Sergey Glazyev

Sergei Jurjewitsch Glazyev (Russian: Сергей Юрьевич Глазьев; * January 1, 1961 in Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian economist and politician who served in the Russian government in the early 1990s and stood as a presidential candidate for election in 2004.

Biography

Born in 1961 in a working class family, Sergei Glazyev took in 1978 to study at the Moscow State University on, first in chemistry, from the second year, then the economic cybernetics. He completed this trade in 1983 with honors. He then worked at a Moscow Research Institute of Economics and Mathematics, and later as head of an economic laboratories. In 1989 he completed his habilitation in economics and became the youngest faculty of economics in the former Soviet Union. Up to habilitation Glazyev worked with several young economists who should play an important role in the economic reforms of the post-Soviet Russia a few years later, so for example with Anatoly Chubais.

After several months of work in Vienna Glazyev was in December 1991 as Deputy Chief of the (now defunct ) Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of Russia. In July 1992, Glazyev stepped up to the post of Minister and belonged since several months, the Liberal government of the reformer Yegor Gaidar on. From this office Glazyev occurred in September 1993 in protest against the unconstitutional dissolution of parliament by President Boris Yeltsin, which led to the constitutional crisis.

In December 1993, Glazyev became the Duma deputies elected in the 1993 elections on the list of Democratic Party of Russia. In the elections two years later he ran as a member of the Congress of Russian Communities, led by Dmitry Rogozin, but missed so that the five percent hurdle. In the following years Glazyev practiced mainly from consultancy work. He criticized the economic policy under Yeltsin and always supported in the presidential elections of 1996, General Alexander Lebed to.

In the Duma elections in 1999 succeeded Glazyev, again to enter parliament, this time as a deputy of the KPRF faction. In the 2003 elections Glazyev succession occurred successfully as a co-initiator of the dial pad Rodina. On 8 February 2004 he was registered as a candidate this election blocks in the presidential elections of 2004. In the elections, which took place on March 14, Glazyev but received only 4.18% of the vote.

Shortly after the elections lost Glazyev because of disputes with the Rodina - chairman Dmitry Rogozin his post as parliamentary leader of the block. New faction leader was Rogozin. Then Glazyev resigned from Rodina and tried for a dignified life to establish a successor organization to the alliance. Later Glazyev considered to participate in the Putin - critical movement The Other Russia, which, however, the criticism Glazyev am extremely liberal political concept of the former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, one of the leaders of the movement failed.

Glazyev was Head of the Secretariat of the common economic space formed by Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan (Russian: KTS ) in February 2009. In July 2012, he was appointed to Putin's advisor for the Eurasian economic integration.

Glazyev is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. To date, he has published around 150 scientific publications. He is married and has a son.