The creative editor of the site, Dmitry Bykov, talked with the famous Russian political scientist Valery Solovyov.

Valery Solovey – professor, head. Department of MGIMO and the most famous Russian political scientist today. As he likes to say, “for two simple reasons.” Firstly, his predictions are confirmed in nine cases out of ten. This is because, he explains, he has good informants. Personally, it seems to me that informants have nothing to do with it, and he has good intuition, but let him explain as he wants.

“And Kadyrov can be replaced, and Shoigu is not completely trusted”

– We are talking to you on the day of Dzhabrailov’s arrest...

- Already arrested? Not detention?

– So far the arrest has been made, but charges have been filed: hooliganism. Shot at the hotel. Four Seasons. Near Red Square.

- Well, that's okay. I think they will let me go. Maximum - subscription. (While he was writing, he was released on bail. Either someone knocks on him, or he writes the script himself. - D.B.)

- But before he was generally inviolable...

- Let there be no one untouchable now, except for the narrowest circle. The problem is not that there are no institutions in Russia, but that a typical Russian institution—the roof—stops working. A month ago they hinted to me that two banks were under attack - Otkritie and another one, considered ethnic, and that there would not be enough funds to save both. Otkritie has just been saved. So, should the remaining jar be ready? And there’s such a roof there!

– After Nemtsov’s murder, he even left Russia for a while. But the idea was there even earlier, they even say they found a replacement - but that person had not been to Chechnya for a long time and did not come up. However, for Kadyrov this would be an honorable removal: we were talking about the status of deputy prime minister. But without a briefcase.

– Did people in Chechnya know about this alleged exchange?

- Yes. And Kadyrov, naturally, knew. After all, his famous phrase that he is “Putin’s foot soldier” means his readiness to obey any order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.

– The longer he stays outside Ukraine, the more difficult it will be to integrate him there, and the time limit, as it seems to me, is five years. After this, alienation and hostility can become difficult to overcome. As the Russian side says at the negotiations: if we weaken support for Donbass, Ukrainian troops will enter there and mass repressions will begin. However, there is a certain compromise option: Donbass comes under temporary international control (UN, for example) and the “blue helmets” enter there. Several years (at least five to seven) will be spent on the reconstruction of the region, the formation of local authorities, etc. Then a referendum is held on its status. Currently, Ukraine is vehemently rejecting the idea of ​​federalization because Russia is proposing it. And if Europe proposes federalization, then Ukraine may accept this idea.

- And no Zakharchenko?

– He’ll go somewhere... If not to Argentina, then to Rostov.

– What do you think: in the summer of 2014 it was possible to go to Mariupol, Kharkov, and then everywhere?

– In April 2014, this could have been done much easier, and no one would have been able to defend themselves. One local high-ranking character, we won’t name names (although we know), called Turchinov and said: if you resist, in two hours the landing force will land on the roof of the Verkhovna Rada. He wouldn't have landed, of course, but it sounded so convincing! Turchynov tried to organize a defense - but his real disposal was only the police with pistols. And he himself was ready to climb onto the roof with a grenade launcher and a helmet...

- And why didn’t you go? Scared, what?

- I don’t think they would have turned it off. In my opinion, they would swallow it the same way they swallowed Crimea in the end: after all, our main sanctions are for Donbass. But, firstly, it turned out that in Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk the mood is far from the same as in Donetsk. And secondly, let’s even say that you annexed Ukraine entirely - and what to do? There are only two and a half million people in Crimea - and even then its integration into Russia is, frankly speaking, not going smoothly. And here - about forty-five million! And what will you do with them when it is not clear how to deal with your own?

– Actually, there is another scenario. bang - and all our problems will cease to exist.

- It won’t bang.

- But why? Did he launch a rocket over Japan?

– He doesn’t have enough of these missiles. And he won't do anything to Guam. The only thing he really threatens is Seoul. But South Korea has the status of a strategic ally of the United States, and after the first strike on Seoul - and there’s really nothing you can do there, the distance is 30-40 km to the border - Trump has a free hand and the Kim regime ceases to exist.

