Vasily Brovko biography personal life. Equal marriage of tina kandelaki

Vasily Brovko was born on February 6, 1987 in the city of Zhukovsky, Moscow Region. As a child, he played football professionally. In 2005 he graduated from the lyceum №14 with a mathematical bias. Then, until 2009, he studied at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov.

He created his first media project, while studying in his second year at university, the youth magazine Sreda.org, at various times whose political columnists and lecturers were Nikita Belykh, Alexei Volin and Valery Fadeev.

In 2006, he took up the position of producer of the political and entertainment blocks of the O2TV channel. During his work on the channel, he produced more than 15 TV programs. Among them: "Political League", "Conversation without rules", "Black and White" and others.

At the invitation of Sergey Arkhipov, Deputy General Director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, in 2007 he moved to the post of director of the directorate for prime-time broadcasting of radio programs at Mayak State Radio Company.

In January 2008, he founded and became CEO of the Apostol Media Center for Strategic Communications, specializing in Russian and international PR, TV production, analytics, branding, design and other projects.

In September 2008, together with Andrei Kolesnikov and Tina Kandelaki, he launched the Unreal Politics project on the Internet. Over the six months of its existence on the network, more than 5 million people watched the political show, after which, at the end of 2009, the rights to Unreal Politics were acquired by the REN TV channel. Together with the management of the channel, he oversaw the preparation of four episodes of the program, after which, together with the Apostol company, he left the project. In 2010, the first start-up in the history of the media business, which switched from Runet to federal television, bought the NTV channel from REN TV.

Internet channel Post TV launched at the end of 2008. As part of it, the programs "No Country for Old Men" with Zakhar Prilepin and "Fantastic Breakfast" with Dmitry Glukhovsky, "Face.ru Video Version" with Irena Ponaroshku, "Men's Games" with Oleg Taktarov and "Real Sport" with Victoria Lopyreva were launched. Together with a journalist from the pool of Vladimir Putin, the editor-in-chief of the Russian Pioneer magazine Andrei Kolesnikov, he promoted the publication: he organized a series of events with the participation of Russian media people and the political establishment. Among the regular participants of the Pioneer Readings are TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov, actor Ivan Okhlobystin, head of Russia Today TV channel Margarita Simonyan and others.

From April to December 2009, he was the CEO of Face.ru, a niche social network for representatives of the fashion industry. From October 2009 to January 2012, Vasily Brovko was a co-producer of the Infomania program, which the Apostol company produced for the STS TV channel. In 2010, the program received a special prize from TEFI television critics for an experiment in the field of convergence of television and the Internet. Infomania was nominated twice for TEFI itself.

In 2011, as part of the management of the Apostol Media holding, he was engaged in the production of the weekly program Moscow 24/7 about the “life of ordinary Muscovites” for the TVC channel. The program was nominated for the TEFI award.

In March 2011, in partnership with Tina Kandelaki, he founded the investment company AM-Invest, which finances Internet startups, develops software and creates educational computer programs for schools, and became its CEO. According to Vasily Brovko, he and the Apostol team have previously worked on software development, including several platforms related to financial management in educational institutions.

In October 2011, he worked on the "Concept for the development of youth football in Dagestan" within the framework of cooperation with FC Anji. It included the training of the coaching staff and the creation of infrastructure throughout the republic, and also organized the presentation of one of the most expensive football strikers in the world, Samuel Eto'o.

From 2011 to 2012, together with Tina Kandelaki, he launched the national educational project "Smart School", which includes the regular holding of the all-Russian educational forum "Smart School", trips to regional schools and the work of the network project "Smart School.rf". The latter is an open discussion platform for exchanging views on the problems of the education system and building feedback with representatives of the Public Chamber, the State Duma and the Government of the Russian Federation. In November 2011, the portal received the "Runet Prize" in the nomination "Science and Education".

The project is based on the idea of a school-park. The "Smart School" implements an individual approach to each student. Children are taught to manage their lives responsibly, to “design” it. Students are involved in real project activities that solve real problems. The educational program will be created by teachers and students themselves. The educational program of the "Smart School" is based on 5 meaningful axes that determine its specificity: figurative and artistic modeling of the world, psychologization of the educational process, intensive study of foreign languages, productive work, school sports.

In February 2012, he rebranded the Apostol Center for Strategic Communications. The new Apostol brand was created by the Hunt Haggarty agency.

