Aleksandr Sytin
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Sytin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Сытин; born 11 May 1958 in Moscow) is a Russian political scientist and historian.
Early life and education
Sytin graduated in 1982 from the Faculty of History of the Moscow State University. He received the degree of Candidate of Historic Sciences in 1986, after defending his dissertation on "Diplomatic relations during the Napoleonic Wars". In 2011 he became Doctor of Historic Sciences. His dissertation analyzed Russian-Baltic relations at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. [1]
Career
From 1975 to 1987, he worked at the State Historical Museum. He was never a member of the Communist Party and did not serve in the Soviet or Russian Army. From 1987 to 1993, he taught Russian and Soviet history at the Moscow State Art and Cultural University. Since 1993, he worked in the private sector. From 1997 to 2003, he was the head of a section and project manager at Yukos.[2]
In 2004, he became a senior researcher at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS). In 2012, he became the head of the Baltic and CIS sector and the deputy head of the "Centre of Near Abroad". In October 2014, he was dismissed from his post for criticizing the military intervention in Ukraine.[3] Afterward, he became the head of the "North&Eastern Europe Research Political Center".
He is the author of more than 50 articles about Germany, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, and Belarus, problems in international relations, and the history of the Baltic States.
On 17 April 2019, he garnered controversy in Russia for remarks made on the daytime talk show Time Will Tell regarding the comparison of the recent Notre-Dame de Paris fire to the 2014 Trade Unions House fire in Odessa in which 42 civilians were killed. He stated that the former was a "most important cultural treasure of Europe," while the latter represented "liquidation of human material of little value." Following these comments, he was removed from the program by the host. [4] The next day, Senator Aleksey Pushkov called for Sytin to apologize to those offended, noting that he had expressed similar opinions in the past, but questioned the intense reaction. [5] Pushkov also called for television studios to stop inviting Sytin to their programs. [6]
Literature
- Russian Think Tank That Pushed for Invasion of Ukraine Wants Moscow to Overthrow Lukashenka, by: Paul Goble, Eurasia Daily Monitor, Volume: 12 Issue: 16, January 27, 2015
Selected publications
- Европейский и евразийский союз: Столкновение интеграций// «Восточноукраинский конфликт в контексте глобальных трансформаций»/ Украинский институт глобального развития и адаптации. Сб. научных трудов. Киев, 2015. с.8-32. Интернет версия:// https://web.archive.org/web/20150620134358/http://skhid.com.ua/article/view/39540
- Анатомия провала: О механизме принятия внешнеполитических решений Кремля// Консервативный центр Номос.// http://vk.com/nomos_by?w=wall-39503350_196 4 января 2015
- Страны Балтии на пути к независимости: от единого народнохозяйственного комплекса к рыночной экономике европейского типа// Страны Балтии в оставе СССР: от постсталинизма до перестройки 1953—1990. Институт истории Латвии Латвийского университета. Рига, 2014
- Предместье Европы?// Свободная мысль № 1(1643) 2014. с.35-52
- Экономика стран Балтии на путях выхода из кризиса// Проблемы национальной стратегии № 1. 2013. с.135-152
- Страны Балтии в конце ХХ — начале XXI вв. Внутренняя и внешняя политика. Osnabruk, 2012
- Белорусский акцент в политике стран Балтии// Политика ЕС по отношению к союзному государству. Минск. 2012
- Очерки по истории стран Балтии начала XXI в. М.,2010
- Россия, Восточная Европа и энергетическая независимость// Свободная мысль № 2(1597) 2009. с 799—110
- Проблемы истории стран Балтии и их взаимоотношений с Россией конец 80-х — начало 90-х годов ХХ в. М.,2009
External links
References
- ↑ Aleksandr Sytin: Anatomie selhání (in Czech), by Mirko Raduševič, Literární noviny, February 6, 2015.
- ↑ "Aleksandr Sytin". Linkedln profile.
- ↑ Aleksandr Sytin: Unlike for Stalin, ‘No One Will Die for Putin,’ Sytin Says, by Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia, January 25, 2015.
- ↑ Эксперта выгнали из студии Первого канала после обсуждения ЧП в Нотр-Даме
- ↑ Изгнанный из студии Первого канала за слова о пожаре в Одессе историк объяснился
- ↑ Пушков прокомментировал заявление историка Сытина о погибших в Одессе
