Sergey Malinkovich

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Malinkovich.

Sergey Malinkovich
Сергей Малинкович
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communists of Russia
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 March 2022
Preceded byMaxim Suraykin
Member of the Altai Krai Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 September 2021
Personal details
Born (1975-05-27) 27 May 1975 (age 49)
Leningrad, Soviet Union
Political partyCommunists of Russia (2009–present)
Other political
affiliations		CPRF (until 2001)
CPLO (2003–present)

Sergey Alexandrovich Malinkovich (Russian: Сергей Александрович Малинкович; born 27 May 1975) is a Russian politician, current Chairman of the Communists of Russia party and Member of the Altai Krai Legislative Assembly, and founder of the Communists of Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast. On December 28, 2023, he was nominated as the Communists of Russia party candidate for President of Russia in the 2024 presidential election.

Biography

Early years; Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communists of Russia party

Malinkovich was born in Leningrad to schoolteachers.[1] He was engaged in youth politics since 1995, joining the Russian Communist Youth League. He has worked as a locksmith since 1996, and was a foreman.[2] At the same time, he was engaged in Komsomol (All-Union Leninist Young Communist League) and party work.[2]

In 2000, Malinkovich was elected to the local council of Smolninskoye Municipal Okrug in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2001, he left the Communist Party of the Russian Federation due to disagreements with the leadership of the party.[1][2]

In 2003, the public organization "Communists of Petersburg" was created from the former branch of the Union of Communist Youth, and Malinkovich was elected first secretary of the Communists of Petersburg.[3] The organization, later renamed "Communists of Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast", gained its main popularity thanks to various outrageous statements and provocative actions.[4]

In 2008 he wrote an open letter to Ukrainian-born actress Olga Kurylenko, who played a Bolivian agent in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace.[5] In it Malinkovich wrote: "In the name of all communists we appeal to you ... deserter of Slavic world. The Soviet Union gave you free education, free medical care but nobody knew you would commit an act of intellectual and moral betrayal and become a movie girl of Bond, who in his movies kills hundreds of Soviet people and citizens of other socialist countries."[5]

In 2009 Malinkovich joined the newly established Communists of Russia party, and took the post of Secretary of the Central Committee of the party.[6][2]

2010–19

In 2010, when at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko finished second to American Evan Lysacek in the men's singles competition, Malinkovich opined "Everyone knows that Canada is a U.S. colony and all the [Olympic] judges are under the White House's thumb."[7]

He ran unsuccessfully for the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg in 2011, mayor of Petrozavodsk (the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia) in 2013, and governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug (a federal subject of Russia, and an autonomous okrug of Arkhangelsk Oblast) in 2014.[6] In 2016 Malinkovich ran for the State Duma (the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia), and in 2017 he also ran in by-elections to the State Duma of the VII convocation in the Bryansk single-mandate electoral district No. 77, but did not receive a deputy mandate.[2]

In November 2018, Malinkovich called for the criminal prosecution of Vladimir Petrov, a lawmaker in the Leningrad region, for insulting religious believers by calling for Lenin’s preserved body to be buried.[8][9] He said Petrov's proposal had violated the Criminal Code of Russia by insulting religious feelings and inciting hatred, and that he planned to "keep hounding" Petrov for his remarks.[8][9]

In June 2019, he demanded that Russia's Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) block access to the "filthy" HBO mini-series Chernobyl, and demanded that criminal libel cases be launched against the creators of the series under the Criminal Code of Russia.[10][11][12]

2020–present; Chairman of the Communists of Russia party

In 2021, The Moscow Times described Malinkovich as "a burly, shaven-headed man who wears a golden pin in the shape of an AK-47 assault rifle in his red tie."[13] That year, he was elected as a deputy to the Altai Krai Legislative Assembly in Siberia as a member of Communists of Russia.[14][15]

