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Yevgeny Alexandrovich Primakov (Yevgeny Primakov Jr.) (, 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
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from 2018 to 2020. In the media, he is known by the pseudonym Yevgeny Sandro.Евгений Примаков-младший: Деда с сигаретой я видел лишь раз - во время его травли в 1999-м
/ref> He is a grandson of
Yevgeny Primakov Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov (29 October 1929 – 26 June 2015, ) was a Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999. During his long career, he also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996 to ...
, former Russian
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and
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.


Early life

Yevgeny Primakov Jr. was born on April 29, 1976, in
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in the family of Alexander Primakov, who was a son of
Yevgeny Primakov Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov (29 October 1929 – 26 June 2015, ) was a Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999. During his long career, he also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996 to ...
, a Soviet and Russian spy and politician. When he was five years old his father died. In 1999, he graduated from the history and Philology Department of the
Russian State University for the Humanities The Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH; ), is a university in Moscow, Russia with over 25,000 students. It was created in 1991 as the result of the merger of the Moscow Urban University of the People (est. 1908) and the Moscow Sta ...
with a degree in history.


Career


Journalistic career (2000-2017)

For some time Primakov worked in radio
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, in
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, in the magazine '' Kommersant-Money'', published in the ''Obshchaya Gazeta'' newspaper. 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
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and worked as a correspondent in
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and
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. In May 2003, he left TVS and started working for
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. 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
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. 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,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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. During his missions to Israel and Palestine, he covered the terrorist acts of Palestinian extremist organizations in Israeli cities. From 2005 to 2007 he was the Chief of the Middle East Bureau of NTV. In his reports, he covered the
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in the war zone and in Israel. Also during the work on NTV he covered the events in the
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(
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) and on the
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. 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
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, he was awarded the medal of the
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and UNHCR "Member of the Emergency Humanitarian Operation." He resigned from NTV in June 2007. From autumn 2007 to October 2011, he was a correspondent of the Directorate of information programs of
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(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. From 2011 to 2014 he worked in the office of the
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in Turkey and Jordan. From March 2015, he was the author and host of the program "International Review" on TV channel Russia 24.


Political career (2017-2020)

On March 20, 2017, Primakov was approved as a member of the Civic Chamber from 2017 to 2020 by the presidential quota. In May 2017, he became an adviser to the
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on international issues and humanitarian projects. In 2018, he was a trustee of the Russian
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.


State Duma (2018-2020)

In April 2018, Primakov announced his participation in the
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primary election for the State Duma
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in the
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. Primakov won the primary on June 4, gaining 72.3% of the vote. He was elected to the
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on 9 September 2018 on a Single Electoral Day. He was a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs. On 25 June 2020, he resigned due to being appointed in a diplomatic position.


Diplomatic career (2020-present)

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). On 20 May 2021, he accepted the offer to lead the Program committee of the international youth Forum Russia — Africa : whats next? on MGIMO base. In April 2022, the ''
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'' reported that Primakov had stated that the Z and V military symbols as used by the Russian military during the
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were “symbols of the very liberation of
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from the obvious evil of terrorists and bandits.” On 25 February 2023, the
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imposed sanctions against Primakov as head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (
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), 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.


Personal life

Primakov is married and has four children.


References

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