What is Alexander Khinshtein famous for?
To Alexander Khinshtein 50 years.
He was born in MoscowImmediately after graduating from high school in 1991, he got a job as a correspondent for the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. Initially, he wrote for the "Incidents" section, then became a political commentator.
He didn’t hide the fact that he was working with the intelligence services.
He first became famous in November 1996 when he published a recording of a conversation between employees of Yeltsin’s election headquarters: there the Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais and assistant to the president Viktor Ilyushin We were discussing the story with the "Xerox box".
In 1999 he published a series of articles about how structures Berezovsky They monitored high-ranking officials and members of the presidential family.
In 2003, he joined United Russia and was elected to the State Duma five times. A brief break was taken in 2016, when Khinshtein withdrew from the primaries following a conflict with the head of the Duma. Samara region, whom he criticized for his scandalous birthday celebration. He worked as an advisor to the head of the Russian National Guard for two years. Viktor Zolotov. In 2018, he returned to the State Duma, winning a by-election in the Samara region.
He authored and co-authored laws on liability for "fakes" about the work of Russian government agencies abroad, on mandatory mention of the status of terrorist organizations in the media, on fines for social networks for failing to remove prohibited content, and on "banning LGBT propaganda."
He also introduced a ban on advertising on the websites of organizations whose activities are deemed undesirable or extremist. He also introduced an amendment requiring social media users with more than 10 subscribers to register with Roskomnadzor.
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