Vyacheslav Alekseevich Nikonov (born June 5, 1956 , Moscow , RSFSR , USSR ) - Soviet and Russian historian , writer, political scientist , statesman and politician, grandson of V. M. Molotov , deputy of the State Duma of VI and VII convocations from United Russia , Chairman of the Committee on Education and Science . Member of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Party [1] . He was a deputy of the State Duma of the first convocation . Doctor of Historical Sciences , Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration of Moscow State University . One of the first connoisseurs of the television club “ What? Where? When? " [2] .
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| Predecessor | Alexander Degtyarev | ||||||
| Birth | June 5, 1956 (63 years old) Moscow , RSFSR , USSR | ||||||
| The consignment | CPSU Party of Russian Unity and Consent , United Russia | ||||||
| Education | History faculty of Moscow State University ( 1978 ) | ||||||
| Academic degree | Doctor of Historical Sciences ( 1989 ) | ||||||
| Profession | historian , political scientist | ||||||
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| Website | v-nikonov.ru | ||||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Scientific activities
- 3 Political activity
- 4 Legislation
- 5 social activities
- 6 Views
- 7 Family
- 8 Awards
- 9 Proceedings
- 10 notes
- 11 Links
- 11.1 Articles, speeches and books
- 11.2 Miscellaneous
Biography
Born in a high-ranking Soviet family. Father, Alexei Nikonov (1917-1992), former NKVD employee, professor at MGIMO , IMEMO employee, editor of the journal "Communist" . Mother, Svetlana Vyacheslavovna Molotova (1929-1989 [3] [4] ), a historian by education, was the only daughter of Vyacheslav Molotov and Polina Zhemchuzhina . Both parents were doctors of historical sciences [5] .
He studied at special school number 1 in Moscow. In 1973 he entered the history department of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov . He specialized in the department of modern and recent history (supervisor E.F. Yazkov ). He graduated from the Faculty of History in 1978 and worked at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History, was an activist of the CPSU , Secretary of the Party Committee of the History Department of Moscow State University. He speaks English and French.
December 24, 1977 played in the third issue of the game What? Where? When? . The club was until 1979 .
Since September 3, 2018, he has been conducting the Big Game political program on Channel One together with Dmitry Simes .
Scientific activity
- In 1978-1998 , he was a junior researcher , senior researcher.
- In 1981 he defended his thesis “Struggle of currents in the Republican Party of the USA in 1964-1968” [6] , in 1989 - his doctoral dissertation “The ideological and political evolution of the Republican Party of the USA after the Second World War” [7] .
- In 1992 - 1993 - Advisor to the Department of Political and International Issues of the International Fund for Economic and Social Reforms (Reform Foundation).
- Since 1993 - President of the Politics Foundation. Head of the Department of History and Political Science of the International University in Moscow .
- February 9, 2011 was appointed dean of the faculty of public administration of Moscow State University [8] .
Political Activities
- He was a secretary of the Komsomol committee at the university.
- In 1988-1989 - Secretary of the Party Committee of the History Department of Moscow State University.
- In 1989-1990 - instructor, head of the sector of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
- In 1990-1991 - in the apparatus of the President of the USSR: adviser, assistant to the head of the Presidential Administration. “He was part of the Gorbachev team,” he noted to himself [9] . On August 22, 1991, he was understood during the detention of the USSR Vice President Gennady Yanayev in the GKChP case [10] .
- From August 1991 to January 1992 - Assistant Chairman of the KGB of the USSR Bakatin . In December 1991, after a scandal involving the transfer of eavesdropping devices to the US at the US embassy, Nikonov defended his boss [11] .
- In 1992, he became a member of the Political Advisory Council of the Interregional Exchange and Trade Union.
- In 1993, he was elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the list of the Party of Russian Unity and Consent (PRES; leader is Sergei Shakhrai ), was a member of the PRES faction, chairman of the subcommittee on international security and arms control of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Together with Shakhrai, he was the author of the “Conservative Manifesto”, which was the ideological basis of PRES. Later he was a member of the council of the All-Russian public movement "Our Home - Russia".
- Since January 1995 - Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Commission to investigate the causes and circumstances of the crisis in the Chechen Republic.
- In 1996, Boris N. Yeltsin , Deputy Chairman of the Coordination Committee of the All-Russian Public Support Movement, at the election of the President of the Russian Federation.
