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Yury Vyacheslavovich Afonin (Russian: Юрий Вячеславович Афонин; born 22 March 1977)[1] is a Russian politician and member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation[2] for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. He is also a member of the board of the Youth Public Chamber of Russia.[1]
Yury Afonin | |
|---|---|
| Юрий Афонин | |
 Afonin in 2019 | |
| Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) | |
| Assumed office 24 December 2007 | |
| First Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee | |
| Assumed office 24 April 2021 Serving with Ivan Melnikov | |
| Chairman | Gennady Zyuganov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 March 1977 Tula, RSFSR, USSR |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Russian Federation |
| Education | |
| Website | kprf |
Biography
editAfonin was born in Tula, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 22 March 1977. He studied history at the Tula State Pedagogical University named for Leo Tolstoy, and then obtained a law degree from the Russian Academy of Public Administration, a predecessor of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).
From 2003 until 2014, Afonin worked as the First Secretary of the Leninist Komsomol of the Russian Federation, the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.[3]
In the 2007 Russian legislative election, he was elected to the 5th State Duma as a member of the CPRF party list, re-elected for the 6th Duma in the 2011 election, 7th Duma in 2016 election, and most recently the 8th State Duma in the 2021 election. As a deputy, he sits on the Security and Anti-Corruption Committee, the Defence Budgetary Commission, and the Commission for Deputy Income and Property Reporting.[2]
Sanctions
editSanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [4]
Afonin was sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "Коммерсант: Биография Юрия Афонина". Archived from the original on 23 October 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Афонин Юрий Вячеславович" [Afonin Yury Vyacheslavovich (Profile on the State Duma website)]. State Duma. Moscow. Archived from the original on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Афонин, Юрий Вячеславович" [Afonin, Yuri Vyacheslavovich]. TASS (in Russian). Информационное агентство России ТАСС. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ Office of Foreign Assets Control. "Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions" published 17 March 2022. 87 FR 15305
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