Biography

PhD in Political Science.

Born on March 19, 1970, in Kyiv.

Graduated from secondary school in 1987 in Riga.

1987 – Entered the Lviv Military Institute of Culture, Faculty of Journalism, from which he graduated in 1991.

1988 – One of the founders of the KVN team “Eskadron Husar” (Squadron of Hussars), which became KVN champions in 1990.

1991 – Correspondent for the newspaper of the Volga District of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

1993 – Head of the Press Service of the Volga District of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Nizhny Novgorod).

1995 – Staff member of the Press Center of the United Group of the Armed Forces of Russia in the Chechen Republic (Khankala).

1996 – Special correspondent in the Nizhny Novgorod region for Nezavisimaya Gazeta, the magazine Ogonyok, and the Latvian newspaper SM-segodnya.

1997 – Press Secretary to the Commander of the Internal Troops in the armed conflict zone in the Chechen Republic (Mozdok).

1998 – Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Nizhegorodskiye Novosti. In 1999 – Press Secretary to the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

2000–2001 – Assistant and Press Secretary to a member of the Federation Council from the Nizhny Novgorod Region (Moscow).

2000 – First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Nizhegorodskiye Novosti.

2001 – President of the Volga League of Journalists.

2001 – Executive Director of the Volga District Branch of the All-Russian Public Organization of Media Workers MediaUnion.

Since 2004 – President of the Interregional League of Journalists.

2002–2003 – Head of Public Relations at RusPromAvto.

2006 – Press Secretary of the GAZ Group.

2008 – Director of the Department of Public Relations and Communications of the mineral and chemical company EuroChem.

2015 – Member of the Union of Writers of Russia, author of the bestsellers Amalgama, “Tantamareska”, “Farewell to Hyperborea”.

2018 – Director of Communications at EuroChem.

2019 – Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Cultural Festival “Russian Rome”.

2023 – Author and host of the program “LITBAR”.