Gennady Yuryevich Semigin (russian: Геннадий Юрьевич Семигин; born March 23, 1964) is a Russian politician, the leader of

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Patriots of Russia party.

History

Born March 23, 1964, in

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, he studied in

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on the history faculty, and then in the Moscow Institute of Jurisprudence. In the 1990s he ran a successful business. He is also a member of the

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. In 1999 and 2003 he was elected deputy of the

State Duma The State Duma (russian: Госуда́рственная ду́ма, r=Gosudárstvennaja dúma), commonly abbreviated in Russian as Gosduma ( rus, Госду́ма), is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, while the upper house ...

from the

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(CPRF). In the 2003 election he was the second ranked member on the CPRF list. The following year his ambitions of party leadership led him into conflict with the communist leader

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. Many old communists viewed rich Semigin as an opportunist, not a true member of the opposition. They labeled him a "

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" and the "''Red oligarch''". Despite this, Semigin was still elected chairman of the “

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”, an umbrella organization that united the Communist party with minor opposition parties. Semigin made several attempts to seize power from Zyuganov, including organisation of separate CPRF congress. But

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didn't recognize Semigin's congress and pointed that only the official CPRF congress was legal. This congress voted to expel Semigin and his allies from the party. In the Duma, Semigin moved to the Rodina faction, and at the same time founded his own party '' Patriots of Russia''. He also organized the "People's Government" – the group of leftists politicians including

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and

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that pretended to be a "future government". On 24 March 2022, the United States Treasury sanctioned him in response to the

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External links

Gennady Semigin // Flb.ru
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