Assistant to the President Shchegolev Igor Olegovich: biography and photos

The statesman Shchegolev Igor Olegovich, whose personal life is a secret with seven seals, is one of the most "closed" representatives of the authorities. This is despite the fact that he has been working all his life to establish public relations. Let's talk about the way Shchegolev brought him to the Kremlin and how his career developed.

Childhood and origin

On November 10, 1965, Shchegolev Igor Olegovich was born. The family of the future official at that time resided in the Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa. There is no information about Shchegolev's family. Igor Olegovich does not talk at all about his private life, including his childhood. Journalists have not been able to "unearth" any details about the early years of Schegolev. Since childhood, Igor has demonstrated persistence and dedication, he was engaged in sports, was an active member of the Komsomol.

Years of study

It is known that Shchegolev Igor Olegovich studied in the most ordinary secondary school in Vinnitsa. But he clearly studied well, because immediately after receiving the certificate of secondary education he went to Moscow and entered the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages. M. Thorez, at the faculty of translators. Studied Schegolev very well, he leaned on the tongues, participated in public life, demonstrating all the necessary qualities for building a career. He graduated brilliantly 2 courses and in 1984, on an exchange went to study in Germany, at the University. K. Marx, to Leipzig, to the Faculty of Journalism. Participation in such programs meant not only good study, but also guaranteed reliability. In 1988, he had two diplomas on higher education: a Russian (philologist, a specialist in German) and a German (journalist), which opened up good prospects for the young man.

Journalism

After graduation, Shchegolev Igor Olegovich comes to work in the TASS, as editor in the editorial offices of the countries of America. After the collapse of the USSR, the agency is renamed ITAR-TASS, Schegolev continues to work in it as a senior editor in the department of European countries. There is information that at the same time a young journalist worked in foreign intelligence. This period was a kind of probationary period, which Igor passed with success. And in 1993 he went on a welcome and prestigious business trip to Paris as his own correspondent of ITAR-TASS. Such trips were offered only to employees loyal to the regime, which proved their reliability. Many colleagues said that to get so quickly this appointment to Shchegolev could only be helped by cooperation with law enforcement agencies.

While working as a correspondent, Igor Olegovich writes a lot for such Russian publications as Izvestia, the military organ Krasnaya Zvezda, Trud, the daily Segodnya, for Sovetnik magazine and for the ITAR-TASS news agency Anomaly. He is known for his publications covering the conference on the problems of violence against women in the world, the progress of the world championship in judo, and reviews of the memoirs of the famous French President François Mitterrand. For four years Schegolev has become an authoritative expert on the problems of Europe.

In 1997, Igor Olegovich returned to Moscow to receive 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 editor in chief of the news service of the leading Russian news agency. A young journalist who writes well and knows several languages quickly entered the team of correspondents who covered the activities of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the country. He repeatedly went on business trips and reported on foreign visits BN. Yeltsin.

Work in the Government of the Russian Federation

In June 1998, journalist Igor Olegovich Shchegolev unexpectedly arranges for work in the Government of the Russian Federation for outside observers. He becomes the deputy head of the government information department. And after 2 months he was appointed press secretary of the then Prime Minister E. Primakov. At the same time Shchegolev himself says that before that he had only been fluent with Evgeny Maksimovich. Experts say that this appointment is a sign that Shchegolev has very good ties at the very top of power, journalists want to believe that this old acquaintance with Putin was paying off. There is also a version that the press secretary of the President Dmitry Yakushkin helped him to the Kremlin, with whom Shchyogolev crossed the lines of journalism in Paris. One way or another, Igor Olegovich himself never denied and did not confirm these facts. But at the age of 33 he became the press secretary of the second person in the country, and this is an example of a brilliant career. And after 2 months he sits in the chair of the head of the Department of Government Information, he enters the board of representatives from the state in Public Television (today "First Channel"). In August 1999, Schegolev became an adviser to S. Stepashin, then working as prime minister, and later became an adviser to V.V. Putin. Since 2000, Igor Olegovich is the head of the presidential press service. In this post, he was a member of the creative group for the development of the personal website of V. Putin. At the end of 2001, he became the head of the protocol of the President, and also worked in parallel on the organization of trips of the head of state abroad and supervised the President's press service.

Ministerial portfolio

In 2008, elections were held in the country, as a result of which Dmitry Medvedev became president, and V.Putin took the place of prime minister. And in the new government Shchegolev Igor Olegovich (photo attached) received a new high appointment - he became 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 those forces that "moved" Shchegolev to this post, it was assumed that behind him were some business structures interested in redistribution of the information market. But the minister's further activity did not reveal any persons who benefited from this appointment. As Minister Shchegolev brought to completion the reform of the information environment of the country, he transferred television to digital broadcasting, held a merger of Rostelecom and Svyazinvest, and also launched the existing mechanism of "e-government".

Presidential team

In 2012, a new minister of communications and mass communications appeared in the new Russian government. And Shchegolev Igor Olegovich, the presidential aide, follows his patron V. Putin. The media have long been trying to figure out the range of his duties in the new post, but nothing concrete has been learned. 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.

Personal life

Many journalists and PR people carefully and skillfully protect their privacy from outside views, and one of them is Shchegolev Igor Olegovich. The wife of an official works at the Academy of Foreign Trade, teaches German. She is a good Germanist, she traveled to Germany on an internship many times. The media do not say anything about the presence of a couple of children.

Interesting Facts

Schegolev Igor Olegovich, interesting facts from whose biography the journalists are searching diligently, skillfully defends their private life. But the media suggests that even in his student years he met with then still future Russian President V. Putin in Leipzig. Schegolev studied there, and Putin was on a business trip from the KGB of the USSR and headed the house of Soviet-German friendship. Under the assumptions of journalists, it was then that Shchegolev was recruited into the KGB, which contributed to his rapid advancement on the career ladder afterwards. Igor Olegovich became a freelance KGB officer and that's why he was able to go on a foreign trip to one of the most desirable cities for Soviet journalists in Paris. He is fluent in three languages: German, French and English.