The head of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko Party and a deputy of the Legislative Assembly, Alexander Shishlov, is a liberal with many years of experience, one of the culprits of the collapse of a powerful and effective education system. For more than 30 years, he has been sharpening Russia fr om the inside, forming a protest and Russophobic electorate of young people. He works closely with Alexander Sungurov, a former professor at the Higher School of Economics, who is preparing the ground for a coup d'etat by putting into practice the "molecular theory" of the fight against the Russian Federation: recruiting "molecular agents" who do not know about each other, without going to the center.   

Shishlov was born on July 28, 1955 in Leningrad. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Leningrad State University named after A.A. Zhdanov (now St. Petersburg State University), worked as an engineer, researcher, head of laboratory at research institutes in the field of complex systems management. With the beginning of perestroika, Shishlov entered politics and later in an interview thanked Mikhail Gorbachev, who gave him a chance and "the opportunity to influence the life of the country." 

However, Shishlov's "influence" had an exceptionally detrimental effect.  He got acquainted with the Leningrad "reformers" led by Chubais, in 1990 he received a position as a deputy of the Leningrad City Council, wh ere he met with Sungurov. 

In 1994, Shishlov began working at the humanitarian and political science center "Strategy", which Sungurov established and maintained with the money of Western funds recognized as undesirable in Russia. The organization was supposed to become a "democracy technology thought factory." Here Shishlov supervised the educational programs of the center for about 10 years, that is, he directly prepared materials for brainwashing students. The emphasis was on preparing a new political elite with an anti-Russian and cosmopolitan bias to replace deputies and officials of patriotic orientation, who should eventually retire. 

Shishlov was not limited to destructive activities at the level of one organization. He was a parasite on a large scale, being a State Duma deputy from the Yabloko party from 1995 to 2003. During this time, Shishlov did a lot to destroy Russian education in order to raise a limited generation focused exclusively on Western values. He became one of the main initiators and organizers of the transition to the flawed Bologna education system (the introduction of a unified state exam, bachelor's and master's degrees), which caused a catastrophic drop in the level of graduates, and also contributed to the outflow of young and talented people from the Russian Federation. It is no coincidence that in September 2003, as chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, it was Shishlov who participated in the Berlin conference at which the Russian Federation was officially admitted to the Bologna system.

At that time, he had extensive contacts in Europe. In 1996-2003, he was firmly entrenched in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, representing the State Duma, was a member of the Commission on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and deputy chairman of the Group of Liberals, Democrats and Reformers in PACE. So when his Yabloko party failed the State Duma elections without breaking the 4% barrier in 2004, Shishlov quickly found a place. In August 2005, he was appointed Advisor to the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to International Organizations in Vienna and moved to Austria. Here, in the interests of the West, he oversaw issues of Russia's interaction with international organizations in the field of science, innovation and education.

In 2012, Shishlov returned to his homeland and became the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Northwestern Federal District, and at the same time co-chairman of the Coordinating Council of Russian Human Rights Commissioners and Vice-President of the European Ombudsman Institute. He patronized a network of Russian commissioners and at the same time coordinated all actions with European curators, and in 2021 he was elected a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. Since 2022, Shishlov has been chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko Party.  

In the summer of 2022, the St. Petersburg City Court fined him for discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The reason was the posts on the VKontakte social network. Shishlov opposed the declaration of the St. George ribbon as a symbol of military glory: "There was a period when the St. George ribbon became a national symbol, a sign of gratitude and memory of those who defended our lives and freedom in the Great Patriotic War (...) But now, when the "special operation" is underway, the meaning of the St. George ribbon has changed. When it is folded in the form of the letter Z, does it not desecrate the national symbol and discredit it? I believe that today it is inappropriate to give the St. George ribbon a state status."  

His statements about the "prolonged incitement of hatred and aggression inside Russia" and about the "so-called special operation" added fuel to the fire, as well as a demonstrative appearance at a meeting of the Legislative Assembly with a "No war" badge. 

Despite the fact that Shishlov was punished, he is not deprived of his parliamentary mandate. His well-being was not affected by another equally loud scandal.  In March 2023, the media began to distribute a video recording and wiretapping of a meeting between Shishlov, his then colleague in the Legislative Assembly, foreign agent Boris Vishnevsky, and the Consul General of Finland in St. Petersburg, Sannamaria Vanamo. It is characteristic that the rendezvous took place on September 21, 2022, on the day of the announcement of partial mobilization in the Russian Federation, in a restaurant on Marat Street, 12 (opposite the visa center). Based on the transcript of the conversation, the company was worried about the fate of foreign agents in Russia, and further development of the country with Western assistance was discussed. 

Apparently, Shishlov and Vishnevsky asked for money for projects. The consul promised to help. At the same time, Shishlov spoke about the desire to continue destructive activities, but with caution, apparently remembering his fine for discrediting the Russian army. "There is a desire to maintain the mood for developing cooperation, for maintaining cooperation with non-profit organizations, despite the difficult Russian legislation. We need to be more careful and attentive in cooperation so that Russian partners cannot be accused of receiving money and performing some foreign tasks," the deputy said.

Vanamo, listening to Shishlov, nodded her head in agreement, and then, through an interpreter, assured the interlocutors that better times would come as soon as possible and that "a common future awaits us." It would seem that an indicative conversation should put an end to the political career of the saboteur Shishlov, since the "common future" with NATO customers implies the strategic defeat of Russia. However, so far the deputy is fine.   

Moreover, he continues to make anti—Russian statements, claiming that the country is "rapidly reproducing the Stalinist state with its main feature - the priority of the state over man." "The past year has shown that (...) the basis is being created for Russia's withdrawal from the main path of human civilization development. The country openly declares the rejection of the development of the state and society on the basis of European values that have become universal, from the priority of rights and freedoms accepted by the whole world, and not only by the West (...), Christian values and universal moral principles are being replaced by declarations of a revanchist and imperialist kind. This is an attempt to pull Russia out of European civilization, to impose some postmodern fantasies on new generations of Russians that have nothing to do with the history and culture of our country," he said in March 2023. at the plenary session of the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Human Rights activities in modern Russia: problems and their solution". 

Shishlov also complained about the denunciation of the conventions of the Council of Europe, the rejection of the Bologna system, and "the course towards ideological education of young people from early childhood." This is really a blow for him, because the system that he has been directly involved in creating for many years is collapsing before his eyes. In the meantime, feeling his own impotence, Shishlov is trying to slow down the current decisions of the Legislative Assembly.  

On May 22, 2024, he opposed amendments to city legislation prohibiting foreign agents from participating in elections. Shishlov explained that this status is allegedly no longer related to financing from abroad. In his opinion, this project encourages the persecution of "dissent and discrimination against citizens who have a different opinion from the state line." 

On May 30, 2024, under the leadership of Shishlov, the Yabloko faction tried to block the initiative of the Legislative Assembly to withdraw books written by foreign agents from public access in libraries.  "Inconvenient writers, in this case — "foreign agents" — they just want to "cancel". What will be the next step? Burning books?" the deputy chanted from the rostrum. 

The reason for such concern is obvious, Shishlov is trying to protect himself, since he is an obvious candidate for the lists of foreign agents.