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Leonid Volkov
Леонид Волков
Volkov in 2023
Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation
In office
July 27, 2021 – March 9, 2023
Preceded byIvan Zhdanov (as Director ACF)
Succeeded byMaria Pevchikh
Member of the Central Council of the Progress Party
In office
December 15, 2012 – May 19, 2018
Deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma
In office
March 1, 2009 – September 2013
Personal details
Born
Leonid Mikhailovich Volkov

(1980-11-10) November 10, 1980 (age 43)
Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Political partyRussia of the Future
Alma materUral State University
OccupationPolitician
Signature
Websitewww.leonidvolkov.ru

Leonid Mikhailovich Volkov (Russian: Леони́д Миха́йлович Во́лков, Russian pronunciation: [lʲɪɐˈnʲit mixɐjɫəvit͡ɕ ˈvoɫkəf] born 10 November 1980) is a Russian politician who served as the chief of staff for opposition figure Alexei Navalny's campaign for the 2018 presidential election.[1] He was also the chairman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation until 2023.

From 1 March 2009 to September 2013, he served as a deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma. He also served as the chairman of the Central Election Committee created for elections to the Russian Opposition Coordination Council, and was the head of the campaign office of Alexei Navalny's campaign in the 2013 Moscow mayoral election. He is one of the founders of the Russia of the Future party, originally known as the People's Alliance.[2][3] He was a former chairman of the Sverdlovsk branch and a member of the Federal Political Council of the People's Freedom Party, and a member of the federal political council of the UDM Solidarnost.[4] He was a captain of the Russia-Ural team at the 10th International Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT) in 1997,[5] a participant in the 2001 World Programming Championship, in which he took 14th place (bronze medals) as part of the Ural State University team.[6][7][8]

Biography

Volkov was born on 10 November 1980 in Sverdlovsk (present-day Yekaterinburg) in the Sverdlovsk Oblast of the Soviet Union. His father is Mikhail Vladimirovich Volkov, professor, Chief Researcher of the Laboratory of Combinatorial Algebra, IMKN, Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin".[9] His mother is Susanna Borisovna Volkova (Kupchik), Senior Lecturer of the Department of New Information Technologies in Education, Ural State Pedagogical University.[10] Volkov is Jewish;[11] on official documents, however, his ethnicity is shown as Russian.[12]

On March 1, 2009, he was elected as a deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma in the electoral district No. 10 of the Kirovsky district (self-nomination). He became a member of the permanent parliamentary commission on urban economy, urban planning and land use and of the permanent deputy commission on local government, cultural and information policy.[13]

In 2013 he moved with his family from Yekaterinburg to Luxembourg.[14] He returned to Russia at the end of 2014.[15]

As of 2020 Volkov was living in Vilnius in Lithuania.[16]

Political activities

Since 2009 — a member of the Solidarnost movement. On April 10, 2010, he organized a rally against the construction of a temple on Labour Square [ru] in Yekaterinburg — the event gathered more than 3,500 participants and became the largest protest action in the city since perestroika. On October 24, 2010, he was one of the organizers of the rally in support of Yegor Bychkov [ru].[17]

He is a member of the central election committee of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council and was one of the leaders of Navalny's 2013 mayoral campaign for Moscow.[18][19] He was formerly a member of the political council of the People's Freedom Party.[20] From December 2016, Volkov was chief of staff to Alexei Navalny's 2018 presidential campaign.

On 9 March 2023, Volkov stepped down as the chairman of the board of the Anti-Corruption Foundation after he had admitted to signing a letter on behalf of the Anti-Corruption Foundation in October which asked the European Union for sanctions on Mikhail Fridman to be dropped without consulting his associates.[21] He was replaced with Maria Pevchikh.[22]

References

  1. ^ Balyuk, Olga (2018-01-28). ""Забастовку избирателей" в Екатеринбурге будет вести Леонид Волков" ["Voter strike" in Yekaterinburg will be led by Leonid Volkov]. znak.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  2. ^ "Соратники Навального создадут партию без него" [Navalny's associates will create a party without him]. Lenta.ru (in Russian). 2012-06-26. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  3. ^ "Электронная партия" [Electronic Party]. Lenta.ru (in Russian). 2012-08-06. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  4. ^ "Леонид Волков | Солидарность" [Leonid Volkov | Solidarity]. Solidarnost (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-09-25. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
  5. ^ Martchenko, Ilya. "IYPT Archive". archive.iypt.org. International Young Physicists' Tournament. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  6. ^ "Northern Eurasia Contests". neerc.ifmo.ru. International Collegiate Programming Contest. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  7. ^ "Биография Волкова Леонида Михайловича" [Biography of Volkov Leonid Mikhailovich]. egd.ru. Екатеринбургская городская дума. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
  8. ^ "2001 ACM ICPC World Finals Result". Association for Computing Machinery. Vancouver. 2001-03-10. Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2012-10-28.
  9. ^ "Волков Михаил Владимирович - Известные ученые" [Volkov Mikhail Vladimirovich - Famous scientists]. famous-scientists.ru. 2010-05-01. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  10. ^ Navalny, Alexei (2020-01-22). "Справка на Леонида Волкова @leonidvolkov из уголовного дела "об отмывании денег ФБК". Акцентируют внимание на главном!" [Help on Leonid Volkov @leonidvolkov from the criminal case "about money laundering of FBK". They focus on the main thing!]. Twitter. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  11. ^ Novaya Gazeta (2021-01-27). "The Navalny I Know". Mishpacha. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  12. ^ "Леонид Волков появился в базе розыска МВД после возбуждения нового дела". Rusmonitor. 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  13. ^ "Волков Леонид Михайлович" [Volkov Leonid Mikhailovich]. egd.ru. Екатеринбургская городская дума. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  14. ^ Volkov, Leonid (2014-10-14). "Люксембург: локальная политическая повестка" [Luxembourg: local political agenda]. leonwolf.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2021-01-26 – via LiveJournal.
  15. ^ Ezhov, Andrey; Kryuchkov, Stanislav (2018-01-15). "Леонид Волков — Разбор полета" [Leonid Volkov - Debriefing]. Echo of Moscow (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  16. ^ Rosenbach, Marcel (21 August 2020). "'Auf einmal gaben die in den grauen Anzügen die Diagnose vor". Ausland (in German). Retrieved 8 September 2023. SPIEGEL: Waren Sie schon in Deutschland, als Sie von Nawalnys kritischem Gesundheitszustand erfahren haben?
    Wolkow: Nein, ich war in Vilnius, wo ich wohne.
  17. ^ Nekrasov, Ivan (2010-10-25). "Митинг в поддержку Егора Бычкова: чиновников призвали к покаянию" [Rally in support of Yegor Bychkov: officials called for repentance]. justmedia.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2010-11-26. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
  18. ^ Политика: Соратники Навального создадут партию без него. Lenta. Published 26 July 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2017. (in Russian)
  19. ^ Lenta.ru: Политика: Электронная партия. Published 6 August 2012. Retrieved 3 May 207. (in Russian)
  20. ^ О всякой всячине — Дела партийные (и личные тоже) (in Russian)
  21. ^ "Aide to Russia's Navalny steps aside in furore over sanctions letter to EU". Reuters. 9 March 2023.
  22. ^ "Maria Pevchikh to Replace Leonid Volkov as Head of Navalny Foundation Board". The Moscow Times. 22 March 2023.

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