Marina Litvinovich, political scientist and journalist. Biography, professional activity

Litvinovich Alexeevna Marina, a Russian journalist, public figure, human rights activist is an example of women of modern times. She understands the Internet, masterfully conducts political activity, organizes journalistic investigations, but at the same time Litvinovich realized herself as a wife and mother, she looks great and finds time in a hobby.

Family and childhood

September 19, 1974 in Moscow was born Litvinovich Marina. The girl's family had an interesting story. Marina's favorite grandfather is an outstanding aircraft designer, he worked for 60 years in the Bureau of Ilyushin. He had numerous state awards, including the Order of Lenin and the Red Banner of Labor. It is to him Marina is grateful for instilling a love for books, history and music, he taught his granddaughter to play the piano, allowed him to dig for hours in his huge library. Grandmother Litvinovich - an outstanding opera singer, soprano, sang at the Bolshoi Theater, and later taught at the Moscow Conservatory.

Marina's childhood was happy, with birthdays, with trips to the theater, with books. The family has always instilled in her optimism, faith in justice and love of knowledge.

Years of study

Litvinovich Marina belongs to that happy group of people who are very fond of studying, and she has been enjoying it for many years. A talented girl successfully studied at school and after graduation she easily passed the tests in the Moscow State University to the Faculty of Philosophy, to the specialty "methodology of science". In 1995, Litvinovich entered the French college for the specialty "sociology", which ends in 1997. In 1999, she began to study in postgraduate study at the Moscow State University in the direction of "political scientist", but she did not go to the defense of the thesis. Already during her studies she is carried away by political and journalistic activity, she actively develops interent technologies, and this becomes her life's business. Later, Marina wrote in her blog that she went to law school, but this information has no official confirmation.

Effective Policy Foundation

In 1996, Litvinovich began his many-year, fruitful cooperation with the Foundation for Effective Politics Gleb Pavlovsky. She heads the information-analytical department of the organization. The Foundation was engaged in the preparation and implementation of various information campaigns, mostly pre-election campaigns, most often worked with network resources. Marina Litvinovich specializes in Internet journalism, she covers the activities of the Foundation and its public relations. Later, together with Pavlovsky, Marina is working on the opening of the "Russian Journal" - a daily online publication covering the informal agenda.

Work in the organization Pavlovsky did not pass for Litvinovich in vain, she gained experience, gained connections, penetrated the essence of the political process.

Journalism is the first vocation

Immediately after graduation Marina Litvinovich receives an offer to work on websites for Boris Nemtsov, who was then the first vice-premier. It was the first political server in Russia. After that, she is invited to participate in the pre-election campaign of the Prime Minister of Israel, where she also works on the site.

In 1999, she works immediately on several political Internet projects: the site of S. Kirienko, the websites of the 1999 Elections, 2000, and even an electronic resource for the presidential candidate V. Putin. This is how the political journalist Litvinovich Marina Alekseevna is born.

In 1999, a journalist was attacked, the reason for which was her professional activities, the investigation did not find the perpetrators. Litvinovich gradually develops the image of a journalist with right-wing views.

While gaining journalistic experience, she works on more and more serious projects, for example, she takes part in the opening of such electronic media as Gazeta.Ru and Vesti.Ru. She has specialization: Internet portals and network publications, in this she became a real pro, she is invited to various newly created media as an expert and manager.

In 2000-2002, Litvinovich, in collaboration with Gleb Pavlovsky, is working on the creation of the strana.ru project, which promotes the pro-government point of view on events, and holds the posts of chief editor and general director.

Political career

There are people who can not stay away from politics, Litvinovich Marina belongs to their number, whose biography from the very beginning of professional activity is related to this sphere. In 2001-2002 she participates in several election campaigns in Ukraine already as a professional political technologist. She increasingly appears in the media as a propagandist for certain political forces, her work is related to working in the Foundation for Effective Politics, but she is gaining strength as an independent figure.

In the fall of 2003, Litvinovich left the Foundation and became deputy head of the electoral headquarters of the Union of Right Forces party headed by Alfred Koch. In the same year, Marina Alekseevna cooperates with the organization "Open Russia" Mikhail Khodorkovsky, she is a consultant-political technologist. She worked with Khodorkovsky until he was arrested, traveled around the country with him, helped with the organization of work with the public, primarily with young people. Later, she represented the information interests of Leonid Nevzlin, who was forced to hide in Israel from arrest.

In 2003-2004, Litvinovich headed the electoral headquarters of Irina Khakamada in the presidential elections in Russia, her protege gained 2.1% of the vote, which was a good result in that situation.

So in the political arena of Russia there was a new player - Litvinovich Marina Alekseevna. Photos of the political strategist with the country's leading oppositionists regularly appeared in the media. In 2004, she was included in the list of the most popular political technologists of Russia, taking the seventh position.

United Civil Front

In 2005, Marina moved to the position of political adviser Garry Kasparov, who heads the opposition movement United Civil Front. This organization has a pronounced anti-government stance, it participated in pickets, rallies, and conducted an active work on the Internet.

In 2006, Marina Litvinovich committed the second robbery, was severely beaten, as before, the guilty were not found, but the investigators linked the attack to the political activities of the victim.

In 2009, Marina was removed from the post of executive director of the FMG for an article in which they saw an attempt to move closer to the Russian president.

Life on the Net

Litvinovich Marina Alekseevna, a politician who conducts his activities primarily on the Internet. She is a well-known blogger, her columns are on many famous sites: Snob, Echo of Moscow. Her journal features bold comments on the events of Russian political life.

In 2010, Marina Litvinovich launches the BestToday network journal aggregator to collect the best records of the day. She actively cooperates with the network media, acts as an expert, gives interviews, writes comments. In 2011, she creates a Monitoring Expert Group, which implements the pre-election project Election2012.ru. The site published compromising materials on Russian officials.

Human rights activist Marina Litvinovich

Even while studying in the journalist attracted sharp topics, she was always a supporter of the truth. This leads her to rallies of the opposition, she participates in the organization of the Dissenters' March.

In 2006 he is investigating the tragic cases of mass poisoning of Chechen and Ingush children, holding a meeting of indifferent citizens and a rally to draw the authorities' attention to the situation with the soldier Andrei Sychev. She actively publishes materials and conducts investigations on corruption, cooperating with the site of public procurement. In 2011, Litvinovich begins the revelatory monitoring of "The Power of Families-2011" and publishes in 2012 the results in the form of a book that tells about 20 clans that control power and cash flows in Russia.

Litvinovich heads the Foundation for Assistance to Victims of Terror, which organizes charity auctions and actions, helps the victims defend their rights, the fund works in Russia and Israel.

Private life

That's it, Marina Litvinovich. Photo of her husbands or children is difficult to find, she carefully protects her privacy. However, it is known that Marina had three sons, an average Savva (born in 2001), she gave birth to from the famous designer Artemy Lebedev. The last baby was born in March 2012. About men next to Litvinovich nothing is known, although such a young and charming woman is unlikely to suffer from the lack of attention of the opposite sex. But she knows well how the media work, and is able not only to extract information, but also to hide it.