Dmitriy Gudkov

Dmitry Gennadievich Gudkov is one of the most prominent opposition politicians in Russia. He was in the deputy chair in the State Duma of the 6th convocation. But he could not get into the 7th convocation - he did not get the required number of votes, running in one of the single-mandate districts of the capital. One of the few Duma deputies who did not vote for the entry of the Crimean Peninsula into the Russian Federation. For his trip and speech in the US Senate, some politicians called him a traitor and a traitor to the Motherland.

Dmitry Gudkov was born in Kolomna in January 1980. Russian by nationality. He grew up in the family of the famous politician Gennady Vladimirovich Gudkov, who has been a State Duma deputy 4 times. At the time of the birth of his son, his father worked in the city committee of the Kolomna Komsomol. Then he served in the State Security Committee. After leaving the service, he went into business and became the owner of several security agencies. Later, when sons Dmitry and Vladimir grew up, the head of the family was elected to the State Duma and took up political activities.

Dmitry's mom is a musician by education. She taught piano at a local music school. Later, Maria Petrovna Gudkova became the head of the established security company "Oskord".

Muscovite successfully graduated from high school. Tall growth - almost 2 meters - became the reason for hobby for basketball. The guy even received the title of master of sports. But not sports, but journalism interested Dima in his school years. Therefore, after receiving a certificate of maturity, he became a student at Moscow State University, choosing the Faculty of Journalism. During his student years, he gained practical experience in various publications in the capital. He also headed the public relations center of the Oskord family firm.

After graduating from Moscow State University, the young man decided to continue his studies and received a second higher education: he graduated from the Faculty of World Economy of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The political biography of Dmitry Gudkov began when he was a 3rd year student at Moscow State University. The son worked in the campaign headquarters of his father, who ran for the State Duma of the III convocation. Since then, he regularly took part in all election campaigns of the parent.

In 2004, Dmitry Gennadievich directs the press service and coordinates the youth policy of the People's Party. And at the very end of next year, for the first time, he tries his hand at by-elections to the State Duma in the University district of the capital. But the first elections were not crowned with success: the young politician won only 1.5% of the votes: Stanislav Govorukhin and Viktor Shenderovich bypassed him.

However, the failure did not upset Gudkov Jr. too much. He continues to build a political career, taking into account the mistakes made and gaining new experience.

In 2009, Dmitry Gennadievich became co-chairman of the council of the Fair Russia party and oversees youth policy. In addition, he becomes a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. And next year he was appointed advisor to the head of the Just Russia faction, Sergei Mironov, in the State Duma.

In the fall of 2011, Dmitry Gudkov makes a second attempt to become a Duma deputy. His name is at the head of the list of candidates from the "Fair Russia". It is noteworthy that his candidacy was nominated by a regional group of two regions - Ryazan and Tambov, to which the candidate has nothing to do.

The second attempt was successful: the native of Kolomna becomes the people's choice of the State Duma of the VI convocation and is a member of the Just Russia faction. He is nominated as a member of the Duma committee, which deals with issues of constitutional and state building.

In 2011-2012, Dmitry Gudkov became an active participant in rallies initiated by the non-systemic opposition. He supports Alexei Navalny and other prominent critics of the government. In the spring of 2012, together with his father and Ilya Ponomarev, he created his own protest movement "Left Alliance", which soon includes banker Alexander Lebedev, writer Mikhail Weller and other prominent public figures.

In May of the same year, Dmitry was seen in protests, which were timed to coincide with the inauguration of Russian President Vladimir Putin. And in January 2013, the Gudkovs' father and son become participants in the "March against the scoundrels", which is arranged by the opposition.

For this, the central council of A Just Russia issues an ultimatum to two politicians: either they leave the Opposition Coordination Council, or they leave the party. The deputies who fell into disgrace declared that they did not intend to leave the opposition.

In the spring of 2013, Dmitry Gudkov went to America. He spoke at a conference held within the walls of the Senate, sharply criticizing the Russian system of government, calling on his American friends "to help Putin in the fight against corruption."

