions list for his position.

Alexey Konstantinovich calmly reacted to the resolution according to which PACE deprived Russia of the right to vote in the assembly for several months. (Recall that Russia is one of the main payers to the budget of the Council of Europe. In the summer, Moscow blocked contributions to the organization for the first time).

The diplomat also said that Russia will leave PACE before the end of the year, because the country does not need such a dialogue with the assembly, which limits the rights of the Russian Federation.

In the photo: Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexey Pushkov during a conversation with journalists after the plenary meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), 2015 (Photo: Mikhail Japaridze/TASS)

Alexey Pushkov commented on the situation regarding relations with Ukraine and regarding its threats to terminate the treaty of friendship and cooperation: “By denouncing the 1998 Treaty with Russia, Kyiv will also cancel the article on recognition of the territorial integrity of Ukraine. They’re shooting themselves in the foot again,” he was quoted as saying by Argumenti.ru.

Let us recall that on March 14, 2018, it became known that Ukraine could withdraw from the CIS, as well as denounce the treaty of friendship, cooperation and partnership with Russia. The deputy of the Verkhovna Rada "Independence" wrote about this on her Facebook page. Svetlana Zalischuk.

Alexey Pushkov called the appeal signed by deputies of Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine and Moldova to the heads of parliaments of European states demanding a discussion about the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as “hysterical from impotence.” Deputies from 5 countries not related to Nord Stream 2 issued a letter of protest against its construction. I don’t think this will affect the course of events: the demand for Russian gas in Europe is growing and will continue to grow. Hysterical from powerlessness and anger,” the senator wrote on his Twitter page.

Of course, Pushkov was outraged by the gross provocation that Great Britain “organized” with the “case” of the now notorious Sergei Skripal. In the Postscript program, Pushkov pointed out the lack of any evidence to accuse Russia of involvement in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter.

And in general, Alexey Konstantinovich ironically advised to hire the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko- a specialist in accusations taken out of thin air. Take, for example, the case filed against the hero of Ukraine Nadezhda Savchenko: “The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Lutsenko accused Savchenko of planning a terrorist attack: to explode grenades in the Rada hall, “to bring down the dome of the Verkhovna Rada with mortars and to finish off those who survive with machine guns” (!!!). Even he has never given birth to THIS before. Theresa May we urgently need to hire him,” the senator wrote on his Twitter page.

Alexey Pushkov commented on the criticism of the American senator John McCain to the US President Donald Trump, who congratulated Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the phone on his election victory.

“I don’t know where McCain found the “Russian people” who were offended by Trump’s call to Putin. Probably in my head. Trump, on the contrary, had enough political wisdom to, despite powerful pressure, come to the conclusion that a complete severance of contacts with Russia would be to the detriment of the United States itself,” Pushkov wrote on his Twitter page.

In March 2018, Alexey Pushkov suggested the onset of even more difficult times for the residents of Ukraine, when Kyiv finally abandons Russian gas.

“The head of Naftogaz accused the Ukrainians of “excessive consumption” of gas. They say they burn him and burn him just like that, for fun, so they could freeze and eat something cold... These are just flowers. Or will it happen when Kyiv buys expensive liquefied gas from Qatar and the United States and it will be worth its weight in gold,”