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Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky

Military · Politician · Sanctioned entity

Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Vladimir Jirinovski · Vladimir Jirinovskiy · Vladimir Volfovich ZHIRINOVSKY · Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky · Vladimir Volfovič Žirinovskij · 34 more...				[sources]
Other name	Vladimir Eidelstein · Vladimir Jirinovski · Vladimir Jirinovskiy · Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky · Vladimir Vol'fovič Žirinovskij · 90 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1946-04-25				[sources]
Place of birth	Almaty · Kazakhstan · Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata · Республіка Казахстан, м. Алма-Ати · м. Алма-Ати, Республіка Казахстан				[sources]
Death date	2022-04-06				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Russia				[sources]
Country	Russia				[sources]
Citizenship	Russia · Soviet Union				[sources]
Country of birth	Kazakhstan				[sources]
First name	Vladimir · Vladimir · Vladimir Volfovich · ВЛАДИМИР · Владимир				[sources]
INN	`771814561811`				[sources]
Keywords	National government				[sources]
Last name	ZHIRINOVSKY · Zhirinovsky · ЖИРИНОВСКИЙ · Жириновски				[sources]
Middle name	Volfovich				[sources]
Patronymic	Volfovich · ВОЛЬФОВИЧ · Вольфович				[sources]
Second name	Volfovich				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q200015				[sources]
Position	Duma (member, 2011-2016) · Duma (member, 2016-) · Member of the Council of the State Duma · Member of the Council of the State Duma and Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Of Russia · Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1996-2004) · 8 more...				[sources]
Education	Doktor Nauk in Philosophy (1998) · Institute of Oriental Languages (1964-1970) · MSU The Institute of Asian and African Studies · Moscow State University (1972-1977) · Moscow State University, Faculty of Law · 1 more...				[sources]
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy				[sources]
Ethnicity	Jewish people				[sources]
Address	Республіка Казахстан, м. Алма-Ати · м. Москва, вул. Ніжинська, 14				[sources]
Last change	2024-11-19	Last processed	2024-11-19	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the Council of the State Duma; leader of the LDPR party. He actively supported the use of Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. He has actively called for the split of Ukraine. He signed on behalf of the LDPR party he chairs, an agreement with the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic".

— Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2023-04-20

Member of the Council of the State Duma - has actively supported the use of Russian armed forces in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, and has called for the split of Ukraine.

— New Zealand Russia Sanctions, 2024-03-21

Russian politician (1946–2022)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Assets and shares
Asset	Percentage held	Start date	End date
ЧАСТНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ СЕРВИСА "ИНО"	-	2014-07-21	2016-09-20

Directorships
Organization	Role	Start date	End date
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia	Председатель ЛДПР	2009-12-30	-
БЛАГОТВОРИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ФОНД ВЛАДИМИРА ВОЛЬФОВИЧА ЖИРИНОВСКОГО ДЛЯ ПОДДЕРЖКИ ГРАЖДАН	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ	2015-11-30	-
ФОНД СОДЕЙСТВИЯ ГУМАНИТАРНОМУ РАЗВИТИЮ	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ	2015-11-30	-
ФОНД ПОДДЕРЖКИ НУЖДАЮЩИХСЯ ГРАЖДАН "КОМИТЕТ ГУМАНИТАРНЫХ ДЕЙСТВИЙ"	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ	2014-05-27	-
ФОНД ПАТРИОТИЧЕСКОГО РАЗВИТИЯ МОЛОДЕЖИ	ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ	2015-11-30	-

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev	child	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the State Duma	2007-12-24	2011-12-21
Member of the Duma	2011-12-21	2016-10-05
member of the State Duma	2016-10-05	2021-10-12
member of the State Duma	2003-12-29	2007-12-24
Member of the Duma	2016-10-05	-
member of the State Duma	2021-10-12	2022-04-06
member of the State Duma	2011-12-04	2016-10-05

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev	father	-	-

Sanctions
Authority	Program	Start date	End date
National Security and Defense Council	126/2018	2018-05-14	-
National Security and Defense Council	467/2016	2016-10-17	2017-10-17
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation · UK	Russia	2020-12-31	-
Global Affairs Canada	Russia / Russie	-	-
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs	Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine (RS 946.231.176.72), annexes 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 14a, 15, 15a, 15b, 25 and 33	2014-11-12	2022-09-27
National Security and Defense Council	133/2017	2017-05-15	-
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · UK	The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019	2020-12-31	-
National Security and Defense Council	133/2017	2017-05-15	2018-05-15
National Security and Defense Council	176/2018	2018-06-21	-
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade	Russia Sanctions Act 2022	2022-03-18	-

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons248,649

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

UK HMT/OFSI Consolidated List of Targets6,277

The United Kingom's consolidated international sanctions list.

United Kingdom · OFSI

Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes8,449

Switzerland manages a sanctions lists with a high degree of detail on the individuals that are subject to it's embargoes

Switzerland · SECO

Ukraine NSDC State Register of Sanctions17,698

List of individuals and legal entities subject to restrictive measures.

Ukraine · NSDC

New Zealand Russia Sanctions1,723

The New Zealand government's list of people and companies sanctioned in relation to the Russian attack on Ukraine.

New Zealand · MFAT

Wikidata Entities of Interest3,963

Persons of interest profiles from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

Canadian Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions List4,410

Sanctions imposed by Canada on specific countries, organizations, or individuals under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and JVCFOA

Canada · Global Affairs Canada

Every Politician58,911

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

MySociety · non-official source

UK FCDO Sanctions List4,678

UK sanctions collated by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

United Kingdom · FCDO

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Russian Unified State Register of Legal Entities (as at Jan 1, 2022)154,200

Companies database of the Russian Federation as maintained and published by the Federal Tax Service.

External dataset · Russia · FNS

Wikidata377,203

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ru-inn-771814561811 · NK-G9Rcp9WrTgcosZvaAEoMwV · gb-fcdo-rus0161 · ua-nazk-person-11964 · ca-sema-russia-1-39 · ca-sema-1-39-ru-vladimir-volfovich-zhirinovsky · au-dfat-3017-vladimir-volfovich-zhirinovsky · fr-ga-1679 · nz-ru-ind-458 · eu-fsf-eu-267-95 · ua-nsdc-person-176-2018-3438 · eu-tb-logical-7460 · gb-hmt-13104 · evpo-a6927482-1edd-479b-9270-ee990c003dd2 · ca-sema-1-part-1-39-ru-vladimir-volfovich-zhirinovsky · ca-sema-314e4facbc5ee1140ffbc4ab87bafc581362286d · mc-freezes-7573ac96049911414e17d95c34ea9cf3378a13e4 · ua-nsdc-10869-zirinovskij-volodimir-volfovic · ua-nabc-person-11964-zhirinovsky-vladimir-volfovich · nz-ru-ind-458-vladimir-zhirinovsky · ch-seco-29336 · NK-9BRNfJT8EvfFh5fJuiHjd5

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