Dmitry Simes biography children. Why does America care about the world? Personal life of a famous political scientist
Grandfather and granddaughter, film and theater artist, classic of the Soviet school and a prominent representative of modern art. The paintings of these two authors are so different and so similar.
They are united by an unbreakable bond of family and talent.
Dream of the Deity
Anastasia Rurikova was born in Moscow. In 1974-1979 Studied at the Krasnopresnensky School of Arts. Of course, her grandfather, P. I. Pashkevich, had a great influence on Anastasia’s work. In 1987, she graduated from the Moscow Secondary Art School at the Moscow State Art Institute. V. I. Surikova. In 1994 she graduated from the art department of VGIK, department “Artist - film director”. Having married a prominent American political scientist, Dmitry Simes, Anastasia has been living and working as a theater artist in the United States, in Washington, DC since 1993, where she took part in more than 20 theatrical productions and was repeatedly nominated for the prestigious theater award. Ellen Hayes.
“I was flying with my future husband, famous political scientist Dmitry Simes,” she recalls, “on the plane of ex-President Richard Nixon.
- What do you do? - he asked
- Artist! - I answered proudly.
- Horrible! - the ex-president quite sincerely did not believe it - Why not a lawyer or at least an economist?!
I smiled because I knew that this profession was the best in the world."
Present
“As an artist, I sometimes find it difficult to explain my paintings. Since early childhood, I have followed the advice of my grandfather, who told me: “If you want to communicate something important, it is better to draw it than to try to formulate it in words.” Words will be lost in any case." If I were asked to describe my work in one phrase, I would say in the words of Gabriel García Márquez from his work "One Hundred Years of Solitude" - "the world was so new that for many things there were no names and you had to point to finger them." This, I think, reflects the way I experience the world, that it is always new, always unexpected. You don’t always know that you are just trying to find a name for this, these nuances, these emotions, these experiences."
Life. White is my night
Life. Blue is my day
Life. Red chicken
Apparently, this is why the artist Anastasia Rurikova-Symes gives her paintings such unusual names that intrigue, force you to look more closely at them, look for hidden symbols and semantic elements. The world of a woman is especially close and understandable to her, refined, complex, contradictory, full of nuances and emotions.
Secrets of day and night
The mystery of the pomegranate
Mystery of the night
Coronation
Napoleon in Love
After the fact
Night
Night of the Red Horse
Struggle. Man is a bird and man is a bull
Tales of power. The Rower of one
Tales of power. Red Bull and White Bull
Tales of power. Challenge of a Yellow Bull
Tales of power. Duel
Lunatics
Territory Lesson
Theorem
The escape
Caught in the mirror
Levitation on Monday
Miracle on Tuesday
Birds of Passion
Judgment Day
Prayer for a sinful Soul
Land of Forgiveness
Porcelain passions
"Pyotr Isidorovich Pashkevich (1918-1996), Soviet film artist. People's Artist of the RSFSR. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree.
Pyotr Pashkevich was a man of impeccable style and taste. There are fewer and fewer people left about whom we can unconditionally say: an intelligent person. Even if he is talented, educated, has a good family name, and claims to have this characteristic, “intelligence” is still a rare personality trait. Pyotr Isidorovich is the embodiment of intelligence, which is always and above all in actions and behavior.
He never raised his voice or was rude, he never talked about himself and the children, he never spoke stilted pretentious words and did not speak at meetings. He never slandered, although he joked well and subtly. He created posters, built scenery, painted and was a harmonious person. But any writers, painters, musicians are forgotten. For them to live, they must be remembered. Pyotr Isidorovich was twice happy: he has children who love and remember him. They understand the significance of the work of their father Pyotr Pashkevich for all of us and those behind us."
