Born August 9, 1930 in Leningrad.
I finished school with a gold medal.
In 1953 he graduated from the Faculty of the Rostov State University, in 1959 - post graduate courses. Candidate in Philosophy.
From 1953 to 1954 worked as a people's judge, Mr.. Khadyzhensk Krasnodar Territory. In 1954 - 55 - Head of the Propaganda Department of Neftegorsk District Committee.
. In 1955 - Deputy Director Khadyzhensk Forestry Administration.
. In 1955 - 56 - People's Judge Khadyzhensk.
. In 1959 - 63 - Scientific Consultant editorial philosophy of "Communist".
. In 1963 - 72 - Consultant, Head of Department of the CPSU Central Committee of consultants.
. From 1972 to 1991 - a political columnist for Izvestia
. A leading weekly television program "International panorama".
. In 1991 he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union in Israel (from 1992 to 1997 - Ambassador of Russia).
. From September 1997 - a political columnist for Izvestia.
. Since December 1997 - author and presenter of journalistic program "A Conversation on the merits" on the TV channel "TV-Center".
. Published in the magazine Itogi.
. He has state awards.
. Wife Elena Petrovna
. Has a daughter and a grandson.
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. Prior to his appearance on television as the leading celebrity in the 70 years of the "International Panorama" Alexander
Bovin led a group of consultants, the CPSU Central Committee - wrote speeches not someone else, but most of Brezhnev
. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. And Alexander Evgenjevich was the last in history after the Soviet Union.
Well, who does not know
Bovina. Many years ago, he suddenly appeared on television screens in the program "International panorama" and immediately became his for millions. After groomed Soviet internationalists, . between travel from Paris to New York and back to the Soviet people about the prophesied abomination of capitalism, . that fat, . careless man with the face of an aging Porthos suddenly took with them on an equal confidential talk about the problems of international relations,
. And what had once been so far entered the kitchen, but there remained. And if Grandma afternoon on a bench talking about Cuba, then looked
Bovina.
- Well, how much he knows! - Astonished citizens.
Where? There. From the Old Town Square. Because all the serious knowledge in our country just came together there, in the building of the Central Committee.
Aleksandr E.
Bovin there and worked. Advised leaders.
- Alas, to leave the united ranks of the (party) I was at that time quite like. Like all Soviet people, I quite clearly understood that I live in a cage. But my cell was a gold-plated, comfortable. August 21, 1968 troops of the Warsaw agree-ment entered Czechoslovakia.
I am still convinced that our government then committed a terrible mistake. Remember, Talleyrand: "It's more than crime. This - Error.
If it were not the invasion, I do not know, not sure, but perhaps the entire history of socialism would have gone a different path. Nor would have ended in August 91 th.
- Here I listen to you and do not understand how such thoughts
Bovina so long suffered in the CC?
- Not so long. Nine years. In 1972 he was dismissed with all the honors.
And then they sent you to represent the USSR in Israel. For what to Calvary?
- A purely random. While diplomat wanted to be with child. After school, went to Moscow and not pinned somewhere, and once in the Diplomatic Academy. Learn a diplomat. Porter, however, said: Sooner you here, son. Complete the Institute, then come. So happened. Although in the early 80's, still under Brezhnev, I desperately wanted to go as ambassador to Luxembourg. A small country such invisible. Sit quietly and write a book. Where there. Gromyko slyly looked at me and said: "Too small for
Bovina country. He is there not fit ". I realized that Luxembourg - is a gift fund for her, and never suggested itself.
And in October 91 th - the first visit of Soviet Foreign Minister, Boris Pankin, in Israel.
I'm with the other journalists were covering a visit. We stop at the hotel, we meet the Minister. Ambassador's something our there since 1967 no. Hello, Boris looks at me and says: and here is the ambassador.
They returned to Moscow, I had forgotten, when suddenly from the Foreign Ministry's call: urgently send obektivku. You are drawn Ambassador to Israel. And after a while calling himself Gorbachev: I have here is a decree of your appointment. You do not mind? I did not mind.
- If not mistaken, you have the latest ambassador of the Soviet Union?
- Do not mistaken, it is the latter. December 6 happen Bialowieza Forest, and after three weeks of the Soviet Union would no longer. From Israel to hasten:
come, or will take shape on the new. Even from another state. I Gorbachev's aides jokingly say:
You really do not rush it. Suppose that before my departure does not leave. Poshili finally ambassadorial uniform: with luxurious lace, Marshall stars. Example -, well, like the doorman of the five-star hotel. And on Dec. 23, 1991 in this outfit I had to hand over his credentials to President of Israel. For any after such a day - a joyful celebration. And for me - with tears in his eyes. I am a soldier of the empire. Raise the flag of the USSR, and I know that I saw him last. They play the anthem of the USSR, and I know that I hear him the last time ...
- Six years you spent in Israel. Left of the dying of the Union, returned to the new Russia. Can you, like Gorbachev, who returned from Foros, say: I went to another country?
- Of course, this is an entirely different country.
Another thing is how it is lovely to me. You know, sometimes I feel like a mammoth. Cheerfully jumping around all sorts of Przewalski's horse, rushing off somewhere on business, and the mammoth costs and does not understand, what to do among these horses, which from an entirely different Mesozoic. I really like the freedom that is now the Russians. And it is not like the fact that millions of Russians, especially the elderly, are living hand to mouth. Ten years of freedom did not give them confidence in the future, that's bad.
Dossier
From the article "MAMMOTH"
7.06.2001
VALERY LARINA
And in Israel
Bovina simply adore. For appearance, for the objective assessment of developments in the Middle East, for his personal charm. Here's how
Bovina met, for example, in a restaurant.
Bovin never concealed that he was above all a patriot of his country, and thinks about her interests, but Israel is not a stranger to him, it came through in his speeches in the Israeli press.
