Gennady Semigin
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Gennady Semigin | |
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| Геннадий Семигин | |
.jpg) Semigin in 2022 | |
| Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) | |
| Assumed office 12 October 2021 | |
| In office 18 January 2000 – 29 December 2003 | |
| Member of the State Duma for Khakassia | |
| In office 29 December 2003 – 24 December 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Georgy Maytakov |
| Succeeded by | ’’constituencies abolished’' |
| Constituency | Khakassia (No. 31) |
| Leader of the Patriots of Russia | |
| In office 20 April 2005 – 22 February 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 March 1964 RANEPA |
Gennady Yuryevich Semigin (
Career
Born March 23, 1964, in
In 1999 and 2003 he was elected deputy of the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). In the 2003 election he was the second ranked member on the CPRF list. The following year his ambitions of party leadership led him into conflict with the communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. Many old communists viewed rich Semigin as an opportunist, not a true member of the opposition. They labeled him a "mole" and the "Red oligarch".[1] Despite this, Semigin was still elected chairman of the “People's Patriotic Union of Russia”, an umbrella organization that united the Communist party with minor opposition parties.
Semigin made several attempts to seize power from Zyuganov, including organisation of separate CPRF congress. But
In the Duma, Semigin moved to the
Sanctions
Sanctioned by the
On 24 March 2022, the United States Treasury sanctioned him in response to the
Notes
- ^ "Partiynoye obrashcheniye Zyuganova — Rossiyskaya gazeta" Партийное обращение Зюганова — Российская газета [Zyuganov's party appeal - Russian newspaper] (in Russian). 13 January 2004.
- ^ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russia's Defense-Industrial Base, the Russian Duma and Its Members, and Sberbank CEO". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
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