Full name:
Medvedev Alexander
Medvedev Alexander Date of Birth
14 August 1955
Medvedev Alexander Citizenship
Russia
Medvedev Alexander Professional field/official position
Deputy Chairman of Gazprom (2014 – 2019), president of the football club Zenit
Medvedev Alexander biography
MEDVEDEV Alexander Ivanovich (b. 1955) graduated from the Bauman Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1978. In 1978 – 1989, he worked in Moscow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO). In 1989 – 1991. Medvedev was the director of Donau-Bank AG Sovzabranbank (Vienna, Austria), the managing director of a subsidiary of Inter Trade Consult GmbH. The media reported that he and his subordinates were agents of the Soviet KGB in Austria.
- In 1991 – 1996, he was the Director of IMAG Investment Management and Advisory Group GmbH (Vienna, Austria). In 1997 – 1998, he served as vice president of East Oil Company (Moscow). In 1998, he once again headed IMAG Investment Management and Advisory Group. Since June 2003, he has been a Member of the Board of Directors of SOGAZ.
- In July 2004, he became Member of the Coordinating Council of the Swiss company RosUkrEnergo, a joint venture of Gazprombank and the Austrian Raiffeisen Investment, created to supply Turkmen gas to Ukraine. In 2002 – 2005, he was General Director of Gazexport LLC (now Gazpromexport), a member of the Gazprom Management Committee (Moscow).
- From April 8, 2005, to February 25, 2019, Alexander Medvedev was Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee (retaining the position of Director General of Gazpromexport LLC until June 30, 2014). In April 2009, Alexander Medvedev became the only Russian citizen to be in the TOP-100 of the world’s most influential people according to Time magazine. An accompanying article noted that a third of the gas consumed by Europe passed through his company.
- Between 2008 and 2014, he was the President of the Continental Hockey League. Since 2019, he has been president of the Zenit football club (note that Gazprom acquired a majority stake in the Zenit football club in 2005).
Medvedev Alexander crimes
Complicity in organizing economic pressure on Ukraine.
Alexander Medvedev, when he was Deputy Chairman of Gazprom and the head of the Gazpromexport, especially from 2006 to 2014, was the main drive belt of the Kremlin policy of “gas blackmail” of Ukraine. In our short review, it is impossible to cover all the details of many years of blackmail, however, these three circumstances deserve the attention:
