Starikov Nikolay

Starikov Nikolay Date of Birth

23 August 1970

Starikov Nikolay Citizenship

Russia

Starikov Nikolay Professional field/official position

Propagandist

Starikov Nikolay biography

STARIKOV Nikolay Viktorovich (b. 1970 in Leningrad) graduated from the Engineering and Economics Institute in St. Petersburg in 1992 with a major in Chemical Engineering. After graduation, he worked as a security guard, sales manager, and loader. In 1994, he joined Chance Publishing House as an Advertising Manager.

In 1998, he became Deputy Commercial Director of the Regional Television Channel. In 2003, he became Commercial Director of Channel One (St. Petersburg).
In 2011, he created the public organization Trade Union of Citizens of Russia and, in 2013, the Great Fatherland Party. In 2015, he co-founded the Antimaidan movement.
In 2018, after a split in the Great Fatherland Party, he created the Party of Patriots of the Great Fatherland.

Starikov Nikolay crimes

The Great Fatherland Party, led by Starikov, co-authored the bill, which was adopted on December 21, 2012, becoming the infamous Dima Yakovlev Bill. The document introduced a ban on the adoption of Russian orphans by American citizens. The issue of violation of the rights of orphans by foreign adoptive parents was raised to form a sharply negative attitude towards foreigners in society and to cement anti-Western propaganda. The bill was a so-called “retaliatory measure” after the U.S. adopted the Magnitsky Act, which imposed sanctions against corrupt Russian officials involved in a violation of human rights. Experts in protecting the rights of children sharply criticized the bill and called it inhumane to children left without parental care. The purpose of the law was not to protect the rights of minors, but “political speculation” and “retaliatory response” to the Magnitsky Act, that affected the interests of the Russian ruling elite.