Dmitry Oreshkin

Dmitry Oreshkin

Dmitry Oreshkin (Russian: Дмитрий Орешкин; born 27 June 1953 in Moscow) is a Russian political scientist.[1]

He graduated from special school No. 49 in Moscow in 1970, the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University in 1975, and received Ph.D. from the Institute of Geography of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1979, (the thesis is devoted to the ancient continental glaciations).

In 1993, together with Andrem Skvortsov and Alexander Belyaev he created an analytical group, "Mercator" (Mercator Group). It was said that using the money earned from a documentary about the Aral Sea disaster, the group bought an Intel 80286 PC computer in 1993 and began to draw e-cards, reflecting the results of the elections, the growth of crime, environmental crises and vodka consumption by region.'[2]

Since 1994, the group is engaged in the manufacture of electronic cards for TV. Collaborated with the Results Yevgeny Kiselyov, NTV, in 1995-1996 he served at the regional Department of JSC Russia's Public television (ORT). He makes live maps weather forecast for Meteo-TV. Engaged in computer simulation for leading news TV channels of Russia.[3]

The Mercator group provided at the invitation of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation some analytical support and displayed the process and results of Russian Legislative and President Elections. I also made an electronic atlas of crisis situations for the Security Council of Russia.

In the 2001 he was named Rambler Man of the year in the category Cities and regions.[4]

In 2007, he ran for the State Duma from Union of Right Forces.[5]

June 2, 2012he spoke at a rally on Bolotnaya square.[6]

April 1, 2014 in his blog on the radio Echo of Moscow website.[7] strongly criticized Russia for its foreign policy towards Ukraine, saying that : An Ambitious story began with a promise to return Ukraine (whole thing!) in the sphere of influence of Moscow, embedding it into the Customs Union and the Eurasian system of values. This is the maximum program. She obviously failed. It is the turn of the program-at least — to take under the wing of at least the Eastern Ukraine along with Crimea Today... ambitions declined: we hear passionate speeches about "our" Kharkiv and Donbas; less about Odessa. Kiev for 10 years slowly migrated to the West, the natural consequence of the greater attraction of the European system of values in comparison with Patriotic tales of the Corporation.[8]

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