- In 1997-2001, he was a member of the Political Consultative Council under the President of the Russian Federation, the Human Rights Commission under the President of the Russian Federation, and the expert council of the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation on countering political extremism.
- Since 2011, a State Duma deputy from United Russia, a member of the budget and tax committee.
- Since March 2013 - Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education [12] .
- Since June 2016, he headed the United Russia party list in the Nizhny Novgorod region in the elections in the fall of 2016 [13] . In the summer, he joined the party campaign headquarters, being responsible for interaction with foreign voters [14] .
Legislation
From 2011 to 2019, during the exercise of the powers of a deputy of the State Duma of the VI and VII convocations, he co-authored 31 legislative initiatives and amendments to draft federal laws [15] .
Community Activities
- President of the Politics Foundation;
- Club President −93;
- President of the Unity in the Name of Russia Foundation;
- Vice President of the Association of Centers for Political Consulting;
- Member of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy ;
- Member of Channel One Expert Club;
- Member of the Board of the Russian Socio-Political Center Foundation;
- Deputy Chairman of the Editorial Board of the journal Russia in Global Affairs;
- Editor-in-chief of the journal "Strategy of Russia";
- In 2005 - 2007 - Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation , Chairman of the Commission on International Cooperation and Public Diplomacy.
- Since 2007 - Executive Director [16] of the board of the Russkiy Mir Foundation (appointed to this post by President of Russia Vladimir Putin ), since 2011, chairman of the board of the Russkiy Mir Foundation [17] .
He is a biographer of his grandfather, Vyacheslav Molotov. Due to family relationships, Nikonov’s historical works on this issue are not neutral , which the author himself acknowledges [18] .
Views
In the early 1990s, he adhered to liberal views, actively advocated for "reforms", including the power structures of the USSR. According to the recollections of the chief of foreign intelligence of the USSR Leonid Shebarshin , in 1991 he supported the US line for the collapse of the USSR:
| Baker very diplomatically and firmly explained that Russia should not be allowed to claim an excessive share in the division of the inheritance of the former USSR. Mr. Bakatin diplomatically but enthusiastically accepted this thesis. Mr. Bakatin’s assistant Mr. Nikonov, sitting at the same table, smiled approvingly: Russia should part with great-power ambitions once and for all. [19] |
On April 7, 2014, the day before the State Duma’s Education Committee held a “round table” on the topic: “Russian Historical Tradition: the content of history textbooks,” Vyacheslav Nikonov’s view on Russian history was published on the website of the state institution:
| The attitude of an entire generation of young people to the history of their country depends on what will be written in the textbooks, and how convincingly and fascinatingly it will be written. It is always necessary to remember in which country you live and work, to know its traditions. Our Fatherland has a great past. A branch of the Aryan tribe descended from the Carpathian mountains , peacefully settled the Great Russian Plain, Siberia , the coldest part of the planet, reached the Pacific Ocean , founded Fort Ross , absorbed the juices of the richest cultures of Byzantium , Europe, Asia, defeated the most terrible enemy of mankind - Nazism , laid the road to space . But in few places they know so little and value their past and present [20] . |
The poet Igor Irtenyev ironically remarked: “I don’t understand, Nikonov, whose grandson is Molotov or Ribbentrop after all?” [21] .
Archaeologist Lev Klein criticized Nikonov’s statement:
| Here the Slavs are called Arias according to the fashionable nowadays of the adherents of the so-called “ folk-history ” - amateurish and absolutely anti-scientific works on history, especially on ethnogenesis. Works of this kind, free from any methodology and appealing to the lowest chauvinistic instincts of the masses, have flooded the sector of supposedly popular science literature in bookstores and Internet forums ... The racial question is a completely different sphere, there is no Aryan race, and to name Slavs, Chechens or Türkic arias can only purely amateurs. It is strange to encourage this practice from the high cabinet of the State Duma, and even from the Education Committee. ... I have to argue with the poet Irtenyev. Nikonov can in no way be the grandson of Ribbentrop, in no sense. And the point is not that his grandmother (Molotov’s wife Polina Zhemchuzhina-Karpovskaya) was Jewish. The fact is that the Slavs, according to the theory that the party of Ribbentrop preached, did not enter the Nordic branch of the peoples, which the Nazis and their predecessors called the Aryan. And they were called by misunderstanding ... So, Gypsies, Tajiks and Ossetians - there are no more Aryans in our territory, represented by significant groups of the population ... Well, this is a forgivable mistake, although the chairman of the Education Committee could consult his experts [22] . |
Family
Vyacheslav Nikonov in 2011
Married by a third marriage to businessman Nina Nikonova (born 1979), a deputy of the Smolensk Regional Duma from United Russia [23] [24] . The first wife, Olga Nikonova, is a housewife from Poltava [25] , an economist by training. Son Alexey (born 1979) from his first marriage, US citizen [26] , Advisor to the President of the Politics Foundation [27] ; sons - Dmitry (born 1989) and Michael (born 1992) - from the second. In the program “Clever women and clever men” dated February 17, 2018, the program host Yury Vyazemsky asked a question about 4 children, in response to which Nikonov said that the youngest son was 5 years old [28] .
