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Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky

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Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Vladimir Jirinovski · Vladimir Jirinovskiy · Vladimir Volfovich ZHIRINOVSKY · Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovskiy · Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky · 38 more...				[sources]
Other name	Jirinovskii Vladimir Volfovich · Vladimir Eidelstein · Vladimir Jirinovski · Vladimir Jirinovskiy · Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky · 102 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1946-04-25				[sources]
Place of birth	Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan · Almaty · Almaty, Kazakhstan · Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata · Алма-Ата, Казахстан · 4 more...				[sources]
Death date	2022-04-06				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Russia · Soviet Union				[sources]
Country	Kazakhstan · Russia				[sources]
Country of birth	Kazakhstan				[sources]
First name	Vladimir · Vladimir · Vladimir Volfovich · ВЛАДИМИР · Владимир				[sources]
INN	`771814561811`				[sources]
Keywords	International organization · National government · Держдума, Рада Федерації та члени їх сімей · Фізичні особи під санкціями ЄС				[sources]
Last name	ZHIRINOVSKY · Zhirinovskiy · Zhirinovsky · ЖИРИНОВСКИЙ · Жириновски · 1 more...				[sources]
Patronymic	Volfovich · ВОЛЬФОВИЧ · Вольфович				[sources]
Second name	Volfovich				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q200015				[sources]
Position	Duma (member, 2011-2016) · Duma (member, 2016-) · Former deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation · Member of the Council of the State Duma · Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1996-2004) · 12 more...				[sources]
Education	Doktor Nauk in Philosophy (1998) · Institute of Oriental Languages (1964-1970) · MSU The Institute of Asian and African Studies · Moscow State University (1972-1977) · Moscow State University, Faculty of Law · 1 more...				[sources]
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy				[sources]
Ethnicity	Jewish people				[sources]
Status	Domestic Politically Exposed Person				[sources]
Address	Республіка Казахстан, м. Алма-Ати · м. Москва, вул. Ніжинська, 14				[sources]
Source link	sanctions.nazk.gov.ua				[sources]
Created at	2014-11-12				[sources]
Modified on	2024-03-11				[sources]
Last changed	2024-03-21	Last checked	2024-03-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the Council of the State Duma; leader of the LDPR party. He actively supported the use of Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. He has actively called for the split of Ukraine. He signed on behalf of the LDPR party he chairs, an agreement with the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic".

— Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2023-04-20

Member of the Council of the State Duma - has actively supported the use of Russian armed forces in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, and has called for the split of Ukraine.

— New Zealand Russia Sanctions, 2024-03-21

Russian politician (1946–2022)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Assets and shares
Asset	Percentage held	Start date	End date
VTB Bank	-	2010	2022-04-06
ЧАСТНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ СЕРВИСА "ИНО"	-	2014-07-21	2016-09-20

Associates
Associate	Relationship	Start date	End date
Zhanna Ibragimovna Gazdarova	personal relationships	-	-
Mikhail Ivanovich Glushchenko	business relationships	-	-
Mikhail Vladimirovich Degtyarev	business relationships	-	-
Anton Morozov	business relationships	-	-
Aleksey Ostrovskiy	business relationships	1994-01-01	1993-01-01
Vlas Gennad'yevich Kopeykin	business relationships	2018-01-12	2018-04
Vladimir Ovsyannikov	business relationships	-	-
Vasily Maksimovich Vlasov	business relationships	-	-
Andrey Nikolayevich SVINTSOV	business relationships	2008	2010
Boris Aleksandrovich Chernyshov	business relationships	-	-
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Khristoforov	business relationships	1995-01-01	1996-11-01
Leonid Eduardovich SLUTSKI	business relationships	-	-
Yaroslav Evgenyevich NILOV	business relationships	-	-
Aleksandr Stepanovich Yakovenko	business relationships	2018-12-01	-
Aleksandr Igorevich Shprygin	business relationships	-	-

