Deputy Moscow Mayor Alexander Gorbenko, whose reception is located at ul. Tverskaya, 13, oversees in the metropolitan government issues related to the media, interregional cooperation, sports and tourism. In this position, he was from the fall of 2010, until that time, for about ten years, he had been the head of the editorial board of Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Biographical Information
Gorbenko Alexander Nikolaevich, a native of the city of Slavyansk (Donetsk region, Ukraine) was born on 05/11/1962.
After graduation, he continued his studies at the Sverdlovsk Higher Military-Political Tank-Artillery School.
Since 1983, Alexander came to serve in the Kantemirov division as a political worker. He began as deputy company commander, and soon he was put on the post of deputy commander for political affairs.
Since 1988, Alexander Nikolaevich Gorbenko was transferred to the headquarters of the Moscow Military District, where he served as an assistant chief in the military-political department. His job responsibilities included youth work.
In the early nineties, he was fired from the Armed Forces due to downsizing in the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Since 1992, Alexander Nikolayevich Gorbenko, whose biography is making a dramatic turn at that moment, received the position of vice president in the Russian publishing house Book and Business. Two years later, he became the head of the Moscow publishing house "Illustrated Book".
Since 1996, he took the post of General Director at the Book and Service Publishing House, and in 1998, he became the Director at the Book-Graphics joint Russian-Canadian printing company.
Attempts to enter politics and further publishing
In 1999, Alexander Nikolayevich Gorbenko nominated himself as a deputy to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the III convocation from the Medvedkovsky District of Moscow.
He lost the election campaign, losing to his rival, who was Georgy Boos, nominated as a candidate by the electoral bloc "Fatherland - All Russia."
In March 2000, Alexander Nikolayevich Gorbenko, whose photo at that time could be seen in many Moscow mass media, headed the SoyuzKniga state unitary enterprise.
Since the beginning of 2001, he moved to the Federal State Institution "Edition of the Russian Newspaper." This publication received the status of the official printing organ of the Russian government. After the publication of legislative acts in it, the latter entered into force.
Gorbenko was also the general director of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta Information and Publishing Concern, which published this printed publication.
From Gorbenko himself one could hear the statement that he is "a manager, not an official." In 2006, during one of his conversations with reporters, he noted that government funding is only enough to cover a small portion of the cost of the newspaper, and therefore publishing it is "also a business."
Professional growth
The year 2005 was marked for Gorbenko by the end of the Academy of Public Administration, established under the Russian president, he became a specialist in "state and municipal management - information processes", as indicated in the diploma.
In the summer of that year, he was put at the head of a committee in the Russian Chamber of Commerce, which was engaged in entrepreneurship in the field of media and book publishing.
In 2006-2009, without leaving Rossiyskaya Gazeta, he headed the Guild of Publishers of Periodicals. There was an opinion among the media community that it was "appointed to monitor the processes taking place in this Guild.
It was believed that Alexander Nikolayevich Gorbenko, whose position provided for the existence of wide connections and "administrative opportunities", was able to effectively defend publishing interests.
About Gorbenko's connections
Regarding Gorbenko’s ties, the government said that because of the need to publish the adopted documents in Rossiiskaya Gazeta, the management of the publication had to work closely with representatives of the legal department of the Russian government.
In 2009, this department was commanded by Anastasia Rakova, who was a member of the team of the deputy prime minister who directed the apparatus of the Moscow government.
Gorbenko met Sobyanin in 2005.
In 2008, headed by Gorbenko, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta Information and Publishing Concern, 26 guest-printing companies were handed over to the department, providing almost a third of the regional newspaper market.
Within the walls of the Military University of Gorbenko in 2008, the dissertation was defended. He became a candidate of political sciences. The dissertation gave an analysis of the informational confrontation in modern public policy.
After the election of Sobyanin, the Moscow mayor
10/15/2010 by the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, the Moscow City Duma was proposed for approval a new candidacy of the mayor - Sobyanin.
11/21/2010 Sobyanin officially took office as the mayor of the capital. Five days later, he took Gorbenko as his deputy, entrusting him with the media, inter-regional cooperation, advertising, sports and tourism.
The opinion is expressed that Rakov, who took the post of vice-mayor and headed the government apparatus of the capital, has a relation to this appointment.
According to the new position, the mayor’s press service and a number of departments (physical education and sports, media and advertising, national politics, communication with religious organizations) came under Gorbenko’s supervision.
As Kommersant correspondents noted, he was tasked with putting things in order in the Moscow outdoor advertising market. Gorbenko also had to figure out how efficiently the money allocated by the Moscow government for the media was spent.
Gorbenko Alexander Nikolaevich, Moscow Government
02/27/2011 Gorbenko’s post was renamed, his competence as deputy mayor included the media, inter-regional cooperation, sports and tourism.
Since the beginning of 2011, Gorbenko was included on the board of directors of the TV Center. This federal television channel has only one shareholder - the Moscow government. Then in January, Sobyanin was elected to the post of chairman of the board of directors, and Gorbenko to the post of his deputy.
Soon, the department controlled by Gorbenko made serious changes in the media resources of the capital’s government. In particular, the reorganization of the TV channel "Capital" took place, and on its basis, the creation of a 24-hour information channel "Moscow 24" was carried out. A new media holding was created from the "Evening Moscow", the newspaper "Tverskaya, 13" and the publications available at the city hall, by the metropolitan government.
Expansion of Responsibilities
By the fall of 2011, Gorbenko Alexander Nikolaevich had expanded his powers, he was entrusted with representing the city hall when considering applications for organizing various actions and rallies in Moscow.
In connection with this, a statement was made in Sostav.ru that Gorbenko was instructed to head a kind of “propaganda department, ” which would allow the city hall to provide a more effective confrontation in the information war.
The press devoted quite a lot of space to coordination issues at the end of 2011 - beginning of 2012 with the Moscow City Hall and the organizing committee of the routes of the processions and the holding of rallies during the rallies “For Fair Elections”.
Oppositionists said that meetings to discuss the details of rallies almost always ended late at night.
Gorbenko repeatedly publicly declared the right of Muscovites to carry out authorized opposition-oriented actions.
When a discussion arose within the metropolitan government about the possibility of toughening legislation on rallies that always end up causing damage to the city, Gorbenko sounded the idea that “the cost of covering this damage is not critical to the capital’s budget, while street activity helps to create sustainable civil democratic society."
In December 2012, Gorbenko’s post was again renamed the deputy mayor in the Moscow government on issues related to regional security and information policy. On 17.2013, he was reassigned to this position again, since until that time from 6.06.2013 he was acting.