Pashkevich, Pyotr Isidorovich + Pashkevich, Tamara Petrovna:
Pashkevich, Andrei Petrovich - artist, creator of "political ecology" - a picturesque political chronicle of the modern history of Russia. Wife: Gret Van Halst, also an artist
Rurikova, Natalia Petrovna - founder and director of the Moscow art gallery "Nashchokin's House". Husband - Rurikov, Dmitry Borisovich, diplomat.
Rurikova-Symes, Anastasia Dmitrievna - since 1993 she has lived and worked as a theater artist in the USA, where she took part in more than 20 theatrical productions.
Ryurikov-Rado, Kirill Dmitrievich - lawyer, artist.
Artist P.I. Pashkevich
Music: B.Malgo - Du Bist Mein Zufluchtsort
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Dmitry Symes
Dmitry Symes- President of the Center for the National Interest, appointed to this position by the Center's founder, Richard Nixon
President Obama is about to add another grim chapter to his foreign policy record. Perhaps he thinks that his “no war, no peace” response to Russia’s intervention in Syria will spare the United States and himself the possible costs of choosing between two evils.
Could the American reaction to events in Ukraine cause a conflict that will lead to a Russian-American war? This development of events seems incredible. But when we say “incredible,” we do not mean real things, but only our own idea of them. As Iraq, Libya and Syria have shown, political leaders are often unable to imagine things they find inconvenient.
(13)There are all the prerequisites for a further escalation of the confrontation between the West and Russia over Ukraine. Obama must recognize the threat to US national interests that this crisis may pose and act accordingly
(4)Why Russia, the West and Ukraine have a very long way to go from the Minsk truce to the final settlement of the conflict
(1)American bluff and arrogance toward Moscow is fueling Russian nationalism, convincing Putin of our weakness and facilitating a dangerous realignment of forces.
Relations between the United States and Russia are rapidly deteriorating. The misguided and arrogant post-Cold War policies of the United States have been a source of deep frustration for Russia. And Vladimir Putin’s increasingly defiant behavior provokes indignation in the West. But neither Washington nor Moscow needs rivalry.
"Spreading" democracy, especially through violent regime change, will meet with serious resistance around the world. Countries that suspect they might be subject to such treatment are unlikely to recognize America's moral superiority.
Through its actions and statements, the United States is increasingly becoming like an empire. Therefore, while assuming the functions of a strong and unyielding leader, Washington must make the experience of its predecessors the subject of its particularly close attention. At the same time, America should not be tempted to interfere in other people's affairs unless its own national interests are at stake. This, in particular, means abandoning the doctrine of universal promotion of democracy.
The name of Dmitry Simes, an American scientist with Russian roots, is well known to fans of the political programs “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” and “60 Minutes.”
He is considered one of the most influential emigrants from the USSR. “Our man in Washington” made a dizzying career, but did not forget the Russian language and devoted his work to improving Russian-American relations.
Childhood and youth
Symes's real name is Simis. He was born in 1947 in Moscow. Parents - lawyer Dina Isaakovna Kaminskaya and lawyer Konstantin Simis - were Jews. At that time, anti-Semitic sentiments reigned among the Soviet intelligentsia, and, being well-known specialists in their midst, they often encountered prejudice and tried to resist them. The free views of his parents greatly influenced Dmitry and subsequently became the cause of important events in his biography.
As a child, the future political scientist was interested in history and anthropology. After school, he decided to get an education in two directions at once, but did not go to university, but got a job at the Historical Museum. After a year of work, he was able to pass difficult exams at Moscow State University. Among his classmates and teachers, Dmitry was known as an enthusiastic but restless person.
The young man did not hesitate to openly criticize the actions of the authorities and offer his own interpretations of historical events. After 2 years, for these speeches, the rebellious student was forced to transfer to the correspondence department, and in 1967 he was completely expelled. The last straw was that Dmitry spoke negatively about the USSR’s participation in the conflict between the USA and Vietnam, proving how costly and pointless this operation was.
