Leonid Levin

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation, former Deputy of the State Duma, former chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications. One of the authors of the amendments that allow recognition of individuals as a "foreign agents". Supporter of state censorship on the Russian Internet and network isolation.

Was involved in and financially benefitted from corruption schemes designed to provide corrupt sources of income to politicians and government officials and their families. Owns luxury real estate properties worth ~1 billion rubles. Through several Cyprus-based companies, owns the firm "Taynyi Sovetnik" (Secret Advisor), which earns hundreds of millions of rubles from government contracts that are awarded to it in violation of anti-corruption regulations. On the instructions of the Deputy Head of the Department of Domestic Policy of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Timur Prokopenko, "taynyi Sovetnik" provided political and technological support (conducted sociological research, produced videos, and printed propaganda materials) for the "referendum" in Crimea and the 2014 campaign in Ukraine as a whole.

Member of the Board of Directors of JSC Channel One Russia

Russian politician, manager and businessperson