From 2012 to 2013, he was in charge of PR promotion of Rostec State Corporation in Russia and abroad. Under his leadership, a number of projects were implemented, in particular, in December 2012, Rostec was rebranded, all components of the brand were updated, and a new multimedia website of the state corporation was created. The cost of these works amounted to 1.5 million dollars. The project was carried out by the Apostle Center for Strategic Communications, which involved the British agency Winter and a group of designers led by Hazel Macmillan. The Rostec website was developed by SomeOneElse creative agency.

Vasily Brovko left Apostol in December 2013 and first headed the communications service of the state corporation, and later became director of communications, analytics and strategic research at Rostec.

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Vasily Yurievich Brovko- genus. February 6, Zhukovsky - Russian entrepreneur, producer.

Biography

Born on February 6, 1987 in Zhukovsky (Moscow Region). As a child, he played football professionally. In 2005 he graduated from the Lyceum No. 14 with a mathematical bias. In 2009 - the Faculty of Political Science of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov.

Professional activity

He created his first media project (youth magazine Sreda.org) in his second year. At various times, Nikita Belykh, Alexei Volin and Valery Fadeev have served as political columnists and lecturers at Sreda.org. At the same time, he organized lectures by leading Russian political scientists for students of the Faculty of Philosophy.

In 2006, he took up the position of producer of the political and entertainment blocks of the O2TV channel. During his work on the channel, he produced more than 15 TV programs, in particular, the "Political League" with Mikhail Fishman, which covered the elections to the Duma in the style of a sports championship; "Conversation without rules", the participants of which at different times were Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Alexander Khinshtein and Mikhail Barshchevsky; "White and Black" with Maria Gaidar and Oleg Kashin; "Master class with Mikhail Leontiev".

In 2007, at the invitation of the Deputy General Director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Sergey Arkhipov, he moved to the position of Director of the Directorate of Prime-Time Broadcasting of Radio Programs of the Mayak State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. He invited Oleg Kashin (Internet), Mikhail Fishman (politics), Dmitry Butrin (economics), Boris Barabanov (music) and Dmitry Glukhovsky (literature) to the Mayak evening prime-time program as presenters. The result of cooperation with the radio station was the rejuvenation of the core of the Mayak audience by January 2008.

In early 2008, he founded the Apostol company, specializing in PR and television production. One of the first projects of the company was the promotion of the Russian Pioneer magazine. Thus, a new format of events was created - "Pioneer Readings", in which influential figures in politics and business participate.

In mid-2008, together with Andrei Kolesnikov and Tina Kandelaki, he launched the Unreal Politics project. A political talk show with the participation of a star and a journalist marked the beginning of a new trend: for the first time in the history of Russian television, the program was launched not on a TV channel, but on the Internet. The initial idea of the project is to talk about politics with famous people from different fields. So, Garik Martirosyan spoke about the new US President Barack Obama, Valery Meladze - about gasoline prices, Timur Batrutdinov - about fines and traffic rules, Natasha Koroleva - about the relationship between Russia and Ukraine.

“Four years ago I did not have any acquaintances on television, and I thought it would be right to launch the program on the Internet. The transmission started in September 2008, and six months later almost the entire Runet was talking about it. The reason for the popularity, in my opinion, was the freshness and novelty of the idea. At that time, the information field was different: the government's rating was about 70%. In political discourse, there was a minimal part of the Internet, and then politics was completely uninteresting to anyone. And just talking about politics with Mikhail Shats or Anastasia Volochkova corresponded to the mood of that time and represented a fan. It was funny to everyone how ridiculous and ridiculous they were talking about international politics, Putin, power,” says Brovko.

The project was very popular on the Web (400 thousand people watched each episode), and six months later the program began to appear on the REN TV channel. At the end of 2009, Apostol sold the rights to Unreal Politics. She went to NTV on Saturday prime time, at the end of 2011 the program was closed.

In December 2008, Tina Kandelaki became a shareholder of the Apostol company.

Immediately after expanding the list of shareholders, it was decided to create an Internet television PostTV, within the framework of which the programs "" with Zakhar Prilepin and "Fantastic Breakfast" with Dmitry Glukhovsky, "Face.ru Video Version" with Irena Ponaroshku, "Men's Games" were launched with Oleg Taktarov and Real Sport with Victoria Lopyreva. The Internet channel was closed in mid-2009 due to economic difficulties.