– So it will all end in nothing?

- I think that with - yes. My friends from Seoul...

– Sources too?!

- Colleagues. And they say that there is no premonition of war or even a military threat: the metropolis lives an ordinary life, people do not panic...

“Obama asked, and Putin stopped”

– What do you think is Russia’s real role in Trump’s victory?

– Russia (or, as Putin called it, “patriotic hackers”) did launch attacks, after which Obama, according to him, warned Putin, and the attacks stopped. But all this was before September 2016! Otherwise, Trump’s victory is the result of his successful political strategy and Hillary’s mistakes. She could not play on the factor of predestination. If you always talk about your uncontested victory, they will want to teach you a lesson. This, by the way, is one of the reasons why Putin is delaying the announcement of the campaign.

What did Trump do? His team clearly understood which states they needed to win. Trump has successfully politicized the rednecks, a white middle class that is angry and somewhat stagnant. He showed them the alternative: you vote not for an establishment man, but for the common guy, the flesh and blood of true America. And he won on this. But Trump - and this was understood here - is not so good for Russia: rather, Moscow simply did not like Clinton very much.

– Is there a global revenge of conservatives in the world?

– These myths could be believed in 1660, when Brexit happened at the same time, Trump won and Le Pen had some chances. But Le Pen never had a chance to get past the second round. And then... There are relapses, an era does not pass without them, but just as the era of Gutenberg ended, so did the time of political conservatism as we previously knew it. People live with other oppositions, other desires, and the fight against globalism is the lot of those who want to live in the “mental Donbass.” There will always be such people, these are their personal ideas, which do not affect anything.

– Isn’t a big war visible on Russian roads?

“We’re definitely not initiating it.” If others start, which is extremely unlikely, they will have to participate, but Russia itself has neither the idea, nor the resource, nor the desire. What war, what are you talking about? Look around: how many volunteered in Donbass? War is an excellent way to solve internal problems, as long as it does not lead to suicide: this is exactly the situation now.

– But why did they take Crimea then? Did they distract you from the protests?

- Don't think. The protests were not dangerous. Putin simply wondered: what will remain of him in history? Olympics? And if he really raised Russia from its knees, what did this mean? The idea of ​​appropriating/returning Crimea existed before the Maidan, just in a milder version. Let us buy it from you. It was possible to agree on this with Yanukovych, but then power in Ukraine collapsed, and Crimea actually fell into his hands.

– And will he remain Russian?

- I suppose so. It will be written in the Ukrainian Constitution that he is Ukrainian, but everyone will accept it.

– How do you imagine the idea with which post-Putin Russia will live?

– Very simple: recovery. Because right now the country and society are seriously ill, and we all feel it. The problem is not even corruption, this is a special case. The problem is the deepest, triumphant, universal immoralism. In absolute absurdity, idiocy, which is palpable at all levels. In the Middle Ages, where we are falling - not due to someone’s evil will, but simply because if there is no movement forward, then the world is rolling back. We need a return to normality: normal education, quiet business, objective information. Everyone wants this, and, with a few exceptions, even those around Putin. And everyone will breathe a huge sigh of relief when normality returns. When hatred ceases to be escalated, and fear ceases to be the main emotion.

And then money will return to the country quite quickly - including Russian money, withdrawn and hidden. And we will become one of the best launching pads for business, and economic growth within ten to twenty years may turn out to be record-breaking.

- How will we all live together again - so to speak, Krymnash and Namkrysh?

- Well, after that Civil War how did you live? You can't imagine how quickly it all becomes overgrown. People sort things out when they have nothing to do, but then everyone will have something to do, because today there is total meaninglessness and aimlessness in the country. This will end - and everyone will find something to do. Except for those, of course, who want to remain irreconcilable. There are five percent of such people in any society, and this is their personal choice.

– Finally, explain: how do they tolerate you at MGIMO?

