Aleksei Valerievich SHAPOSHNIKOV

(Date of UN designation: 2023-12-18)

Aleksei Shaposhnikov is the Chairman of the Moscow City Duma and a member of United Russia Party. Alexei Shaposhnikov publicly supports Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. He voices anti-Ukrainian propaganda, supports materially Russian soldiers fighting against Ukraine, and is involved in the creation of laws supporting Russia’s efforts in the war. Therefore, Aleksei Shaposhnikov is supporting and implementing actions and policies which undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.

Function: Chairman of the Moscow City Duma; Member of United Russia Party

Aleksei Shaposhnikov est le président de la Douma de la ville de Moscou et est membre du parti “Russie unie”. Aleksei Shaposhnikov soutient publiquement la guerre d’agression menée par la Russie contre l’Ukraine. Il diffuse de la propagande anti-ukrainienne, apporte un soutien matériel aux soldats russes qui combattent contre l’Ukraine et est associé à l’élaboration de lois qui soutiennent l’effort de guerre russe. Par conséquent, Aleksei Shaposhnikov soutient et met en œuvre des actions et des politiques qui compromettent et menacent l’intégrité territoriale, la souveraineté et l’indépendance de l’Ukraine.

Chairman of the Moscow City Duma. Credible public inquiries indicate that he is deeply involved in political corruption. He derives illegal income from providing political services to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and the current political regime in Russia. The actions of Alexey Shapashnikov are aimed at suppressing democracy, rigging elections and creating conditions for the illegal enrichment of senior officials of the city of Moscow.

He is a Chairman of the Moscow City Duma (head of the regional parliament). This body and its chairman hold special significance due to the importance of Moscow in Russia's political system. A significant portion of Russia's population, financial resources, and administrative bodies of its highly centralized state are concentrated in Moscow. A member of the Political Council of the Moscow City Regional Branch of the United Russia party, which is the backbone of Vladimir Putin's political system and actively supports the president's aggressive foreign policy. He actively supports Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine and the Russian authoritarian political regime. According to findings by Alexei Navalny's team, Shaposhnikov, along with other officials, was involved in the electoral fraud in Moscow through the electronic voting system, which significantly distorted the will of the voters and completely altered the election outcomes for the State Duma (the lower house of the federal parliament) in September 2021 in favour of government-supported candidates. He acquired real estate in Spain, registering it in the name of his daughter Dana, who never had a sufficient income to afford such property.

Organizer of the falsification of the results of the remote electronic voting to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the city of Moscow in 2021. As a result of the falsification of the results of the remote electronic voting, the overall voting results in all constituencies were reversed, which led to the victory of pro-government candidates, who were losing according to the results of voting in ordinary polling stations.

Chairman of the Moscow City Duma (head of the regional parliament). Actively supports Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine and the Russian authoritarian political regime.

Chairman of the Moscow City Duma (head of the regional parliament). This body and its chairman hold special significance due to the importance of Moscow in Russia's political system. A significant portion of Russia's population, financial resources, and administrative bodies of its highly centralized state are concentrated in Moscow. A member of the Political Council of the Moscow City Regional Branch of the United Russia Party, which is the backbone of Vladimir Putin's political system and actively supports the president's aggressive foreign policy. He actively supports Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine and the Russian authoritarian political regime. According to findings by Alexey Navalny's team, Shaposhnikov, along with other officials, was involved in the electoral fraud in Moscow through the electronic voting system, which significantly distorted the will of the voters and completely altered the election outcomes for the State Duma (the lower house of the federal parliament) in September 2021 in favour of government-supported candidates. He acquired real estate in Spain, registering it in the name of his daughter Dana, who never had a sufficient income to afford such property.

Member of the General Council of the United Russia party. United Russia forms and implements Vladimir Putin's policy of aggression against territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.

Chairman of the Moscow City Duma