Any person at least once in his life, especially in childhood, wants to look into tomorrow. Over time, this desire weakens, but there are people for whom the ability to predict the near and distant future becomes a profession and a vocation in life. One of them is Andrei Olegovich Bezrukov, a colonel of the Foreign Intelligence Service, who has lived outside Russia for more than twenty years, engaging in illegal intelligence activities.
Biography
Andrey Bezrukov was born on August 30, 1960 in the city of Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. From 1978 to 1983 he studied at Tomsk State University with a degree in history.
Under the name of Donald Howard Heathfield, he and his wife Elena Vavilova (pseudonym Tracey Lee Ann Foley) lived outside Russia for more than 20 years, engaging in illegal intelligence activities. According to legend, Heathfield was the son of a Canadian diplomat, who actually died in 1962 at the age of 7 weeks, and graduated from high school in the Czech Republic. One of his friends at Harvard noted that Heathfield kept abreast of the affairs of his classmates, which included Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Vavilova, according to her legend, was born in Montreal in 1962.
In 1992-1995 Andrei Olegovich studied at the Canadian York University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in international economics. From 1995 to 1997, he studied at the Parisian business school cole des Ponts Business School, receiving a Master in International Business degree. He has lived in the United States since 1999. Graduated from the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2000 with a master's degree in public administration.
Entrepreneur and businessman
Andrey Bezrukov has extensive experience in international business. From May 2000 to May 2006, he was a partner in the consulting company Global Partners Inc., whose clients were, in particular, such well-known companies as Alstom, Boston Scientific, General Electric and T-Mobile. From May 2006 to December 2010, he led another consulting company, Future Map, specializing in government and corporate strategic forecasting and planning systems with branches in Paris and Singapore. Bezrukov was a member of the World Future Society, an organization once described by the Boston Herald as a thought factory for new technologies, which attracts leading experts in the field of public administration. Thanks to this, Heathfield was able to acquire numerous acquaintances, in particular, he was acquainted with the former national security adviser to Vice President Albert Gore Leon Fuert and professor of management at George Washington University, William Halal, who participated in the World Future Society conference in 2008. Halal described his relationship with Heathfield as warm. “I ran into him at meetings at federal agencies, thought factories, and the World Future Society. I do not know of anything that could be of interest from a security standpoint. Everything I gave Don has been published and available on the Internet."
In June 2010, he was arrested in the United States as a result of treason. On July 9, 2010, in Vienna, he was exchanged for four Russian citizens along with 9 other illegal Russian intelligence officers.
Creation
Returning to Russia, Bezrukov was appointed advisor to the president of Rosneft. He is also an assistant professor at the Department of Applied Analysis of International Problems at MGIMO. In 2015 he published the book “Russia and the World in 2020. The contours of an alarming future”. After his return, he gave his first interview to the Russian Reporter magazine in 2012. In 2015, he was a guest of the program "Vesti on Saturday with Sergei Brilev" on the Russia-1 TV channel. On November 5, 2016, while abroad, he gave an interview via Skype to the Russia-1 TV channel on the eve of the presidential elections in the United States, while TV presenter Sergei Brilev noted that, at the request of the interlocutor, he could not publicly name the state from which Colonel Bezrukov contacted.
Already famous Bezrukov is a frequent guest of the program "Formula of Sense with Dmitry Kulikov and Olga Podolyan" on the radio station "Vesti FM" and the talk show "60 minutes" on the TV channel Russia-1. He is also a member of the Russian Cigar Union and takes an active part in its events. In 2015, he took part in the anniversary Governor's readings of the Tyumen Regional Duma, where Bezrukov made an equally intriguing report "Russia and the World: Contours of an Alarming Future".
Awards
He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, other orders and medals.
Personal life
Bezrukov lived with his wife in Cambridge (Massachusetts). Elena Vavilova graduated from McGill University by that time and lived in France before settling in the United States. She worked in the real estate agency Redfin in Somerville (Massachusetts), and also organized individual wine tours to France. Spouse Elena Stanislavovna Vavilova (Tracy Folis) has been working at PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel since January 2010. The family has two children (1990 and Born in 1994, the brothers were born in Canada, and their mother, Tracey Foley, spent a lot of time raising her children before working as a real estate agent. The brothers love Asia, where the family went on vacation, and the parents encouraged their children to be curious about other countries.
