In the summer of 2020, Stanislav Sadalsky published a rather risky post on Instagram about the son of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The actor responded to publications in the Italian media, which wrote that Ilya Dmitrievich did not attend MGIMO at all, but only looked at his Alma Mater for a diploma with honors.
Journalists immediately “discovered the truth” that Medvedev’s son had already received an American passport and had a successful business in the United States in the form of a network of gas stations and hypermarkets.
Biography
Ilya Dmitrievich Medvedev is the son of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a student at MGIMO.
Ilya was born on August 3, 1995 in the city of St. Petersburg in the family of Dmitry and Svetlana Medvedev. The boy’s father at that time taught legal disciplines at the institute and served in the Committee on External Relations of the city administration as a freelance expert. Dmitry Anatolyevich collaborated with Anatoly Sobchak, and also worked with Vladimir Putin. Medvedev already in those years owned a stake in Finzell CJSC and the Ilim Pulp Enterprise wood processing plant.
Parents of Ilya Medvedev
At the time of her son’s birth, mother Svetlana Linnik had already graduated from the Faculty of Economics of LEFI and was working as an accountant. After the birth of her first child, she devoted herself to raising Ilya. In 1999, the family moved to Moscow. At the age of 7, the child went to a prestigious Moscow gymnasium. Svetlana took care of her son’s diversified development: from an early age, Ilya was sent to the football section, after which the boy became interested in fencing. Medvedev Jr. fell in love with foreign languages, as well as exact sciences.
Later, Ilya began to master computer technology. In 2007, the boy starred in an issue of the humorous magazine “Yeralash”, which was called “Hero”. The video told the story of a boy who, impressed by an action movie he saw in a movie theater, rushed to save a girl on the street from the hands of bandits. In fact, it turned out that he ruined the take that the film crew was doing at that time.
The second issue of the humorous magazine with the participation of Ilya Medvedev, entitled “Take Me Down,” was published later – already in 2008. The plot of the new video was the story of a boy who wanted to act in a movie and annoyed the film director by appearing at the wrong time on the set.
Only the directors of the filming process knew that the main character’s father was the Prime Minister and then the President of the Russian Federation. The director of the first episode, Alexey Shcheglov, spoke positively about Ilya’s abilities, calling him a cheerful and lively boy. At the casting, the child made the chief director Boris Grachevsky laugh. Until 2012, this fact of the biography of Medvedev’s son was not advertised in the media.
Public life
Ilya Medvedev, the son of Dmitry Medvedev, sometimes appears in public with his father. The former president sometimes gave interviews to journalists, where he talked about his son’s successes, his achievements and hobbies.
Ilya began acting in various television programs at the age of 12. The boy's first experience was the TV series "Jumble". He tried himself as an actor in the series “Hero” and “Take Me Down.” And now they can be seen on television. However, the fact that the president’s son played one of the main roles in Yeralash became known relatively recently. According to Ilya and the directors, no one knew who he was. The boy passed the auditions under general conditions.
Hobbies and achievements
Ilya Medvedev's range of interests is varied - from Japanese animation to the latest alternative rock. The boy loves to play football, but most often Ilya manages to run around the football field with security representatives, and not with his own father. According to the young man, he only manages to communicate with his dad for 15 minutes a day. The only exception is New Year's holidays. Even as of May 9, communication with my father is limited to a video call on Skype.
Ilya Medvedev in childhood
Ilya regularly goes to the pool. As a student at MGIMO, Ilya played for the university’s football team. Among the musical groups he prefers to listen to Linkin Park, The Beatles, “Spleen” and “Time Machine”. Anime, Japanese animation, became a real hobby for the teenager. At the age of 13, Ilya even received a blue radio-controlled robot cat, Doraemon, as a gift from Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso.
Ilya Medvedev in childhood
Medvedev Jr. has already visited many corners of his vast homeland. In addition to frequent trips to his hometown of St. Petersburg, the young man has already seen the geysers of Kamchatka and regularly visits Sochi with his parents. Ilya cares about cultural education, visiting the Mariinsky and Alexandrinsky theaters, the Moscow Art Theater and the Oleg Tabakov Theater. For his friends, Medvedev Jr. composes humorous quatrains and can perform a couple of tricks.
Origin, education, scientific degree
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev was born on September 14, 1965 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). His father, Anatoly Afanasyevich (1926-2004), was a professor at the Leningrad Technological Institute named after Lensoveta (now St. Petersburg State Technological Institute). Mother - Yulia Veniaminovna (born 1939), philologist, taught at the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (now Russian State Pedagogical University) named after A. I. Herzen, later worked as a guide in the city of Pavlovsk.
In 1987, Dmitry Medvedev graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Leningrad State University named after A. A. Zhdanov (LSU; now St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg State University), and in 1990 he completed postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University. Among Dmitry Medvedev's classmates at the faculty were Konstantin Chuychenko (now acting Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation), Nikolai Vinnichenko (Deputy Prosecutor General), Artur Parfenchikov (Head of Karelia).
Candidate of Legal Sciences. Assistant professor. In 1990, he defended his dissertation at St. Petersburg State University on the topic “Problems of implementing the civil legal personality of a state enterprise.”
Studies
When the age came to choose a profession, Ilya Medvedev made a choice in favor of a legal education, which he went to receive at MGIMO. Upon admission, the sum of points scored by Medvedev was 9/10 of the maximum sum of 400 points. As a result of the selection, Medvedev ended up in the budget department of the university. Ilya attends lectures on a general basis, just like his fellow students, and eats in the institute canteen, where, in addition to the dining hall, there is also a cafeteria and a sushi bar. At MGIMO, the young man continued to study foreign languages: English, French and Italian.
