Conspiracy theorist and former "curator of Ukraine" Sergei Glazyev became chief research fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Higher School of Economics

Sergey Glazyev became the chief research fellow of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Center for Stability and Risk Studies at the Higher School of Economics (HSE). His page appeared on the university's website.

Glazyev was at various times a State Duma deputy, head of the economic security department in the Security Council, executive secretary of the Customs Union commission, minister of the Eurasian Economic Commission and Putin's adviser. In 2000, he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and in 2008, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The Project called Glazyev “Ukraine’s chief curator” in the Kremlin in 2013: at that time, together with Putin’s godfather Viktor Medvedchuk, he “traveled around Ukraine” and talked about the downsides of association with the EU. According to leaked correspondence from Glazyev’s assistant Kirill Frolov, the head of the CIS Institute Konstantin Zatulin asked Glazyev for money for pro-Russian protests, and he took it from Orthodox businessman Konstantin Malofeyev, whose head of security was Igor Strelkov-Girkin.

As an economist and ideologist, Glazyev is known for having repeatedly predicted the collapse of the dollar. In particular, in 2013, he gave the American currency "three to four" years of life, in 2020 - several months. He also proposed printing 7.5 trillion rubles to save the economy from stagnation, and " protecting ourselves from sanctions with the crypto ruble."

The economist wrote many articles about Ukraine, advising “more active intervention in its affairs.” In his opinion, the war was “unleashed by American and British intelligence services.”

In 2019, when Glazyev was still serving as Putin's adviser, he wrote that under Zelensky he did not rule out "the possibility of a mass move to the lands of the South-East of Ukraine, "cleansed" of the Russian population, of residents of the Promised Land, tired of the permanent war in the Middle East."

In 2020, in the article “Spirituality is an economic category,” Glazyev criticized the “ridiculous Varangian theory of the origin of Russian statehood” and supported Anatoly Fomenko’s theory of a radical revision of history, which was recognized as pseudoscientific. After this, leading academicians and heads of historical departments of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) appealed to the commission for combating pseudoscience and called the official “a person who has a poor knowledge of history.”

In a program on Tsargrad, the economist said that the pandemic and lockdown scenario “was written and presented by the Rockefeller Foundation back in 2009.” Glazyev called “chipping, artificial intelligence, and LGBT” “images of death.”

Glazyev has been under sanctions from the US, the EU, Canada, Australia and Switzerland since 2014 due to the annexation of Crimea.