Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev

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Ilya Ponomarev (2012)

Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarjow ( Russian Илья Владимирович Пономарёв ; born August 6, 1975 in Moscow ) is a Russian - Ukrainian IT entrepreneur , blogger and politician.

Life

Ponomarev became involved with computers early in his childhood and was viewed as a child prodigy. As a 14-year-old, he organized computer courses for employees at the Institute for the Safe Development of Atomic Energy. At the age of 16 Ponomarjow founded his first company, Russprofi Ltd. The IT company had a turnover of ten million US dollars within two years. At the age of 24, Ponomarjow was appointed the youngest vice-president of Yukos , the largest Russian oil company at the time . The avid skier's IT expertise has also been valued in numerous government projects to support innovation and high technology. Ponomarjow is one of the initiators of the innovation city Skolkowo .

Ponomarev was politically socialized in the Communist Party , of which he was a member from 2002 to 2007. He left the party in an argument and accused the communists of being puppets of the Kremlin. Ponomarev was one of the organizers of the protests after the 2011 Russian parliamentary elections . Until 2013 he was a member of the board of the social democratic party Just Russia . At the beginning of 2014 he participated in the formation of the new political party "Alliance of Greens and Social Democrats". He then represented the citizens of Novosibirsk in the Russian State Duma as a member of the opposition. In 2015, his immunity was withdrawn in a questionable trial. Ponomarev had previously not returned to Russia after a stay in the USA for fear of repression. In autumn 2014, he was openly defamed as a traitor on the state-run broadcaster NTW . In June 2016, his Duma mandate was withdrawn due to his absence.

On March 25, 2015, the Prosecutor General filed a motion in the Duma to lift Ponomaryov's immunity. The pretext for lifting immunity was allegations of embezzlement. Ponomarev and his supporters described the allegations as politically motivated. On July 17, 2015, the Russian public prosecutor's office applied to Interpol to arrest Ponomarev. Ponomarev said the judiciary's decision would lead to an international process that would allow him to defend his reputation. He hopes that the international courts will “work according to different standards than those of the courts of the Russian Federation”. Ponomarev lived in exile in Ukraine in 2017.

Ponomarev is married and has two children.

Ukraine crisis

Ponomarev wrote in his blog " Echo Moskwy " that in his opinion the "horror stories of the fascist upheaval in Ukraine and the excessive exaggeration of the role of the right sector in Russia serve to frighten the population and manipulate thinking".

In March 2014 he was the only one of 450 Duma deputies to vote against the annexation of Crimea to Russia . Shortly afterwards he said in an interview: “With this vote we have lost Ukraine. The Ukrainians have started to think of the Russians as their enemies. We are brothers, our language is almost the same, we have a common culture. We lived together in one state for decades. The borders between us are artificial, like those between East and West Germany at the time. ”Ponomarjow was expelled from the Just Russia party after the vote .

On the last day of Petro Poroshenko's term in office , he granted Ilya Ponomarev Ukrainian citizenship and said "Ukraine's well-being is the key to change in Russia".

Web links

Commons : Ilya Ponomarev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://echo.msk.ru/blog/ilya_ponomarev/1310348-echo/
  2. ↑ http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/russprofi-ltd  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.crunchbase.com  
  3. ↑ Ilya Ponomarev: Last "White Guard" in the Duma. In: derStandard.at. October 18, 2012, accessed December 14, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Questionable Trial - Kremlin Critic Loses Immunity , ntv, April 9, 2015
  5. ↑ spiegel.de September 8, 2014: Propaganda in the Ukraine conflict: intellectuals flee Putin's Russia (The Kremlin does not tolerate criticism: Russian celebrities who speak out against Putin's Ukraine course are defamed on state television, lists of alleged " National traitor ". The first intellectuals leave the country)
  6. ↑ Reuters: "Russian Deputy Who Opposed Crimea Seizure Stripped of Immunity" NYT April 7, 2015, viewed April 7, 2015
  7. ↑ a b Sole MP against the annexation of Crimea: Russia has Ponomarjow searched. tagesschau.de, July 17, 2015, archived from the original on July 19, 2015 ; Retrieved July 17, 2015 .
  8. ↑ A member of the Russian State Duma sees no “fascists” in Ukraine , Eurasian Magazine , March 21, 2014
  9. ↑ FAZ.net March 21, 2014: Alone against Putin
  10. ↑ Die Zeit March 26, 2014: "The political system in our country is not healthy"
  11. ^ Former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev received Ukrainian citizenship , Novaya Gazeta, May 17, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ponomarjow, Ilya Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пономарёв, Илья Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Ukrainian politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow