What is Vladimir Markin (journalist)?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Vladimir Markin | image = Vladimir Markin (SK) (cropped).jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Markin in 2011 | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = 23 November 1956 | birth_place = [[Chelyabinsk]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2021|10|12|1956|11|23}} | death_place = [[Moscow]], Russia | nationality = Russian | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | party = | office = First Deputy Chairman of [[RusHydro]] | term_start = 12 October 2016 | term_end = 19 February 2019 | office2 = Chairman of the Department for Interaction with Mass Media of the [[Investigative Committee of Russia]] | term_start2 = 20 June 2011 | term_end2 = 6 October 2016 | predecessor2 = ''position established'' | successor2 = [[Svetlana Petrenko (politician)|Svetlana Petrenko]] | office3 = Chairman of the Department for Interaction with Mass Media of the {{ill|Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation|ru|Следственный комитет при прокуратуре Российской Федерации}} | term_start3 = 13 September 2007 | term_end3 = 20 June 2011 | predecessor3 = ''position established'' | successor3 = ''position abolished'' }} '''Vladimir Markin''' ({{lang-ru|Влади́мир Ива́нович Ма́ркин}}; 23 November 1956 – 12 October 2021) was a Russian journalist and politician.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ivlev|first=Andrey|date=14 October 2021|title=Маркина похоронили так, как и положено настоящему генералу|trans-title= |url=https://www.vesti.ru/article/2626320|language=Russian|work=Вести.Ру|location= |access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref> He worked for the [[Investigative Committee of Russia]] from 2011 to 2016. He was First Deputy Chairman of [[RusHydro]] from 2016 to 2019.<