Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin

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Vyacheslav Volodin

Vyacheslav Viktorovich Wolodin ( Russian Вячесла́в Ви́кторович Воло́дин ; born February 4, 1964 in Alexejewka, Saratov Oblast ) is a Russian politician of the United Russia party . From October 2010 to December 2011 he was Vice Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation . From 2011 to 2016, Volodin held the position of First Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration . In September 2016, his party finally appointed him spokesman for the then newly elected State Duma.

biography

Wolodin first completed his studies at the Institute for Agricultural Mechanization in Saratov, which he graduated in 1986. His political career began in 1990 when he was elected to the Saratov City Council. In 1996 he became Vice-Governor of Saratov Oblast , in the same year he defended his dissertation at the St. Petersburg Academy of the Interior Ministry.

In 1999 he was elected for the first time as a member of the Duma , in 2003 and 2007 he was re-elected and since 2003 he has held the office of deputy chairman of the Duma. After becoming the first deputy head of the United Russia faction in the Duma in 2003 , he was elected general secretary of this party in 2005.

In February 2006, the Russian magazine "Finans" reported Volodin's fortune at 2.7 billion rubles and listed him as the 351th richest men in Russia. Volodin denied the accuracy of this information, and the opposition politicians did not request a review of his financial situation.

On October 21, 2010, Volodin was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian government by President Dmitry Medvedev . In these offices he succeeded Sergei Sobyanin, who was elected mayor of Moscow. With the appointment to a government office, Volodin left the Duma. On December 27, 2011 Volodin was appointed First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, in this position he is the successor to Vladislav Surkov .

In connection with the 2014 crisis in Ukraine , Volodin was placed on the European Union's sanctions list in May 2014 . He is thus affected by an entry ban and the blocking of possible accounts in the EU.

In September 2016, on Vladimir Putin's recommendation , Volodin was named spokesman for the newly elected Duma. He is considered a loyal follower of the Russian President and an advocate of the tough, pragmatic course. On his initiative, for example, the adoption of the so-called “Agents Act” in 2012, which restricts the activities of non-governmental organizations in Russia. In addition, under him, the rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression were further curtailed and the powers of the security organs expanded.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Vyacheslav Volodin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://de.ria.ru/russia/20111228/262369817.html
  2. ^ Julian Hans: Vyacheslav Volodin is Putin's ruthless pragmatist. In: SZ.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 26, 2016, accessed on June 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ EU puts Putin employees on sanctions list , Die Welt of May 12, 2014
  4. ^ Julian Hans: Vyacheslav Volodin is Putin's ruthless pragmatist . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 26, 2016, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on March 18, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Биография Вячеслава Володина. RIA Novosti, September 23, 2016, accessed September 23, 2016 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Volodin, Vyacheslav Viktorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Володин, Вячеслав Викторович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexeyevka