Evgeny Primakov
Evgeny Aleksandrovich Primakov (Evgeny Sandro) is a statesman, political and public figure. Head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) since June 25, 2021.
Yevgeny Primakov is the grandson of the Soviet and Russian diplomat and scientist, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and head of government Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov .
The early years and education of Evgeny Primakov
Evgeny Aleksandrovich Primakov was born on April 29, 1976 in Moscow.
Father - Alexander Evgenievich Primakov (1954−1981) - orientalist scientist.
After school, Evgeny Aleksandrovich Primakov entered the Faculty of History and Philology of the Russian State University for the Humanities, from which he graduated in 1999, receiving a specialty in history, specialization in modern history of the USSR/Russia.
Labor career of Evgeny Primakov
Evgeny Primakov Jr. took the first steps in his working career in the Kommersant-Dengi magazine. Then he worked at the TASS news agency and at the Ekho Moskvy radio. In addition, the young journalist was published in Obshchaya Gazeta.
Since 2002, Evgeniy has worked on television. He was a military correspondent for the news programs “News” and “Itogi” on the TVS channel. He worked as a correspondent in Israel and Iraq, covering the Iraq War, according to Yevgeny Primakov’s biography on Wikipedia.
In 2003, Primakov moved to the NTV channel. Was on business trips in Israel, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq.
In 2005-2007, Evgeny Aleksandrovich Primakov headed the regional Middle East representative office of NTV in Israel and the Middle East. Repeatedly worked in the combat zone.
Then the journalist worked as an international correspondent in the Directorate of Information Programs of Channel One.
In 2008-2011, Yevgeny Primakov Jr. served as head of the Channel One bureau in Israel. I was on business trips in Libya during the assault on Tripoli in the summer of 2011.
In 2010-2018, Evgeny Aleksandrovich Primakov worked as the general director of the ANO Russian Humanitarian Mission. During this period, he also worked for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Then in Turkey he worked as a special adviser on urban refugee policy. Evgeny Primakov Jr. served as Media and Communications Officer in the Office of the Director for the Middle East and North Africa in Amman.
For five years, Primakov was the author and presenter of the International Review program on the Rossiya 24 TV channel (2015−2020).
Political career of Yevgeny Primakov
In 2017-2018, Evgeny Primakov was an adviser to the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on international politics and humanitarian projects (on a voluntary basis). In 2017-2018 he was a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
In July 2021, the United Russia party nominated Yevgeny Primakov as a candidate for deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 7th convocation in the by-elections in the Balashov single-mandate constituency. Primakov became a deputy. In the State Duma, Yevgeny Primakov was a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.
Evgeniy is also a member of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP).
For his services, he received a Letter of Gratitude from the Government of the Russian Federation (2020). Awarded the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry and UNHCR medal “Participant in an emergency humanitarian operation” for organizing the evacuation of Russian citizens from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007.
Appointment of Evgeny Primakov as head of Rossotrudnichestvo
On June 25, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that Yevgeny Primakov was appointed head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo).
The key task of Rossotrudnichestvo is to form and promote an objective idea of Russia abroad.
Scandals involving Yevgeny Primakov
In the fall of 2021, the Head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Evgeny Primakov, stated on social networks that his department in 2021 “for good reasons” will not conduct the “Total Dictation” at its cultural venues, he wrote.
“If we give a platform at public expense to a writer who says that Crimea should be returned to Ukraine, who compares the return of Crimea to the Anschluss... I am absolutely not interested in the political views of the author,” Primakov said at a press conference, answering a question from RBC.
In 2021, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine introduced new sanctions against Russian companies and government agencies. Now sanctions have been introduced against Rossotrudnichestvo and ten other Russian companies.
The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Evgeny Primakov, said on social networks that he would announce a response to Ukraine’s sanctions as soon as he is convinced that the employees of his department in Kyiv are safe.
“This answer will be unpleasant for the Ukrainian regime, but only with humility, only with humility. In Ukraine, we will not abandon Russians, Russian-speaking people who sympathize with Russia, who want to be friends with Russia, including to study in Russia, to be devoured by the Kiev regime,” he wrote.
Views of Evgeny Primakov
As the head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Evgeny Primakov often appears in media news, commenting on the Ukrainian agenda and other events.
At the beginning of 2021, on social networks, Primakov laughed at the reaction of the United States to blocking the broadcast of opposition television channels in Ukraine.
“The owner allowed the slaves to fight for freedom of speech and silence a couple of opposition media outlets. Oh, no, wait, it's not like that: the US Embassy is approving the closure of media in another supposedly sovereign country, protecting freedom of speech. Ugh, not that again. Again this damned unknown,” he wrote.