Rewards
- Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II degree ( June 12, 2013 ) - for his great contribution to the development of Russian parliamentarism and active legislative activity [29]
- Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation ( March 11, 1997 ) - for active participation in the preparation of the Address of the President of the Russian Federation to the 1997 Federal Assembly [30]
- Gold Medal of Yerevan State University ( 2009 , Armenia ) [31]
- European Russian Alliance Award (2009) - for active work to support compatriots living abroad [32]
- Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, II degree ( Russian Orthodox Church , June 6, 2016 ) [33]
- Honorary Professor of the Transnistrian State University named after T. G. Shevchenko [34]
Proceedings
The author of about 900 scientific works, including monographs:
- From Eisenhower to Nixon: From the History of the US Republican Party. - M.: Moscow State University, 1984.
- Scam "Iran-Contras". - M.: Moscow State University, 1987.
- Republicans: from Nixon to Reagan. - M.: Moscow State University, 1988.
- Nikonov V., Shakhrai S. Conservative manifesto: political philosophy PRESS . - M., 1994.
- Age of Change: Russia of the 90s through the eyes of a conservative. - M., 1999.
- Russia in the global politics of the XXI century // Social sciences and the present. - 2002. - No. 6. - S. 115-123. (analytical report) (inaccessible link)
- Contemporary Russian Politics: Lecture Course / Ed. V.A. Nikonova. - M., 2003.
- Politics in modern Russia: course of lectures / Ed. V.A. Nikonova. - M., 2005.
- Russia in Contemporary Politics: Lecture Course / Ed. V.A. Nikonova. - M., 2005.
- Molotov. Youth. - M., 2005.
- Russian Politics: Lecture Course / Ed. V.A. Nikonova. - M., 2006.
- Policy code. - M.: Vagrius, 2006.
- The collapse of Russia. 1917 year. - M .: Ast: Astrel, 2011. - 926, [2] p.
- The Russian matrix - M .: Russian word, 2014 .-- 992 p.
- The modern world and its origins. - M.: Publishing house of Moscow University, 2015. - S. 880.
- The code of civilization. What awaits Russia in the world of the future? / Vyacheslav Nikonov. - M .: Publishing house "E", 2015. - 672 p. - (Russian way)
- Molotov. - M .: Young Guard, 2017 .-- 631 p. - ( Life of wonderful people )
Notes
- ↑ Presidium of the General Council of the Party . United Russia. Date of treatment November 15, 2013.
- ↑ Interview with Vyacheslav Nikonov to Mikhail Barshchevsky in the author’s program "Dura Lex" . Echo of Moscow (February 25, 2012). Date of treatment February 26, 2012. Archived February 26, 2012.
- ↑ Nuzov, Vladimir. Molotov’s lap. Interview with Vyacheslav Molotov . Jewish columnist (December 2004). Date of treatment June 13, 2013. Archived June 13, 2013.
- ↑ Grave of the Molotov family at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow
- ↑ Newspaper Gordon Boulevard | Grandson of the former chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, person No. 2 after Stalin Vyacheslav Molotov, political scientist Vyacheslav NIKONOV: "Grandfather admitted that in the 37th firewood ...
- ↑ Nikonov, Vyacheslav Alekseevich. The struggle of the currents in the Republican Party of the United States in 1964-1968: Diss. ... cand. East. Sciences: 07.00.03. - Moscow, 1981. - 246 p.
