Oleg Matveichev

Oleg Anatolyevich Matveychev (, born 1 February 1970) is a Russian political consultant and politician, who is currently a deputy of the State Duma. Matveychev is also a professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation in Moscow and has published various books on politics and public relations. He is one of the most popular Russian bloggers.

Career In 1993 Matveychev graduated in philosophy from the Ural State University. He then completed a PhD in the philosophy of politics and law with the thesis topic of Philosophy of Hegel's Politics and Modernity. From 1996 he became an active political consultant for Russian regional elections and participated in over 60 campaigns. From 2007 to 2020 he was professor of National Research University – Higher School of Economics.

Politics From 2006 to 2010 Matveychev was a staff member of Presidential Administration of Russia. In 2010 he became deputy governor of the Vologda Oblast.

Controversy In 2010, according to the Guardian newspaper, Matveychev caused controversy by writing on his blog that "he dreamed of gathering the Russian opposition on a city square and calling in an army of tanks to mow them down. 'And then, like after Tiananmen in China, we would also have 10% annual economic growth after 20 or 30 years'".

Matveychev is an opponent of copyright. He was involved in at least two plagiarism scandals, where Matveychev was the one whose writings were plagiarized, once by Anna Chapman, and a second time by the Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky in his book "Myths about Russia", particularly in the chapter about "unwashed Europe" and "clean Russia". Matveychev had announced that he is not going to pursue any action as the copyright impedes innovation and "behind every thought or object is every human being who ever lived".

Matveychev is an author of an alternative theory about the ending of the Trojan War, with the Trojans as winners.

Additionally, Matveychev was behind the idea to change the name of a real person to Harry Potter to participate in Yekaterinburg regional elections.

Alaska Comments During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Matveychev made a series of demands directed towards the United States and NATO. He proposed a list of various demands for once the invasion succeeded, including that the US immediately end all sanctions against Russia and to aid their economic recovery, return the State of Alaska, and Fort Ross, California, both of which were historically Russian territories voluntarily given up during the 19th century. He also demanded that the continent of Antarctica be recognized as Russian territory, citing that it was discovered by Russian explorers. His proposition was widely mocked and condemned on social media, notably by Mike Dunleavy, the Governor of Alaska, who stated, "Good luck with that! Not if we have something to say about it."

Sanctions Matveychev was sanctioned by the United Kingdom from 15 March 2022 in relation to Russia's actions in Ukraine.

Books Source: The sum of political technologies, 2008 The Sovereignty of Spirit, 2007 The Big Current Political Encyclopedia , 2007, co-author Anti-psychology. The modern man in search of meaning, co-author, 2004 China at the Junction of the Milleniums, 2004 Electoral campaign – Practice Against Theory, 2001 Political оntologies , 2001 Problems of manipulation, 1999 What is political consulting?, 1998

Selected articles Source: Stages of development of Russian market of political technologies, 2018 Philosophy as a sovereign truth and other educational skrepy(metaphysical feuilleton), 2018 Hyperborean problem in XIX-XX centuries, 2018 Neue Wege mit Heidegger Matveichev O.A., Pertsev A.V., 2018 On the question of the historicity of the Trojan War, 2017 Russian Thought on the Origination of Greek Philosophy, 2017 Anacharsis." A wise man, because the Scythian, 2016 Towards a discussion about the origins of the ancient Greek philosophy in Russian and Soviet philosophical thought, 2016 About approaches of studying the ancient Greek sophistry, 2016 The Seven Wonders of the Hyperborean Abaris, 2016 Famirid. The Blind Philosopher, the Inventor of Music, 2016 Orpheus: a phenomenon from the North (asking the question), 2015 The Aristotle's concept of" slavery", 2013 The origin of the anthropomorphism in Greek religion, 2013 Public relations of the modern school: working with target audiences. The handbook for the educational refresher training program "School management based on communicative technologies", 2002 The study guide on the history of modern Western philosophy", 2002

Charity work Matveychev is on the board of "Right to Smile", a children's charity set up by ex-spy Anna Chapman, active in her hometown of Volgograd.