– You know from your own experience that there are different people at MGIMO. There are retrogrades and liberals, there are right and left. And I am neither one nor the other. I look at everything from the standpoint of ordinary, unbiased common sense. And to everyone who wants to be a successful interpreter of reality, I can give only one piece of advice: do not look for insidious plans and malicious intent where banal stupidity, greed and cowardice operate.

Biography milestones:

1983 – graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University

1993 – becomes an expert at the Gorbachev Foundation

1995 – completed an internship at the London School of Economics and Political Science

2012 – elected chairman of the New Force party

Valery Solovey: by 2024 there will be 15-20 regions in Russia and state ideology

Political scientist, MGIMO professor Valery Solovey expressed his opinion regarding rumors about imminent constitutional reform in Russia.

The other day, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, spoke about the need to change the Constitution of the country.

According to Professor Solovy, by 2024 in Russia the number of federal subjects will be reduced through unification and state ideology will be introduced.

Valery Solovey:

I have already written and spoken on this topic, and I would be happy to repeat it.

1. Preparation of constitutional reform, or rather fundamental changes in wide range constitutional laws was launched in the fall of 2017.

2. Changes were developed in the following areas:

a) the formation of a new configuration of state power and governance;

b) a radical reduction in the number of subjects of the federation (to 15-20) by merging them for the purpose of ease of administration, equalizing levels of development and neutralizing ethnic separatist tendencies;

c) decisive amendments to the laws on elections and political parties (not at all in the sense of liberalization);

d) introduction of state ideology.
Well, one more thing.

3. Initially, it was not clear which of the changes and in what volume would be given the green light, and which would not.

But in any case, they were not supposed to be implemented all at the same time due to the predicted strong negative reaction.

4. Sine qua non - reconfiguration of state power and management, which should provide an institutional and legal framework for the transit of the system.

There are also several options here.

From the well-known model with the establishment of the State Council as an analogue of the Politburo and the reduction of the role of the president to representative and symbolic functions to, on the contrary, the strengthening and expansion of presidential powers and the establishment of the post of vice president. (There are several other options.)

5. The transit of the system should be completed before 2024 in order to take external and internal enemies by surprise. It was assumed that 2020-2021 could be decisive.

6. There is only one reason why these deadlines could be shifted downward.

And this reason has nothing to do with politics and declining ratings. The situation is assessed as concerning, but not critical and under control.

7. And, moreover, there was no talk of any early elections and there could not be any talk. A fundamental change in the organization of state power and management is not being carried out in order to hold elections and subject the system to extreme stress.

8. Among the key beneficiaries of the reform, the authorities name three people who are already among the top ten elite in terms of their political and bureaucratic weight.

There is a bright palette in the assessments of the figure of political scientist Valery Solovy - he is a spy, a Russian nationalist, and a specialist in indoctrination. The incredible accuracy of his forecasts of certain events in the life of the country, willingly or unwillingly, evokes the idea that the professor has his own network of informants in the vertical of power. The general public recognized Valery Solovy after resonant performances on Manezhnaya Square in December 2010 and on the RBC TV channel.

Childhood and youth

The details of the political scientist’s life available in the sources are not rich in facts. Valery Dmitrievich Solovey was born on August 19, 1960 in the Lugansk region of Ukraine, in a city with a promising name - Happiness. There is no information about Nightingale’s childhood.

After high school, Valery became a student at the Faculty of History of Moscow state university. After graduating from university in 1983, he worked for ten years at the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences. In 1987, he successfully defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences.

Valery Solovy’s further work biography continued at the international foundation for socio-economic and political science research “Gorbachev Foundation”. According to some reports, Solovey worked at the fund until 2008. During this time, he prepared several reports for international organizations, including the UN, was a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and defended his doctoral dissertation.

By the way, some observers and political scientists reproach Valery for his connections with the foundation and the London School of Economics, believing that both of these institutions a priori cannot be carriers of the ideas of creating a strong Russian state. Simultaneously with his work in these organizations, Valery Solovey held a position on the editorial board and wrote articles in the magazine “Free Thought”.