At the end of 2009, "Apostle" presented his news project "Infomania" on the STS channel. The program tells about the latest trends in the fields of culture, science, technology, education and career. Initially, "Infomania" came out once a week, since April 2010 - 3 times a week at 00:30.

“When we launched Infomania on STS, we realized: firstly, the viewer needs the picture to change every 40 seconds, otherwise it gets boring. And then it doesn’t matter what the conversation is about and how interesting it is. Secondly, when the viewer moves from channel to channel, he needs some kind of chips - teasers that would rive his attention to this particular channel, ”says Brovko.

The average share of the program among the target audience aged 18-45 has been at the level of 12% for three years. "Infomania" was awarded the special prize of TV journalists for the convergence of the Internet and TV. And in 2012 she was nominated for TEFI.

During 2009 and 2010 Apostol's clients were STS, Centro, Bazelevs (Ninth, Black Lightning), Vassa&Co.

In 2009, Apostol launched a social network for representatives of the fashion industry - Face.ru. During the first year, 50,000 participants were registered: models, stylists, make-up artists, designers, photographers. Each month there was a "Person of the Month" award sponsored by Volvo. The stars (Yana Rudkovskaya, Pavel Kaplevich, Maria Tsigal, Irena Ponaroshku, Igor Matvienko and others) chose the best girl according to Face.ru by voting. Famous performers performed at each ceremony, for example, Alexandra Prince sang So Many Times at one of the last awards.

Since 2011, the Apostol company has been producing the programs “The Right Choice”, “Food for Strength” and “Russia in Numbers” for the Semerka TV channel, the Moscow 24/7 program for the TV Center TV channel, the Infomania program for channel STS, as well as a daily and weekly show for the Russian lottery Gosloto.

In 2011, Apostol's clients were Yota, Gosloto, Anji, Vyatka-Bank.

In August 2011, the company launched the Smart School educational project, the purpose of which is to organize effective communications between the pedagogical community and representatives of the Russian authorities. On August 25-26, 2011, the first National Educational Forum "Smart School" was held. During the forum, more than 200 teachers from 45 regions of Russia spoke in favor of maintaining the Unified State Examination, as well as introducing specialization in disciplines in high school. The organizer and moderator of the forum was Tina Kandelaki, a member of the commission on education of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation. As a result of the forum, the network project “Smart School.rf” was launched.

On November 25, 2011, at the eighth Runet Prize ceremony, the Smart School.rf portal won in the Science and Education nomination.

Until January 2012, the company was called "Apostol Media", but after the development of a new company brand, the name was changed to "Apostol".

On February 2, 2012, the Apostol company launched a new political show Flight with Kamikaze, hosted by the popular video blogger Dima Kamikadze (kamikadze_d), produced by Tina Kandelaki. The transmission goes to YouTube channel.

“The Internet has a huge impact on TV. Thanks to him, the very culture of television viewing is changing. Four years ago, when Unreal Politics was launched, the network audience was completely different, and much less - about 30 million compared to 58 million today. In addition, there was not such a variety of projects. Today, each radio station has its own online platform. Let's not forget that television has always kept pace with the times, but the Internet was one step ahead,” says Brovko, commenting on the focus of “Apostol” on Internet production.

At the moment, "Apostol" has 280 employees (average age - 25 years) and is engaged in marketing, classical

Vasily Yurievich Brovko(February 6, 1987, Zhukovsky (Moscow region)) - Russian entrepreneur, media manager, producer, founder and head of the Apostol Center for Strategic Communications, director of communications and IT at the Rostec state corporation.

Biography

Born on February 6, 1987 in Zhukovsky (Moscow Region). As a child, he played football professionally. In 2005 he graduated from the Lyceum No. 14 with a mathematical bias. M.V. Lomonosov.

2004-2012: Media projects

In 2004, while studying in his second year at the university, he created his first media project - the youth magazine Sreda.org, at various times whose political columnists and lecturers were Nikita Belykh, Alexei Volin and Valery Fadeev.

In 2006, he took up the position of producer of the political and entertainment blocks of the O2TV channel. During his work on the channel, he produced more than 15 TV programs. Among them - "Political League", "Conversation without rules", "Black and White" and others.

In 2007, at the invitation of Sergey Arkhipov, Deputy General Director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, he moved to the position of director of the prime-time broadcasting of radio programs at Mayak GRK.

