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Sergei Gavrilov (politician)

Sergei Gavrilov (politician)

Russian politician (born 1966)


Sergei Anatolievich Gavrilov (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Гаври́лов; born 27 January 1966) is a Russian politician who is a Deputy of the State Duma representing the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.[1][2] He was born in Tula, during the time period of the Soviet Union; and would go on to receive a Candidate of Science in Economics, considered a PhD equivalent, from Moscow State University in 1989.[3]

Quick Facts MP, Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) ...

On 18 September 2016, he was elected as a deputy of the 7th State Duma as a member of the Communist Party.[3]

He is one of the 324 members of the State Duma that the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]

2019 Georgia protests

He was invited to speak within Georgia's parliament through the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy.[5] This speech was given in Russian from the Speaker's chair and was seen as an attack on Georgian sovereignty. It resulted in the 2019 Georgia protests.[5][6][7]

Awards

  • Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd class on 26 August 2016[8]

References

  1. "Russia says Georgia isn't safe. Russians in Georgia say otherwise". BBC News. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  2. Genin, Aaron (2019-07-25). "Georgian Protests: Tbilis's Two-Sided Conflict". The California Review. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  3. Lebanidze, Kornely Kakachia, Bidzina (25 June 2019). "Georgian Dream Meets Georgia's Nightmare". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2019-07-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Waal, Thomas de (2019-06-24). "What Is Behind Georgia's 'Anti-Russia' Protests". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2019-07-26.



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