The statesman Igor Olegovich Schegolev , whose personal life is a secret behind seven seals, is one of the most “closed” government representatives. This is despite the fact that he has been engaged in establishing public relations all his life. We will tell you about the path that Shchegolev brought to the Kremlin and how his career took shape.
Childhood and origin
On November 10, 1965, Igor Olegovich Schegolev 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. Journalists were not able to "unearth" any details about Shchegolev's early years. From childhood, Igor showed perseverance and determination, he went in for sports, was an active Komsomol member.
Years of study
It is known that Shchegolev Igor Olegovich studied at the most ordinary secondary school in Vinnitsa. But he clearly studied well, since immediately after receiving a certificate of secondary education he went to Moscow and entered the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages. M. Toreza, at 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 finished 2 courses and in 1984 went to exchange to study in Germany, at the University. K. Marx, in Leipzig, at the Faculty of Journalism. Participation in such programs implied not only good study, but also guaranteed reliability. In 1988, he had in his hands two diplomas of higher education: Russian (philologist, German specialist) and German (journalist), this opened up good prospects for the young man.
Journalism
At the end of the institute, Igor Olegovich Schegolev, by distribution, comes to work at 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, Schegolev continued 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 coveted and prestigious business trip to Paris as his own correspondent for ITAR-TASS. Such trips were offered only to employees loyal to the regime, having proved their trustworthiness. Many colleagues said that only cooperation with law enforcement agencies could help Shchegolev get such an appointment so quickly.
As a correspondent, Igor Olegovich writes a lot for such Russian publications as Izvestia, the military agency Krasnaya Zvezda, Trud, the daily newspaper Segodnya, for the journal Sovetnik and for the ITAR-TASS print media Anomaly. The real fame is brought to him by publications covering the conference on the problems of violence against women in the world, on the course of the world judo championship, and a review of memoirs of the famous French president Francois Mitterrand. In four years, Schegolev becomes 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 moved to the position of deputy chief editor of the news service of the leading Russian news agency. The young journalist, who writes well and knows several languages, quickly joined the team of correspondents covering the activities of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the country. He often went on business trips and reported on B.N.'s foreign visits. Yeltsin.
Work in the Government of the Russian Federation
In June 1998, journalist Igor Olegovich Schegolev unexpectedly for outside observers got 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 then Prime Minister E. Primakov. At the same time, Shchegolev himself says that before that he was only fluently familiar with Yevgeny Maksimovich. Experts say that such an appointment is a sign that Shchegolev has very good connections at the very top of the government, journalists want to believe that this old acquaintance with Putin was bearing fruit. There is also a version that the President’s press secretary Dmitry Yakushkin helped him get to the Kremlin, with whom Schegolev crossed over on journalistic work in Paris. One way or another, Igor Olegovich himself never denied or confirmed these facts. But at age 33, he became the spokesman for 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 is a member of the collegium of representatives from the state in Public Television OJSC (today Channel One). In August 1999, Schegolev became an adviser to S. Stepashin, who then worked as prime minister, and later became an adviser to V.V. Putin. Since 2000, Igor Olegovich heads the press service of the President of the Russian Federation. At this post, he was a member of the creative group for the development of the personal site of V. Putin. At the end of 2001, he became the head of the President’s protocol, and at the same time he was organizing trips of the head of state 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 V. Putin took the place of prime minister. And in the new government, Igor Olegovich Schegolev (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 those forces that “promoted” Shchegolev to this post, it was assumed that there were some business structures interested in redistributing the information market. But 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 also put into practice the existing mechanism of e-government.
Presidential team
In 2012, a new minister of communications and mass communications appeared in the new composition of the Russian government. And Igor Olegovich Schegolev, the assistant to the president, follows his patron V. Putin. The media tried for a long time to find out the spectrum of his duties at the new post, but they did not manage to find out anything concrete. Over the years of his work in the government, Igor Olegovich Schegolev 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 prying eyes, and one of them is Igor Olegovich Schegolev. The official’s wife works at the Foreign Trade Academy and teaches German. She is a good Germanist, has repeatedly traveled to Germany for internships. The media does not report on the presence of a couple of children.
Interesting Facts
Shchegolev Igor Olegovich, interesting facts from a biography of which journalists are diligently looking for, skillfully defends his private life. But the media suggests that as a student, he met then-future President of the Russian Federation 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. According to the assumptions of journalists, it was then that Shchegolev was recruited by the KGB, which contributed to his rapid career advancement subsequently. Igor Olegovich became a KGB freelancer and that is why he was able to go on a business trip to Paris, one of the most desirable cities for Soviet journalists. He is fluent in three languages: German, French and English.