Career Notes: Founder of Video International, which has a de facto monopoly on sales of advertising to RTR television...Video International chronically late in paying advertising revenues to RTR...The creative genius behind the "Bank Imperial" commercials...Also authored the "Choose with your heart" pro-Yeltsin campaign ads...Video International in 1996 received a payment of 218 million rubles from Moscow City Bank just before the bank went bankrupt; bank director Dolgov subsequently disappeared...Head of Kremlin press service between Sep. '96 and Mar. '97...New Ministry said to have been created "in order to see through the successful completion of elections."

Minor League Notes: Was an engineer in Mongolia until 1986