Career
After being expelled, Simis turned to his parents for help, and his extensive connections helped him get an entry-level position at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He decided to temporarily curb his passion for justice and engage in social work. Having studied Soviet ideological principles, Dmitry was able to understand how to behave so as not to cause criticism from the leadership. Despite this, the young man’s internal position remained the same. He firmly decided to leave for the USA and began to wait for the right chance.
The decision to emigrate initially surprised Simis’s family and friends, but he convinced them that he would not be able to devote himself to the study of political science in the USSR - Dmitry’s nationality and the inflexibility of Soviet political thought left no chance.
The scientist applied for permission to emigrate, but shortly before his issuance he was imprisoned for participating in a protest at the Central Telegraph. Dmitry had to spend 3 months behind bars. It took the intervention of the French Prime Minister to achieve release. As a result, Dmitry received a one-way ticket - he was forbidden to return to his homeland.
In 1973, the young political scientist received US citizenship and changed his last name, becoming Symes. He quickly got used to the new environment and realized that he needed to work on his position. Numerous defectors from the USSR vying with each other criticized the Soviet government, but Dmitry did not want to be another voice of anti-Soviet propaganda - that would be banal. He began to express views that were unusual at that time, drawing the attention of American political scientists to how Soviet society was developing.
Such a reserved position turned out to be advantageous and helped the scientist make the necessary contacts. At various times, Dmitry's patrons were the US National Security Advisor, the head of the CIA and the Ministry of Defense, and an assistant to the senator. Later, the president himself expressed a favorable attitude towards the emigrant. According to rumors, the head of state often consulted with Simes and considered him his unofficial foreign policy consultant.
Dmitry headed the Center for Soviet and European Studies at the Carnegie Endowment and served in this position for 10 years. Later, the Institute of National Research was created in the USA, where the ambitious political scientist implemented his scientific projects.
In 2015, Dmitry Konstantinovich published the book “Putin and the West. Don’t teach Russia how to live!”, in which he outlined his version of the background to the actions of the Russian president and accused him of illogical and inconsistent policies.
Personal life
The famous political scientist avoids publicizing the facts of his personal life. Finding information and photos of his relatives on the Internet is almost impossible. It is known that Dmitry Simes is married to Anastasia Reshetnikova, a popular theater artist in the United States.
The future spouses met in Moscow when the political scientist arrived with Nixon for the next negotiations. As his wife recalls, when they first met, Dmitry called her profession “terrible,” which made the young artist smile. It is not reported whether the couple has children.
Dmitry Simes now
Today, the American political scientist willingly responds to invitations to participate in political programs and appear in print media as an expert on Russian realities. In his interviews, he speaks kindly about the actions and believes that improving relations between Russia and the United States now is a difficult but feasible task.
According to the organizers, they embody two political mentalities – American and Russian. The essence of the show is to cover the latest news from two points of view and find compromises.
“We will speak on our own behalf,” Dmitry emphasizes, “but at the same time we will always strive to be informed and objective.”
Books
- 1977 – Detente and conflict
- 1978 – Soviet Succession: Leadership in Transition
- 1999 – After the Collapse: Russia Seeks Its Place as a Great Power
- 2015 – “Putin and the West: don’t teach Russia how to live!”
The famous American political scientist Dmitry Simes, adviser to President Nixon, remarkable for his Russian origin, a frequent and respected guest in the Moscow political science community, recently spoke on Dmitry Kulikov’s program “The Right to Know!” As always, brilliantly and very theoretically, refusing to talk about either American or Russian political paranoia, but still saying a few important things.
In general, Simes always advocates the so-called “realpolitik”, and from this convenient position he gives out earrings to all his sisters, managing to remain both an American patriot and, as it were, a Russian-American patriot, a supporter of finding some kind of Russian-American compromise and balance. So, he recognizes the US claim to world domination, but recognizes it as a reality of existence, no matter how good or bad, it is simply a given that Russia must take into account when calculating its steps. Compared to other American and European participants in our television programs, this is undoubtedly a sober approach.
