Maksim Kononenko is a Russian journalist

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

, writer, TV show host, and political activist, computer programmer. Known on the Internet as "Mr. Parker", he is famous for his blog http://vladimir.vladimirovich.ru, which contains humorous fake stories from the life of Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...

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Kononenko is a member of the council of the party Civilian Power

Civilian Power

Civilian Power was a liberal political party in the Russian Federation, which prior to February 2007 was called Free Russia.According to data from Rosregistration, the party has 55,063 members...

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Biography

Kononenko was born in Apatity

Apatity

Apatity is a town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located along the Murmansk Railway between Lake Imandra and Khibiny Massif, west of Kirovsk and south of Murmansk, the administrative center of the oblast...

, USSR. One of the pioneers of Russian Internet, he is known under the nickname Mr. Parker. He graduated from Moscow State Institute of Radio-engineering Electronics and Automation

Moscow State Institute of Radio-engineering Electronics and Automation

Moscow State Institute of Radio-engineering, Electronics and Automation is a Russian technical university in the field of radio technology, electronics, cybernetics and automation....

 and also studied at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute

Maxim Gorky Literature Institute

The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute is a higher education institute in Moscow. It is located at 25 Tver Bulvar in Central Moscow.It was founded in 1933 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, and received its current name at Gorky's death in 1936....

. He has authored or participated in countless Internet projects. For nearly ten years, he worked as the leading programmer in ParallelGraphics.

He participated in 2005 Moscow City Duma

Duma

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 elections but failed.

He worked as editor-in-chief of a major Internet news website Dni.ru. He now works as editor-in-chief of Bourgeois Journal and political newspaper Re:Action.

In 2002, he founded a popular website vladimir.vladimirovich.ru, which contains humorous fake stories from the life of Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...

 based on real events and current news.

He often appears on Russian TV and hosts a show Real politics on NTV channel.

Awards

• "Teneta" literary award (1st prize, 1995)
• Computer programmer of the year and Person of the year ("Rotor", 2000)
• Internet writer of the year (2003, 2004)ur

External links

• Kononenko's blog
• vladimir.vladimirovich.ru
• Biography on the party website (in Russian)