In January 2008, he founded and became CEO of the Apostol Media Center for Strategic Communications (since January 2012, due to rebranding, the name has been changed to Apostol), specializing in Internet projects, PR and television production.

In September 2008, together with journalists Andrei Kolesnikov and Tina Kandelaki, he launched the Unreal Politics project on the Internet. Over the six months of its existence on the network, more than 5 million people watched the political show, after which, at the end of 2009, the rights to "Unreal Politics" were acquired by the REN TV channel. Together with the management of the channel, Vasily Brovko oversaw the preparation of four episodes of the program, after which, together with the production company Apostol, he left the project. In 2010, the first start-up in the history of the media business, which switched from Runet to federal television, bought the NTV channel from REN TV.

At the end of 2008, he launched the Post TV Internet channel, within which the programs "No Country for Old Men" with Zakhar Prilepin and "Fantastic Breakfast" with Dmitry Glukhovsky, "Face.ru Video Version" with Irena Ponaroshku, "Men's Games" with Oleg Taktarov and Real Sport with Victoria Lopyreva. In 2008, together with a journalist from the pool of the President of the Russian Federation, the editor-in-chief of the Russian Pioneer magazine Andrei Kolesnikov, he promoted the publication, in particular, organized a series of events with the participation of Russian media personalities and the political establishment. Among the regular participants of the Pioneer Readings are TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov, actor Ivan Okhlobystin, head of Russia Today TV channel Margarita Simonyan and others.

From April to December 2009, he was the CEO of Face.ru, a niche social network for representatives of the fashion industry.

From October 2009 to January 2012, Vasily Brovko was a co-producer of the Infomania program, which the Apostol company produced for the STS TV channel. In 2010, the program received a special prize from TEFI television critics for an experiment in the field of convergence of television and the Internet. Infomania was nominated twice for TEFI itself.

In October 2011, within the framework of cooperation with FC Anji, he worked on the "Concept for the development of youth football in Dagestan", which included the training of coaching staff and the creation of infrastructure throughout the republic, and also organized a presentation of one of the most expensive football strikers in the world, Samuel Eto 'ABOUT.

In 2011-2012, together with Tina Kandelaki, he launched the national educational project "Smart School", which includes the regular holding of the All-Russian educational forum "Smart School", trips to regional schools and the work of the network project "Smart School.rf". The latter is an open discussion platform for exchanging views on the problems of the education system and building feedback with representatives of the Public Chamber, the State Duma and the Government of the Russian Federation. In November 2011, the portal received the "Runet Prize" in the nomination "Science and Education".

In February 2012, he rebranded the Apostol Media Center for Strategic Communications. The new Apostol brand was created by the Hunt Haggarty agency.

2013

Conflict with Alexei Navalny

On March 22, 2013, the Vedomosti newspaper reported a conflict between Alexei Navalny, then a member of the board of directors of Aeroflot, and management over a contract worth 64 million rubles to promote the air carrier's brand on the Internet, in particular, the production and placement of Apostol videos about the company's activities. According to Navalny, "Apostol" did not fulfill its obligations under the contract, which, moreover, was concluded without a tender. Representatives of the "Apostle", in turn, stated that all "contractual obligations" are being fulfilled in full and on time. The source of the Vedomosti newspaper, close to Aeroflot, was of the same opinion.

On the same day, Alexei Navalny commented and expanded on the content of the Vedomosti publication on his blog. In response to this, on March 22, 2013, in his column on the Ekho Moskvy website, the general director of Apostol, Vasily Brovko, refuted Navalny's arguments. In particular, he pointed out that 52 videos were posted on the official Aeroflot YouTube channel at that time, which in total gained 6.7 million views. The video channel created by Apostol for the air carrier ranked seventh in the rating of video channels of all world air carriers, ahead of the accounts of Air France, Lufthansa and Emirates in terms of popularity.

In addition, in his publication dated March 22, 2013, Alexei Navalny announced that the rebranding of Rostec, carried out by Apostol in December 2012, was an unnecessary and useless measure. In response, Brovko said that "Apostol" managed to "tangibly" increase the representation and recognition of the corporation in the information field. So, [index of information favored by "Rostec" from September to December 2012 increased from 10.9 thousand to 29.5 thousand points.

On March 27-28, 2013, a supporter of Alexei Navalny, Ruslan Leviev, published two parts of the post "Media Apostle - Kings of Cheat". In it, the blogger accused Apostol of artificially inflating the popularity of video channels of client companies with the help of bots. Alexei Navalny posted the links on his blog.

