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Russian politician For other people named Vladimir Kononov, see Vladimir Kononov (disambiguation). In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Kononov.
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Vladimir Kononov
Владимир Кононов
Member of the State Duma for Ulyanovsk Oblast
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 October 2021
Preceded byAlexey Kurinny
ConstituencyUlyanovsk (No. 187)
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
In office
21 December 2011 – 12 October 2021
Personal details
Born (1958-03-13) 13 March 1958 (age 66)
Novosibirsk, RSFSR, USSR
Political partyUnited Russia
Alma materNovosibirsk State Technical University

Vladimir Mikhailovich Kononov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Кононов; born March 3, 1958, Novosibirsk) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas.

In 1989, Kononov was granted a Candidate of Sciences degree in Philosophy. In 2016, he defended Doctor of Sciences degree in Political Sciences.

Starting from 1979, he was a member of the Komsomol organization. In 1985, while being the secretary of the Novosibirsk City Komsomol Committee, he created and headed the Youth Initiatives Fund (FMI), which became the first self-financing organization in the Soviet Union. In 1989, he founded and directed the Association for Foreign Economic Cooperation, which united more than a hundred self-financing associations in more than 50 regions of the USSR. Two years later, together with his friend Aleksandr Korolev, Kononov founded and headed the construction and investment company "KONKOR". Since 2011, he has been the deputy of the State Duma of the 6th, 7th, and 8th convocations.

In 2013, Kononov was ranked 11th in the Forbes list of wealthiest federal officials.

Sanctions

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.

References

  1. ^ "Кононов, Владимир Михайлович" (in Russian). ТАСС Энциклопедия. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  2. "Владимир Михайлович Кононов" (in Russian). Парламентская газета. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  3. "Список избранных депутатов Государственной Думы РФ восьмого созыва" (in Russian). Российская газета. 2021-09-25. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  4. "Кононов Владимир". Forbes (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  5. "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.


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