Management Team and Senior Specialists

Olga Alexandrova, Vice-President of the Publicity Communication Group, Head of the GR&Political Consulting Division, holder of a PhD in Economics.

She graduated from the Moscow State University named after Mikhail Lomonosov.

Her graduation paper was based on PR projects that had been executed by the Publicity Communication Group.

In 2004 she presented a thesis and obtained a PhD degree.

Olga Alexandrova had joined the Publicity Communication Group while still a fourth year university student. Her career with the company began as an assistant manager, from which she worked her way up to her present position.

As a top-manager, she was at the head of several dozen political, social and media projects. Currently she is coordinating VIP projects. As Vice-President of the Publicity Communication Group, she is in charge of finance, economic and personnel affairs, management accounting and budgeting.

Olga Alexandrova handles general and day-to-day management of the GR&Political Consulting Division.

Alexey Kosorukov, Head of the Election Campaign Methodologies Department.

He has a military-political background, has taken part in settling ethnic and military-political conflicts in Russia, on the territory of the former USSR and abroad.

He has vast experience in dealing with large groups of people and carrying out special propaganda events.

Alexey Kosorukov is a renowned expert in organizing large-scale field networks and running election campaigns in extreme conditions.

He specializes in operational deployment of campaign headquarters activities, building grassroots networks and holding special events with large masses of people participating (rallies, demonstrations, concerts etc.).

He took part in over 30 election campaigns of different levels.

Dmitry Chizhov, Head of Information and Analysis Department, holds a Master of Arts in Political Science.

He graduated from the North-Western Academy under the President of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg, with specialization in State and Municipal Administration. In 2002, he graduated from the Political Science Faculty of Moscow Higher School of Social Sciences and Economics at the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, with an honors degree. Together with other graduates, who had passed exams with distinction, he continued his studies at the Department of Government at the University of Manchester, UK, where he was reading the political parties and party systems that exist in the West.

For a long period of time he was practicing social and political activities, was involved in building the civil society structures, in youth politics affairs, formation of parties in the regions and running election campaigns.

He had professional training in various public and political organizations in the USA, where he contributed to the Mayoral Election campaign in Western Lafayette (Indiana).

Dmitry Chizhov is the author of several research articles, the initiator of a number of conferences and seminars, with the Development Vectors of Modern Russia international conference among them.

He has been with the Publicity Communication Group for over three years by now and is specializing in counseling political parties, strategy development and information, and analytical support of parties and election campaigns.

Sergey Novoselsky, Project Manager, holds a Master of Arts in Political Science.

He graduated from the Management and Economics Faculty of the Ivanovo State Power University where he studied Public Relations.

He started his professional career as the Head of Press-Service in the Ivanovo City Administration and later became the youngest senior official in the Mayor’s Office, as the Head of Administration there.

He had training in the United States Congress and participated in the election campaign of Charles Taylor, the congressman from North Carolina.

In 2004 he obtained a MA degree in Political Science after he had submitted his Master’s Thesis entitled The Administrative Reform Efficiency in the RF. He is the author of a number of publications on the efficiency of the reformation of the state machine.

Currently he is managing the Publicity Communication Group’s Branch in the Southern Federal County.

Sergey Zaitsev, Project Manager, holds a Master of Arts in Political Science.

He is an analyst specializing in public relations and social communications. He elaborates strategies for political, electoral, advertising and media campaigns. His activities include counseling political parties and different Russian public organizations, as well as the international ones.

His research interests are: theory and practical performance of political parties, political psephology, and international integration processes. He is the author of several scientific publications.