On June 5, 2013, the Vzglyad online newspaper published an article by Vasily Brovko “Navalny is the president of bots”, in which he accused Alexei Navalny and his associates of a “planned information attack” on the Apostol company in order to “collapse the information favored index” . The reason for this statement was a significant increase in negative comments about the company from Internet users. At the same time, according to Brovko, bot messages accounted for 65% of the total number of negative reviews.

Head of Communications Service at Rostec

On December 5, 2013, Vladimir Brovko was appointed Head of the Communications Service of the Russian Technologies State Corporation. The decision to appoint Vasily Brovko was made by Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov. The head of the communications service took up his duties on December 5, 2013.

According to Sergey Chemezov, the decision on the appointment is in line with Rostec's strategy to enter the global market.

“The team should include ambitious leaders who link their professional growth with the development of Rostec. Vasily Brovko is one of the most promising Russian media managers who has implemented successful media projects for major companies from various sectors of the economy. This is in line with Rostec's strategy to promote the corporation's brand based on the principle of information transparency,” he added.

2014

* Supervision of IT in Russian Technologies

By July, 2014 Vasily Brovko headed the department of communications, information technologies and analytics in Rostec.

Internet projects

2010 - promotion of the program "+100500" by Maxim Golopogosov on the Internet.

January 2012 - the launch of the political talk show "Kamikaze Flight" on the Internet. The host of the program, which goes on the YouTube channel, is the popular video blogger Dima Kamikadze (kamikadze_d), the producer is Tina Kandelaki.

TV projects (production of broadcasts)

"The Right Choice" for the TV channel "Seven" (2010-2011)
"Food for strength" for the TV channel "Seven" (2010-2011)
Russia in numbers" for the TV channel "Seven" (2010-2011)
Daily and weekly show for the Russian lottery "Gosloto"
"Infomania" for the STS TV channel (October 2009 - January 2012)
"Moscow 24/7" for the TV channel "TV Center" (2011)

PR projects

Rebranding in December 2012 of the state corporation Rostec. The value of the holding's contract with the State Corporation was $1.5 million. The British agency Winter, headed by Ilya Oskolkov-Tsentsiper, a group of designers led by Hazel Macmillan, was involved in the work on the project. The Rostec website was developed by SomeOneElse creative agency.

Awards and titles

2009 - victory in the competition of the Aktsiya edition "Young people of 2009" in the "Media" nomination.

Family status

Not married, no children.

Notes

1.0 1.1 Rating of young media managers in Russia
2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Vasily Brovko: “Kolesnikov filmed Putin for us on a mobile phone”
Defense in the latest fashion
Vasily Brovko: The main thing in the media business is not to lie and not to be afraid
5.0 5.1 Vasily Brovko: My main project is Tina Kandelaki
Producer of the O2TV channel Vasily Brovko: "Our main principle is to create equal conditions for the participants"
7.0 7.1 Top Business: Vasily Brovko
Tina Kandelaki and Andrey Kolesnikov will host a show about politics on REN TV
9.0 9.1 9.2 The owner of the Apostol group Vasily Brovko: “Youtubeization of consciousness has occurred”
Tina Kandelaki and Andrei Kolesnikov will host a new show on REN TV
PostTV
"Pioneer Readings" is separated from the journal "Russian Pioneer"
13.0 13.1 BROVKO Vasily Yurievich
Vasily Brovko: "FACE.ru - A Project Without Nonsense".
On September 16, the award ceremony of the Telepress Club took place.
Apostol Media will start producing programs for TVC and REN TV
17.0 17.1 17.2 Apostol - television production
Tina Kandelaki invests in Internet startups and software
HH+Winter=APOSTOL
News in Pictures
How Aeroflot fights information leaks
about the "conflict" with Aeroflot
Aeroflot - Russian Airlines
24.0 24.1 Navalny, learn the materiel!
Navalny accused of using bots
Media Apostle - kings of cheating. Detailed analysis. Put your Kandelayki! Part one
Media Apostle - kings of cheating. Detailed analysis. Put your Kandelayki! Part two.
Kandelayki. Very instructive story
"Navalny is the president of bots"
Rostec will purchase IT centrally
New Rostec. How state corporations learn branding
Young People of the Year 2009: Vasily Brovko

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The owner of the group "Apostle" Vasily Brovko: "There was a" YouTube "consciousness"

Vasily Brovko is a Russian entrepreneur, founder of the Apostol Center for Strategic Communications and director of communications, analytics and strategic research at Rostec Corporation.

