Memory. Georgy Satarov

On August 22, 1947, a political scientist and public figure Georgy Satarov was born.

Personal business

Georgy Aleksandrovich Satarov (70 years) was born in Moscow. He received the first education at the theater art and technical school with a degree in the “artist in the world”. He served in the army. Then he entered the evening department of the Faculty of Mathematics of the Moscow State Pedagogical University named after Lenin, which he graduated in 1972. He began to work in a recently created at the Faculty of Laboratory of Pedagogical Dimension, where he prepared a candidate dissertation on the topic “multidimensional scaling in the analysis of dichotomous data on socio-economic systems” in three years. After defending the dissertation, he continued to work in the Moscow State Pedagogical University, was engaged in the use of mathematical statistics in the social sciences. In 1990, together with Sergei Stankevich, he created the Center for Applied Political Studies "Indem" ("Informatics for democracy"). He was the head of the “Indem” until the spring of 1993, when he became part of the Presidential Council, then was an assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, responsible for contacts with the Federal Assembly and political structures.

In 1995, Satarov became the supervisor of the Indem Center, was engaged in the study of corruption, political counseling. In September 1997, he left the post of presidential adviser and moved to independent analytical work.

In October 1997, Satarov was elected President of the Indem Foundation (the successor of the Indem Center). In addition to research, George Satarov is engaged in teaching a lot. Since 1999, he began lectures on statistical methods of data analysis and anti -corruption policy at the faculty of public administration of Moscow State University. He spoke in many regions of Russia with lectures in the framework of the school of public policy organized by the Mikhail Khodorkovsky Foundation “Open Russia”.

In 1999, the National Anti -Corruption Committee was created, the tasks of which were public protection of citizens, public associations and the media trying to identify corruption facts and fight it, as well as the provision of civil impact on power in order to activate anti -corruption. Georgy Satarov became deputy chairman of this committee. In 2015, he performed the Party of the RPR-Parnas.

What is famous

He was invited to the analytical group under Mikhail Gorbachev after the study of the Indem, published in the Moscow News, attracted attention. During the period of work in the public service, Georgy Satarov played an important role as a political consultant during the 1995 State Duma elections and the 1996 presidential election. The media reported that on the initiative of Satarov, the Parties “Our House - Russia” and the block of Ivan Rybkin were created before the Duma elections, as a legal -centric and levocentric parties. Shortly before the presidential election, he accused the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the fact that, in the event of an unsuccessful outcome of the vote, he was preparing the script for the "illiginal interception of power."

What you need to know about

In December 2004, Georgy Satarov participated in the I All -Russian Civil Congress “Russia for Democracy, Against the Dictatorship”, where a constant public organization was created the All -Russian Civil Congress (VGK), which was supposed to become a platform for the dialogue of the democratic opposition and serve the development of civil society in Russia. Georgy Satarov became one of the co -chairs of the VGK with Alexander Auzan, Harry Kasparov and Lyudmila Alekseeva. In 2008, due to the conflict with Kasparov, Satar and Alekseev left the VGK.

Direct speech

“The space of ideas (“ Third World ”by Popper) is heterogeneous. And in addition to ideology, there are values, for example, basic values. And what consolidates society is, first of all, not ideology, but values. And we have a shortage primarily in this. Ideologies have the right to exist, this is a normal phenomenon, and ideology cannot be generally consolidating, because they are more specifically compared to some basic value system oriented to certain groups of people with certain interests. They have the right to compete, including in the political market. The state has no right to be a participant in this competition. But values ​​are changing. They need to be changed. But they change very slowly. And we must start with this. As Kant said: “Any reform should begin with a reform in the heads,” and we believe that reforms are in laws, which is wrong, ” - from an interview with George Satarov

“Sociologists now say that 80% of Russians support the president. But I do not agree with these numbers, they are a little about that. This is rather an exam for the correct answer, not public opinion. In society, indifference dominates "the main thing is that they do not molest me." And when people come to people with the questions “Do you love Putin?”, They just “correctly” answer this question. This is another social reality, not related to public opinion, the ability to speak freely and access to information to generate one’s opinion as such, ” from the commentary of George Satarov about the protest movement in modern Russia

“The possibility of changes in the social order is contained in the most social order. This possibility can be named by the term chaos (randomly disorder, unpredictability). The social order contains in itself structures (roles, functions, institutions, fields), designed to maintain, reproduction of chance. To the extent that the social order is able to protect these structures, to the same extent, it contains the possibility of social changes. <...> Chaos generators, built into social order as its integral part, worked to solve social problems. They stretched from exits from crisis situations, when the usual social practices turned out to be inconspicuous to the preparation and implementation of social changes, ” from the article“ How Social Changes are possible: analysis of one hypothesis ””

10 facts about George Satarov

• The first place of work by Georgy Satarov was the Children's Theater of the Moscow Palace of Pioneers on the Lenin Mountains, where he, studying at the theater and technical school, worked as the head of the lighting workshop in the evenings.
• Georgy Satarov fell into the army by urgent set in connection with the Tashkent earthquake. He served in the construction battalion.
• While studying at the evening department of the MPSU, Satarov worked as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Physical Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences, who was headed by Peter Kapitsa.
• In 1993, Georgy Satarov was a member of the Constitutional Conference on the development of a new Constitution of the Russian Federation.
• In a study published by George Satarov in 2000, a comparative “bribery” of various fractions of the State Duma was studied, in 2002 the Inter Foundation under the leadership of Satarov studied the degree of propagation of corruption in the Russian regions.
• Representing Georgy Satarov who came to Moscow Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin said: “And my brain goes!”
• In 2006, Georgy Satarov published an article “How social changes are possible: analysis of one hypothesis”, into which he put forward and substantiated the hypothesis that any social order contains the substructures built into it (roles, relations, institutions, etc.), which take on the function of shaking and overcoming the current social order.
• Georgy Satarov wrote the books “Computer Open America”, “Mathematical Methods and Computers in historical toopological research”, “Yeltsin’s era: Essays on political history” (in co-authorship); “Trends in the development of Russian federalism” (in collaboration); “Social intelligence and dynamics of dispositions”, “Anti -corruption policy. Textbook ”(in collaboration) and“ Political discourse: methods for analyzing the thematic structure and metaphor ”(in collaboration).
• Georgy Satarov is a member of the public expert council of the World Bank on the problems of public administration and corruption.
• George Satarov considers his smoking and inability to relax his bad habits.

Materials about George Satarov

Georgy Satarov in Lentapedia

Interview with George Satarov June 12, 2014

Georgy Satarov on Polit.ru

Article about George Satarov on Russian Wikipedia