Yevgeny Primakov Jr.
Head of the Rossotrudnichestvo
Assumed office
25 June 2020
PresidentVladimir Putin
Preceded byEleonora Mitrofanova
Member of the State Duma from Saratov Oblast's Balashov constituency
In office
9 September 2018 – 25 June 2020
Personal details
Born
Yevgeny Alexandrovich Primakov

(1976-04-29) 29 April 1976
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyUnited Russia
RelativesYevgeny Primakov Sr. (grandfather)
Alma materRussian State University for the Humanities
OccupationJournalist, politician

Yevgeny Alexandrovich Primakov (Yevgeny Primakov Jr.) (Russian: Евгений Александрович Примаков (Евгений Примаков-младший), 29 April 1976) is a Russian journalist, TV host, politician and diplomat serving as Head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation since 25 June 2020. He previously was the Member of the State Duma from 2018 to 2020. In the media, he is known by the pseudonym Yevgeny Sandro.[1]

He is a grandson of Yevgeny Primakov, former Russian Foreign Minister and Prime Minister.

Early life

Yevgeny Primakov Jr. was born on April 29, 1976, in Moscow in the family of Alexander Primakov, who was a son of Yevgeny Primakov, a Soviet and Russian spy and politician. When he was five years old his father died.[2][3]

In 1999, he graduated from the history and Philology Department of the Russian State University for the Humanities with a degree in history.

Journalistic career

Some time he worked on radio Echo of Moscow, in TASS, in the magazine Kommersant-Money, published in the Obshchaya Gazeta newspaper.[4][5][6]

He has worked in television since 2002. Initially, he worked on the TVS channel as a military correspondent of the "News" and "Results" programs. He was among the journalists of the TV channel covering the Iraq War and worked as a correspondent in Israel and Iraq.[7][8][9]

In May 2003, he left TVS and started working for NTV. He made stories for the programs "Today", "Country and the World" and "Profession is Reporter". From 2003 to 2005, he worked most often in Moscow, rarely—special forces in the Middle East. He covered the terrorist attack at the "Wings" rock festival in July 2003. While working at NTV as a correspondent he worked on business trips in Israel, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Iraq. During his missions to Israel and Palestine, he covered the terrorist acts of Palestinian extremist organizations in Israeli cities.[10][11][12][13][14][15]

From 2005 to 2007 he was the Chief of the Middle East Bureau of NTV. In his reports, he covered the 2006 Lebanon War in the war zone and in Israel. Also during the work on NTV he covered the events in the Gaza Strip (Gaza–Israel conflict) and on the West Bank. Repeatedly worked in a combat zone. For the organization of the evacuation of Russian citizens from the Gaza strip in the summer of 2007 during the coup carried out by Hamas, he was awarded the medal of the EMERCOM and UNHCR "Member of the Emergency Humanitarian Operation." He resigned from NTV in June 2007.[16][17][18]

From autumn 2007 to October 2011, he was a correspondent of the Directorate of information programs of Channel One Russia (TV programs: "News", "Time" and "Other News"). From April 2008 to January 2011, he was the head of the Channel One bureau in Israel. In particular, as an employee of the TV company he worked on business trips in Libya during the Battle of Tripoli in the summer of 2011.[19][20][21][22][23]

From 2011 to 2014 he worked in the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Turkey and Jordan.

From March 2015, he was the author and host of the program "International Review" on TV channel Russia 24.[24]

Political career

On March 20, 2017, Yevgeny Primakov was approved as a member of the Civic Chamber from 2017 to 2020 by the presidential quota.[25]

In May 2017, he became an adviser to the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin on international issues and humanitarian projects.[26]

In 2018, he was a trustee of the Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.[27]

On 25 February 2023, the European Union imposed sanctions against Primakov as head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), which seeks to consolidating public perception of the occupied Ukrainian territories as Russian, and for manifesting support for Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.[28]

State Duma

In April 2018, Yevgeny Primakov announced his participation in the United Russia primary election for the State Duma by-election in the Balashov constituency.[29] Primakov won the primary on June 4, gaining 72.3% of the vote.[30][31] On he was elected to the State Duma on 9 September 2018 on a Single Electoral Day.[32] He was a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.[33]

On 25 June 2020, he resigned due to being appointed in a diplomatic position.