The future businessman was born on February 6, 1987 in the city of Zhukovsky near Moscow. The boy's parents were engaged in science. Vasily grew up as a street boy, loved to chase the ball with the guys and even was a member of a professional youth football team. Thanks to sports, the boy realized what a team and responsibility are, and also brought up leadership qualities in himself.

Brovko studied at the Lyceum with a mathematical bias, after which he applied to the Moscow State University. Initially, the young man planned to enter the Faculty of Economics, but the atmosphere in the family eventually influenced the choice of specialty. The fact is that Vasily's parents at home vigorously discussed political problems in the country and abroad. Yes, and the young man himself read a lot of literature with pleasure, in which the heroes were political strategists and PR people.

Vasily Brovko graduated from the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Philosophy. By the way, while still in his second year, the young man created the first project - the youth Internet magazine Sreda.org. And after high school, the young man plunged into the field of television.

Business

At the initial stage of his professional biography, Vasily Brovko became a producer of political and entertainment programs "Conversation without rules", "Black and White", "Political League". Later, Vasily headed the prime-time broadcasting of Mayak radio programs, and then created the Apostol Media Center for Strategic Communications, which promotes projects in the Russian and international markets.

Vasily quickly realized that the Internet segment should not be ignored. Therefore, Brovko launched the Post TV channel and the programs “Unrealistic Politics” with, “No Country for Old Men” with, “Fantastic Breakfast” with, “Face.ru Video Version” with, “Real Sports” with, “Men's Games” with and others . In addition, Brovko promoted the blogger's popular video channel "+100500".

Vasily came up with the idea of the growing national educational project "Smart School", which is based on the school-park format. The school promotes an individual approach to each student; in teaching, project activities are used that are as close to reality as possible. The educational program consists of a number of main components, which include in-depth study of foreign languages, work, school sports.

The project includes annual educational forums, visits to regional educational institutions, development of the Smart School.rf Internet resource, through which direct communication is carried out with representatives of the Public Chamber, the State Duma and the Government of the Russian Federation. Tina Kandelaki also participated in the creation of the Smart School concept. Later, "Smart School" was transformed into an educational project that has no analogues in Russia. Funds from private investors were attracted to implement the project.

Also, together with the TV presenter, Vasily Brovko participated in the creation of AM-Invest, a company that invests in the development of Internet startups and computer software for secondary schools.

At the end of 2013, the businessman joined the directorate of the Rostec corporation and managed to achieve great results in this position. A year later, Rostec entered the top three leaders among state-owned corporations in Russia according to the rating of the Medialogy company. And in 2015, the brand value reached 31.2 billion rubles, which allowed Rostec to be among the first 15 expensive brands in Russia.

The result of the company's fruitful work was the approved plan for the next ten years, according to which the annual revenue should reach 17% per annum and increase the corporation's profit to 6 billion rubles. It is also expected to increase the share of civilian products to 50%.

In addition to Rostec, the young entrepreneur is on the board of directors of the Mail.ru group and a number of other enterprises, including Electronics and RT-Inform.

Personal life

Until recently, the personal life of an entrepreneur was hidden from prying eyes. Vasily Brovko met his wife Tina Kandelaki through work, because young people have been working on joint projects together for several years. The romantic relationship of the star was hidden from the public for a long time. Even, which took place back in 2015, became widespread only in June 2016.

Brovko and Kandelaki are not in a hurry to become parents yet, but Kandelaki's children from their first marriage live with their spouses - daughter Melania and son Leonty.

Brovko has remained faithful to his favorite game since childhood - football. The entrepreneur is an ardent fan of the St. Petersburg "Zenith" and the Russian team. As a professional PR man, Vasily worked on the "Concept for the development of youth football in Dagestan", intended for the Anji football club. Also, the young entrepreneur was organizing the presentation of the star player of the Makhachkala team Samuel Eto'o.

Vasily Brovko now

In mid-2017, an enthusiastic post dedicated to her husband's work appeared on the page of Tina Kandelaki. In the comments to the joint photo that the couple took at the CIPR conference, the largest IT industry forum in Eastern Europe, the TV presenter rejoiced at the success of her husband, who united talented youth around him. According to Tina, Vasily gives them a chance that the ideas of young specialists in the field of IT technologies will be accepted by society.

