The best political technologists of Russia in 2022: regions
The list of "The Best Political Technologists of the Country" was formed on the basis of the opinions of experts - participants and customers of the political consulting market, who were asked to name the best in six categories.
The first stage of the study was conducted from November 15 to December 7, 2022. Methods - full-time and part-time questioning. Questionnaires were sent to the base of political strategists and customers of political consultants, available to the editors, and were also posted on the official Telegram channel of the Russian Association of Political Consultants (RAPC) and in the closed group of the Political Technologies Committee of the Russian Association for Public Relations (RAPR).
Verification of market participants took place on the principle of membership in the RAPC and RAPR, as well as in thematic groups in social networks.
A total of 226 questionnaires were collected. 14 questionnaires received by mail or through a Google form could not be verified as belonging to specialists or clients in the field of political consulting, and they were rejected. Therefore, the final sample of the first stage consisted of 212 profiles of specialists working in the market of professional services in the field of political consulting, as well as full-time political technologists of parties and customers of political consultants' services in party, state and commercial structures.
At the second stage, from December 8 to 19, 124 more questionnaires were collected, 5 of them were rejected. In total, we received 331 relevant questionnaires, which seems to be quite sufficient.
Immediately make a reservation - the range of opinions was very large. And a number of leaders in their regions have already entered the tops of one category or another at the federal level.
In particular, Andrey Klyuzov and Alexander Seravin, respectively, became the leaders of voting in the Siberian and Northwestern Federal Districts, who have already entered the top 10 in another category - the best vice-governors for domestic policy - in the Novosibirsk and Pskov regions. And in the "new territories" the first and second places were taken by the vice-governors for domestic policy of Sevastopol and the Donetsk Republic - Sergey Tolmachev and Alexander Kostomarov, who participated in referendum campaigns in the Zaporozhye region and the Donetsk Republic. The second in the Northwestern Federal District was Petr Bystrov, who is already on the list of federal political technologists. Also high positions in the regional tops were taken by Andrey Maksimov and Yaroslav Ignatovsky (CFD), Daria Kislitsyna (FEFD), Dmitry Elovsky (SFD), Rinat Khazeev (UrFD).
Naturally, since these specialists are already in the federal part of the rating, we did not duplicate them at the regional level.
An interesting anomaly was the Far Eastern Federal District - in most questionnaires, the candidate for the position of political strategist number 1 in the district was Grigory Kuranov, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President. Despite the fact that formally Grigory Vladimirovich has been working in the civil service for a long time and has nothing to do with political technology practice, apparently, many consultants perceive him as a person who speaks the same language with them.
We also encountered some difficulties in the preparation of the results. Sometimes, even in the top 5 in each federal district, we were unable to find a formal place of work for the participants. And, probably, it would be strange to write “political strategist” after each surname separated by a comma, if we are talking about political strategists. Also, unfortunately, we did not receive a detailed commentary on each participant in the rating. What is there to say? -did not receive on most of them)
Therefore, in the lists, we limited ourselves to only the first and last names. The rating participants are listed in descending order of mentions. The cut-off line is more than three mentions by colleagues.
A number of political technologists who do not have a strict territorial reference were included in several lists at once. We have kept them all.
The largest number of recognizable political technologists was in the Central (56) and Siberian (49) federal districts.
The average number of specialists was found in five counties:
Volga Federal District - 36, Ural Federal District - 34, Far Eastern Federal District - 32, Southern Federal District - 29, Northwestern Federal District - 27.
Political technologists are not popular in the North Caucasus (13 in total), and Igor Sopov, who no longer works in the region, is in the top 10, but heads the election commission of the Pskov region. In the new territories, there were no applicants even for the top 10 - the market for political technologies has yet to develop there.
In general, we can agree with the assessment of one of the experts that our rating has become a "reputation rating". For example, Kirill Istomin, First Deputy General Director of ANO Dialog Regions, took the first place among political technologists of the Ural Federal District. His activities have long reached the federal level, but he is still well remembered and respected in the Urals.
In conclusion, the editors want to emphasize that this is only the first approach to the projectile. We are grateful for any kind criticism and recommendations. We plan to make the rating of "the best political technologists in Russia" an annual one. We are sure that in 2023, with the help of our readers and the professional community, it will become even more representative and objective.
