Igor Evgenievich Malashenko is a famous Russian political scientist, television journalist, one of the founders of the NTV television company, in the past - an employee of the Institute of the USA and Canada of the USSR Academy of Sciences, was the general director of the Ostankino RGTRK and NTV Television LLP, during the presidential campaign of 2018 headed the campaign headquarters of Ksenia Sobchak. He is currently married to Bozhena Rynska.
Biography, career
Igor Malashenko was born on October 2, 1954 in the family of an officer - Lieutenant General E. I. Malashenko, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Moskvich.
After graduating from school, he entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, which he graduated in 1976, after 4 years received the title of Candidate of Philosophy at the same university, having defended his thesis on the topic "Political Philosophy of Dante Alighieri".
Since 1980 he was a member of the Institute of the USA and Canada of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He started as a junior research fellow, then, from 1982 to 1983, he was an intern from the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Washington, later he was promoted to a senior research fellow at the Institute of the USA and Canada. In March 1989 he became a senior referent of the international department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, where he took part in the development of the concept of "new political thinking", and held this position until March 1991. In the same 1991, from April to December, he was a consultant to the apparatus of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Participated in the preparation of Gorbachev's negotiations with foreign representatives and in organizing the visit of George W. Bush to Moscow, organized Gorbachev's participation in the G-7 meeting in London. Published in American newspapers and magazines: New York Times, Time, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek.
Since December 1991, Igor Malashenko changed his field of activity and began his career in television, on Channel One. From February to July 1992 he held the post of political director of the Russian state television and radio company Ostankino, then general director and deputy chairman of the Ostankino TV and radio company. In the same year, Igor Evgenievich decided to leave Channel One. the reason for this was the disagreement with the chairman Vyacheslav Bragin, since Malashenko did not agree with the methods of the leadership of the "top" of the TV channel.
In 1993 he moved to the NTV television company, one of the founders of which was, along with Yevgeny Kiselev, Alexei Tsyvarev and Oleg Dobrodeyev. NTV. He held the positions of the general director of the NTV television company, then the general director of NTV-Holding, which included the NTV company, NTV Profit, NTV Plus, NTV Design, NTV Kino, the Echo of Moscow radio station, the regional television TNT. Later he held the posts of First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Media-MOST, General Director of the RTVi channel, General Director of Inter TV (London).
In 1996, Malashenko took part in the presidential campaign of Boris Yeltsin. The skills and abilities of a political strategist, developed back in the Soviet years, turned out to be effective and made a great contribution to Yeltsin's success in the elections.
Perhaps these are the reasons that prompted Ksenia Sobchak to invite Igor Malashenko to the post of political strategist in 2017. Malashenko was appointed chief director of the campaign headquarters of the presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak. Igor Evgenievich no doubt accepted her proposal, as he believes that the support of Vladimir Putin by 86 percent of the population stops any development of Russia, does not allow to move on. In his opinion, this is a dead-end branch for the evolution of a great country. Participation in this election campaign made the famous political strategist even more popular.
Personal life
Little is known about the first marriage of Igor Malashenko. With Elena Ivanovna Pivovarova they have two daughters - Elena and Elizabeth. Elena Malashenko worked as the Artistic Director of the Manezh Gallery. The eldest daughter is educated in the UK. One of the versions why the spouses broke up is a cooling of feelings caused by the fact that Igor Evgenievich and his wife have lived in different countries for a long time. However, according to another version, the reason for the divorce was the journalist Bozena Rynska. Elena Pivovarova lives in the United States, refuses to give any comments regarding her marriage to Malashenko. The couple officially divorced in early 2018.
In 2011, Igor Malashenko began dating Evgenia Lvovna Rynska, known as the scandalous journalist Bozhena Rynska, columnist for Izvestia newspaper, Gazeta.ru portal and blogger. On September 11, 2013, Malashenko got into a criminal chronicle along with his then common-law wife. According to information from law enforcement agencies, in the courtyard of their house on Lesnaya Street, they attacked a correspondent and cameraman of the NTV television company while “carrying out their professional activities” and beat them. As a result of the court hearing on September 29, 2014, Rynska was found guilty of "inflicting beatings out of hooligan motives" and "deliberate damage to someone else's property", sentenced by a magistrate's court to 1 year of corrective labor with a deduction of 10% of her earnings in state revenue. She herself believes that she became a victim in the conflict between Malashenko and the NTV companies.
Igor Malashenko does not comment on his personal life. It is only known that after a divorce from Elena Malashenko, he officially became the husband of Bozhena.
Hobbies
Igor Evgenievich's hobbies include golf and photography, and also collecting. He has collected two solid collections: badges from the times of the Soviet Union and balls made of precious and ornamental materials. Since his youth, he is fond of philosophy, especially the Chinese Tao, his favorite philosopher is Lao-Tzu.