Now the Rostec company, whose director for special assignments is Vasily Brovko, has become one of the companies involved in the digital transformation of sectors of the Russian economy and individual entities according to a plan developed by the Russian government.

Vasily Brovko continues to develop the Smart School project. The next educational institution will open in Irkutsk in 2018. The school will accept 1,000 students, of which 150 are orphans. The architectural appearance of the building will be recreated by specialists from CEBRA (Denmark).

Projects

2009–2012 - "Infomania"
2010 - transfer "+100500" by Maxim Golopolosov
2010-2011 - "The Right Choice"
2010-2011 - Food for Strength
2010-2011 - "Russia in numbers"
2011 - "Moscow 24/7"
2012 - political talk show "Kamikaze Flight"
Daily and weekly show for the Russian lottery "Gosloto"

How the founder of the "Apostle" Vasily Brovko masters state budgets and why he married the scandalous TV presenter Tina Kandelaki

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The government has appointed Rostec Corporation as the sole executor of the project to create an IT infrastructure for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the Vedomosti newspaper reported.

According to the publication, the decision was made at the level of the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov supervising the preparations for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The state corporation will have to provide the championship with data transmission channels, video conferencing, fixed and mobile communications, satellite communications and cable TV. Vasily Brovko, who holds the position of director of communications and strategic research in the corporation, brought such a large booty to the native nest of Rostec. The tempting multi-billion dollar order appears to be the result of long and painstaking lobbying.

Indeed, some 14 years ago he was playing football in the yards of Zhukovsky. Brovko still cannot forget how he pushed in trains to Moscow. It would seem that all of his current turbulent activity is devoted to desperate attempts to belatedly snatch from life everything that is due to him, and even more. So who is Vasily Brovko, born in 1987? This is not the first time his name has come up in connection with the 2018 World Cup. Vasily Brovko headed the communication agency he created for five years "Apostle", from where he moved to work at Rostec at the end of 2013. However, he continued to maintain influence on his offspring. In the absence of Brovko, his close friend, the well-known TV presenter Tina Kandelaki, became the head of the Apostle, with whom they owned the shares of the PR agency equally. In 2015, it became known that Apostol would receive a contract for branding 11 cities where matches within the 2018 World Cup would be held. At that time, information was circulating in the media that the project was supported by the financial and economic bloc of the government, headed, as you know, by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. Thus, the IT support of the championship by Rostec looks like a logical continuation of the lobbying activities of the former CEO of Apostol.

Proximity to the first persons of the state and direct access to high offices more than once helped him to successfully settle the affairs of structures affiliated with him. So, in April 2014, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the defense industry in the government, expressed indignation at two tenders by the Kalashnikov concern to develop a website and a brand, the starting price for each of which was 20 million rubles. The contracts of the Kalashnikov, which is part of Rostec, were going to be given to the Apostle, but Rogozin promised to initiate an audit of the competition. The conflict was extinguished before it had flared up, and Apostol took up the branding of the legendary manufacturer of small arms anyway. So Vasily Brovko won his next hardware victory.

Friendship between Rostec and Brovko began in 2010. At the suggestion of the then Minister of Information and Communications of Tatarstan Nikolai Nikiforov"Apostol" received a contract for the full communication support of a "young but ambitious" Internet provider at that time. In August 2010, a Moscow PR agency organized for him a presentation of the first 4G network in Russia, and not just anywhere, but in Kazan. It is possible that Nikiforov simply sympathized with Brovko, since he himself was only 29 years old, and he knew firsthand how difficult it is for budding entrepreneurs to break through in life.

Since then, Nikiforov has grown to the position of federal minister, and yesterday's "Internet provider" - to the status of a full-fledged mobile operator. Very mature and Vasily Brovko. He began to drive "boy" sports cars. They say that yesterday's poor people are best versed in car brands - for Brovko this has become a lifelong passion. His first successes did not go unnoticed by the leadership of the state corporation Rostec. So Brovko met Sergei Chemezov. The fruits of this acquaintance were not long in coming. In 2012, the Apostol agency carried out a rebranding for the state corporation, as a result of which it ceased to be called Russian Technologies and became Rostec, and also acquired a new logo and corporate identity. The work, performed for a modest $1.5 million at the time, impressed Sergei Chemezov so much that he invited Brovko to deal with the communications of the entire state corporation directly on its staff. Vasily Brovko did not have to be persuaded for a long time, because he needed it.

