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Andrey Vladimirovich Bogdanov ( Russian Андре́й Влади́мирович Богда́нов) (born January 31, 1970) is a Russian politician. He is the chairman of the
Communist Party of Social Justice The Russian Party of Freedom and Justice (RPSS; russian: Российская партия свободы и справедливости; РПСС, Rossiyskaya partiya svobody i spravedlivosti; RPSS) is a political party in Russia established a ...
and a prominent
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, serving as Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Russia The Grand Lodge of Russia (GLoR) (russian: Великая ложа России) is the Regular Masonic jurisdiction for Russia. The Grand Lodge was established on 24 June 1995. It was the first national grand lodge to be created in the country si ...
since 2007.С. П. Карпачёв «Искусство вольных каменщиков», «ИПК Парето-Принт», 2015 год, 95 стр. As a candidate for the 2008 presidential election, he received 968,344 votes or 1.30% of the Russian electorate.Conor Sweeney
"Presidential candidate Bogdanov denies Kremlin ties,"
Reuters (Jan 30, 2008). Retrieved 10-12-2013.


Political career

Bogdanov began his political career in 1990, when he joined the Democratic Party of Russia. He ascended to the leadership of the party in 2005, after he was elected at the 19th party congress. Russian president Vladimir Putin described Bogdanov as "an ambitious young man with progressive views".


2008 presidential campaign

Bogdanov was a presidential candidate in Russia's
2008 election This electoral calendar 2008 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2008 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories. Referendums are included, even though they are not elections. By-elections are no ...
. During his campaign he showed support for Russian integration with Europe and for less state involvement in the economy. The British newspaper Times Online articulated suspicions that Bogdanov could be a puppet candidate used by the government in an attempt to make the elections appear legitimate. Bogdanov dismissed these claims as "fantasies". Nonetheless, many serious political commentators have described Bogdanov as a decoy carefully positioned by Putin to split and distract political opposition, whilst a 2012 article published by the
Institute of Modern Russia The Institute of Modern Russia (IMR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy organization—a think tank—headquartered in New York City. It was founded in February 2010, by leading experts in Russia-US relations and human rights. According t ...
(IMR) described Bogdanov as a "well-known Kremlin shill", or confidence trickster's decoy. The IMR associates Bogdanov with more than thirty new political parties, stating "According to Kremlin operatives, the creation of dozens of new parties will confuse voters, split the opposition vote, and hand the ruling party a victory even with significantly reduced support." Other external commentators have accused Bogdanov, and his political parties, of being controlled by the Kremlin, so as to give an appearance of democracy.


After 2008 election

In November 2008, the Democratic Party of Russia was disbanded and its followers joined the ranks of the new party Right Cause, which united supporters of right-wing West-oriented Russian liberalism. At the same time Bogdanov founded the Andrei Bogdanov Centre, an independent non-profit organization for the development of social technologies, which in many respects became a successor to the Democratic Party. Bogdanov entered the race for the mayorship of
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on 25 March 2009. However, he withdrew from the election on 13 April 2009, urging his supporters to vote instead for acting mayor
Anatoly Pakhomov Anatoliy Nikolayevich Pakhomov (Russian language, Russian Анатолий Николаевич Пахомов) (born 1960 in Krasnodar Krai) is a Russian politician. He is currently the mayor of Sochi. Pakhomov served as the mayor of the town o ...
, the government-backed pro-Putin candidate. In 2014 Bogdanov became the leader of the
Communist Party of Social Justice The Russian Party of Freedom and Justice (RPSS; russian: Российская партия свободы и справедливости; РПСС, Rossiyskaya partiya svobody i spravedlivosti; RPSS) is a political party in Russia established a ...
. He had previously been the leader of the Democratic party, whose current leadership team also includes Bogdanov's son, Timur Bogdanov, according to the party's website.


2018 presidential campaign

In September 2017, Bogdanov declared his intention to participate in the 2018 Presidential Election, but his candidature was cancelled after he failed to submit the necessary registration papers to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.


Freemasonry

On 30 June 2007, Andrei Bogdanov was elected and took office as the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia. During the election and inauguration, representatives of the United Grand Lodge of England (the world's oldest Grand Lodge) and several American Grand Lodges were present. The Grand Lodge of Russia, headed by Andrei Bogdanov, is recognized by the "Commission for the Recognition of the Conference of Grand Lodges (Grand Masters) of North America" as corresponding to "standards of recognition". Andrei Bogdanov is publicly open about his practice of Freemasonry and has given interviews in the media as the Grand Master of the GLoR. In July 2010, Andrei Bogdanov was re-elected to the post of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia until 2015. He is a member of the 33° Scottish Rite. In September 2010 Bogdanov was admitted to the Holy Royal Arch in the Royal Somerset House & Inverness Chapter (London) in the United Kingdom. He subsequently began establishing Royal Arch Freemasonry in Russia. On 28 March 2015, at the GLoR annual assembly, Andrei Bogdanov was again re-elected as the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia. According to the General Regulations of the GLoR, Andrei Bogdanov will hold the post of Grand Master for a further 5 years, until 2020. At that point he will have held the office continuously for 13 years.


Criticism

Bogdanov is generally considered as a political tool of the
Kremlin The Kremlin ( rus, Московский Кремль, r=Moskovskiy Kreml', p=ˈmɐˈskofskʲɪj krʲemlʲ, t=Moscow Kremlin) is a fortified complex in the center of Moscow founded by the Rurik dynasty, Rurik dynasty. It is the best known of th ...
to disunite the left-wing opposition.https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/402977.marxistische-alternativen-links-vom-kreml.html (in german)


Personal life

Bogdanov is married to Irina Bogdanova. Their son Timur Bogdanov works with his father on several political projects. Bogdanov is a member of the Russian Orthodox Church.


References

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