A fairly well-known figure in Russian politics is Churov Vladimir Evgenievich. He was elected to the State Duma and for nine years headed the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, only in March of this year, giving way to Pamfilova Ella Nikolaevna. Several major scandalous situations are connected with the personality of this person. In particular, he was accused of rigging the election results in favor of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party. However, nothing was proved.
Education
Vladimir Churov was born in an intelligent Leningrad family on March 17, 1953. His father was a naval officer, had a degree. Mother, a philologist by profession, worked as an editor.
With such parents, it is not surprising that the guy received a very high-quality and multilateral education. After school, he entered the Leningrad University of the Humanities at the Faculty of Journalism. Having defended his diploma, he did not stop at what had been achieved and became a student in the physics department of the same university, which he graduated in 1977. Later, already in full swing of his career, Churov received yet another “tower” at the People’s University of Techno-Economic Knowledge. He graduated during perestroika in the ninetieth year. Despite three higher educations, Vladimir Evgenievich never received a scientific degree.
Carier start
At the beginning of his career, Vladimir Churov confidently walked along the scientific path. He worked as a teacher at St. Petersburg Humanitarian University, giving a special course on international and foreign economic relations to economics students.
He devoted almost fourteen years to St. Petersburg Humanitarian University, where he held various positions in the joint design bureau of aerospace equipment. He has published many scientific articles. But he was not destined to stay in this area.
Coming into politics
Back in 1982, a new member named Vladimir Churov was registered with the CPSU. The biography of almost everyone who tried to build a good career in those days contained such a mark. “You may not be a communist in your soul, but you must join the party” - here he is, the unwritten slogan of the eighties.
Churov remained a member of the CPSU until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some attribute to him cooperation with the KGB, but this is not officially confirmed.
Since the ninetieth year, Vladimir Mikhailovich "deputy" in the Leningrad City Council - his powers ended in 1993. At the same time he worked in the Committee on External Relations of the Petersburg Administration. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin himself was his head, which Vladimir Churov often recalls and calls this period of his life an excellent school of management.
In 2003, Churov tried to get membership in the Federation Council from his region (Leningrad), but he did not succeed. In the same year, Vladimir Mikhailovich, in close contact with Vladimir Zhirinovsky, joined the ranks of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.
State Duma deputy
It was from this political force that Putin’s former subordinate ran for the Russian State Duma in the 2003 elections. Having received a mandate, he entered the corresponding faction. At the same time, he repeatedly emphasized that in fact he had never been a member of the LDPR and any other party.
The parliamentarians entrusted Churov with the post of deputy representative for CIS affairs and relations with former compatriots. More than once, he acted as an observer of the elections in the countries of the Commonwealth, as well as in Serbia and Transnistria.
Political Activities: Vladimir Churov - Chairman of the CEC
Until January 2007, Russian law prohibited the provision of membership in the CEC to persons without legal education. But then this requirement was canceled, and on March twenty-sixth of the same year, Churov joined the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation. And a day later he was elected chairman.
September 2007 was marked by the start of the next elections to the State Duma, and Putin, who headed United Russia, was accused of illegal campaigning for this political force. But Churov did not heed the arguments of the prosecutors, and they did not take any action.
In 2009, United Russia went to the local council elections by a total margin. The opposition made a demarche and demanded the resignation of the head of the CEC - after all, Vladimir Churov again did not see any violations …
And here is the 2011th. In March of this year, Vladimir Mikhailovich was re-elected for a second term as chair of the CEC, and on December 4 new parliamentary elections were held. And again, "United Russia" on horseback. Crowds of Protestants took to the streets of large cities of the country. Dissatisfied held rallies of thousands and demanded, among other things, the resignation of Churov, who resolutely rejected all the charges against him. Then he with great difficulty kept his post and left him legally, having served a second term to the end.
It was Churov, who was accused of lobbying the interests of V. Putin, that the catch phrase “Putin is always right” belongs to. And Vladimir Churov, whose photo flashed more than once in the media in recent years, threatened to shave off his legendary beard if the election campaign was unfair. But naturally, he didn’t shave it off. However, the opposition’s accusations were not proved, and remained just words.
