The secret hero of several revolutions of the XXI century. Personal consultant of Boris Berezovsky. The king of marketing and consulting, who claims that “if you need help from a company, you almost always need to close it down almost to zero first!” – from the words of this amazing person. About Mikhail Sheitelman (his biography will be discussed) there is still a lot to hear and read amazing. For example, that the future world-famous marketer earned his first serious money as a student selling vodka coupons in the late 80s. Or – that a joke that was broadcast on the air, created with his participation during the student KVN in Israel, almost provoked a diplomatic conflict with Moldova.
Mikhail Sheitelman is a person as mysterious as he is famous: for example, a political strategist cannot be found on social networks. And it is very difficult to get information about his family. It is still impossible to predict where this person will live in a week, in a month, from where he will give interviews or connect to YouTube to participate in the discussion. He lived in Israel, in the Baltic states, at the beginning of a special operation in Ukraine, he unexpectedly showed up in Kiev … Mikhail Sheitelman in the summer of 2022 focused his activities on speaking on the Internet: he, as a consultant on various world events, is in great demand in this role.
Official data
- Name, surname: Mikhail Sheitelman;
- Place of birth: USSR, Leningrad;
- Birth year: 1968;
- Nationality: Jewish;
- Occupation: writer, publicist, political strategist, marketer.
Beginning
Such meager information is more than compensated by data on how Mikhail Sheitelman's childhood passed, how he lived as a child and a young man. And surprisingly, everything is from his words: the political strategist talks about his youth with pleasure, indulging in memories. For example: “In the USSR, business was something forbidden, unknown. I was programmed in the right way since childhood by my mother. And dad, who in some way in Soviet times was an entrepreneur legally – and I had a different picture of the world before my eyes, ”from his interview for“ jewishmagazine ”.
A “correctly programmed” young man entered the Leningrad Polytechnic University after a mathematical school, majoring in aerodynamics. Then there was the army, upon returning from there, the young man saw that in the country “the golden time has come for young slobs and … a total deficit.” It was precisely on the second that he began, in essence, to train future effective and unrealistically simple earning schemes: it is true that the student Sheitelman earned money in the late 80s by reselling … alcohol coupons!
Moving abroad and career
“In 1991, everything fell apart, and I realized: it’s time to leave and do science,” also in the words of Mikhail Sheitelman. I understood and did it: I left for Israel, where I entered Bar-Ilan University. And then the young man did not disappear in terms of finances: with the help of the KVN created at the university, students made good money, published newspapers. And here is the story of an international scandal that almost happened – when a joke was published in one of the newspapers: “The President of Moldova, Snegur, lives in a refrigerator.” I had to give a rebuttal…
Then there was teaching at the university, work as a programmer, Mikhail will call this period of life “4 years of anecdote”. And then it was not a joke at all, but a real, serious political technology – when Sheitelman was engaged in election campaigns. And the fact that the political strategist then headed the TV5 channel in Latvia is pure truth. In 2015, when Sheitelman was already being named in the media as a former director of TV5 and was asked to characterize himself, he would say: “Probably, the change manager suits me best. Not always crisis. Because it is often required that smoothly running things go uphill.
Probably, Boris Berezovsky was guided by these considerations when he invited Mikhail Sheitelman to several of his projects – in order to make “evenly going” things more successful. Political strategist Sheitelman openly stated that in the last years of Berezovsky's life he became very close to him and was in fact his personal consultant. The trials of Berezovsky and Abramovich: there, according to Mikhail, he also took an active part.
In 2022, Mikhail Sheitelman is interesting in that he increasingly acts as a consultant on ongoing events in opposition projects, appears on such YouTube channels and media projects as:
- “Bald Truth ”,
- “And Graham struck”,
- “Vlast and Vlaschenko”,
- “Ukraine-24”.
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About the family
Mikhail Sheitelman avoids talking about his family in any interviews, because nothing is known about his early life in terms of family, much less now. The only thing that attentive journalists managed to get out of tons of materials on the net in 2014, from his words for jewish.ru: “My parents live in Israel, my sister, my little son recently moved to Israel.”
Literature
How can we not mention two books written by Mikhail Sheitelman? “Don't want to work too hard? Read a lot of tips on how to work 16 hours a day and become a millionaire? I will try to teach how to earn 200 thousand a year, ”from the preface to his work“ Not Like Tinkov ”. The second book is The Bat Effect. It is an artistic format, and the characters there are surprisingly similar to real famous personalities! “Dirty manipulations, unacceptable comparisons, violation of moral standards!” – from reviews of this product. However, popular among fans to read something that does not look like a standard presentation of historical events.
