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Andrey Safonov

Politician

Andrey Safonov 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	Andrei Safonov · Andrey Safonov · Andreï Safonov · САФОНОВ Андрей Михайлович · Сафонов Андрій · 3 more...				[sources]
Alias	Safonov Andrii · Андрей Михайлович Сафонов				[sources]
Birth date	1964-06-06				[sources]
Place of birth	Chișinău				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Transnistria				[sources]
Country	Moldova · Transnistria				[sources]
Citizenship	Moldova · Transnistria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Andrey				[sources]
Last name	Safonov				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q4409261				[sources]
Position	Supreme Council (member, 2015-) · member of the Parliament of Moldova · блогер · журналіст, Республіка Молдова				[sources]
Education	Moldova State University · Russian and Ukrainian PhD in Political Science				[sources]
Religion	Eastern Orthodox Church				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-21	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Moldovan politician

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

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Ukraine	National Security and Defense Council		2015-09-16	2016-09-16

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Supreme Council	2015-12-23	-
member of the Parliament of Moldova	-	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,040

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,144

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Ukraine NSDC State Register of Sanctions21,458

List of individuals and legal entities subject to restrictive measures.

Ukraine · NSDC

Every Politician57,742

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,757

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata353,743

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: evpo-b5b2d23c-3fbd-4c83-ba65-e8596babebf6 · ua-nsdc-27427-safonov-andrij

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