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Simes believes there was Russian influence in the US election, but finds it par for the course: all countries do it. He is sure, at the level of intuition, that Russian athletes used doping, and this was used against Russia: “Russia is treated the way it allows it to be done.” Many Western athletes are caught doping; they legally use it supposedly for “therapeutic purposes” - so use it against Western countries, as Simes seems to be hinting to us, can you afford it? Indeed, Russia does not allow itself to counter doping accusations from the West, at least not yet. Until the Winter Olympics in South Korea are over?
Simes’s political preferences are on the side of Donald Trump, he explains and justifies him as a businessman in power who, due to inexperience, made a lot of mistakes, but stayed afloat due to a certain common sense and his economic successes. Now Trump, in his opinion, is returning to traditional Republican politics under the influence of the realities of American life.
Simes fired significantly more critical arrows at Congress; in regard to it, he recalled the sacramental “we’re making noise, brothers, we’re making noise,” but these “brothers” are making noise all over the world and consider themselves the center of world democracy. Congress is precisely the center of American democracy, as opposed to the executive branch of the presidency led by “dictator Trump.” Congress is truly American democracy as it is. And how is it? This is the Central Committee of the CPSU during the heyday of senile insanity, but Simes refused to talk about American paranoia.
The main global problem today is American hegemony, which is staggering under pressure from Russia and China. It is shaking, and the United States wants to return its hegemony to its former stability, and this is just realpolitik, says Dmitry Simes. As is the policy of Russia and China to change the world in their favor, in favor of their national interests.
“You have already done a lot,” Simes acknowledges Russia’s achievements along this path, which he said was announced in Vladimir Putin’s Munich speech in 2007. That is, in just 10 years, a short historical period.
We must say thank you to Simes for pointing out to us the essence of American politics, or rather the politics of Congress, which is losing its temper over “Russian interference” in the American elections. The same people who openly and brazenly interfered in Russian elections and politics in the 90s are shouting about this in Congress. How do they explain this? “They developed and are developing democracy in your country, but Russia is undermining democracy in America.”
In other words, the confrontation between Putin’s Russia, at least with the US Congress, is ideological. Congress insists that the United States is a unique democracy, and everyone must recognize this, stand up accordingly, and go “ku.” Congress's hatred of President Trump is also ideological: he does not recognize the democratic uniqueness of Congress, and thereby puts himself above Congress!
Moreover, Trump still has not learned the word “democracy”, which Obama juggled so well, and at Davos he again spoke about “American values”, but they cannot be universal for the whole world by definition! Unlike “democracy,” which can always be manipulated, Obama-style. Yes, Trump does not want to give in to Congress with its democracy, so he is a “dictator, a sexist and even Hitler,” this is how the “world media” defame him, which Trump, in retaliation, calls fake, fake.
Democracy is the same myth as communism, it wasn’t me who said it, it was our famous dissident philosopher Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev who said it. These social doctrines are generally relatives, from the same era of Enlightenment, and, as often happens in life, as happened with Cain and Abel, there was also a quarrel between them for selfish reasons, for the right of world leadership. Today, the future of all humanity dreams of becoming democracy...
When the democratic myth collapses under the weight of its leadership, the burden of sins and senile nonsense of the “CPSU Central Committee of Democracy,” that is, the Congress, the United States will repeat the fate of the USSR, and this process has already begun. It’s not for nothing that Trump completely forgot the word “democracy”: in America the same fatigue has accumulated from it as in the late USSR from “communism”.
At the same time, we note that A.A. Zinoviev, as a sociologist, speaks about the possibility of both a communal (called communist) way of functioning of society, and a market (called democratic) one, because, in themselves, they have nothing to do with myths, and really exist, with all their inherent advantages and disadvantages . Moreover, they are integral, that is, irremovable in principle, which leads to the collapse of the myths built on their basis.
