Andrey Nikolayevich Savelyev (russian: Андрей Николаевич Савельев) is a Russian politician and a former member of the

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. He was elected to the

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in December 2003 as a member of the Rodina faction and is currently Chairman of the

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. He did not stand for re-election in 2007 as his party was denied registration by the

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Background

Savelyev was born in

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on 8 August 1962. He graduated from the Department of Molecular and Chemical Physics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1985.DMCP graduates
Class of 1985 During the years 1985–1990 Savelyev worked at N.N. Semyonov Institute of Chemical Physics of

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and Institute of Energy Problems in Chemical Physics, RAS. He received his Ph.D. in chemical physics in 1991. He also received a

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in 2000. Before being elected to the

he was a university lecturer, and had been involved in a number of

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and patriotic political organisations in

Political career

He was elected to the

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in 1990 and worked on

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's campaign for the

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in 1996. Between 1999 and 2000 he worked as a speechwriter for the

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Dmitry Rogozin. Savelyev is currently Chairman of the committee for the

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and Relations with Compatriots in the

. He also served on the governing body of Rodina before the party's merger with the

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and the Russian Party of Life in October 2006. He gained some notoriety in 2004 when he was involved in a brawl with the leader of the

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Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Savelyev is a grand master at Tai Kwon Do and the brawl had to be broken up by other lawmakers. The footage of the fight is available on

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. Savelyev gained further recognition when, alongside Rogozin and three other Rodina deputies, he went on

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to protest against changes to the system of social welfare in

. The strike lasted a week before being called off by the participants. Following the merger of Rodina into

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, Savelyev refused to join the new party. He is now a member of the Congress of Russian Communities along with his former boss, Dmitry Rogozin. Since April 2007, Savelyev has been Head of the Committee of the

. From May 2007 he has been the party's Chairman.

Notes

External links

Savelyev's personal site

Savelyev's blog
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