Oleg Anatol'evich Matveychev is a Russian politician and spin doctor for the Kremlin. He is currently a professor at National Research University – Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Matveychev has published various books on politics and public relations. One of the most popular Russian bloggers.
Career
In 1993 Matveychev graduated in philosophy from the Ural State University. He then did 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.
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 plariarism scandals, where Matveychev was the one whose writings were plagiarized, once by Anna Chapman, and a second time by the Russian Minister of CultureVladimir 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 alternative theory about ending of Trojan War, with the Trojans as winners. Additionally, Matveychev was behind the idea to change a name of a real person to Harry Potter to participate in Yekaterinburg regional elections.
Books
Political Consulting in Russia: yesterday, today, tomorrow, 2020
Austrian engineering philosophy for polytechnics, co-author, 2019
Hyperborea - Adventures of an Idea, co-author, 2018
Ears that Wag the Ass - Modern Social Programming, 2002, 2008, 2013
Imperative Mood of History, 2012
Russia, What to Do? Breakthrough Strategies of the New Millenium, 2011
American Lard, fiction, co-author, 2009
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
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 stydy guide on the history of modern Western philosophy", 2002
Electoral campaign - Practice Against Theory, 2001
