- Konstantin Rykov
Konstantin Rykov ("Константин Игоревич Рыков"), a.k.a. Jason Foris (Джейсон Форис) (born
27 may 1979 ) is aRussia n blogger, pornographer, producer, and politician.Biography
Rykov was born in Moscow. Since 1998 he made his mark as one of the first professional Russian Internet producers. Rykov has created websites such as [http://www.fuck.ru/ Fuck.ru] and [http://runet.ru/ Runet.ru] and television programs such as the popular TV-Show “Star Factory”. Since 2002 he has been working as head of the Internet department of the First Channel of the state television, where he cooperated with art
impresario Marat Gelman in a range of political Internet projects like [http://Irak.ru Irak.ru] and [http://Vojna.ru Vojna.ru] .Rykov's latest media projects include the production of electronic newspapers [http://www.dni.ru/ "Dni.ru" ("Дни.Ру ")] and [http://www.vz.ru/ "Vzglyad" ("Взгляд")] , publication and promotion of controversial bestselling novelists
Sergey Minaev andEduard Bagirov , and support ofVladimir Putin via his websites [http://Zaputina.ru/ "Zaputina.ru" ("За Путина")] and [http://russia.ru/ Russia.ru] .On 2 December 2007, Rykov was elected as a deputy of the
Duma representingNizhny Novgorod as a candidate of pro-Kremlin partyUnited Russia .Links
* [http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/178518/ The Moscow Times: Rykov's publishing promotions]
* [http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3465 ZDNet: Putin allies building a pro-Kremlin network of blogs, news sites]
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