Alexander Babakov | |
|---|---|
Александр Бабаков | |
.jpg) Babakov in 2019 | |
| Member of the State Duma | |
| Assumed office 12 October 2021 | |
| Senator from Tambov | |
| In office 22 September 2020 – 12 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Alexey Kondratyev |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Belousov |
| Senator from Tambov | |
| In office 28 September 2016 – 22 September 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Nikolay Kosarev |
| Succeeded by | Svetlana Korostelyova |
| Deputy Chairman of the State Duma | |
| In office 24 December 2007 – 21 December 2011 | |
| 2nd Chairman of Rodina | |
| In office 24 March 2006 – 28 October 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Dmitry Rogozin |
| Succeeded by | Aleksey Zhuravlyov |
| Member of the State Duma | |
| In office 29 December 2003 – 5 October 2016 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Aleksandr Mikhailovich Babakov 8 February 1963 Chișinău, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Moldova) |
| Political party | Rodina A Just Russia United Russia |
Alexander Mikhailovich Babakov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Бабаков; 8 February 1963) is a Russian politician and member of the State Duma, the Russian parliament. He was appointed Special Presidential Representative to Russians by Vladimir Putin in 2012.[1]
He has been under EU, Canadian and Swiss sanctions since 2014, as well as US sanctions since 2017.[2]
He is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Deputy Co-chairman of Inter-Parliamentary Group of the Russian Federation, Head of Delegation of the State Duma in the Inter-Parliamentary Union and Chairman of State Duma Commission on legal support to military and defense industrial complex of the Russian Federation. He was appointed Deputy speaker of the Duma in 2010, a position he held until December 2011.[3]
In June 2012 he was appointed as Presidential Envoy for engaging with Russian organizations abroad by President Putin.[4][5][6]
He was the leader of Rodina, a political party in Russia, for several months in 2006 and organised the formation of A Just Russia, a merger between Rodina, the Russian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party, sitting on its governing committee.[7]
Between 2006 and 2007 he led A Just Russia's faction in the State Duma as the party leader, Sergei Mironov, served as speaker of the Federation Council of Russia.[3]
He was elected to the Russian State Duma in 2003 and became party leader of Rodina in March 2006 following the surprise resignation of Dmitry Rogozin.
In September 2014, following the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the wider Russo-Ukrainian War, Babakov was subjected to sanctions, including an asset freeze, by the European Union.[8]
Sanctioned by the UK government in 2014 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [9]
On 14 April 2022 the United States Department of Justice issued an indictment against Babakov for "conspiring to have US citizens act as an unregistered agent for Russia in the United States, conspiring to violate and evade US sanctions, and conspiring to commit visa fraud."[10][11]
According to anti-corruption investigations, including material published by Alexei Navalny, Babakov owns a heritage-listed estate in Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines, France and an apartment on Rue de l'Université in the wealthy 7th arrondissement of Paris.[12][13]
He was also reported to own a residential flat in Richmond Court, Knightsbridge, London [2]
In 2011 Babakov passed ownership of his British Virgin Islands registered holding company AED International to his daughter.[2]
He is married and has three children.[14]