Full name:
Gromov Alexey
Gromov Alexey Date of Birth
31 May 1960
Gromov Alexey Citizenship
Russia
Gromov Alexey Professional field/official position
First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia
Gromov Alexey biography
GROMOV Alexey Alexeyevich (b. 1960) is a Russian politician and Soviet-Russian diplomat. Born in Zagorsk near Moscow, he graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University in 1982. Reportedly, he cooperated with the KGB from his student years.
- In 1982, he began working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a Soviet diplomat in Czechoslovakia. Being an Attache of the Soviet Embassy in Prague in the late 1980s, he got acquainted with Vladimir Putin. After the collapse of the USSR, he continued working for the Russian diplomatic mission in Slovakia.
- On November 22, 1996, by Boris Yeltsin’s order, he was appointed the head of the press service of the President of the Russian Federation.
- On March 4, 1998, he became the head of the press service of the Presidential Administration. On January 4, 2000, Putin appointed Gromov as his spokesperson (till 2012).
- In 2001, Gromov joined the Board of Directors of ORT TV. In 2004, he became a member of the Board of Directors of Channel One, the successor to ORT.
- On May 12, 2008, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration and on May 21, 2012, he became the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration.
Gromov Alexey crimes
Organizing and directing state propaganda, corruption.
Alexei Gromov oversees the production of state propaganda in Russia, directs the work of Russian state and quasi-private television, as well as other media. According to the independent investigative journalists’ portal The Project, Gromov defines the direction and limits of the government censorship and propaganda, makes instructions and directives for leading media outlets, oversees management and financial support for the presidential pool of journalists. He has been working in the Presidential Administration longer than any of his colleagues, and, reportedly, he enjoys the unlimited confidence of Putin.
