Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov
Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov (born 21 September 1964)[1] is a Russian businessman and politician of Chechen descent.[2]
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.[3][4]
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.[5]
Surkov is perceived by many to be a key figure with much power and influence in the administration of Vladimir Putin.[6][7][8]
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.[9]
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.[10]
Journalists in Russia and abroad have speculated that Surkov writes under the pseudonym Nathan Dubovitsky, although the Kremlin denies it.[11][12][13][14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Surkov
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“Foreign politicians talk about Russia’s interference in elections and referendums around the world. In fact, the matter is even more serious: Russia interferes in your brains, we change your conscience, and there is nothing you can do about it.”
--Vladislav Surkov, aide to Vladimir Putin________________________________________________________________________________________________
Again, as with the above liberal Newsweek article on this guy (Vladislav Surkov), this BBC piece below was meant to 'dirty' Trump!
Guess they didn't know, or thought it would come out, at the time that, according to reports, he was actually working with the Dems to HURT TRUMP and HELP HILLARY! LOL!
Meet the most powerful man you’ve never heard of [Vladislav Surkov]
In the BBC Radio 4 series The Puppet Master, reporter Gabriel Gatehouse gets to the bewildering heart of contemporary Russia by exploring the fortunes of a secretive, complicated and controversial man.His name is Vladislav Surkov – also known as Putin’s Rasputin, the Grey Cardinal of the Kremlin or the Puppet Master.
Here, Gabriel reveals some fascinating things he learned along the way...
1. He is one of the architects of the post-truth world
Long before Donald Trump weaponized the term ‘fake news’, Surkov was honing his art.
Today, Moscow is using Surkov’s techniques to sow political confusion in democracies throughout the western world.
A former associate said:
“That’s a fashion created and nourished by Surkov: this flavour of post-modernism. Nothing is true. There is no truth. There are alternative truths.”
2. He rose from nowhere to become the power behind the throne in Putin’s Russia
He invented ‘Sovereign Democracy’, a system in which the illusion of democratic choice only had one outcome: the continuation of Putin’s rule. One former colleague said of him:
“At the ends of his fingers he controlled the threads of so many political structures.
Those structures were so complicated that only Surkov knew where everything was: the opposition, the political parties, MPs, the governors, the creation or closing down of political movements or NGOs, the church, the media, civil society...”
3. He started his career as a bodyguard to an oligarch
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, hired him as part of his security detail.
The businessman soon realized that Surkov’s brains were more valuable than his brawn.
He put him in charge of PR, where he honed his skills in the arts of deception and misdirection at the murky intersection of business and politics.
After they fell out, Khodorkovsky ended up in jail, while Surkov helped run a PR campaign against him.
4. He trained as a theatre director
Surkov studied theatre in Moscow before being expelled, for fighting, or so the legend goes.
These skills would come in handy later on, when he controlled both the pro-Kremlin parties and the opposition.
One former Kremlin advisor said:
“He was thinking about himself as the guy who is running the show, trying to find the place of every actor in his play and performance.”
5. He controls [pro-Russia] separatist groups in Ukraine
Leaked documents from his office in the Kremlin show Surkov running a network of activists in the eastern Donbas region, where separatist fighters are waging a war against Kiev with support from Moscow.
A former [pro-Russia] rebel leader said:
“Periodically I would meet with Vladislav Surkov.
He is one of the cleverest people I’ve ever met in my life.
I sometimes think of him as an actor, alone on the stage.
I’m watching his show, and at the same time I’m learning from him: the art of politics, the art of the possible.”
6. He is a fan of Tupac Shakur and beat poetry
In his office in the Kremlin he had a framed portrait of the American rap artist alongside a picture of Vladimir Putin.
He’s also a connoisseur of the abstract artist Jackson Pollock, and can recite beat poet Allen Ginsberg by heart —in English.
While he controlled Russian politics with a combination of artistic cunning and political ruthlessness, he also found time to write lyrics for the Russian rock band Agatha Christie.
7. He wrote a postmodernist novel
About Zero is part dystopian fiction, part twisted confession.
The story was published under a pseudonym in 2009, at the height of Surkov’s power.
The hero is a ruthless gangster-publisher, a gun-toting poetry nerd, who bribes critics and journalists in the service of corrupt politicians, manipulating the truth to create fake news.
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Steele Identified Russian Dossier Sources, Notes Reveal
The Daily Caller | USChuck Ross | Investigative Reporter
May 16, 2019
- Christopher Steele told a [Obama-Hillary] State Department official a former Russian spy chief and a top Kremlin adviser were involved in an operation to collect compromising information on Donald Trump.
- The State Department official’s notes also indicate Steele claimed the Russians, Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Vladislav Surkov, were “sources” for the dossier.
- There is no evidence the compromising material mentioned in the dossier actually exists, raising questions about whether Steele was given disinformation.
- Trubnikov, the former head of the SVR, also has links to Stefan Halper, an FBI informant who had contact with [who had SPIED on] the Trump campaign.
Dossier author Christopher Steele identified a former Russian spy chief and a top adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin as being involved in handling potentially compromising information about President Donald Trump, State Department notes show.
In her notes, [Hillary Clinton/Obama] State Department official Kathleen Kavalec also referred to the two Russians — former Russian foreign intelligence chief Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Putin aide Vladislav Surkov — as “sources.” ...”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/16/steele-dossier-sources-state-department/