On 18 March 2022, an extraordinary congress of the Communists of Russia voted to appoint Malinkovich its Chairman after ousting its former leader Maxim Suraykin for his alleged connections with "unfriendly countries", fraud, and "bourgeois way of life".[16] Suraykin called the congress "fake," and said that he was still supported by the majority of the party members.[17]

In August 2022 Malinkovich was registered to participate in the Tambov Oblast gubernatorial election.[1] In November 2022, Malinkovich accused musician Andrey Razin from the pop music group Laskovyi Mai (Tender May) of treason for selling the rights to its songs to an American company.[18]

On December 28, 2023, Malinkovich was nominated by an overwhelming majority as the Communists of Russia party candidate for President of Russia in the March 15-17, 2024 presidential election.[19][20][21] Malinkovich promised a program like Stalin's ten blows, against United States capitalism and imperialism, and victory in Russia's war against Ukraine.[15] In February 2024, the CEC of the Russian Federation refused to register Milinkevich as a candidate.[22]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Депутат Алтайского Заксобрания поборется за пост губернатора Тамбовской области". Atmosfera (in Russian). 5 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Elections 2024: getting to know the candidates". Pravda EN. 15 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Руководство / Малинкович Сергей Александрович". Communists of Russia (in Russian). Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Питерские коммунисты возмущены переименованием Ленинградского вокзала". RIA Novosti (in Russian). 9 July 2009.
  5. ^ a b Harriet Alexander (29 January 2016). "Russia's Communists threaten to blockade studios if Leonardo DiCaprio plays Vladimir Lenin". Australian Financial Review.
  6. ^ a b "Уже пять человек претендуют на пост губернатора Ненецкого АО". Regnum (in Russian). 3 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Winter Olympic Games". TIME. 11 February 2010.
  8. ^ a b "Communists' Religious Feelings Were Violated by Proposal to Replace Lenin's Body, Party Official Says". The Moscow Times. 27 November 2018.
  9. ^ a b Brendan Cole (28 November 2018). "Communists' Religious Feelings Hurt by Lenin Burial Bid". Newsweek.
  10. ^ Newbould, Chris (13 June 2019). "Russian Communist Party calls for 'Chernobyl' TV show ban and libel action". The National.
  11. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (14 June 2019). "'Chernobyl': Russian Communist Party Calls For Ban Of HBO's Miniseries In The Country". Deadline.
  12. ^ Charley Ross (14 June 2019). "Russian communist party calls for Chernobyl ban". The Independent.
  13. ^ Light, Felix (17 September 2021). "In Russia's Parliamentary Vote, Spoiler Parties and Dirty Tricks Abound". The Moscow Times.
  14. ^ "Comunistas de Rusia nombra a Sergei Malinkovich como candidato a las elecciones presidenciales". El Pais. 28 December 2023.
  15. ^ a b "Comunistas de Rusia nombra a Sergei Malinkovich como candidato a las elecciones presidenciales de 2024". Europa Press Internacional. 28 December 2023.
  16. ^ "Коммунисты России заявили об отставке лидера партии Сурайкина". URA.ru (in Russian). 19 March 2022.
  17. ^ "Минюст признал законной смену лидера Коммунистов России". Kommersant (in Russian). 24 March 2022.
  18. ^ ""Communists of Russia" accused Andrey Razin from "Tender May" music group of treason". en.newizv.ru. 2 November 2022.
  19. ^ "Le parti des Communistes de Russie désigne son dirigeant comme candidat à l'élection présidentielle". Le Figaro. 28 December 2023.
  20. ^ "Russian Central Election Commission: pre-election campaigning in the media starts on February 17". Orient. 17 January 2024.
  21. ^ Нажбудинова, Амалия (28 December 2023). ""Коммунисты России" выдвинули Малинковича в кандидаты на выборах президента". Известия (in Russian). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  22. ^ "Malinkovich and Nadezhdin are not allowed to fight for the post of President of the Russian Federation" (in Russian). 8 February 2024.