Since 2009, the political scientist has been a member of the Expert Council of the international analytical journal Geopolitika. The magazine promotes the ideas of preserving Russian identity, statehood, and spreading the Russian language and culture. Famous media personalities work in the editorial office - Oleg Poptsov, Anatoly Gromyko, Giulietto Chiesa. In addition, Valery Solovey heads the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at MGIMO University.

Science and social activities

In 2012, Professor Solovey made an attempt to make himself known more loudly in the political arena by creating and leading the New Force party, which he announced in January of the same year on the Ekho Moskvy radio station. Nationalism, according to the professor, underlies the worldview normal people, because only thanks to such an attitude towards life will there be a chance to hold on to the country.

Despite the fact that the ideas promoted by the party were understood by people, New Force was not registered with the Ministry of Justice. The party's official website has been blocked, its Twitter and VKontakte pages have been abandoned. This is not surprising, given the right-wing liberal position of Valery Solovy: he does not see nationalism as a threat to society, and does not consider it an ideology.

Nevertheless, Valery Solovey continues to be active. To date, he is the author and co-author of 7 books and more than 70 scientific articles, and the number of online publications and articles in the media numbers in the thousands. It has long become a tradition in the journalistic community to interview one of the most famous political scientists in the country on every more or less significant issue.

Nightingale’s frank, unvarnished notes on his own blog on the Echo of Moscow website, on his personal pages in "Facebook" And "In contact with" get a lot of comments. Quotes from speeches and the professor’s forecasts (by the way, surprisingly accurate) become the subject of discussion and are taken as the basis for expressing the personal position of concerned citizens on the pages of LiveJournal.

Personal life

All that is known about the personal life of Valery Solovy is that the professor is married and has a son, Pavel. My wife’s name is Svetlana Anashchenkova, originally from St. Petersburg, she graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of St. Petersburg State University, and is engaged in publishing children’s literature. teaching aids.

In 2009, together with his sister Tatyana, also a Doctor of Historical Sciences, Solovey published the book “The Failed Revolution. Historical meanings of Russian nationalism”, which the authors dedicated to their children - Pavel and Fedor.

Valery Solovey now

Valery Solovy’s latest book so far is “Revolution! Fundamentals of revolutionary struggle in the modern era” was published in 2016.

In the fall of 2017, it became known that the leader of the Growth Party, a billionaire and Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights, would participate in the Russian presidential elections in 2018. At the party's election headquarters, Valery Solovey was appointed responsible for ideology. The professor believes that from a propaganda point of view, the campaign has already been won, and the goal of Titov’s nomination is to influence economic strategy.

Among Nightingale’s latest “prophecies” are the imminent ripening of a political crisis, the loss of controllability by society, and the worsening crisis in the economy. In addition, on his Facebook page, Valery Dmitrievich expressed the opinion that we should allegedly expect the appearance of Russian volunteers in military conflicts in Yemen, as happened with Libya and Sudan. In other words, Russia will be drawn into another conflict, which will again entail multibillion-dollar expenses and rejection of the country in the international arena.

Nightingale predicts a quick end to Putin’s next presidency, in two or three years, and the reason is not even Vladimir Vladimirovich’s years (much older heads of state are in charge), but because “the people of Russia are tired of Putin.” And then a series of serious changes will follow.

Speaking about a possible successor, Solovey does not consider the Minister of Defense as such, whose candidacy is not directly, but is being discussed in narrow circles. The political scientist drew attention to Shoigu's former deputy, lieutenant general, governor of the Tula region.

On the much-discussed Ukrainian issue and the topic of the US presidential election, Valery Solovey is also straightforward. According to the political scientist, relations with Ukraine will no longer be the same, and Crimea will remain Russian. And Russia, albeit long before the elections, launched attacks, but the victory was due to a successful political strategy, exploitation of the role of the guy next door and mistakes.

