Recently, Sergei Stankevich has often appeared on Russian television. The biography, nationality and general personality of this person are of interest to many. Who is he? How did you get into the epicenter of public life? Why has nothing been heard about him for a long time, and now the name is on everyone's lips? The answers are in this article.
Stankevich is a scientist
Sergey Stankevich was born on February 25, 1954 in Schelkovo near Moscow. Citizenship had, of course, Soviet, and then Russian. But about his nationality, they say that Statkevich's parents are Jews of Polish origin.
Even as a child, the boy showed interest in science and after school he entered the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, named after the leader of the world proletariat. I chose teaching history as my future speci alty.
Having successfully graduated from the Faculty of History in 1977, Stankevich began teaching. He lectured to students of the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas, then took the position of senior researcher at the Instituteof World History at the Academy of Sciences, where his dissertation was defended. The theme of the work was the modern history of the United States of America.
Stankevich Sergei Borisovich is the author of more than thirty different articles. In addition, he wrote a book on the topic of his dissertation. He also co-authored the work “Informals. Social Initiatives” published in 1990.
For a significant contribution to the formation and development of social and political thought in the USSR, Stankevich received an award from the American Center for International Leadership. This also happened in the 90s.
Beginning of political activity
As for political activity, Sergey Stankevich began it back in 1987, joining the ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He remained a member of the CPSU until the 90th. In parallel, from the 88th to the 89th, he collaborated with the Popular Front of Moscow and was even the leader of this movement. And in 1989, Stankevich was elected to the Supreme Council, where he represented the interests of the residents of the Cheryomushkinsky district of the capital as a deputy. This term expired in 1992.
The political activity of Sergei Borisovich at that time was characterized by increased activity, since, in addition to being a deputy in the Armed Forces, he was also a deputy of the Moscow City Council from the 90th to the 92nd. Here he served as the first deputy chairman. Rumor has it that he could have been the chairman (the majority voted for him), but for some reason he had to give up this chair to Mr. Popov.
Yeltsin era
The name of the hero of this article is well known to those who remember the Yeltsin era. After all, Sergey Stankevich was a close associate of Boris Nikolayevich and held quite high posts under Yeltsin.
Stankevich met the future President of Russia back in 1988 and was subdued by the "leader of the new format", as he called Boris Nikolaevich. A historian who studied a democratic society was struck by the fact that a representative of the party nomenklatura literally creates the image of a leader close to the people: not devoid of a sense of humor, simple, a little rude.
During the August coup of 1991 Stankevich Sergei Borisovich, of course, was on the side of Yeltsin and gave him every support. When everything was over, and Boris Nikolayevich took the post of President of the Russian Federation, his devoted assistant first received the position of state adviser responsible for contact with public associations, then became state adviser on political issues, and from 1992 to 1993 served as adviser to the president, helping him control the political sphere of the country and the sphere of interethnic relations.
In 1993, Stankevich was again elected as a deputy, only now to the State Duma, where he ran from the Unity and Accord Party.
Big Stories
During his political activities Sergey Stankevich has repeatedly become a defendant in high-profile stories.
So, for example, he organized the dismantling of the monumentDzerzhinsky at the Lubyanka. He also evicted the apparatus of the Central Committee of the CPSU from its "nest", led the Russian-German exchange of Brezhnev's memorial plaque for a piece of the Berlin Wall, etc.
In 1992, Stankevich helped organize the Red Square festival, which featured opera art. With his assistance (and some even talk about pressure), the State Bank of Russia issued a loan to organize this event. And when it failed and a lot of ugly details surfaced (from corruption to large-scale embezzlement of state funds), the organizers ended up in the dock.
Emigration
In 1995, Sergei Stankevich, whose biography had practically no sharp turns before, faced great difficulties. He was accused of corruption, and Yeltsin fell into disgrace. The former favorite of the president was waiting for an imminent arrest (the sanction had already been issued by the prosecutor's office in 1996), but by that time he was already abroad with his family. First they lived in the USA, then returned to Europe.
Sergey Stankevich, whose nationality is connected with Poland, chose this country as his temporary homeland.
Russia put the ex-deputy on the international wanted list, and the Poles arrested him. But they refused to give it to the Russians. Moreover, prominent public figures of Poland came out in defense of Stankevich, and he received the status of a political emigrant.
After returning
At the end of autumn 1999, all charges against Stankevich were dropped, which gave the politician the opportunity to return home.
True, he did not breed such a stormy political activity as before, but went into business. Such giants as Euroservice, B altimore and Agroinvestproekt worked under his chairmanship.
In 2000, Sergei Borisovich headed the party "Democratic Russia". A year later, he joined the political council of the Union of Right Forces. In 2011, he became a member of the Council of Ryzhkov's political movement Russia's Choice.
Today Stankevich quite often participates in various TV programs, acting as an expert on the political situation in the country and abroad and positioning himself as a representative of the democratic forces of Russia. His face in recent years has become even more recognizable than when Stankevich was an adviser to the President.
