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Leonid Reshetnikov

Export controlled · Person of interest · Politician

Leonid Reshetnikov is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Leonid Petrovich Reshetnikov · Leonid Petrovič Rešetnikov · Leonid Petrowitsch Reschetnikow · Leonid Rechetnikov · Leonid Reshetnikov · 7 more...				[sources]
Alias	Leonid Pietrowicz Rieszetnikow · Leonid Reschetnikow · RESHETNIKOV, Leonid Petrovich · Леонид Решетников · Решетников Леонид Петрович · 2 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1947-02-06				[sources]
Place of birth	Potsdam				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Russia				[sources]
Citizenship	Soviet Union				[sources]
First name	Leonid				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q18276710				[sources]
Education	National University of Kharkiv				[sources]
Last change	2026-02-12	Last processed	2026-02-18	First seen	2023-02-15

Descriptions

Russian public figure, historian, publicist and propagandist. Actively supports Russia's aggression against Ukraine and the actions of the Russian authorities.

— ACF List of War Enablers non-official source, 2023-02-15

Soviet-Russian secret agent

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-11-04

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Employee of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia	-	-

Data sources

ACF List of War Enablers8,535

A list of Russian decision-makers from government and business composed by ACF/FBK, the anti-corruption organization founded by Alexei Navalny

Russia · ACF · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories339,165

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Taiwan Strategic High-Tech Commodities Entity List9,970

Entities subject to export restrictions due to concerns about the end-use or end-users, particularly relating to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or other military applications.

Taiwan · MOEA

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Wikidata326,221

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: usgsa-s4mr5ctnl · usgsa-s4mr5cshw · acf-88a622a68ba5cd472fbd91ddfdfd238f492a92a2 · usgsa-s4mr5czyn · ofac-21230 · tw-shtc-9afb40badf3cd61021f940438f9f6bfe7a463196

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