The outstanding Russian literary critic, political character and leader of the Civic Platform party, Irina Prokhorova, has carried out tireless charity work and was the confidant of Mikhail Prokhorov in the 2012 presidential election.
Biography of Irina Prokhorova
My sister Mikhail Prokhorov was born on March 3, 1956 in Moscow. She speaks about the origin of her parents quite simply, saying that they were average. In reality, they occupied quite attractive positions. Irina's father, Dmitry Ionovich Prokhorov, was the Head of the USSR Foreign Relations Department, and her mother, Tamara Mikhailovna Kumaritova, was an employee at the Polymers Department at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering and the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering.
Irina Prokhorova studied at Moscow State University. V. L. Lomonosov, at the Faculty of Philology. Later, she finished it with a dissertation on the literature of English modernism and became a candidate of philosophical sciences.
After graduating from the university in the 80s, Irina worked on local television and was the editor of a magazine called Literary Review.
In 1992, having gained experience in publishing, the current literary critic founded her own organization, New Literary Review, where she took the place of the head.
Irina was married, in marriage she gave birth and raised a daughter, who was named in her honor Irochka.
Family history
Irina's ancestors on the paternal side were of a peasant kind, immigrants from the Smolensk region. As you know, my father’s grandfather was a migrant to Siberia, where he lived for a certain time and maintained a decent economy. Subsequently, under pain of dispossession, he fled.
On the mother's side were doctors and scientists. Irina’s grandfather served as the People’s Commissar of Health in Dagestan. 1934 gave him the position of director of the local medical institute in the
city of Dagestan. The grandmother of Irina
Prokhorova, Anna Belkin, was taught by Professor Zilber himself, well known in those days. Although she was a microbiologist, she did not have a further career in science. The war came, Anna sent her daughter to evacuate, and she herself was engaged in the development of vaccines in Moscow.
Irina's mother, Tamara Kumaritova, in 1965 gave birth to the youngest son Mikhail, who today is a well-known Russian politician and entrepreneur.
Prokhorova Irina Dmitrievna as a politician and public figure
The life of the leader of the Civic Platform party, in addition to the publishing direction, is closely connected with
political activity. In the 2012 presidential election, she became the
confidant of her own brother, Mikhail Prokhorov. In the same period, she received a tempting offer to become the head of the
Public Council under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, which she later refused without hesitation.
Today, Irina Dmitrievna Prokhorova is actively involved in charity work throughout Russia. In 2004, the Mikhail Prokhorov Charity Foundation was created, initiated by his sister. In addition to being a co-founder of the Fund, she is also the organizer and coordinator of the Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair, the owner and editor of her own publishing house, New Literary Review.
Diverse interests
For all the time of her activity, Irina Prokhorova achieved the following indicators:
- She founded the UFO and the Safe Reserve magazines. Today, the UFO publishing house has 18 book series, including children's literature, cultural studies, literary criticism, prose and poetry, history, memoirs, philosophy, and much more.
- In 2006, she released the first specialized magazine on the territory of the Russian Federation under the name Fashion Theory. The publication devoted its activities to the study of fashion as a cultural phenomenon.
- Established the annual international scientific conference "Bath Readings".
In addition, Irina Dmitrievna has established herself as a cheerful and active person, as evidenced by the following facts:
- Upon receiving the State Prize, she read ditties of her own composition.
- At the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair, she represented an organization dressed as a pioneer.
- Being an actress by vocation, at one of the meetings, “UFO” without any doubt took on the role of Nastasya Filippovna from Dostoevsky’s work “Idiot”.
The main achievements of a female political figure of the Russian Federation
In addition to the aforementioned achievements, in 2002 Irina received an award from the State Prize of the Russian Federation and became a laureate of art and literature for creating her own magazine, New Literary Review.
In the future, the woman repeatedly received rewards for her activities, received awards. For example, in 2003, Irina became the owner of Liberty - a prize of Russian emigration. The reason was the development of Russian-American ties in the field of culture and the arts, the creation of the best educational project in Russia.
The year 2006 presented the figure with the Alexander Bely Prize in honor of special merits to Russian literature.
Later, in France, Irina Prokhorova was awarded the Cavalier of the Order of Arts and Literature.
Irina Prokhorova and her strategy in relation to the situation in Ukraine
The party leader has repeatedly stated that she is not going to send representatives of her party movement to Ukraine, as some other political forces in Russia did. In addition, Irina Prokhorova’s Civil Platform is absolutely sure that the conflict will be resolved through peaceful diplomatic negotiations. A similar decision by the Ukrainian authorities will be able to beneficially affect the country's economy and stock markets. Here is how Irina Prokhorova spoke about Ukraine: “Nobody needs the financial crisis, and I strongly hope for the common sense of the Ukrainian authorities in making key decisions to resolve the scale of this conflict.”
Also, the leader of the movement urged not to issue loans to Ukrainian politicians and freeze all accounts for debts to the Russian Federation for a while.