Ilya Medvedev with a friend
At the beginning of the summer of 2020, Ilya Medvedev took the final exams of the fourth year of the Faculty of International Law for a bachelor's degree. Teachers keep students on their toes by forcing them to find most of the materials on the subjects they study on their own in the library. Students of the faculty are required to master information on international law, financial and labor law of Russia and abroad, civil procedure in Russia, civil and trade law of foreign countries.
Ilya Medvedev with his father and mother
Knowledge of several foreign languages must also be excellent. The faculty is considered the busiest at MGIMO. Ilya Medvedev successfully completed the exam requirements and received the highest score in many disciplines. The young man has several friends at the university, but Pavel Astakhov’s middle son Artem became Ilya’s closest student friend. While studying at MGIMO, Ilya Medvedev interned at a Russian law firm, but Ilya plans to create his own project in the field of modern technologies.
Work in senior government positions
On March 2, 2008, Dmitry Medvedev was elected president of the Russian Federation, becoming the youngest head of state in Russian history since 1917. 70.28% of voters voted for him (the second place in the elections was taken by the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, 17.72%). Dmitry Medvedev took office as president on May 7, 2008 and held this post until May 7, 2012. He was the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces (including during the armed conflict with Georgia in August 2008), Chairman of the State Council.
From May 25, 2008 to May 25, 2012, as head of state, he was Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
On September 24, 2011, at the XII Congress of United Russia, Dmitry Medvedev proposed to nominate the party chairman, Prime Minister of the country Vladimir Putin, as a party candidate in the next presidential elections in 2012. The head of government, in turn, noted that for him “this is a huge honor” and said that if he is elected, “Dmitry Anatolyevich ... will head the government of the Russian Federation in order to continue the work of modernizing all aspects of our life.”
On May 7, 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the day of his inauguration, introduced the candidacy of Dmitry Medvedev to the State Duma to obtain consent to appoint him as chairman of the government. On May 8, 299 out of 450 deputies voted for Medvedev’s candidacy, 144 voted against.
Since May 8, 2012, Dmitry Medvedev has been Prime Minister. He was reappointed to this post on May 8, 2020 after the next presidential elections in the country. His candidacy was supported by 374 State Duma deputies, 56 voted against.
Since May 22, 2012 - member of the All-Russian political party "United Russia", since May 26 - chairman of the party.
Personal life
Ilya Medvedev devotes most of his time to studying; the young man’s relations with girls are friendly. In 2020, journalists took a photo of a young man in a park with a girl, while Ilya Medvedev was accompanied by security during the date.
Ilya Medvedev
According to Ilya Medvedev, he has an account on the VKontakte network, which the young man uses to communicate with friends. Ilya avoids publicity and therefore does not create a page on Instagram.
Information on income, ranks, awards, honorary titles, publications
The amount of declared income for 2020 amounted to 9 million 918 thousand rubles. The spouse did not declare any income.
Actual State Councilor I class (2000).
Reserve Colonel.
Awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st degree (2015). Recognized with two letters of commendation from the President of the Russian Federation (2002, 2003).
He is a Knight Grand Cross with Diamonds of the Order of the Sun of Peru (2008). Awarded the Order of the Liberator (Venezuela; 2008), Glory (Armenia; 2011), Jerusalem (Palestinian National Authority; 2011), “Danaker” (2016; Kyrgyzstan), “Uatsamonga” (South Ossetia, 2018).
Laureate of the Russian Government Prize in the field of education in 2001 - for participation in the creation of the textbook “Civil Law” for educational institutions of higher professional education.
Honorary Doctor of Law from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University, honorary Doctor of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, Baku State University. Honorary Doctor of Law from Korea University (Republic of Korea). Honorary Professor of the St. Petersburg State Technological Institute. Honorary Doctor of Political Science from the University of Havana.
Awarded the A. M. Gorchakov Memorial Medal of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for great services in strengthening peace and developing international cooperation (2008).
He is one of the authors of the textbook “Civil Law” for educational institutions of higher professional education, edited by Alexander Sergeev and Yuri Tolstoy. I wrote four chapters for him: on state and municipal enterprises, credit and settlement obligations, transport law, and alimony obligations.
Ilya Medvedev now
In 2020, Ilya Medvedev completes his studies at MGIMO and, in addition to final exams, is preparing to enter the university’s master’s program. Medvedev's son's thesis is devoted to joint-stock companies in Russia and the UK and their legal regulation.
Ilya Medvedev in 2017
Now, according to the academic rating of the educational institution, Ilya Medvedev is among the 30 best students of MGIMO. Subject to excellent defense of the diploma, Ilya has the right to count on a diploma with honors and privileges when entering the next level.
Safety
The safety of the children of top government officials is a very serious matter. They were always guarded by several bodyguards. Ilya also has his own security. However, during classes at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, a VIP student must appear without security. According to the dean of the faculty, security within the walls of MGIMO is not uncommon. However, security guards are not allowed into lecture halls. They meet and escort their clients at the door. Dean Skvortsov said that sometimes situations with personal bodyguards reach the point of absurdity. For example, when Gorbachev’s granddaughters had to undergo a medical examination, and the security wanted to go with them. According to Skvortsov, it took a lot of time to dissuade them.
The safety of the top officials of the state and their immediate relatives must be ensured by employees of the Federal Security Service. Ilya Medvedev is one of these people.
