Vladislav Surkov
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"Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov" (?) (born 21 September 1964) is a Russian businessman and politician of Chechen descent. He was First Deputy Chief of the Russian Presidential Administration from 1999 to 2011, during which time he was widely seen as the main ideologist of the Kremlin who proposed and implemented the concept of sovereign democracy in Russia. From December 2011 until May 2013 he served as the Russian Federation's Deputy Prime Minister. After his resignation, Surkov became a personal adviser of Vladimir Putin on relationships with Abkhasia, South Ossetia and Ukraine. In 2015, Ukraine accused Surkov for organizing snipers who killed protesters and police during the Ukrainian Euromaidan in January 2014,

which was dismissed by the Russian government as absurd.

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I, for one, would not be afraid to invite more foreign professors. It is vital for us to modernize education so that our university graduates are every bit as good as Harvard or Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni.

Those who are not against us are for us.

Unless the business community evolves into a national bourgeoisie, we will have no future.