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Alexander Borodai

1st Prime Minister of Donetsk People's Republic
President Denis Pushilin
Preceded by Inaugural
Personal details
Citizenship Russia Russian

Alexander Yurevich Borodai (Russian: ????????? ??????? ???????)is a Russian citizen who
has been Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic since 2014.

Personal
Alexander Borodai lives in Moscow. He is a son of Yury Borodai (1934-2006), a scholar in philosophy. Alexander's sister, Tatyana, is a philosophy scholar too.

Career and education
Borodai has a degree in philosophy from Moscow State University. He currently has a consultancy in Moscow and worked at a major investment fund.

Nationalism
In the 1990s he edited a Russian far-right nationalist newspaper Zavtra (ru) (“Tomorrow”), run by journalist Alexander Prokhanov."

In December 2011, he and Prokhanov co-founded the “patriotic” Web TV channel Den-TV (“Day”).

Politics
Borodai refers to himself as "professional consultant" with expertise in ethnic conflict.
“I have resolved all kinds of complicated conflict situations,” he told journalists.

In 2002, according to the Moscow Times newspaper, he also dismissed reports that he had been appointed
a deputy director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) as a hoax arranged for his 30th birthday.

Crimea
Borodai worked as an advisor to self-appointed Crimea governor Sergei Aksyonov, who seized power in an armed coup.[4] Borodai claims he worked as a “political strategist” during the Russian annexation, and states that the political forces that facilitated the annexation are one in the same with those of the Donetsk Republic: "Naturally the people who set up these popular movements and were the initiators are the same people, they are connected to each other...So when I finished the work in Crimea I automatically...came here to work in southeast Ukraine.”

Donetsk
Following the Donetsk status referendum, 2014 he was appointed Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed (and internationally
unrecognized) Donetsk People's Republic. He also said that he would seek annexation by Russia "very urgently.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Borodai