Alexander Babakov

Alexander Mikhailovich Babakov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Бабаков; Kishinev, Moldavia, February 8th, 1963) is a Russian politician and member of the Duma, the Russian state parliament. Special Presidential Representative to Russians appointed by Vladimir Putin since June 19, 2012.[1]

Alexander Babakov

Political activity

He is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Deputy Co-Chairman of Inter-Parliamentary Group of the Russian Federation, Head of Delegation of the State Duma in the Inter-Parliamentary Union and Chairman of State Duma Commission on legal support to military and defense industrial complex of the Russian Federation. He was appointed Deputy speaker of the Duma in 2010, a position he held until December 2011.[2]

In June 2012 he was appointed as Presidential Envoy for engaging with Russian organizations abroad by President Putin.[3][4][5]

He was the leader of Rodina, a political party in Russia, for several months in 2006 and organised the formation of A Just Russia, a merger between Rodina, the Russian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party, sitting on its governing committee.[6]

Between 2006 and 2007 he led A Just Russia's faction in the Duma as the party leader, Sergei Mironov, served as speaker of the Federation Council of Russia.[2]

He was elected to the Russian State Duma in 2003 and became party leader of Rodina in March 2006 following the surprise resignation of Dmitry Rogozin.

Family

He is married and has three children.[7]

References
  1. Александр Бабаков назначен спецпредставителем Президента по взаимодействию с организациями соотечественников за рубежом
  2. Досье
  3. "Компромат.нет". Archived from the original on 2016-05-12. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  4. Putin Makes Just Russia Founder Envoy, 17 June 2012, The Moscow Times
  5. Sonne, Paul (December 27, 2018). "A Russian bank gave Marine Le Pen's party a loan. Then weird things began happening". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 29, 2018. Through what he described as work on a French-Russian development-bank project in 2004 or 2005, Schaffhauser said he met a Russian businessman and member of parliament named Alexander Babakov, who in 2012 became the Kremlin’s special envoy for Russian organizations abroad.
  6. Perebezhchik
  7. Личная жизнь
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