Publications

• 2007 – “Meaning, logic and form of Russian revolutions”
• 2008 – “Blood and soil of Russian history”
• 2009 – “The failed revolution. Historical meanings of Russian nationalism"
• 2015 – “Absolute weapon. Fundamentals of psychological warfare and media manipulation."
• 2016 – “Revolution! Fundamentals of revolutionary struggle in the modern era"

Professor Solovey regularly mentions some future decision by the Kremlin, which will inevitably lead to change.

The activity of a statesman and politician is always judged based on its outcome. If the finale turns out to be successful, then all his previous activities are painted in positive tones. If his ending was not successful, not successful, then all his previous activities are also subject to negative coverage. For President Putin, the finale is still ahead, although his era is certainly ending.

“I believe that in general his activities will be assessed negatively,” says Valery Solovey, political scientist, historian, professor at MGIMO.

In the history of Russia, no leader has been in more favorable conditions than Vladimir Putin. Russia had no external enemies; the attitude of the West, despite all the conflicts, was generally favorable. There were high oil prices, which had a beneficial effect on the country's budget. Society welcomed Putin; after the Yeltsin era, it seemed that this was the beginning of the country's revival. And for the first seven to ten years, Putin really justified the trust of society, the country’s economy grew and the income of the population grew.

And then everything began to change when Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev conceived and carried out a castling exchange of posts.

“And people were offended, they considered it a deception. In fact, it was a deception,” says Valery Solovey.

People, no matter what country they live in, always experience psychological fatigue from the ruler, and this fatigue occurs if the ruler rules for a long time, more than ten years. Therefore, if Putin had left on time, he would forever remain in history as the greatest ruler who raised Russia from its knees. And today society evaluates the president from the point of view of the deterioration of its social position. The crisis in the country has lasted for the sixth year in a row and the incomes of the country's citizens have been declining for the sixth year in a row. People think about their pockets and how they will feed their children. This could have been tolerated for two years, when the president said in 2014 that you would be patient for two years, and then everything would be fine. And people, of course, tolerated it. But six years in a row is too much. Colossal irritation in society is caused by the fact that any country in the world will not maintain a government that cannot cope with the crisis.

“And what in Russia? The president, having been re-elected, appoints the same government headed by the same prime minister named Medvedev, who is openly despised in the country. This is no secret to anyone. What feelings should this evoke in our people,” says Valery Solovey.

And then take it and get it - here’s pension reform. This is already a mockery of the people and common sense. In Russia, men in many regions do not live to see sixty-five years of age. What is it? The president's ratings are falling last years, despite a short-term increase in popularity due to the return of Crimea. The people have already had a lot of negative experience in recent years, and in the mass consciousness of people, the figure of Putin will be assessed more and more negatively.

“From the point of view of history, I say this as a historian, he will be assessed as a person who missed a unique historical chance to ensure the rapid development of Russia. Who exchanged the development of Russia, the growth of the well-being of the people for the growth of the well-being of his friends,” says Valery Solovey.

In the early 2000s, when energy prices were rising, the president missed the opportunity to reform the economy. His liberal circle told him: why, look at the oil prices and they will rise. Why should we develop our own industry, we will buy everything. We have enough money for everything, including theft. It was with this strange conviction that the president and his entourage lived. Russia will continue to sell raw materials for a long time and there is no escape from it. The question is how and where the proceeds from this are invested, and who manages them.

“We will spend it on the Rotenbergs building luxurious palaces and buying themselves the largest yachts in the world. These people, 15 years ago, walked around St. Petersburg in sports trousers and sold small consumer goods in kiosks,” says Valery Solovey.

But there are so many disadvantaged old people in our country, so many unhappy people. In the country, the whole world is collecting money for the treatment of children abroad, since the state does not have the funds for this. This is what you need to spend money on. If you say that people are our main value, let’s invest them in making life at least a little better and simpler.

