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Mihail Efimovich Shvydkoy
Михаил Швыдкой
Birth at
5 September 1948
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A statesman of the Russian Federation, former Minister of Culture and head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Mikhail Efimovich Shvydkoy was born in Kyrgyzstan in September 1948.
After graduating from GITIS (specialization of Mikhail Efimovich was theater studies), Shvydkoy gradually began to build her career: more than fifteen years worked in the magazine "Theatre", rising to the post of deputy editor-in-chief, headed the editorial and publishing complex "Culture", in the mid-nineties
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A statesman of the Russian Federation, former Minister of Culture and head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Mikhail Efimovich Shvydkoy was born in Kyrgyzstan in September 1948.
After graduating from GITIS (specialization of Mikhail Efimovich was theater studies), Shvydkoy gradually began to build her career: more than fifteen years worked in the magazine "Theatre", rising to the post of deputy editor-in-chief, headed the editorial and publishing complex "Culture", in the mid-nineties went into politics and served as Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation. Then there was television, since 2004 politics again.
In 2005, as the head of Roskultur, Mikhail Shvydkoi actively defended the production of the Bolshoi Opera Theater by Leonid Desyatnikov in libretto.
Vladimir Sorokin "Rosenthal's Children," which critics have accused of pornography. After that, a variety of accusations fell on Shvydkoi. Culture Minister Sokolov in a live broadcast of one of the TV channels accused Shvydkoi’s agency of corruption, but Mikhail Efimovich managed to prove his case.
A year later, when the Hermitage admitted that many rare exhibits had disappeared from its vaults, Shvydkoy tried to mitigate the scandal and stood up for the director of the museum.
Mikhail Piotrovsky He was accused of being involved in theft.
In 2008, the first Deputy Prime Minister of Russia won the presidential election.
Alexander Avdeev . Mikhail Efimovich was dismissed a few months later. However, at the end of the summer, Shvydkoi by decree of the head of state was appointed special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for international cultural cooperation and was awarded the Order "For Services to the Fatherland".
In addition to politics, Mikhail Yefimovich gravitates to theater and music. It is no coincidence that among his programs on television you can distinguish “Theater + TV”, “Life is beautiful”, “Shelter of comedians” and others. As Shvydkoy himself says, this is his work: “Someone collects stamps, and I work as a showman.” /