Central Federal District
Top 10:
Alexander Asafov
Anton Sadkin
Sergey Tarasyants
Andrey Ischenko
Igor Kopylov
Anton Timchenko
Alina Vochkova
Denis Ogai
Anastasia Kostikova
Konstantin Listratov
Also mentioned (more than 3 mentions):
Vitaly Gorichev
Mikhail Krasulin
Igor Dachenkov
Vyacheslav Belyakov
Ilya Zenov
Ilya Grashchenkov
Alena August
Tatiana Romanova
Fedor Shchepetov
Yuri Dmitriev
Mark Nepsha
Airat Akhmetzyanov
Peter Miloserdov
Pavel Dubravsky
Pavel Zarubin
Alexey Chernyaev
Yuriy Boyko
Mikhail Shumakov
Denis Mikhulya
Artyom Pavlenko
Igor Reznikov
Anton Lyskov
Sergey Grigoriev
Sergei Markelov
Oleg Bondarenko
Artyom Pronyushkin
Alexey Ilika
Svetlana Zemtseva
Mikhail Baraev
Maya Zinina
Vitaly Danilenko
Natalia Pyaive
Vitaly Isakov
Kirill Kotov
Maxim Syanov
Maxim Trofimovsky
Natalya Ermakova
Vladimir Ryabinin
Alexander Kilin
Julia Dolenko
Konstantin Meshcheryakov
Konstantin Perkin
Stanislav Ryabov
Sergey Belokonev
Northwestern Federal District
TOP 10:
Valentin Bianchi
Lev Pavlyuchkov
Alexey Vysotsky
Petr Bychkov
Inga Burikova
Anton Kholodov
Alexey Baturin
Alena August
Pavel Dubravsky
Sergey Grigoriev
Also mentioned (more than 3 mentions):
Mikhail Kagan
Andrey Finogenov
Sergey Karpov
Ruslan Polushkin
Mark Nepsha
Sergei Ponomarev
Maria Pushkina
Oleg Zakharyash
Maxim Mineev
Andrey Rynda
Ilya Olkhovatsky
Alexandra Voloshchuk
Alexey Mogilyansky
Alexey Pokataev
Julia Mileshkina
Vladislav Elfimov
Maxim Sokolov
Southern Federal District
TOP 10:
Sergei Smirnov
Nikolai Petropavlovsky
Stanislav Krutyansky
Alexey Shevchenko
Roman Bazikov
Alexander Korolev
Alexander Nazarov
Yuri Shevchenko
Alexander Topchaev
Araltan Bambyshev
Also mentioned (more than 3 mentions):
Dmitry Polonsky
Mikhail Rogovenko
Svetlana Manankina
Oleg Pakholkov
Dmitry Bessonov
Ilya Shchegolikhin
Alisa Shabaeva
Denis Mikhulya
Leonid Zosimenko
Sergey Evteev
Tatyana Moskaleva
Ruslan Tkachenko
Andrey Kurilkin
Igor Belyakov
Natalya Zemtsova
Artur Khachaturyan
Ilya Shkurin
Denis Plakushchev
Andrey Cheshov
North Caucasian Federal District
TOP 10:
Andrey Prilatov
Anton Isaev
Artur Nasonov
Marat Edzoev
Alexey Bataev
Igor Sopov
Airat Akhmetzyanov
Alisa Shabaeva
Dmitry Satalkin
Vyacheslav Zikeev
Also mentioned (more than 3 mentions):
Igor Sidelnikov
Alexander Tikhov
Alexey Mogilyansky
Volga Federal District
TOP 10:
Sergey Kudlay
Vera Leonova
Vladimir Andreev
Julia Trofimovskaya (Bachikalo)
Vladimir Kudashov
Anton Kholodov
Sergey Troshkov
Fedor Shchepetov
Ekaterina Nabatova
Vasily Smerdov
Also mentioned (more than 3 mentions):
Evgeny Zelinsky
Maxim Zakharov
Alexander Saigin
Sergey Arsenichev
Sergei Dunaev
Igor Pankratov