Political scientist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at MGIMO Valery Solovey wrote on his Facebook page that he was leaving the university for political reasons: " Personal and public. Today I submitted my resignation letter at will from MGIMO, where he worked for 11 years. For political reasons, the institute no longer wants to have any business with me. I understand this reluctance. And I will be grateful if in the future they do not associate me in any way with MGIMO... About my plans. In the near future, at the request of a very large European publishing house, I will begin to write a book, the topic of which I will modestly keep silent about. I will not return to teaching again. Russia is entering an era of dramatic changes, and I intend to take a very active part in them. Stay tuned".

Friends and associates burst out with words of support. Head of the Party of Change Dmitry Gudkov: " I wish you good luck and my condolences to the students!". Permanent columnist of "Echo of Moscow" Ksenia Larina: " This was going to happen, you knew it. And I’m sure that you had no doubts about choosing the path". Modernist biblical scholar Andrei Desnitsky: " Andrey Zubov(infamous Vlasov professor - Note) MGIMO ceased to be needed five years ago, Valery Solovey only now. Looking at foreign policy Russian Federation, you understand: really, why are they there?". Former member of the Central Council of the DPNI * (later - liberal, hater of the "vatans" and the Russian World) Alexey "Yor" Mikhailov: " Milestone, yes. I wish you success and development, further creative and political self-realization! Well, “Stay with us”)))". Israeli ultra-Zionist Avigdor Eskin: " This is takeoff. In how many years will we see Professor Solovy at the head of MGIMO? 3 years later? After 5 years?". Opposition actress Elena Koreneva: " Naturally. Let's wait for the book!". Poetess and coordinator of the Republican Alternative movement Alina Vitukhnovskaya: " Good luck!".

"Valery Dmitrievich's contract expired, and he made this independent decision - to leave of his own free will. What political reasons are meant - it makes sense to check with him", the MGIMO press service explained to RBC. Solovey himself told the BBC Russian Service that the university " has the most direct relation"to his dismissal, while he was made to understand that the desire to terminate cooperation comes from" from some outside party": "I was told that for political reasons the institute considered it extremely undesirable for me to work there. In particular, I was accused of carrying out subversive activities and engaging in anti-state propaganda. This style of formulation makes us remember the Soviet past". In a conversation with MK, he noticed that he had " a new, very important stage in life begins".

Did the accusation of anti-state activity arise out of nowhere? What is this “era of drastic changes” mentioned by Nightingale? He considers the events around the “Golunov case” to be its beginning. A couple of days ago, in an interview with the opposition portal “Moscow Activist,” the professor said: “ From my point of view, those people who nevertheless took to the streets on June 12 deserve every possible respect. What we are now seeing is the formation of massive new rights. This is partly similar to what happened in 2011, well, we won’t take 2012, the dynamics there were already high. That a considerable group of people are still ready to come out, despite the fact that they are trying to bring down the dynamics, despite the fact that these people are under pressure. That is, society is changing literally before our eyes. The readiness for mobilization is much greater than six months ago. Much more. It will grow. But in order for this readiness to turn into something effective, you need to practice, that is, go out onto the streets. Risk taking will increase when people see something new. As soon as we feel that there are several tens of thousands of us, and moreover, when these several tens of thousands behave a little more organized, and there are chances for this, that is, some kind of organizing principle will appear, then the behavior of these people will be different. Not immediately, but gradually, it will take three or four mass actions for people to begin to behave differently, and on the flip side, for the police to become afraid of them. I say this quite thoroughly: there are not many police and riot police in Moscow. There really aren't many of them, you know? And as soon as 25-30 thousand people take to the streets who are ready to resist, who have some kind of organizing principle, the situation will change... Already next year, not in the first half, but in the second, towards the end, we We will see that regional authorities will help local protesters in order to put pressure on Moscow. This is exactly what we observed at the turn of the eighties and nineties, in 1991. And this is a practice that will be repeated; there will be nothing unexpected in this, for me personally. All things have happened before. It’s just that history reached them for the second time. We are now figuratively at the end of 1989. Feels like". Nightingale spoke about the same thing at a recent public debate initiated by libertarian Mikhail Svetov: " Now things have started to change. Even the beaten and killed people from the opposition felt something different in the air. You'll see this in the fall when there's a group of people who are willing to do something and it reaches out to everyone. Because it is clear what to do, how to do it, what to say, what to demand. For the first time since 2012, and even for the first time since 1990, there was a desire for change that had not existed for 30 years, and a willingness to sacrifice something for the sake of these changes. Society in Russia is increasingly ready for violence".

