Sergei Alexandrovich Markov (born 1958, Russian: Сергей Александрович Марков) is a Russian political scientist, journalist, social activist. Doctor of Political Science, assistant professor of Public Policy department of Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, professor of Faculty of Political Science of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), director of the Institute of Political Studies. Since 2009, he is a member of the “Commission to counter attempts to harm Russian interests by falsifying history”.
He is also a Deputy Chairman of the Russian Public Forum on International Affairs. Dr. Markov serves as co-Chairman of the National Strategic Council of Russia and is a member of the Presidential Council for Facilitating the Development of Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights of the Russian Federation.
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Markov, as a political analyst, has published numerous articles in prestigious national and international publications. Since 2000 has been a consultant for a variety of Russian and international organizations including the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, the National Democratic Institute of International Relations, Chase Manhattan Bank and ING Baring.
Dr. Markov is a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and a lecturer of the Philosophy Department at Moscow State University, where he obtained his degree.
From 2006 to 2008 he has been a member of the Public Chamber of Russia. In the 2007 election he was elected to the State Duma, representing United Russia.
Markov denies Russian involvement in the Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko,[1] which was perpetrated with Polonium-210 from a Russian reactor and which the British security services believe to have been conducted on behalf of the Russian government.[2] He also attributes the Russian apartment bombings by Chechen terrorists to Russian businessmen forced from the country to exile in Britain.[1] Markov comments on many other foreign policy questions, attributing the conflict in South Ossetia to a plot by Dick Cheney to further interests of John McCain against Barack Obama in the US presidential elections.[3]
In 2007, having been accused of being behind cyberattacks on Estonian government's systems, Sergey Markov was declared persona non grata in Estonia and in 2008 he was also expelled from Ukraine.[4][5] Markov believes the Russian Black Sea Fleet should stay stationed in Ukraine "for the next 100 years" (as of late 2009) because he believes "It is the guarantor of security in the entire region”.[6]
Markov has criticized historians from states formally under Soviet occupation, claiming they distort the historical record with the documentation of events like the Katyn massacre.[7] In early May 2010 Markov demanded a "radical" change in Ukrainian textbooks about the history of Ukraine.[8] He stated Ukrainian history textbooks can not be considered an internal affair of Ukraine, as they often displayed a negative attitude to Russia.[8] On May 13, 2010 education minister of Ukraine Dmytro Tabachnyk announced that Ukraine and Russia intend to develop a common textbook for history teachers.[8]