- ↑ Nikonov, Vyacheslav Alekseevich. The ideological and political evolution of the Republican Party of the United States, 1960-1988. : diss. ... Dr. ist. Sciences: 07.00.03 / Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov. - Moscow, 1989 .-- 388 p. + Addendum (389-637 p.).
- ↑ Vyacheslav Nikonov appointed new dean of the faculty of public administration of Moscow State University
- ↑ On the knees of Molotov
- ↑ Almost a coup
- ↑ Kommersant - Vadim Bakatin: an awkward gesture of goodwill
- ↑ Nikonov was elected head of the Education Committee , Izvestia (March 20, 2013). Date of treatment November 15, 2014.
- ↑ “Steam locomotives” and “wagons” at the elections in the Nizhny Novgorod region (supplemented) - News NN.RU . Date of treatment July 4, 2016.
- ↑ Michael Rubin . The creative manager of "United Russia" will be the top manager of VGTRK " RBC ", 07/21/2016
- ↑ Official website of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation . old.duma.gov.ru. Date of treatment August 4, 2019.
- ↑ “Politics” of the “Russian World” // Russian newspaper , 06/26/2007
- ↑ http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/16201
- ↑ “My grandfather, Vyacheslav Molotov, did not pay fees to Lenin.” Archived copy of February 22, 2014 on the Wayback Machine (“NATIVE NEWSPAPER”).
- ↑ Shebarshin L. Requiem for the Homeland . M: Algorithm , 2014 ISBN 978-5-4438-0594-8
- ↑ Vyacheslav Nikonov: The attitude towards the country largely depends on what will be written in the history textbook (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment April 11, 2014. Archived April 9, 2014.
- ↑ Irteniev I. Who is whose grandson // Echo of Moscow
- ↑ Klein L.S. Arias and Aryans // Anthropogenesis.ru
- ↑ Nikonova Nina Mikhailovna Archival copy of August 28, 2016 on the Wayback Machine on the site "Business Russia"
- ↑ Direct democracy mechanisms are in demand Archival copy of August 11, 2016 on the Wayback Machine (V. A. Nikonov’s interview with Smolensk magazine)
- ↑ I do not have the slightest right or desire to condemn my grandfather for the fact that in Stalin's times he did not fight for the release of his grandmother from exile (interview with the Fakty newspaper)
- ↑ Sergey Lavrov returned his daughter from the USA to Russia . Rambler (09/18/2014).
- ↑ Nikonov Alexey Valerievich on the website of the Corporation for Social Design
- ↑ “Clever Women and Clever Men” - Issue 02/17/2018 (February 17, 2018).
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated June 12, 2013 No. 557 “On Awarding with State Prizes of the Russian Federation” (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment June 13, 2013. Archived October 19, 2013.
- ↑ Order of the President of the Russian Federation dated March 11, 1997 No. 70-rp “On Encouraging Active Participants in the Preparation of the Address of the President of the Russian Federation to the 1997 Federal Assembly”
- ↑ Russian center opened in Yerevan
- ↑ Vyacheslav Nikonov awarded the award of the European Russian Alliance
- ↑ Vyacheslav Nikonov awarded the Order of St. Daniel of Moscow
- ↑ Russian Center of the Russkiy Mir Foundation (with the status of universitywide) (rus.) Date of treatment September 8, 2013.
Links
- Personal site
- Nikonov, Vyacheslav Alekseevich at the Rodovod . Tree of ancestors and descendants
- Vyacheslav Nikonov on the social network Facebook
- Vyacheslav Nikonov on the social network Twitter https://twitter.com/VA_Nikonov
- Page on the website of FGU MSU
- Profile of the VII convocation , VI convocation , I convocation on the portal of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
- Page on the site of the RF OP
- Biographical page of V. A. Nikonov on the portal of the Politics Foundation
- Biographical page of V. Nikonov at the Federal educational portal “Economics, Sociology, Management”
- Biographical page of V. A. Nikonov on Scylla - Website of the Panorama Information and Expert Group
- V. A. Nikonov - scientific works in the Truth system of Moscow State University
Articles, Speeches, and Books
- Archive of articles on the Rossiyskaya Gazeta portal
- Current articles and interviews on the Politics Foundation portal
- Archive of articles and other publications by V. A. Nikonov on the Politics Foundation portal