He predicts revolution, longs for " fire"which will lead to " re-establishment of Russia". He is not at all happy with, first of all, " aggressive foreign policy“Apparently, Solovey intends to propose his own candidacy for the role of the “organizing principle” of the Russian Maidan. But he is still afraid of the security forces: “ I assure you that there are “enthusiasts” calling for tougher and more widespread measures. They are preparing for this. They had already prepared lists of those who needed to be detained without charges by 2012. And they are replenished. There are about 1.5-2 thousand such people in Moscow. It is believed that if these people are interned, any political movement will be decapitated. And these “enthusiasts” complain that there is no hard line. Putin, if you like, is actually holding them back. I'm not being ironic at all. There are people who are ready to act more decisively and tougher".

It is worth recalling the main milestones in the biography of Valery Dmitrievich. He was born on August 19, 1960 in the city of Shchastya, Voroshilovgrad region, Ukrainian SSR, and spent his childhood in Western Ukraine. Graduated from the history department of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, in 1983-93 he was a graduate student and employee of the Institute of USSR History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, during perestroika times he defended his PhD thesis on the topic “The role of the Institute of Red Professors in the formation of Soviet historical science and the development of problems of national history.” Since 1993, he worked as one of the leading experts of the Gorbachev Foundation. Prepared several reports for international organizations. At the same time, he completed an internship at the London School of Economics and Political Science and worked there as a visiting researcher.

In 2005, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “The “Russian Question” and its influence on the domestic and foreign policy of Russia (the beginning of the 18th - the beginning of the 21st centuries)” and began to intensively establish contacts with some of the nationalists, claiming the status of an ideologist of national democracy, “anti-imperialism” , " progressive, democratic national liberalism without anti-Semitism and Orthodoxy". Seriously became close to DPNI * Alexander Belov/Potkin and the Russian Social Movement of Konstantin Krylov. Noticed at "Russian marches" and other events, despite the dissatisfaction of a number of nationalists with the influence of " Jew from the Gorbachev Foundation".

Since 2007, he has worked at the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (taught the courses “PR and Advertising in Politics”, “Fundamentals of Information Warfare and Media Manipulation”, “Fundamentals of State Policy in the Information Sphere”). A regular, welcome guest of Echo of Moscow, Radio Liberty, Dozhd and other hostile platforms.

Valery Solovey at the "Russian March":

Actively participated in the "swamp" events; there are rumors that he convinced the most frostbitten fighters to storm the State Duma. Then he wrote on the APN website: " A revolution has begun in Russia... As world experience shows, for the victory of a revolution three conditions are needed. Firstly, the high morale of the revolutionaries and the progressive weakening of the authorities’ ability to resist the revolutionary onslaught. We are already seeing this. The dynamics of mass protest in Moscow and other cities are growing, while morale and physical state police and riot police are getting worse. In a few days the police will refuse to carry out orders simply because they have no physical strength left. At the same time, violence against revolutionaries draws new people into mass action and increases the scale of protest. Even the arrest of a number of street leaders is not able to reduce the intensity of the movement. Exactly the opposite, violence emanating from a morally illegitimate government only strengthens the will to win. The second condition for the victory of the revolution is the alliance of part of the elite with the insurgent people. The elite are confused. Some of its groups are ready to lend a hand to the revolution, but are afraid of making the wrong move. However, the first sign appeared. State Duma deputy, deputy chairman of the Security Committee Gennady Gudkov not only openly expressed solidarity with the uprising people, but also took an active part in the protest action on December 6. This is not only a courageous, but also a wise step. The printed press is ALREADY on the side of the revolution. Soon official television channels will also start talking about the revolution: first neutrally, and then sympathetically. And this will become a sign that the elite has turned its back on the “national leader” that it has long hated. The third condition and, at the same time, the culmination of the revolution is a symbolic gesture marking its victory. As a rule, this is the seizure of some building associated with the previous regime. In France there was a storming of the Bastille, in Russia in October 1917 - the capture of the Winter Palace"As we know, the white ribbon revolution did not happen.

