Education
Degree, Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute, 1945.
Degree, Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute, 1945.
Member, Communist Party Soviet Union, 1944-1991;member Yaroslavl district committee, Communist Party Soviet Union, 1946-1953;head department science and culture, Control Committee Communist Party Soviet Union, 1953-1956;instructor department propoganda and agitation, Control Committee Communist Party Soviet Union, 1962-1964;head radio and television broadcasting propoganda department, Control Committee Communist Party Soviet Union, 1964-1965;1st deputy head, acting head propoganda department, Control Committee Communist Party Soviet Union, Moscow, 1965-1973;member central auditing committee, Control Committee Communist Party Soviet Union, Moscow, 1971-1976;ambassador to Canada, 1973-1983;director, Institute for World Economy and International Rels., 1983-1985;head propoganda department, Control Committee Communist Party Soviet Union, Moscow, 1985-1986;secretary responsible for propoganda, Control Committee Communist Party Soviet Union, Moscow, 1986-1987;member central committee, Communist Party Soviet Union, 1986-1991;candidate member, then member Politburo, Control Committee Communist Party Soviet Union, Moscow, 1987-1989;head international policy committee, Control Committee Communist Party Soviet Union, Moscow, 1988-1991;member, Presidential Council, 1990;chairman, Presidential Commision on Rehabilitation Political Prisoners, Moscow, since 1992;chairman, Russian Public television Ltd., since 1995. President Democracy Foundation, since 1993.
Served with Soviet Army, 1941-1943. Member Academy Science (economics department 1984).