Igor Mintusov
Igor Mintusov (born 17 August 1958) is a Russian political consultant, public relations manager and professional manager of election campaigns. Mintusov is Chairman of the Board of directors of "Niccolo M", a public relations company which he established in 1992 with business partner Yekaterina Yegorova. Throughout twenty years of work, Mintusov has supervised over one hundred Russian and foreign election campaigns. He took a part in the preparation for the Russian parliamentary elections in 1993, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007 and the presidential elections in 1991, 1996, 2000 and 2004. He has worked in parliamentary elections in Poland (1997 ), Ukraine (2002, 2003, 2007), Mongolia (2004, 2008), USA congressional elections in Florida and Connecticut (1998), parliamentary elections in Latvia (1998), Slovakia (2002), presidential elections in Mongolia (2001, 2005), Nicaragua (2001), Lithuania (2002). During the Russian presidential election in 1996 he was a personal image consultant to the then President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin. Mintusov was the first in Russia to use applied qualitative sociological methods in marketing and political studies. Mintusov served as advisor on the "Fair Russia" merger. Non-political projects. Support to the campaign the CENTRAL bank of the RUSSIAN federation on the ruble denomination (1998 ), the settlement of the conflict of the French bank Crédit Agricole and National reserve bank (2003), promotion of the Bulgarian company "BRK cosmetics", promotion of the image of the Republic of Cyprus, development of concepts for promoting the brand of the Saratov, Samara, and Tver regions etc. Membership of associations. A member of the: