His party affiliation was Rodina (Motherland), and he held the positions of Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Information Policy and is a member of the Commission on the Credentials and Deputies’ Ethics Issues in the Duma.
[1] Born in 1947, Alexander Krutov graduated from the journalism department of the Moscow State University.
[citation needed] He occupied various positions in the central TV and radio broadcasting companies.
In 1990, Alexander Krutov served as people’s deputy, and from 1997 to 2000 he was named General Director of Moscoviya, a TV and radio broadcasting company.
In 2005, he was one of the radical nationalist Russian politicians who demanded the prohibition of "all religious and ethnic Jewish organizations as extremist.