Sergey Kurginyan is a very versatile person - a geophysicist, political scientist, politician, artistic director of the theater, founder of the left-wing movement called "The Essence of Time". Representatives of the latter are supporters of the restoration of the Soviet Union. He also heads the Kurginyan Center Foundation.
General information
Today Sergey Kurginyan is 68 years old. He writes articles devoted to the analysis of world political processes, current events in public life, the problems of the theory of catastrophes and the strategy of decisions made. He is the author of more than ten books, including such as "Political Tsunami", "Lessons of October", participates in various political programs as a co-host.
In some media, he is portrayed as a representative of the "sixth column" operating inside the Kremlin. Initially, he advocated the so-called European values, for integration with the West, in whose representatives he saw not enemies, but only competitors, for Russia's non-interference in the events in Donbass.
Beginning of Sergey's biographyKurginyan
His nationality is Armenian. Although he was born in Moscow in 1949, his father came from a small Armenian village. The family of Sergei Kurginyan was intelligent. Father is a professor, historian, researcher of the Middle East. Mother is a philologist, researcher at the Literary Institute. Maternal grandfather and grandmother are hereditary nobles.
Since childhood, Sergei dreamed of becoming an artist, he took an active part in amateur performances, studied in a school drama club, and received roles in performances. Immediately after school, he could not enter the theater. But he began to study at the Geological Prospecting Institute, where in his second year he created and directed an amateur theater.
Young years
After graduating from high school in 1972, the young man worked at the Institute of Oceanology, eventually becoming a researcher, and then a candidate of science. Since 1980, he worked at the Geological Prospecting Institute, from which he graduated.
Sergey combined scientific activity and creative hobbies, remaining the director of the theater-studio, organized by him in his student years. In 1983, he graduated from the Shchukin School in absentia.
Later, they wrote about Kurginyan that today's adherent of the Soviet Union at that time did not go to the supporters of the socialist system. Moreover, he repeatedly spoke about the horrors of the Stalinist regime. He also emphasized that he, as a descendant of a noble family, had no reason to show respect for the Soviet regime.
Formation of ETC
BIn 1986, the theater, which was Kurginyan's favorite brainchild, was recognized as a state theater, it received the name "On the Boards". Sergei left work in the first of his speci alties, devoting himself entirely to creative activity. However, his directorial path then was not successful. The only performance called "Shepherd", which he staged based on Bulgakov's play of the same name, was a failure. But Kurginyan succeeded as a business executive.
In 1987, on the basis of the theater-studio, the ETC - the "Experimental Creative Center" was established. He was supported by the secretary of the executive committee of the Moscow Council Yu. Prokofiev, and the center was provided with several premises in the center of Moscow, as well as funds. In 1990, the ETC was renamed the International Public Foundation, or the Kurginyan Center. Since 2004, the center has become an association with the UN Department.
Continuing to consider the biography of Sergei Kurginyan, one cannot but say about him as a politician.
Political career
During the period of perestroika, Sergei Yervandovich supported Mikhail Gorbachev's undertakings. However, he did not want the collapse of the USSR, only advocating the modernization of the existing system, which was administrative-command. He became a member of the Communist Party in order to implement his ideas, consisting in the improvement and strengthening of statehood, opposed the democrats who wanted the empire to die.
With the mediation of M. Prokofiev, the head of the Moscow City Executive Committee, Sergei Kurginyan visited Baku as a member of a group of political experts in order to resolve the conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. Report,which he presented after a trip to the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, included accurate forecasts about the further development of the situation. In this regard, he was further invited as an expert. He was also on his way to Lithuania, Karabakh, Dushanbe.
In 1991, Kurginyan became an unofficial adviser to M. Gorbachev, proposed to the latter a plan for the country's exit from the crisis. As Sergei Yervandovich later claimed, there were disagreements between him and the head of state regarding ways to break the deadlock of the USSR and the party.
Support for the coup and the Letter of the Thirteen
In the biography of Sergei Kurginyan, contradictory political positions are sometimes seen. So, during the August coup, the politician supported the State Emergency Committee, announcing this in one of the publications, where he called himself its ideologist. The head of the KGB, V. Kryuchkov, one of the conspirators, was subsequently accepted by him into the ETC. During the period of the internal political conflict, in 1993, he was present in the premises of the Supreme Council, but was put out from there by the adherents of the campaign against Ostankino, since he was against it. He immediately provided information about this to the public.
In 1996, the politician invited big businessmen to take the side of the state, initiating the appearance of an appeal called the “Letter of Thirteen”. Among the signatories were such as Boris Berezovsky, Viktor Gordilov, Alexei Nikolaev, Mikhail Fridman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Subsequently, the result of the alliance between the head of state and big business was the establishment of an oligarchicbuilding.
Sergey Kurginyan: personal life
His wife is Maria Mamikonyan, whom he met during his student days. They got married at the same time. Today she is an artist of the Na Doskakh theater, works at the ETC and heads the RVS - Parental All-Russian Resistance. This organization operates in the field of family protection and education issues. It denies the Western model of education and promotes a ban on sexual education of children.
In 2015, the RVS held an action in St. Petersburg related to the distribution of its newspaper in the country's schools, which caused a public outcry. Many of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly were indignant at the fact that children were in fact chosen as a target of political propaganda. In addition, according to the deputies, the publication presented such a view of the history of the country, which distorts reality.
The couple have a daughter born in 1977, whose name is Irina. She is also an employee of the Kurginyan Center, has a history education and a Ph. D., and is raising a daughter.
Kurginyan today
In 2011, he founded the Essence of Time movement, a left-wing patriot movement, earning him the nickname of an aggressive patriot. The emergence of this movement is associated with a talk show called "The Court of Time" and further lectures posted on the Global Web. In them Sergey Kurginyan revealed his political views.
As the leader of the structure he created, heorganized rallies, held various actions. So, he burned a white ribbon in front of the public, symbolizing purity and protest. In 2012, the politician was among the initiators of actions aimed at preventing the so-called Orange Revolution in Russia, similar to the Ukrainian one.
He, in particular, established the "Anti-Orange Committee", directed against the collapse of the Soviet Union. At that time, opposition figures began to accuse him of working for V. V. Putin. In 2013, the politician initiated a parental congress, where the RVS was established, chaired by his wife Maria Rachievna Mamikonyan. President Putin attended the event for a while and made a short speech.
In 2014, Kurginyan made a trip to Donetsk, where he made an attempt to accuse Igor Strelkov of betrayal. Thus, he caused a flurry of indignation and controversy on Internet forums. According to the media, Kurginyan is a politician who has a unique ability, being in the position of an oppositionist, at the same time to remain loyal to the current authorities.
