Vladimir Medinsky, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Medinsky/Kremlin website
Vladimir Medinsky is a Russian politician, statesman, and writer. Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation since January 24, 2020. Member of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the United Russia political party since 2017.
He is an ideologue of rashism, and he actively supports the regime of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
He said that Russia had to attack Ukraine because Kyiv was allegedly “preparing an offensive against Donbas.” He said that the task of the Russian occupiers was to “save lives and Ukraine, preserve it for the future, for the children.”
He boasted that after the end of the war, he wanted to make a film about the so-called “special military operation” titled “Liberation.”
*The material was created in cooperation with the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
Main statements
1. He made Z and V with cut “VISA” cards on March 31, 2022
He claimed he was moving on to the problem of “Peace”. He cut up VISA cards and laid out Z and V symbols of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
2. He stated that the massacres in Bucha were allegedly staged on April 6, 2022.
He called on Russians not to believe the information about the invaders’ atrocities in Bucha. He stated that those murders were beneficial to the Ukrainian authorities and that the Russian military was “organically and genetically incapable” of such crimes.
3. He stated that the occupiers treated the prisoners well and “saved Ukraine” on May 27, 2022
Medinsky said that Russian soldiers allegedly treated Ukrainian prisoners of war well and that such treatment of prisoners was “a good tradition of the Russian army.” According to his words, the occupiers were trying to “save Ukraine and preserve it for the future, for the children.”
4. On Putin’s birthday, he stated that he had “restored 1,000-year-old Great Russia to its historical path” on October 7, 2022.
5. He quoted Dostoevsky that “a characteristic feature of Russians is a sense of justice” October 12, 2022
6. He stated that the West was simply “trying to demonise Russia,” by recognising the Holodomor as genocide. (November 2, 2022)
He spoke negatively about the fact that on October 30, 2022, Germany recognised the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people. Medinsky “blamed” all the deaths of that time on a bad harvest and declared that “the USSR authorities could not have organised such a thing.”
