Igor Yevgenievich Mintusov (Russian: Игорь Евгеньевич Минтусов; born 17 August 1958) is a Russian political consultant, public relations manager and professional manager of election campaigns. Mintusov is Chairman of the Board of directors of Niccolo M, a public relations company which he established in 1992[1] with business partner Yekaterina Yegorova-Gantman.[2]
Throughout twenty years of work, Mintusov has supervised over one hundred Russian and foreign election campaigns. He took a part in the preparation for the Russian parliamentary elections in 1993, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007 and the presidential elections in 1991, 1996, 2000 and 2004. He has worked in parliamentary elections in Poland (1997), Ukraine (2002, 2003, 2007), Mongolia (2004, 2008), USA congressional elections in Florida and Connecticut (1998), parliamentary elections in Latvia (1998), Slovakia (2002), presidential elections in Mongolia (2001, 2005), Nicaragua (2001), Lithuania (2002).[3]
During the Russian presidential election in 1996 he was a personal image consultant to the then President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.[4] Mintusov was the first in Russia to use applied qualitative sociological methods in marketing and political studies.[5]
Mintusov served as advisor on the Fair Russia merger.[6]
- ^ Astrid Wendlandt, "Political Group Looks To 'The Prince' for Inspiration", Moscow Times, 18 March 1997.
- ^ Colton, Timothy J., and Michael McFaul (2003), Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: the Russian elections of 1999 and 2000, Brookings Institution Press, p. 33. ISBN 0-8157-1535-8.
- ^ Игорь Минтусов: Демократии внутри демократических стран меньше не становится Informburo.kz
- ^ Alessandra Stanley, "THE RUSSIAN VOTE: ELECTION EVE; From Yeltsin, A Reminder Of Stalin And Terror", The New York Times, 16 June 1996.
- ^ Donovan, John C. (1993), People, Power, and Politics: an introduction to political science, Rowman / Littlefield, p. 83. ISBN 0-8226-3025-7.
- ^ Henry Meyer, "Putin to hang on to power, analysts say", Seattle Times, 3 November 2006.