Thus began the rise of the general director of Apostol. Rumors about his communication skills and well-spoken language spread through Chemezov through the ruling circles of Russia. As a result, a paradoxical situation has developed in Russian PR. As soon as large government agencies and departments need information promotion, they understand that they don’t have to go far and turn directly to Vasily Brovko. He, who is known for his eloquence and love for “fashionable” words like “extrapolate”, “synergy”, “growth driver”, “spectrum”, “segregation”, knows how to create fog, promise mountains of gold to the client and ultimately sell him air . Brovko is a “bridge” between the state apparatus and the “Apostle”, for his successful lobbying, he received the unspoken nickname “Evil Empire” in the media environment. So, in April 2015, the agency won a scandalous tender worth more than 60 million rubles for information and analytical support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. This competition was cunningly divided into two lots: one worth 40 million rubles, the other in the region of 20 million rubles. They are called differently, but the set of services contain plus or minus the same. Branding of pencils, folders and business cards, as well as daily monitoring of the media and writing positive blog posts about the ministry were valued at millions of budget rubles.

Strong ties with Nikiforov, as well as friendship with Rustam Minnikhanov, soon opened a new chapter in the relationship between "Apostol" and Tatarstan - this time much more expensive. In 2014, the agency received a contract to develop the territorial brand of the republic. In addition, Vasily Brovko managed to turn Tatarstan into an advertising platform for Rostec. In the vicinity of Kazan, the corporation built its own science city Innopolis, where Brovko now holds annual IT conferences with the participation of politicians loyal to Rostec and Apostol or their deputies, including Minnikhanov, Nikiforov and the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov. Apparently, the purpose of such forums is to praise the state corporation and everything that Sergei Chemezov does for the country. Against the backdrop of fabulously expensive videos on huge screens, Brovko flaunts in a discreet designer suit and enjoys practicing public speaking.

Just as military factories churn out their products on a conveyor, so Vasily Brovko organized the uninterrupted supply of all new tenders for Apostol and learned how to use Rostec, and with it the federal budget, for his entourage. How many holdings are included in Rostec - so many rebranding orders were received by Tina Kandelaki in her bottomless piggy bank. KRET, Aviation Equipment, Shvabe, Kalashnikov - all these concerns paid off a lot of money to Apostol in exchange for incomprehensible services with "muddy" names: "positioning concept", "brand architecture development", "creation of a communication platforms." Brovko seems to be able to juggle these concepts even when woken up in the middle of the night.

Vasily Brovko, who is not yet 30 years old, tends to hide his enormous influence in every possible way. But sometimes in the information space there are still signals that testify to his exclusive relationship with the authorities. So, in 2013, he was criticized on the pages of Alexei Navalny's blogs because of the scandalous tender of the Apostle for the information service of Aeroflot. As you know, the popular oppositionist does not write about just anyone; in different years, such influential figures as the first deputy chairman of the government, Igor Shuvalov, or the former head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, were subjected to his attacks. Brovko more than once became the object of attacks from other opposition stars - Ksenia Sobchak mentioned him on her Twitter, however, mostly in a romantic sense, hinting at the closeness of Vasily and Tina Kandelaki. But the “blonde in chocolate” is often passed in the microblog on Sergey Chemezov and “Rostec cuts”. Brovko was also featured in a large post “Put your Kandelaikas” by a close associate of Navalny, activist Ruslan Leviev. It remains an open question why the Russian opposition takes the not-so-media Brovko seriously.

Behind the "Apostle" stretches a long trail of scandalous stories related to the information service of the ruling elite. With Kandelaki, Vasily Brovko developed a special relationship in every sense. The TV presenter not only for a long time served as his protege in the Apostle, from whose capital Brovko was forced to leave in connection with the transfer to work in a state corporation, but also recently she has ceased to hide that she is also united with a business partner by family ties. Gossip that Tina Kandelaki and Vasily Brovko got married became a hit in the yellow tabloids this summer.

But the government contracts that Brovko is seeking for Apostol and Rostec through skillful lobbying and talented manipulative practices can be regarded, among other things, as replenishment of the family budget. Thus, the cost of IT support alone for the 2018 FIFA World Cup is about 11 billion rubles.