Talk:Vladislav Surkov

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Last paragraph, which may be true, is clearly POV and speculation and should therefore be removed.

You're right. Deleted. Tnapoleao 22:11, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ethnicity

While his Chechen roots are interesting and notable they do not make him a Chechen businessman or Chechen politician. I strongly doubt he has support of Chechen clans or some business in Chechnya, etc. Ethnically Chechen is probably not correct either, he might be racially half-Chechen or something but we do not put it into the lead. The matters are disclosed in details in the first paragraph of biography. Thus, I have removed "ethnically Chechen" from the lead, changed Category:Chechen businesspeople to Category:Chechen people Alex Bakharev 12:42, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Alex, I don't share your ideas about ethnicity. Nathalie Sarraute never wrote in Russian, yet it does not prevent her from being included into Category:Russian women writers. There are many examples along these lines. That Surkov's real name is Dudayev is another whimsical twist of Russian history. I bet that those people who bash Putin as an inveterate anti-Chechen are not aware of the ethnicity of his principal policy-maker. The detail is encyclopaedic and highly instructive, actually. --Ghirla^-трёп- 12:56, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

That Surkov's real last name is Dudayev is certainly notable, no problems about it. It is very good for the second paragraph, etc. but not for the lead. As a matter of fact, it would be better to have more reliable sources for this than Lentapedia and Anti-Compromat because of WP:BLP, but I think the refs are OK. I have removed Russian writer cats from Nathalie Sarraute, I do not think they are right here. Lets see Saul Bellow he has category Russian-American but not Russian writers Alex Bakharev 14:37, 21 June 2007 (UTC)