Primakov said on social networks that he allows an attack on Kyiv and other territories of Ukraine that are important from an infrastructure point of view if the military command of this country decides to not give a damn about the Minsk agreements and stage a blitzkrieg in the Donbass.
According to him, in the event of aggression by the Ukrainian military, Russia will not be able to leave civilians “to be devoured by punitive forces” and, among other instruments of influence, may resort to suppressing the military and command infrastructure of the Kiev regime, including outside the area of direct combat operations, including including striking Bankovaya Street, where the President's Office is located.
Primakov was struck by the hypocrisy of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky ’s words about Donbass, even suspecting him of severe bipolar disorder after Zelensky made a video message in which, in particular, he stated that “it is impossible to bring peace with a tank” and that it is impossible to shell and bomb civilians of people. In addition, the Ukrainian president invited Vladimir Putin to hold a meeting in Donbass.
“I thought a lot: he said this to his Armed Forces of Ukraine, SBU and “volunteers”, right? After all, it can’t be that severe bipolar if, as I remember, doctors checked it during the elections?” Primakov commented on his speech.
The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Evgeny Primakov, privately offered a reward of 50 thousand rubles for information about people who desecrated the fraternal cemetery of Soviet soldiers in the Lithuanian city of Obeliai.
He emphasized that the reward will be given to those who can provide evidence and verifiable information.
“I invite everyone to join this private initiative so that it is not my personal idea, but becomes a public initiative. A healthy society that does not want the graves of its soldiers to be desecrated by some bastards,” he said.
Personal life of Evgeny Primakov
Primakov is married and has four children.
Biography of Evgeny Primakov
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is a famous politician, diplomat, former prime minister, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and intelligence services, speaker of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union.
He was an academician, a statesman who earned a reputation as an unshakable defender of the interests of the Russian Federation, a pragmatic and respected diplomat in the state and abroad, a large-scale personality with an inner core from a unique generation of the Soviet and post-Soviet era, which became a reflection of the history of the country.
Primakov Evgeniy Maksimovich
Primakov’s most striking and famous political decision was the cancellation of a visit to Washington in 1999, which occurred right in the air during a flight over the Atlantic. Having received information about the North Atlantic military bloc's intention to bomb Yugoslavia, he decided to return immediately.
Personal life of Evgeny Primakov
Yevgeny Primakov was married twice. He knew his first wife Laura Gvishiani (Kharadze) since childhood; they lived next door in Georgia. She was the adopted daughter of NKVD General Mikhail Maksimovich Gvishiani, and later became the sister of son-in-law Alexei Kosygin. Together the young people went to enroll in Moscow. In 1951 they got married.
Family of Evgeny Primakov: wife Laura, son Sasha and daughter Nana
They had two children - their first-born Alexander in 1954 and their daughter Nana in 1962. In 1981, the politician suffered a severe loss - the death of his son from a heart attack. At this time he was on duty on Red Square during the May Day festivities. His heart was weak, and the ambulance could not arrive quickly.
In the summer of 1987, the politician’s wife also died of heart disease. She felt sick in the elevator while they were going down. They lived together for 37 years.
Evgeny Primakov and his son Alexander
From his son, Primakov left a grandson, Evgeniy Jr., who gave him 4 great-granddaughters. And daughter Nana gave birth to 2 girls, Sasha and Maria.
Yevgeny Primakov Jr. - grandson of a politician
The politician’s second wife was his attending physician Irina Borisovna, whom he married in 1994. She graduated from the Stavropol Medical Institute, and during her residency she worked in the Fourth Main Directorate, where the country's leadership was treated. Then she became the head of the special department of the Barvikha sanatorium, where in 1990 she met a politician. At that time, she was married to a doctor, and their daughter Anya was born into the marriage.
Evgeny Primakov and his second wife Irina
Yevgeny Primakov invited her to become his attending physician. A year later, after the putsch, Irina divorced her husband and became close to the politician. Soon they got married.
The childhood of Evgeny Primakov
One of the most influential people in the state was born on October 29, 1929 in Kyiv, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR. His real name is Ion Finkelstein. His mother is a gynecologist. The politician did not know his father. In the thirties, he was repressed and disappeared in one of the Gulag camps. According to official data, the politician’s mother is Jewish, father is Russian.
Evgeny Primakov as a child with his mother
The politician grew up in Tbilisi, where his mother’s relatives lived, and where she moved 2 years after his birth. After graduating from seven classes, he entered the Baku military school (BVMPU), created on the basis of a naval special school. In 1946, the young man was expelled from the cadets due to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Returning to Georgia and graduating from school in 1948, he entered the capital’s Institute of Oriental Studies. In 1953, he became a certified specialist in Arab states and continued his education in graduate school at the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University.