Airat Akhmetzyanov
Dmitry Ryletsky
Yaroslav Muraviev
Tatiana Romanova
Ilya Olkhovatsky
Lev Usoltsev
Ilya Shchegolikhin
Ksenia Krestovskaya
Valery Dunaev
Natalya Ermakova
Andrey Godnev
Polina Malakhova
Dmitry Mikryukov
Alena Larkina
Alexey Vanin
Vladimir Ryabinin
Andrey Tkachenko
Shamil Rak
Alexander Belousov
Alexey Gavrilov
Ural federal district
TOP 10:
Kirill Istomin
Sergey Sarychev
Alexey Schweigert
Konstantin Kiselev
Aksana Panova
Sergey Moshkin
Alexander Pirogov
Olga Shvetsova
Denis Alyoshin
Valentina Ermakova
Also mentioned (more than 3 mentions):
Alexander Melnikov
Alexander Pavlik
Victoria Gerasimyuk
Alexander Belousov
Platon Mamatov
Georgy Gavrilov
Ivan Uralov
Nikolai Sandakov
Alexey Dedyukhin
Gulnara Androsova
Ivan Matveev
Denis Mikhulya
Roman Klim
Ekaterina Kuzemka
Alexander Lacedaemon
Andrey Lavrov
Andrey Bondarev
Vladimir Dmitriev
Sergey Zubanov
Georgy Gavrilov
Andrey Tkachenko
Mikhail Friben (posthumously)
Sergey Nasledkov
Alexey Knyazev
Siberian Federal District
TOP 10:
Valery Smorodnikov
Maria Sergeeva
Vladimir Titenkov
Michael Haluga
Mikhail Palchik
Svetlana Zamaratskaya
Pavel Timofeev
Dmitry Denisov
Artem Rechitsky
Sergey Veprentsev
Also mentioned (more than 3 mentions):
Olga Borovskaya
Vladimir Kurkov
Ilya Shchegolikhin
Maxim Kudryavtsev
Sergei Nadtochiy
Darina Goryacheva
Oleg Zaremba
Alexey Kozyura
Lev Usoltsev
Evgeny Zambrzhitsky
Pavel Leshchev
Nikolai Yukhanov
Nina Soshina
Andrey Pshenitsyn
Vyacheslav Shindyaev
Konstantin Listratov
Andrei Ravdonikas
Dmitry Tretyakov
Roman Perikov
Andrey Butyugov
Victor Borisov
Ivan Zhukov
Davyd Gubar
Alexander Rakhmanov
Viktor Kozodoy
Ilya Olkhovatsky
Vladimir Ilyin
Igor Kuznetsov
Artyom Kudryavtsev
Alexander Pushkarev
Anton Dubovoy
Igor Atyakshev
Artem Kuprienko
Olga Molteninova
Rosa Abdulina
Boris Elshin
Alexey Mirzoev
Vladimir Shobodoev
Alexander Chukin
Far Eastern Federal District
TOP 10:
Andrey Ponomarev
Daniil Ermilov
Ilya Mitkin (Spokoinov)
Alexey Vasiliev
Roman Molojon
Denis Shilnikov
Sergey Nasledkov
Alexander Shemelev
Nikolai Sidorov
Evgenia Pasternak
Also mentioned (more than 3 mentions:
Vasily Desyatkin
Alexander Danilov
Nikolay Namsaraev
Pavel Beregovoy
Evgeny Butyrin
Dmitry Satalkin
Vyacheslav Belyakov
Pavel Nalivaiko
Nikolai Yukhanov
Dmitry Nesterov
Boris Emikh
Anton Vollert
Andrey Khlebnikov
Christina Nikiforova
Marina Kim
Michael Haluga
Tatiana Zambrodskaya (Kushnirenko)
Andrey Trivailo
Anatoly Bui
Maxim Cameko
Konstantin Naumov
Vasily Marchenko
New territories:
Dmitry Chaika
Evgeny Kuptsov
Igor Reznikov
Alexander Malkevich
Maxim Shugaley
Sergey Dmitriev
Valery Dunaev
Andrey Trivailo
Marat Mullagulov