Associations
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Alexander Borisovych KURDYUMOV	business relationships	-	1996-01-01
Aleksei Nikolaevich DIDENKO	business relationships	2008	2010
Aleksandr Balberov	personal relationships	-	-

Directorships
Organization	Role	Start date	End date
Humanitarian Actions Committee	the chairman	2014-05-27	2022-04-06
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia	Председатель ЛДПР	2009-12-30	-
ФОНД ПАТРИОТИЧЕСКОГО РАЗВИТИЯ МОЛОДЕЖИ	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ	2015-11-30	-
Promotion Fund for Economical Development	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ	2015-11-30	-
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia	the chairman	1990	2022-04-06
БЛАГОТВОРИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ФОНД ВЛАДИМИРА ВОЛЬФОВИЧА ЖИРИНОВСКОГО ДЛЯ ПОДДЕРЖКИ ГРАЖДАН	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ	2015-11-30	-
Promotion Fund for Economical Development	the chairman	2015-11-30	2022-04-06
Youth Patriotic Development Fund	the chairman	2015-11-30	2022-04-06
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky's Charity Fund for Supporting Citizens	the chairman	2015-11-30	2022-04-06
ФОНД ПОДДЕРЖКИ НУЖДАЮЩИХСЯ ГРАЖДАН "КОМИТЕТ ГУМАНИТАРНЫХ ДЕЙСТВИЙ"	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ	2014-05-27	-

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Andrey Aleksandrovich Zhirinovskiy	nephew	-	-
Lyubov Andreevna Zhirinovskaya	sibling	-	-
Nadezhda Grishaeva	daughter in law	-	-
Oleg Vladimirovich Eydelshteyn	son	1985	-
Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev	son	1972-09-27	-
Sergey Igorevich Lebedev	grandson	-	-
Aleksandr Igorevich Lebedev	grandson	-	-
Galina Aleksandrovna Lebedeva	wife	1971-01-01	-
Anastasiya Vladimirovna Petrova	daughter	-	-

Linked from
Subject	Role	Start date	End date
Humanitarian Actions Committee	founder	2014-05-27	2022-04-06
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky's Charity Fund for Supporting Citizens	founder	2015-11-30	2022-04-06
Promotion Fund for Economical Development	founder	2015-11-30	2022-04-06
Youth Patriotic Development Fund	founder	2015-11-30	2022-04-06
Autonomous Nonprofit Organization ‘Social and Cultural Services “Ino”’	founder	2016-09-20	2016-11-03
ZHIRINOVSKY INITIATIVE FUND	co-founder	-	2008-05-08
NON-STATE AUTONOMOUS NON-COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION ‘Institute of World Civilizations’	founder	1999-04-26	2022-04-06

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe	2005-01-24	2008-04-14
deputy of The State Duma	2016-10-05	2021-10-12
member of the State Duma	2007-12-24	2011-12-21
member of the State Duma	2011-12-04	2016-10-05
deputy of The State Duma	2003-12-29	2007-12-24
Member of the Duma	2011-12-21	2016-10-05
member of the State Duma	2003-12-29	2007-12-24
member of the State Duma	2021-10-12	2022-04-06
deputy of The State Duma	2011-12-21	2016-10-05
deputy of The State Duma	2021-10-12	2022-04-06
deputy of The State Duma	2007-12-24	2011-12-21
Member of the Duma	2016-10-05	-
member of the State Duma	2016-10-05	2021-10-12

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev	child · father	-	-

Sanctions
Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Global Affairs Canada	Russia / Russie	-	-
National Security and Defense Council	133/2017	2017-05-15	2018-05-15
National Security and Defense Council	467/2016	2016-10-17	2017-10-17
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)	Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine (RS 946.231.176.72), annexes 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15 and 25	2014-11-12	2022-09-27
National Security and Defense Council	126/2018	2018-05-14	-
National Security and Defense Council	133/2017	2017-05-15	-
National Agency on Corruption Prevention	-	2018-06-21	-
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation · UK	Russia	2020	-
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade	Russia Sanctions Act 2022	2022-03-18	-
National Security and Defense Council	176/2018	2018-06-21	-

Data sources

Ukraine NSDC State Register of Sanctions17,127

List of individuals and legal entities subject to restrictive measures.

