Surkov was head of advertising and devised the early campaigns that made Khodorkovsky famous. At the same time he was also an advisor on public relations to the Russian government.

Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin's chief ideologue and pointman on relations with Ukraine and Moscow-backed separatists, who was dismissed late Tuesday, was for many years viewed as one of Russia's ...

Formally, Vladislav Surkov's departure as deputy Kremlin chief of staff to become deputy prime minister is a lateral move. In reality, it marks the end of an era.

In the end, his resignation was triggered by a public spat between Mr Surkov and Mr Bastrykin’s committee, which is leading an embezzlement probe into Skolkovo, a state-financed innovation hub ...

Vladislav Surkov is the Kremlin insider, an ideologist of sovereign democracy in the 2000s. In the 2010s, he was side-lined from frontline politics and is now seeking a comeback. To achieve that, ...

Anders Anglesey is a U.S. News Reporter based in London, U.K., covering crime, politics, online extremism and trending stories. Anders has covered QAnon conspiracy theorists and their links to U.S ...

"Surkov has, to a degree, wrecked Putin’s game," Rostovsky wrote. "Putin can, of course, continue to use Medvedev’s Cabinet as a whipping boy.

16 May 2013 On May 8, President Vladimir Putin approved the “voluntary resignation” of Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov, universally regarded as the “number two in the Kremlin”. The ...

Surkov barely touches his food and takes tiny sips of his champagne. In 2011, Surkov moved from the Kremlin to become deputy prime minister, and in May 2013 was dismissed from government.

The [email protected] account, reviewed by RFE/RL, includes 340 megabytes of data from 336 incoming messages, many addressed to Surkov himself, and 87 outgoing messages, including some that appear ...

Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin's chief ideologue and pointman on relations with Ukraine and Moscow-backed separatists, who was dismissed late Tuesday, was for many years viewed as one of Russia's ...