Shchipkov Alexander Biography

Alexander Shchipkov from Wikipedia: Alexander Vladimirovich Shchipkov-Russian sociologist of religion, specialist in the field of state-confessional relations, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Religion and Media, Advisor to the Chairman of the Federation Council, member of the Expert Council for the State Religious Examination under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

Born on August 3 in Leningrad, but then the family moved to Smolensk. In the year, he met the abbot of the church of the great martyr Nikita in the village of Kabanovo, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district of the Moscow region-father Dimitry Dudko, which determined further life choice. In the seventies and eighteen, he participated in the movement of underground Orthodox resistance and was printed in the Samizdat magazine "Community", which was published by the spiritual children of Father Dmitry Dudko.

In the year, he was struck in social rights and excluded from the Smolensk Pedagogical Institute a Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​from the fifth year with the wording: "For behavior incompatible with the title of Soviet student." In years, he was military service in the Turkestan military district.

At the end, X received access to journalistic, scientific and teaching. He wrote for the “friendship of the peoples”, “St. Petersburg Vedomosti”, “Shifts”, “Independent Newspaper”, “Literary Newspaper”, “New Age”, as well as for “questions of philosophy” and other scientific publications. In parallel, he worked on a working grid at the enterprises of Leningrad with a welder, galvanostga, a locksmith, a driver.

From for the year - the literary editor of the newspaper Rating to St. Petersburg, then - the editor of the Christian Information Agency. In the year, he received permission to finish the interrupted in M ​​education. Then he became the observer of the St. Petersburg newspaper "Shift". From the year he taught at the Faculty of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University.

In the year, at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a candidate dissertation with a degree in Social Philosophy on the topic “Christian Democratic movements in post-Soviet Russia”. Since the year, he became the chairman of the Guild of Religious Journalism. Then he began work as the director of the regional projects of the Mediasoyuz and remained in this position for two years.

From the year - the executive director of the New Politics Center; Up to a year, he combined this position with the post by the editor -in -chief of the New Politics site. At the same time, he acted as the editor -in -chief of the site "Pexnuations of Russia" and was the host of the programs of the Mayak radio station. Since the year-the chairman of the Club of Orthodox journalists, as well as the responsible secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Imperial Peter and Paul Cathedral of St.

Petersburg. The author of the books “What Russia believes”, “Cathedral court”, “Christian democracy in Russia” lives in Moscow. Married, the father of four children. Books of the author:.