Ukraine · National Security and Defense Council

UK HMT/OFSI Consolidated List of Targets5,843

The United Kingom's consolidated international sanctions list.

United Kingdom · Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation

Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes8,001

Switzerland manages a sanctions lists with a high degree of detail on the individuals that are subject to it's embargoes.

Switzerland · State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

Every Politician59,050

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

MySociety (UK Citizens Online Democracy) · non-official source

Canadian Special Economic Measures Act Sanctions4,214

Sanctions imposed by Canada on specific countries, organizations, or individuals under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and JVCFOA.

Canada · Global Affairs Canada

RuPEP Public Database of PEPs in Russia and Belarus86,463

RuPEP is a detailed database of politically exposed persons in Russia and Belarus maintained by qualified researchers

Russia · RuPEP · non-official source

Ukraine NABC Sanctions Tracker39,912

A list of suggested Russia-related sanctions targets composed by the Ukrainian anti-corruption agency.

Ukraine · National Agency on Corruption Prevention

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons177,923

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

New Zealand Russia Sanctions1,674

The New Zealand government's list of people and companies sanctioned in relation to the Russian attack on Ukraine.

New Zealand · Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Russian Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRUL)171,393

Companies database of the Russian Federation as maintained and published by the Federal Tax Service.

External dataset · Russia · Федеральная Налоговая Служба

Wikidata219,755

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

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: eu-fsf-eu-267-95 · au-dfat-3017-vladimir-volfovich-zhirinovsky · ch-seco-29336 · ca-sema-russia-1-39 · gb-hmt-13104 · evpo-a6927482-1edd-479b-9270-ee990c003dd2 · nz-ru-ind-458 · ua-nabc-person-11964-zhirinovsky-vladimir-volfovich · ua-nazk-person-11964 · fr-ga-1679 · ca-sema-1-39-ru-vladimir-volfovich-zhirinovsky · NK-G9Rcp9WrTgcosZvaAEoMwV · ru-inn-771814561811 · eu-tb-logical-7460 · ua-nsdc-person-176-2018-3438 · nz-ru-ind-458-vladimir-zhirinovsky · NK-9BRNfJT8EvfFh5fJuiHjd5 · ua-nsdc-10869-zirinovskij-volodimir-volfovic

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Assets and shares
Asset	Percentage held	Start date	End date
VTB Bank	-	2010	2022-04-06
ЧАСТНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ СЕРВИСА "ИНО"	-	2014-07-21	2016-09-20

Associates
Associate	Relationship	Start date	End date
Zhanna Ibragimovna Gazdarova	personal relationships	-	-
Mikhail Ivanovich Glushchenko	business relationships	-	-
Mikhail Vladimirovich Degtyarev	business relationships	-	-
Anton Morozov	business relationships	-	-
Aleksey Ostrovskiy	business relationships	1994-01-01	1993-01-01
Vlas Gennad'yevich Kopeykin	business relationships	2018-01-12	2018-04
Vladimir Ovsyannikov	business relationships	-	-
Vasily Maksimovich Vlasov	business relationships	-	-
Andrey Nikolayevich SVINTSOV	business relationships	2008	2010
Boris Aleksandrovich Chernyshov	business relationships	-	-
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Khristoforov	business relationships	1995-01-01	1996-11-01
Leonid Eduardovich SLUTSKI	business relationships	-	-
Yaroslav Evgenyevich NILOV	business relationships	-	-
Aleksandr Stepanovich Yakovenko	business relationships	2018-12-01	-
Aleksandr Igorevich Shprygin	business relationships	-	-

Associations
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Alexander Borisovych KURDYUMOV	business relationships	-	1996-01-01
Aleksei Nikolaevich DIDENKO	business relationships	2008	2010
Aleksandr Balberov	personal relationships	-	-

