Recently, Sergey Stankevich has often flashed on Russian television. Many people are interested in the biography, nationality and personality of this person. Who is he? How did you get to the epicenter of public life? Why for a long time nothing was heard about him, and now everyone has a name for everyone? The answers are in this article.
Stankevich - scientist
Sergey Stankevich was born on February 25, 1954 in Shchelkovo, Moscow Region. Naturally, he had Soviet citizenship, and then Russian. But about his nationality, they say that Statkevich’s parents are Jews of Polish descent.
As a child, the boy showed interest in science and after school he entered the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, bearing the name of the leader of the world proletariat. He chose the teaching of history as a future specialty.
Having successfully graduated from the Faculty of History in 1977, Stankevich began teaching. He lectured to students of the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas, then took the post of senior researcher at the Institute of World History at the Academy of Sciences, and his dissertation was defended there. The theme of the work was the modern history of the United States of America.
Stankevich Sergey Borisovich is the author of more than thirty different articles. In addition, he wrote a book on the topic of the dissertation. He also co-authored the work Informal. Social Initiatives, ”published in the ninetieth year.
For a significant contribution to the formation and development of socio-political thought in the USSR, Stankevich received an award from the American Center for International Leadership. This also happened in the 90th.
The beginning of political activity
As for political activity, Sergei Stankevich started it back in 1987, joining the ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He remained a member of the CPSU until the 90th. In parallel, from 88th to 89th, he collaborated with the Popular Front of Moscow and even was the leader of this movement. And in 1989, Stankevich was elected to the Supreme Council, where he represented the interests of residents of the Cheryomushkinsky district of the capital as a deputy. The term of these powers expired in 1992.
The political activity of Sergei Borisovich at that time was characterized by increased activity, since he, in addition to his deputy in the Armed Forces, was also a deputy of the Moscow City Council from the 90th to the 92nd. Here he held the post of first deputy chairman. Rumor has it that he could be the chairman (the majority voted for him), but for some reason he was forced to give up this chair to Mr. Popov.
The era of Yeltsin
The name of the hero of this article is familiar to those who remember the Yeltsin era. After all, Sergey Stankevich was a close associate of Boris Nikolaevich and held rather high posts under Yeltsin.
Stankevich met the future President of Russia back in 1988 and was subdued by the “leader of a new format”, as he called Boris Nikolaevich. The historian who studied democratic society was struck by the fact that the representative of the party nomenclature literally before our eyes creates an image of a leader close to the people: not without a sense of humor, simple, a little rude.
During the August coup of 1991, Stankevich Sergey Borisovich, naturally, was on the side of Yeltsin and rendered him all kinds of support. When it was all over, and Boris Nikolayevich took the post of President of the Russian Federation, his loyal assistant first received the position of state adviser in charge of contact with public associations, then became the state adviser on political issues, and from 1992 to 1993 he served as presidential adviser, helping him control the political sphere of the country and the sphere of interethnic relations.
In 1993, Stankevich was again elected a deputy, only now in the State Duma, where he ran for the Party of Unity and Consent.
Big stories
During his political activity, Sergey Stankevich repeatedly became a defendant in high-profile stories.
So, for example, he organized the dismantling of the monument to Dzerzhinsky in the Lubyanka. He also evicted the apparatus of the Central Committee of the CPSU from its "nest", led the Russian-German exchange of the Brezhnev memorial plaque for a piece of the Berlin wall, etc.
In 92nd Stankevich helped to conduct the festival "Red Square", which presented opera art. With his assistance (and some even talk about pressure), the State Bank of Russia issued a loan to organize this event. And when it failed and a lot of ugly details surfaced (from corruption to large-scale theft of state funds), the organizers got into the dock.
Emigration
In 1995, Sergei Stankevich, whose biography before that had practically no sharp turns, ran into great difficulties. He was accused of corruption, and he fell into disgrace with Yeltsin. An imminent arrest was awaiting the former favorite of the president (sanction was already issued by the prosecutor’s office in 1996), but by that time he was already abroad with his family. At first they lived in the USA, then they returned to Europe.
Sergey Stankevich, whose nationality is connected with Poland, chose this country as a temporary homeland.
Russia declared the ex-deputy on the International wanted list, and the Poles arrested him. But they refused to extradite the Russians. Moreover, prominent public figures in Poland came out in defense of Stankevich, and he received the status of a political emigrant.
