Sergey Kurginyan is a very versatile person - a geophysicist, political scientist, politician, art director of the theater, the 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, problems of catastrophe theory and decision-making strategies. He is the author of more than ten books, among which 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 within the Kremlin. Initially, he advocated the so-called European values, for integration with the West, in the representatives of which he saw not enemies, but only competitors, for the non-interference of the Russian Federation in the events in the Donbass.
Beginning of the biography of Sergei Kurginyan
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 - professor, historian, researcher of the Middle East. Mother - philologist, researcher at the Literary Institute. Maternal grandfather and grandmother are hereditary nobles.
From childhood, Sergei dreamed of joining artists, he took an active part in amateur performances, studied in the school drama circle, 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 the second year he created an amateur theater and directed it.
Youth
After graduating from a university 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 Exploration Institute, which he graduated from.
Sergey combined scientific activities and creative hobbies, remaining the director of a 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 the present adherent of the Soviet Union at that time did not go among 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.
ETC Education
In 1986, the theater, which was Kurginyan’s favorite brainchild, was recognized as the state theater; it was called “On the Boards”. Sergey left his job in the first of his specialties, fully devoting himself to creative activity. However, his directorial path was not successful then. The only performance called "The Shepherd", which he staged based on the play of the same name by Bulgakov, 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 Soviet, Y. Prokofiev, and the center was provided with several premises in the center of Moscow, as well as cash. In 1990, ETCs were renamed the International Public Fund, or the “Kurginyan Center”. Since 2004, the center began to enter into an association with the UN Department.
Continuing to consider the biography of Sergei Kurginyan, you can not say about him as a politician.
Career politics
During the perestroika period, Sergey Ervandovich supported the initiatives of Mikhail Gorbachev. However, he did not want the collapse of the USSR, only advocating the modernization of the existing system, which was an administrative-command system. He became a member of the Communist Party with the goal of introducing his ideas of improving and strengthening statehood, and opposed the democrats who wanted the death of the empire.
With the mediation of M. Prokofiev, the head of the Moscow City Executive Committee, Sergey Kurginyan visited Baku as a member of a group of political experts to resolve the conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. The report that he presented on the results of his trip to the Politburo of the Communist Party Central Committee included accurate forecasts regarding the further development of the situation. In this regard, he was further invited as an expert. He also headed to Lithuania, Karabakh, Dushanbe.
In 1991, Kurginyan became an unofficial adviser to M. Gorbachev, offered the latter a plan for overcoming the country from the crisis. As Sergey Ervandovich later claimed, there were disagreements between him and the head of state regarding ways to get the USSR and the party out of the impasse.
Coup Support and Letter of the Thirteen
In the biography of Sergei Kurginyan, sometimes conflicting political positions are visible. So, during the August coup, the politician supported the GKChP, announcing this in one of the publications, where he called himself his ideologist. The head of the KGB V. Kryuchkov, one of the conspirators, was subsequently admitted to him by the ETC. During the period of internal political conflict, in 1993, he was present at the premises of the Supreme Council, but was expelled from there by adherents of the Ostankino campaign, as he was against this. He immediately provided the public with information about this.
In 1996, the politician invited large businessmen to take the side of the state, initiating the appearance of an appeal called the “Letter of Thirteen”. Among the signatories were Boris Berezovsky, Victor Gordilov, Alexei Nikolaev, Mikhail Fridman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Subsequently, the alliance of the head of state and large business resulted in the establishment of an oligarchic system.
Sergey Kurginyan: personal life
His wife is Maria Mamikonyan, whom he met during his student years. They got married at the same time. Today she is an artist of the theater "On the Boards", works in the ETC and leads the PBC - "Parental All-Russian Resistance." This organization operates in the areas of family protection and education. She denies the Western model of education and advocates a ban on the 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 the children in fact had been chosen as a target of political propaganda. In addition, according to the deputies, the publication presented a view of the country's history that distorts reality.
The couple has a daughter born in 1977, whose name is Irina. She is also an employee of the “Kurginyan Center”, has a historical education and a PhD, brings up her daughter.
Kurginyan today
In 2011, he founded the movement "The essence of time" of the left-wing patriotic sense, for which he received 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 Network. In them, Sergey Kurginyan revealed his political views.
As the leader of the structure he created, he organized rallies and held various actions. So, he before the public was burned a white ribbon, symbolizing purity and protest. In 2012, the politician was among the initiators of actions that were aimed at preventing the so-called orange revolution, similar to the Ukrainian one, in Russia.
In particular, he established the Anti-Orange Committee, which was 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 PBC was established, chaired by his wife Maria Rachievna Mamikonyan. For some time, President Putin attended the event and delivered a short speech.
In 2014, Kurginyan made a trip to Donetsk, where he made an attempt to accuse Igor Strelkov of treason. Thus, he caused a flurry of indignation and controversy in online forums. As noted by the media, Kurginyan is a politician with a unique ability, being in the position of an oppositionist, while maintaining loyalty to the current authorities.