Vladislav Surkov
| Vladislav Surkov | |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Russia — Head of the Government Executive Office | |
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In office 21 May 2012 – 8 May 2013 |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Russia | |
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In office 27 December 2011 – 21 May 2012 |
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| First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia | |
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In office 15 May 2008 – 27 December 2011 |
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| Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia | |
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In office 3 August 1999 – 12 May 2008 |
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Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov Владислав Юрьевич Сурков 21 September 1964 |
| Political party | United Russia |
| Alma mater | International University in Moscow |
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Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov (Russian: Владислав Юрьевич Сурков́) (born 21 September 1964), born Dudayev (Russian: Дудаев), is a Russian businessman and politician of Chechen descent. He was First Deputy Chief of the Russian Presidential Administration from 1999 to 2011, during which time he was widely seen as the main ideologist of the Kremlin who proposed and implemented the concept of sovereign democracy in Russia. From December 2011 until May 2013 Surkov served as the Russian Federation's Deputy Prime Minister. After his resignation, Surkov returned to the Presidential Executive Office and became a personal adviser of Vladimir Putin on relationships with Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Ukraine.
Surkov is perceived by many to be a key figure with much power and influence in the administration of Vladimir Putin. According to The Moscow Times, this perception is not dependent on the official title Surkov might hold at any one time in the Putin government.BBC documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis credits Surkov's blend of theater and politics with keeping Putin, and Putin's chosen successors, in power since 2000.
Journalists in Russia and abroad have speculated that Surkov writes under the pseudonym Nathan Dubovitsky, although the Kremlin denies it.
According to Surkov's official biography he was born 21 September 1964 in Solntsevo, Lipetsk Oblast. As per other statements he was born in Shali as Aslambek Dudayev. His parents, the ethnic Russian Zinaida Antonovna Surkova (born 1935) and Andarbek (Yuriy) Danil'bekovich Dudayev (born 1942) were school teachers in Duba-yurt, Checheno-Ingush SSR. Following the separation of his parents, his mother moved to Lipetsk where he adopted her surname. In an interview published in June 2005 in the German magazine Der Spiegel Surkov stated that his father was ethnic Chechen and that he spent the first five years of his life in Chechnya in Duba-yurt and Grozny.
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