Konstantin Kostin is a well-known domestic political strategist, currently in charge of the Civil Society Development Foundation. During the year he was the head of the presidential department of Russia, supervised domestic policy issues. He is a Fellow State Councilor First Class.
Biography of the politician
Konstantin Kostin was born in the Moscow region in 1970. In 1995 he became a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. He began to try himself in the field of journalism much earlier, since 1986 he has been writing and freelance collaborating with various media.
In particular, at the very beginning of the 90s he worked for the Kommersant publication, and then got into the Metapress market communications agency, which was associated with the Menatep company, owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
In 1992, Konstantin Kostin begins to make a successful career. He is the executive director of an advertising agency for PR. And after a few months already leadsexecutive office in the advertisers' association. It is in Metapress that Konstantin Nikolaevich Kostin meets Vladislav Surkov.
Khodorkovsky structures
In 1994, Kostin went to work already in Menatep itself, where he began as head of the advertising department of the bank of the same name, and later headed the directorate for working with the media.
By the end of 1996, Konstantin Kostin was already vice-president of Menatep Bank. In his interests, he works on affiliating Literaturnaya Gazeta, as a result, he becomes the chairman of the board of directors in the publishing house of the same name.
In the advertising business
Since 1993, Kostin co-founded an advertising agency called "Soyuz", and soon headed it as president. In the mid-90s, Soyuz became one of the eight largest agencies in the country, having received special accreditation from the Kommersant publishing house, which allowed it to count on exclusive conditions in terms of advertising.
Even then, Kostin's main activity was participation in various election campaigns. First at the regional level (in Russia and Ukraine), and then at the federal level. He works in the elections of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, helps Nikolai Vinogradov to become the governor of the Vladimir region, Yevgeny Mikhailov - Pskov, Ravil Geniatulin - Chita.
In 2003, the already established Russian political strategistKonstantin Nikolayevich Kostin is being accused of discrediting the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in favor of the ruling party. It is believed that he does this by conspiring with Vladislav Surkov.
System
The next important stage in the biography of Konstantin Kostin is the work at OAO Mass Media Systems, which is part of Vladimir Yevtushenkov's concern. He was in charge there from 1998 to 1999. Department of Project Management and Economics.
Shortly after that, he officially becomes Surkov's adviser, goes to work in the United Russia party. In the spring of 2005, under the patronage of his senior comrade, Kostin took the post of deputy chairman of the party's election commission, he was appointed responsible for PR, a direction he knew well. In this post, he replaces Vladimir Medinsky.
In this position, he is rebranding the Youth Unity into the Young Guard of United Russia.
In the presidential administration
Leaving his job at United Russia in 2008, Kostin became deputy head of the internal policy department of the presidential administration. His range of duties includes communication with the regional elite, he also oversees federal and online media.
It is believed that at the same time he remains the curator of the party in power from the presidential administration. In September 2011, another important event in the biography of Konstantin Kostin, whose photo is in this article, hispromoted to head of department.
In 2012, he even received the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, fourth degree, for organizing the election campaign to the State Duma a year earlier.
Civil Society Development Fund
The new project that Kostin is still working on is the Civil Society Development Fund, which he created and headed in 2012, after finishing work in the Kremlin. This is a non-governmental organization that studies domestic media, conducts an expert assessment of the situation in the regions, monitors moods in various areas of Russian society. Interestingly, some of the Foundation's research is strictly classified, according to Kostin himself.
Head of the Effective Policy Foundation Gleb Pavlovsky is convinced that Kostin is one of the key links in the connection between the presidential administration and reality. In his opinion, the Foundation for the Development of Civil Society is an independent structure, which at the same time works closely with the internal policy department of the presidential administration, which Kostin himself once headed.
Having left his position in the Kremlin, the hero of our article continues to interact directly with the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Vyacheslav Volodin. He is officially his advisor. It is believed that it was Kostin who coined the term "nationalization of the elites". Since October 2012, this is how the course of the new government has been called in Russia.
In 2016, Kostin became an adviserSergei Kiriyenko, when he was appointed first deputy head of the presidential administration. He himself noted that now he will pay increased attention to regional election campaigns in order to prevent the opposition from expressing itself in them. Now he continues this work, he is 47 years old.