...The main achievements of “American democracy,” or better yet, of the real US political system, Dmitry Simes considers “freedom of speech and an independent judiciary,” but today they are under threat: they are being destroyed by the fake news of the globalist media and the political corruption of the Obama and Clinton “democrats” - neocons, which was revealed by the Trump presidential election. “American democracy is still alive” because “Trump was elected after all,” Dmitry Simes expressed hope, but then it may die along with the political defeat of Donald Trump.
an important wake-up call explaining the sharp U-turn in relation to Russia by the United States, which I have been waiting for a long time, by the way, and have written more than once - in one of the last programs from Solovyov, dated December 20, 2015, Dmitry Simes, representing the interests of the United States, said wonderful words, simply deadly for some who are in the know ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnvesH5NuFw, 32:22 min.:
"After the end of the Cold War, the American foreign policy establishment gradually, through trial and error, developed a single the US establishment's view that it can and should rule the world (in this case, a hint at the Rockefeller project of God's chosenness and neocons, to which Clinton, Nuland, Samantha Power from the UN, the State Department war party and some people in the CIA and the Pentagon belong - my note).
And in this establishment, the most influential voices became those well known to the older generation in the Soviet Union - the voices of the TROTSKYISTS. These are American neo-Trotskyists who gradually migrated from the left wing of the Democratic Party to the Reps and began to fight again under American auspices for the world revolution. It's against THEM in the Republican Party now An uprising has begun, led by Donald Trump, and not only him. This is a significant part of the foreign policy establishment, incl. normal and very successful Americans who say: "Why do we need this...?" And much will depend on the outcome of this debate and the outcome of this protest, and then the elections, in US foreign strategy. .."
it is also noteworthy that uv. Vyacheslav Nikonov (34:40 min), immediately understood what and who it was about, complemented Simes’ speech.. At first he spoke about Syria, negotiations, war and the slogan “For the Motherland, for Assad.” “It was the neocons, these American Trotskyists, who changed their rhetoric to aggressive towards the Soviet Union. And what’s interesting is that many of them are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from Russia/Soviet Union who moved to America. They are the descendants of those Trotskyists. And if you look at the breakdown of foreign policy advisers under Obama, it turns out that most of them are Trotskyists and in the Hillary Clinton camp. ..
It doesn’t matter which party carries out the world revolution, because this is the idea of permanent revolution .The idea of constant support for global dominance. Moreover, for Trotsky these were the ideas of communism, and for the USA - democracy. And for Trotskyists there is not much difference. Behind them is not just a military machine, but also an instrument of soft power, the military-industrial complex, all the media, a colossal economy,” Nikonov said
By the way, dick Soloviev, with his inserts and comparisons of color revolutions with Russian revolutions, it would be better to keep quiet in a rag. I understand his desire to defend the interests of Israel, but in this case - a finger in the sky, to put it mildly... And there is no need to take away from the true customers and executors of these revolutions, all these Bunds, Gluzmans, leftists and other perverts.. Shakhnazarov - it would also be better to keep silent. They immediately realized what Symes was getting at. .)) The president of the Sobchak Foundation, Pan Stankevich, also got excited..
What else is interesting, Nikonov and Mikheev gave a tough rebuff to both Simes, in his provocative speech about the collapse of the Union, and Shakhnazarov, the fool got it especially hard and balabol Stankevich, to whom it was directly indicated - you, and people like you, under Yeltsen, ruined and plundered Russia along with the rest of the crooks..
What am I talking about?
This publication is a note about the future of Russia, denunciation of Kinguryan, Starikov, Memorial and internal forces in working for external players, Druz’s article in RISI,
recent tough speeches on S. Mikheev’s programs, as well as V. Nikonov’s statement, and Simes simply voiced what was needed, suggests that big changes await us, especially within the country. And I don’t envy some “patriots” who consider themselves very cunning.
I would also like to remind you that V. Putin also emphasized in one of his interviews that much in our relations will depend on who comes to power in the BD as a result of the 2016 elections.
And I can already guess who...