Directorships
Organization	Role	Start date	End date
Humanitarian Actions Committee	the chairman	2014-05-27	2022-04-06
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia	Председатель ЛДПР	2009-12-30	-
ФОНД ПАТРИОТИЧЕСКОГО РАЗВИТИЯ МОЛОДЕЖИ	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ	2015-11-30	-
Promotion Fund for Economical Development	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ	2015-11-30	-
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia	the chairman	1990	2022-04-06
БЛАГОТВОРИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ФОНД ВЛАДИМИРА ВОЛЬФОВИЧА ЖИРИНОВСКОГО ДЛЯ ПОДДЕРЖКИ ГРАЖДАН	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ	2015-11-30	-
Promotion Fund for Economical Development	the chairman	2015-11-30	2022-04-06
Youth Patriotic Development Fund	the chairman	2015-11-30	2022-04-06
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky's Charity Fund for Supporting Citizens	the chairman	2015-11-30	2022-04-06
ФОНД ПОДДЕРЖКИ НУЖДАЮЩИХСЯ ГРАЖДАН "КОМИТЕТ ГУМАНИТАРНЫХ ДЕЙСТВИЙ"	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ	2014-05-27	-

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Andrey Aleksandrovich Zhirinovskiy	nephew	-	-
Lyubov Andreevna Zhirinovskaya	sibling	-	-
Nadezhda Grishaeva	daughter in law	-	-
Oleg Vladimirovich Eydelshteyn	son	1985	-
Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev	son	1972-09-27	-
Sergey Igorevich Lebedev	grandson	-	-
Aleksandr Igorevich Lebedev	grandson	-	-
Galina Aleksandrovna Lebedeva	wife	1971-01-01	-
Anastasiya Vladimirovna Petrova	daughter	-	-

Linked from
Subject	Role	Start date	End date
Humanitarian Actions Committee	founder	2014-05-27	2022-04-06
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky's Charity Fund for Supporting Citizens	founder	2015-11-30	2022-04-06
Promotion Fund for Economical Development	founder	2015-11-30	2022-04-06
Youth Patriotic Development Fund	founder	2015-11-30	2022-04-06
Autonomous Nonprofit Organization ‘Social and Cultural Services “Ino”’	founder	2016-09-20	2016-11-03
ZHIRINOVSKY INITIATIVE FUND	co-founder	-	2008-05-08
NON-STATE AUTONOMOUS NON-COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION ‘Institute of World Civilizations’	founder	1999-04-26	2022-04-06

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe	2005-01-24	2008-04-14
deputy of The State Duma	2016-10-05	2021-10-12
member of the State Duma	2007-12-24	2011-12-21
member of the State Duma	2011-12-04	2016-10-05
deputy of The State Duma	2003-12-29	2007-12-24
Member of the Duma	2011-12-21	2016-10-05
member of the State Duma	2003-12-29	2007-12-24
member of the State Duma	2021-10-12	2022-04-06
deputy of The State Duma	2011-12-21	2016-10-05
deputy of The State Duma	2021-10-12	2022-04-06
deputy of The State Duma	2007-12-24	2011-12-21
Member of the Duma	2016-10-05	-
member of the State Duma	2016-10-05	2021-10-12

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev	child · father	-	-

Sanctions
Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Global Affairs Canada	Russia / Russie	-	-
National Security and Defense Council	133/2017	2017-05-15	2018-05-15
National Security and Defense Council	467/2016	2016-10-17	2017-10-17
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)	Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine (RS 946.231.176.72), annexes 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15 and 25	2014-11-12	2022-09-27
National Security and Defense Council	126/2018	2018-05-14	-
National Security and Defense Council	133/2017	2017-05-15	-
National Agency on Corruption Prevention	-	2018-06-21	-
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation · UK	Russia	2020	-
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade	Russia Sanctions Act 2022	2022-03-18	-
National Security and Defense Council	176/2018	2018-06-21	-