Vladislav Surkov

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Vladislav Surkov
Владислав Сурков
Surkov in 2012
Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation
In office 20 September 2013 – 18 February 2020
President	Vladimir Putin
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia — Head of the Government Executive Office
In office 21 May 2012 – 8 May 2013
Prime Minister	Dmitry Medvedev
Preceded by	Vyacheslav Volodin
Succeeded by	Sergey Prikhodko
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
In office 27 December 2011 – 21 May 2012
Prime Minister	Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev
First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia
In office 15 May 2008 – 27 December 2011
President	Dmitry Medvedev
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia
In office 3 August 1999 – 12 May 2008
President	Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin
Personal details
Born	21 September 1962/64 (age 59 or 61) Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[a]
Political party	United Russia
Spouses	Yulia Vishnevskaya ​ ​ (m. 1987; div. 1996)​ Natalya Dubovitskaya ​ ​ (m. 2004)​
Children	4
Alma mater	International University in Moscow
Signature

Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov (Russian: Владислав Юрьевич Сурков; born 21 September 1962^[1] or 1964^[2]) is a Russian politician and businessman. He was First Deputy Chief of the Russian Presidential Administration from 1999 to 2011, during which time he was often viewed 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] He was removed from this duty by presidential order in February 2020.^[6]

He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.^[7]

Surkov is perceived by many to be a key figure with much power and influence in the administration of Vladimir Putin.^[8][9][10] 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.^[11] 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.^[12]

Journalists in Russia and abroad have speculated that Surkov writes under the pseudonym Nathan Dubovitsky, although the Kremlin denies it.^{[13][14][15][16]}

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