Vladimir Vladimirovich Kornilov - Ukrainian historian, political expert. How did he manage to make his way from a simple worker to a well-known journalist, with whose word they are considered in the highest echelons of power? Read about the formation of the career of a famous political scientist and his personal life in this article.
Youth of Vladimir Kornilov
Kornilov Vladimir Vladimirovich, a native of the city of Lipetsk. July 13 this year, he will celebrate his 50th anniversary.
It so happened that in Soviet times the Kornilov family moved to Ukraine to the developing Donbass. Therefore, the biography of Vladimir Vladimirovich Kornilov is connected precisely with the Donetsk region.
In 1985, a seventeen-year-old guy got a job as a car mechanic at the Donetsk Automobile Repair Plant, where he worked for a little over a year.
In 1986, Vladimir Vladimirovich Kornilov was drafted into the army. He was discharged in 1988 with the rank of sergeant of the armed forces of the USSR.
Returning to the Donbass, the guy without higher education again came to work at the car repair plant in the city of Donetsk, already in the position of turner.
Hard work at the factory did not appeal to the young guy, but brought a good income.
An active and purposeful young man always wanted to occupy an important place in society. In 1989, he was appointed a Komsomol worker in the Voroshilovsky district committee of the Donetsk Komsomol.
Higher education
From childhood, he was interested in literature and history. Therefore, having earned his initial capital, Vladimir decided to enter Donetsk State University. Having survived the entrance campaign and successfully passed the exams, he was enrolled in the Faculty of History, which he graduated in 1995.
While studying at the university, he continued to work actively in Komsomol, took the initiative and was rewarded for it.
The first steps in journalism
In 1991, Vladimir Vladimirovich Kornilov was elected chairman of the IAVR Youth Association.
In the same year, he managed to get a job in the state of the Donetsk television company 7x7, where Kornilov took the post of editor of the information service.
The career of a journalist went up and by the age of 28 Vladimir Kornilov rose to the position of director of the TO TRK Ukraine in the city of Donetsk. On the rope of TRK Ukraina he was the host of the acutely political program Vybor, which was subsequently closed at the insistence of representatives of the nationalist movement of Ukraine.
At the end of the 20th century, Kornilov was a member of the Donbass Inter-Movement.
In 2000, Kornilov combined work on television and in the Donetsk newspaper “Salon of Don and Bas”, where he held the position of deputy chief editor.
Political ambition
Kornilov Vladimir Vladimirovich himself admitted that in the 1990s he was a young, ambitious and not unsuccessful employee in the field of political technology. In those years, he collaborated with many politicians during campaigns at various levels. He participated in the preparations for the election of the governor, as well as in the election campaign of the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Colleagues speak of Kornilov as a unique person. Despite the fact that his becoming a person took place in the Donbass, Vladimir Vladimirovich himself was noticed in close connection with Renat Akhmetov, he cannot be called a “pro-Donetsk” political scientist. In his investigative journalism and publications, he has repeatedly come forward with open criticism of politicians in the region.
At the same time, Vladimir Vladimirovich Kornilov was a member of the Council of the Russian-speaking Ukraine organization, which advocated for the rights of Russian-speaking citizens, the protection and support of the great and powerful in Ukraine.
Social activity
In the 2000s, a journalist and political scientist moved to Kiev. In 2006, Vladimir Kornilov received a high position as director of the Ukrainian branch of the Institute of CIS Countries.
In the same year, he began to collaborate with the 2000 Kiev newspaper as a political observer and with the Today newspaper (Kiev).
Kornilov’s articles have become popular among politicians and ordinary readers. In early 2003, he took over as editor-in-chief of the Segodnya newspaper in Kiev.
Until 2013, he lived in the capital of Ukraine. Then Vladimir Kornilov received a job offer from the Netherlands Center for Eurasian Studies and decided to resign as head of the UFISIS.
Since 2013, he is the head of CEI.
With the beginning of political clashes in Ukraine, the journalistic activity of Kornilov became especially vibrant and active.
Since June 2014, he has been a columnist at the Ukraine.ru online portal.
In the second half of 2017, Vladimir Vladimirovich Kornilov became a political observer for the Russia Today MIA. He is regularly invited as a guest and expert, a political observer to many Russian talk shows. In the Ukrainian media, the name of Kornilov sounds less common. This is due to the fact that he has always been a supporter of strengthening relations between Russia and Ukraine and does not support the foreign policy activities of the current government.
Books of Vladimir Vladimirovich
In the early 2000s, Vladimir Kornilov realized that dirty politics was not his calling. However, as an excellent historian and political scientist, he decided to take up investigative journalism and expose politicians. He regularly published devastating articles in Russian and Ukrainian media and worked on the release of his own books.
In 2011, the first book of Vladimir Kornilov, titled “Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic. Killed hope. " In this book, the author talks about the history of the short-lived republic, which is an excellent example of the implementation of economic and social reforms. In its short history, this republic managed to survive the occupation, the political crisis and the massive evacuation of the population.
A significant place in the journalist’s publications in the media and on his own blog is devoted to the topic of revolution in Ukraine. Euromaidan with all its consequences is the main theme of Kornilov’s latest works.
Political scientist always kept up to date, analyzed and covered political events in Ukraine. With the onset of the coup in the country, the journalist immediately published an article titled "Eurobeasts …". He was the first who was not afraid to publicly publish the names of nationalist groups that became active and act under the cover of the Maidan. Kornilov included the Right Sector, Ukrainian Patriots, as well as nationalistically minded football fans.
Over a short period of time, Vladimir Kornilov has written many more revealing articles. He wrote that the militants had long been preparing for an armed coup. Because of these publications, the journalist was betrayed by political persecution and was forced to leave Ukraine.
In 2015, Vladimir Vladimirovich co-authored a book that was recognized as the best book on political theory. The work is called "How to Win the Elections in the USA, Great Britain and Europe: Analysis of Political Technologies".
In 2016, this work was highly praised by the national jury and awarded the Silver Shooter Award.
Awards
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kornilov is a citizen and public figure of Ukraine. He lives and works in his native state. However, he has no state awards for his journalistic and political observer activities. But the government of the Russian Federation in 2008 awarded the journalist with the Breastplate “Honorary Badge of the Compatriot”.