In January 2012, Solovey headed the working group to create the opposition nationalist party “New Force” (evil tongues spoke of 2 million dollars received from the powerful five-columnists for the formation of such a structure), and on October 6, 2012, at the founding congress, he was elected chairman. Many prominent members of the New Force soon went to Ukraine to participate in the Euromaidan and the genocide of the Russian population; let's name the head of the Belgorod branch of the National Assembly Roman Strigunkov (fan of Adolf Hitler andex-blogger with the nickname Hitlerolog, leader of the dwarf regional Russian National Socialist movement, leader of the "Russian Legion" at the Kiev "Euromaidan"), deputy chairman of the Murmansk branch of the National Assembly Alexander "Pomor-88" Valov (who came from the Murmansk Naziskin parties to the punitive battalion "Azov"**) or, for example, NS activist, former film actor Anatoly Pashinin (eventually called for terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation and joinedto the 8th separate battalion "Aratta" of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army** Dmitry Yarosh), enthusiastically declaring: " Valery Solovey is the chairman of our New Force party. I listened to all his interviews, I'm proud of it, I read all his works!". In March 2016, Nightingale told reporters that the party " frozen due to the fact that we were threatened with reprisals".

Valery Solovey at the New Force congress:

Valery Solovey and Roman Strigunkov:

On November 29, 2017, he entered the campaign headquarters of the candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation, business ombudsman, leader of the right-wing liberal Growth Party Boris Titov. He oversaw ideology at this headquarters and served as a key political strategist. He was Titov's confidant and represented him at pre-election debates.

Author of the books "Russian History: A New Reading", "Meaning, Logic and Form of Russian Revolutions", "Blood and Soil of Russian History", "The Failed Revolution. Historical Meanings of Russian Nationalism" (co-authored by sister Tatyana Solovey), "Absolute Weapon. Fundamentals psychological warfare and media manipulation", "Revolution! Fundamentals of revolutionary struggle in the modern era", more than two thousand newspaper articles and Internet publications.

From an interview with the liberal portal Znak.com (March 2016):
"The Overton Window is a propaganda myth. And this concept itself is conspiratorial in nature: they say that there is a group of people who are planning a decades-long strategy to corrupt society. Never and nowhere in history has anything like this happened and cannot happen. All changes in human history occur spontaneously. This does not mean that there is necessarily some kind of conspiracy behind them... Yes, what was anti-norm 100-200 years ago suddenly becomes acceptable today. But this is a natural process, there is no need to see the “furry paw of the Antichrist” here, who came to this world to arrange Armageddon through homosexual marriages or something else... I believe that the separation of Russia and Ukraine was a natural process. It started not two years ago, but back in the early 1990s. And even then, many analysts said that Ukraine would inevitably drift towards the West. I repeat, this is a completely natural process. And after the annexation of Crimea to Russia and the war in Donbass, the point of no return has been passed. Now Ukraine will definitely never be a fraternal state with Russia. Anti-Moscow and anti-Russian sentiments will henceforth be the cornerstone for the formation of the national self-awareness of Ukrainians. Here the issue can be closed... Donbass in any situation is doomed to be a “black hole” on the geopolitical map. This will be a region where crime, corruption, and economic decline will reign - a kind of European Somalia. There is no point in modernizing anything there, because no one really needs Donbass... Russia will never be an empire again. This was clear even in the 1990s".

* Recognized as extremist and prohibited in the Russian Federation
** Terrorist group banned in Russia