Sergei Filatov, the former administrative head of President Boris Yeltsin, died on August 25 at the age of 88, he said. “Petersburg Diary” referring to the politician’s daughter.
Information approved Moscow Writers Union. Farewell to Filatov will take place on Tuesday, August 29 from 10:00 to 12:00 in the Ritual Hall of the Central Clinical Hospital, he will be buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.
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The death of Filatov was also announced by the writer and military commander German Sadulaev, who described him as the “permanent organizer and inspiration of Lipok”, an international forum attended by young writers from Russia, the CIS countries and abroad.
“Sergei Alexandrovich was very kind to us. Although he probably did not always agree with our position. He loved us. [Захара] Prilepin, [Сергея] Shargunov, me. I only have good memories and gratitude Wrote Sadulaev.
Historian Yevgeny Kozhokin, People’s Deputy of the Russian Federation in 1990-1993, in an interview with socialbites.ca named Filatov “A symbol of hopes, illusions and disappointments of the late 80s – early 90s.”
Kozhokin said, “He entered politics without being a politician in terms of his temperament and psychological characteristics.”
According to him, the former head of the presidential administration “tried to make a smart policy” and could not hold out for long “at the peak of power”. As the former deputy said, Filatov was very different from Yeltsin and “did not look very well” in his “palace”, and after leaving office he supported the intelligentsia and the creative community.
“Sergei Alexandrovich held high positions, but he did not become a boss in our Russian sense. He remained an intellectual in high positions,” concluded the historian.
Filatov’s life and career
Filatov was born on July 10, 1936 in Moscow. In 1990, he became a people’s deputy, after which he entered the chairmanship of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. During the State of Emergency Committee coup in 1991, he headed the deputy headquarters responsible for the defense of the Government House. Since 1992, he has been a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
He headed Yeltsin’s administration in 1993-1996. He left the civil service and led the popular movement supporting Yeltsin in the 1996 elections. He later became president of the Socio-Economic and Intellectual Programs Foundation. He was also the chairman of the Moscow Writers’ Union, a member of the Russian Journalists’ Union and the Public Scientific Advisory Council of the Central Election Commission.
During an attempted coup in October 1993, Filatov was mediated by the Russian Orthodox Church in St. He participated in negotiations with representatives of the Daniel Monastery Supreme Council.
As he said in an interview “Lente.ru”On October 1, the parties agreed to surrender weapons by the Government House defenders in exchange for the inclusion of life support systems in the building, but then a new delegation of the Supreme Council headed by First Vice-President Yuri Voronin “began to deny the existence of undisclosed weapons in the White House. “
Filatov was also present at the talks on October 3, when the clashes began on the streets of Moscow.
“I arrived at five o’clock in the evening at St. In the Danilov Monastery, Voronin read us an ultimatum and Patriarch II. Alexy sat completely pale. He suffered a heart attack right there, and then everyone was asked to leave the building. This is how the negotiations ended. The politician remembered.
Source: Gazeta
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