Medvedev-Zhirinovsky, or Why Russia needs “ideologicl clowns”

Recently, journalists and political observers have noticed the strange media activity of Dmitry Medvedev, the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia. Some of his statements even began to raise doubts about his mental adequacy…

Mykhailo Mischenko

Deputy Director, Sociological Service


Born in 1962 in Kyiv

Education: Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University, Faculty of Philosophy (1984). Ph. D in Philosophy

Empoyment:

1984 – 1990 — Sociology Department at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

1990 – 1998 — Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

1998 – 2003 — Ukrainian Institute of Social Research

February – September 2003 — Kyiv International Institute of Sociology

Since October 2003 — Deputy Director, Razumkov Centre Sociological Service

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mishchenko@razumkov.org.ua