Statesman Shchegolev Igor Olegovich, whose personal life is a secret behind seven seals, is one of the most "closed" representatives of power. This is despite the fact that he has been engaged in establishing public relations all his life. Let's talk about the path that led Shchegolev to the Kremlin and how his career developed.
Childhood and origins
November 10, 1965 Shchegolev Igor Olegovich was born. The family of the future official at that time lived in the Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa. There is no information about the Shchegolev family. Igor Olegovich does not talk about his private life at all, including his childhood. The journalists never managed to "dig up" any details about Shchegolev's early years. From childhood, Igor showed perseverance and determination, he went in for sports, was an active member of the Komsomol.
Years of study
It is known that Shchegolev Igor Olegovich studied at the most ordinary secondary school in Vinnitsa. Buthe clearly studied well, because immediately after receiving a certificate of secondary education he went to Moscow and entered the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages. M. Torez, to the Faculty of Translators. Shchegolev studied very well, he leaned on languages, participated in public life, demonstrating all the necessary qualities for building a career. He brilliantly completed 2 courses and in 1984 went on an exchange to study in Germany, at the University. K. Marx, in Leipzig, at the Faculty of Journalism. Participation in such programs assumed not only a good study, but also guaranteed reliability. In 1988, he had two diplomas of higher education in his hands: Russian (philologist, specialist in German) and German (journalist), this opened up good prospects for a young man.
Journalism
After graduating from the institute, Shchegolev Igor Olegovich comes to work in TASS, as an editor in the editorial office of the countries of America. After the collapse of the USSR, the agency was renamed ITAR-TASS, Shchegolev continues to work in it as a senior editor in the department of European countries. There is information that at the same time the young journalist worked in foreign intelligence. This period was a kind of trial period, which Igor passed with success. And in 1993 he went on a coveted and prestigious business trip to Paris as his own correspondent for ITAR-TASS. Such trips were offered only to loyal to the regime employees who proved their reliability. Many colleagues said that getting so fast isSchegolev's appointment could only be helped by cooperation with law enforcement agencies.
Working as a correspondent, Igor Olegovich writes a lot for such Russian publications as Izvestia, the military organ Krasnaya Zvezda, Trud, the daily newspaper Segodnya, for the magazine Sovetnik and for the press organ ITAR- TASS "Anomaly". He is truly famous for his publications that covered the conference on the problems of violence against women in the world, about the course of the world championship in judo, and the review of the memoirs of the famous French President Francois Mitterrand. In four years, Shchegolev has become an authoritative expert on European problems.
In 1997, Igor Olegovich returned to Moscow to get a promotion. He becomes the head of the European sector in the Moscow edition of ITAR-TASS. Later, he moves to the position of deputy chief editor of the news service of Russia's leading news agency. The young journalist, who writes well and knows several languages, quickly joined the team of correspondents who covered the activities of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the country. He often went on business trips and reported on foreign visits of B. N. Yeltsin.
Work in the Government of the Russian Federation
In June 1998, journalist Shchegolev Igor Olegovich, unexpectedly for outside observers, gets a job in the Government of the Russian Federation. He becomes deputy head of the government information department. And after 2 months he was appointed press secretary of the thenPrime Minister E. Primakov. At the same time, Shchegolev himself says that before that he was only briefly acquainted with Yevgeny Maksimovich. Experts say that such an appointment is a sign that Shchegolev has very good connections at the very top of power, journalists want to believe that this old acquaintance with Putin was bearing fruit. There is also a version that the press secretary of the President Dmitry Yakushkin, with whom Shchegolev crossed paths in journalistic work in Paris, helped him get to the Kremlin. One way or another, Igor Olegovich himself never denied or confirmed these facts. But at the age of 33, he became the second person in the country's press secretary, and this is an example of a brilliant career. And after 2 months, he sits in the chair of the head of the Government Information Department, he is a member of the board of representatives from the state at Public Television OJSC (today Channel One). In August 1999, Shchegolev became an adviser to S. Stepashin, who was then prime minister, and later became an adviser to V. V. Putin. Since 2000, Igor Olegovich has been the head of the press service of the President of the Russian Federation. In this position, he was a member of the creative team for the development of V. Putin's personal website. At the end of 2001, he became the President's chief of protocol, and at the same time organized the head of state's trips abroad and controlled the President's press service a little.
Ministerial Portfolio
In 2008, elections were held in the country, as a result of which D. Medvedev became president, and the place of prime minister was taken byV. Putin. And in the new government, Shchegolev Igor Olegovich (photo attached) received a new high appointment - he became the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications. The new minister not only managed all means of communication in the country, but also began to control the media. Journalists and political scientists were perplexed about this appointment and began to look for the forces that "promoted" Shchegolev to this post, it was assumed that behind him were some business structures interested in redistributing the information market. But the further activities of the minister did not reveal any persons who benefited from this appointment. As minister, Shchegolev brought to completion the reform of the country's information environment, he switched television to digital broadcasting, merged Rostelecom and Svyazinvest, and launched the current mechanism of "electronic government" into practice.
Presidential team
In 2012, a new Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications appeared in the new composition of the Russian government. And Shchegolev Igor Olegovich, assistant to the president, follows his patron V. Putin. The media tried for a long time to find out the range of his duties in the new post, but they did not manage to find out anything specific. Over the years of his work in the government, Shchegolev Igor Olegovich received several awards, including the Order of Merit for the Fatherland and the Order of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Private life
Many journalists and PR people carefully and skillfully protect their privacy from prying eyes, and one of them is Shchegolev Igor Olegovich. Wifeofficial works at the Academy of Foreign Trade, teaches German. She is a good Germanist, she has repeatedly traveled to Germany for internships. The media does not report anything about the couple having children.
Interesting facts
Shchegolev Igor Olegovich, interesting facts from whose biography journalists are diligently looking for, skillfully protects his private life. But the media suggests that even in his student years he met the then future President of the Russian Federation V. Putin in Leipzig. Shchegolev studied there, and Putin was on a business trip from the KGB of the USSR and headed the house of Soviet-German friendship. According to the assumptions of journalists, it was then that Shchegolev was recruited into the KGB, which subsequently contributed to his rapid career advancement. Igor Olegovich became a freelance KGB officer and that is why he was able to go on a business trip abroad to one of the most desirable cities for Soviet journalists, to Paris. He is fluent in three languages: German, French and English.
