Igor Shchyogolev
In 2004, his job was expanded to be head of Kremlin Protocol, where he stayed until he was appointed "Minister of Communications and Mass Media" as part of Putin's second cabinet on 12 May 2008, replacing Leonid Reiman.[6] He held that position until resigning from that post in May 2012 when he became an assistant to the president and is Vladimir Putin's speechwriter and organizer of his meetings.[d] Ekaterina Mikhailovna Mizulina (Russian: Екатерина Михайловна Мизулина; born 1 September 1984, Yaroslavl), who is the daughter of Yelena Mizulina, leads the League of Safe Internet which was established in January 2011 by the July 2007 established and Konstantin Malofeev associated St Basil the Great Charitable Foundation (Russian: Благотворительным фондом Святителя Василия Великого).[16] Through the League of Safe Internet and with support from both Shchyogolev and Roskomnadzor, Mizulina supports internet censorship especially internet coverage of events involving Russian invasion of Ukraine and, on 24 May 2022, threatened Google and Wikipedia by stating "First, we will clear Ukraine of the Nazis and Banderites, and then we will get to Google and Wikipedia" (Russian: «Сначала зачистим Украину от нациков и бандеровцев, а потом дойдём до Гугла и Википедии»)[17][18][19][20] In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 6 April 2022 the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury added Shchyogolev to its list of persons sanctioned pursuant to Executive Order 14024.[21] His wife Rimma Viktorovna Shchyogoleva (Russian: Римма Викторовна Щёголева; born 5 April 1963)[12][22] is, since 1998, a professor in German language at Academy of Foreign Trade (Russian: Академия внешней торговли) and often travels to Germany for internships.