Diplomatic career

On 25 June 2020, he was appointed as head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo).[34]

Personal life

Primakov is married and has four children.[1]

In April 2022, the Moscow Times reported that Primakov had stated that the Z and V military symbols as used by the Russian military during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine were “symbols of the very liberation of Ukraine from the obvious evil of terrorists and bandits.”[35]

References

  1. 1 2 Евгений Примаков-младший: Деда с сигаретой я видел лишь раз - во время его травли в 1999-м
  2. ↑ "Ирина Примакова: "Мы тянули с женитьбой... только причины у каждого были свои"". Известия. 2006-01-19.
  3. ↑ "Близкий Восток". Литературная газета. 2009-10-28.
  4. ↑ "Евгений Сандро — Персоны — Эхо Москвы". Эхо Москвы.
  5. ↑ "Примаков (Сандро) Евгений Александрович". Лабиринт. 2015-05-19.
  6. ↑ "В ОСАДЕ". ТВС. 2003-04-13. Archived from the original on 2003-05-02.
  7. ↑ "Человек, снимавший Жириновского, подтвердил подлинность пленки". NEWSru.com. 2003-02-09.
  8. ↑ "Кинотеатр военных действий". Коммерсантъ-Власть. 2003-03-10.
  9. ↑ "Спросите очевидцев о войне в Ираке". Газета.ру. 2003-04-01.
  10. ↑ "ТВС на грани". Московский комсомолец. 2003-05-16.
  11. ↑ "ПРОГРАММА ПЕРЕДАЧ НА ВЧЕРА. ГОД БЕЗ ТВС". Новая газета. 2004-06-24.
  12. ↑ "Благодатный огонь сошел на верующих". НТВ. 2007-04-07.
  13. ↑ "Профессия – репортер". НТВ. 2003-12-18.
  14. ↑ ""Лишний вклад" в российское телевидение. НТВ прощается со своими зрителями". Пресс-Атташе. 2004-03-05. Archived from the original on 2004-11-07.
  15. ↑ "Эхо недели". Эхо Москвы. 2003-07-05.
  16. ↑ "Сандро из окопа. "Израильтяне ценят свою жизнь, но не ценят жизнь ливанцев"". Московский комсомолец. 2006-08-10.
  17. ↑ ""Хезболлах — это та часть ливанского общества, которая сопротивляется!"". Агентство политических новостей. 2006-08-04. Archived from the original on 2012-02-15.
  18. ↑ "Евгений Сандро уволился с НТВ".
  19. ↑ "Воинская часть во Владимирской области, где у слов "жить по уставу" - особый смысл". Первый канал. 2008-01-30.
  20. ↑ ""Чтобы все закончилось". Евгений Сандро, репортер Первого канала". Взгляд. 2011-08-23.
  21. ↑ "Обычный израильский мусорщик собрал фантастическую коллекцию футбольных реликвий". Первый канал. 2010-05-21.
  22. ↑ "Аэропорт Тель-Авива считается одним из самых защищённых в мире". Первый канал. 2011-01-25.
  23. ↑ "Повстанцы сжимают кольцо окружения вокруг родного города Муаммара Каддафи". Первый канал. 2011-08-29.
  24. ↑ ""Россия-24" запустила проект по образу "Международной панорамы"". РИА Новости. 2015-03-14.
  25. ↑ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 20 марта 2017 г. № 116 «Об утверждении членов Общественной палаты Российской Федерации»" (document). Президент России, официальный сайт. 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
  26. ↑ "Внук Евгения Примакова стал советником спикера Госдумы" (document). ТАСС. 2017-05-30. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
  27. ↑ "Путин 2018". putin2018.ru.
  28. ↑ "Council implementing regulation (EU) 2023/429 of 25 February 2023 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine". Official Journal of the European Union. L059I: 286. 25 February 2023. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  29. ↑ "Евгений Примаков собрался в Госдуму". 26 April 2018 – via Kommersant.
  30. ↑ Комсомольская правда - Сайт «Комсомольской правды» (4 June 2018). "Озвучены итоги праймериз-2018 в Саратовской области".
  31. ↑ Комсомольская правда - Сайт «Комсомольской правды» (6 June 2018). "Евгений Примаков поблагодарил жителей Саратовской области за поддержку на праймериз".
  32. ↑ "Евгения Примакова-младшего доизбрали депутатом в Госдуму от Саратовской области". 10 September 2018.
  33. ↑ Примаков Евгений Александрович
  34. ↑ Евгения Примакова назначили главой Россотрудничества
  35. ↑ "Ex-Crimea Prosecutor Poklonskaya Slams Russia's Pro-War 'Z' Symbol". 20 April 2022.
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