The scandal that erupted after his speech and returned home turned out to be serious: the son and father of the Gudkovs were expelled from Fair Russia, and the question of exclusion was raised by the leader of the Socialist-Revolutionaries, Sergei Mironov. Many politicians spoke out on this score, someone shouted that he should be deprived of his Russian citizenship, someone accused him of treason. And the Duma deputy Sergei Zheleznyak made a request to the Committee on Deputy Ethics, asking to find out who authorized the Russian parliamentarian to speak in the US Senate.

In December 2013, Gennady Gudkov was elected leader of the Social Democrats of Russia party. The son, along with Ilya Ponomarev, entered the council of the party led by his father.

Dmitry Gudkov is known for his position on the crisis in Ukraine. In August 2014, he sent a request to the Russian Ministry of Defense with a request to inform whether it is true that Russian military personnel are taking part in hostilities in eastern Ukraine, in what quantity and whether the relatives of the wounded and killed receive material assistance. The Ministry did not answer these and other questions, saying that it has no right to disclose the personal data of employees.

In the voting on the annexation of Crimea, he was among those who were against. In 2015, he gave an interview to the journalists of Radio Liberty, where he spoke in detail about this particular vote, and many others, in which he also often chooses the side of the minority.

Dmitry Gudkov is a socially active politician. He blogs at LiveJournal, Echo of Moscow, and regularly writes on Twitter and Facebook. The oppositionist often publishes sensational revelations and high-profile corruption investigations on his social networks. True, some of them crumble as a result, turning out to be far-fetched. For example, in March 2012, in his blog, he wrote an article about the oil spill from the Transsibneft pipeline and published several photos showing dead fish in the Balta River. But experts on environmental portals criticized the "sensation".

He also has Instagram, though not yet verified.

In the meantime, incriminating evidence was found on Dmitry Gudkov himself. In the spring of 2013, it turned out that the deputy concealed from voters that he has a stake in one of the foreign companies. And the expenses of the people's choice do not coincide in any way with the modest amounts of income.

In 2016 Dmitry Gudkov was included in the list of the Yabloko party and ran for the Tushino district. He was outstripped by the former chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko.

Sofia, the first wife of Dmitry Gudkov, is a journalist and former editor-in-chief of a news program on NTV. The couple lived together for about 10 years. The couple had two children - a son Vanya and a daughter Nastya. After parting, the former wife of the politician became the founder of Russia's first Center for Documentary Films, where fans of this genre can not only watch another film, but also meet. Sofia Gudkova got married for the second time. Her husband is the former head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Sergei Kapkov.

Soon Dmitry Gudkov married the press secretary of Valeria Sushkova. In 2012, their wedding took place, at which Cuban dancers performed. Perhaps this was a pleasant reminder of the marriage proposal that was made in Cuba.

The couple signed at the famous Griboyedovsky registry office, and the celebration itself took place in the banquet hall of the capital's Central Hippodrome.

In 2013, Dmitry and Valeria had a son, whom they named Sasha.

In 2017, together with Maxim Katz, they created the United Democrats coalition and initiated the nomination of over 1,000 candidates for municipal deputies of Moscow, as a result 267 people became independent deputies, creating the second largest political force in the city. And this ensured the overcoming of the “municipal threshold” at the elections of the mayor of Moscow in 2018, which requires the support of 5-10% of municipal deputies and heads of municipalities.

Lucy Stein became one of these deputies. It was Lusya who raised the fuss over the scandal with the boy who was reading Shakespeare detained on the Arbat, filmed the video and published it on the Internet. Some believe that such a person at Gudkov's headquarters is a disservice. But the girl continues to "act". For example, as a municipal deputy, she forbade Timati to open the summer veranda of his burger. The commentary on this "prohibition" was no less absurd: "Let them eat outside the door." After Lucy reported that some of her posts on social networks during that period were written under the influence of tranquilizers.

In December 2017, at the congress of the Yabloko party, Gudkov announced that he supported Grigory Yavlinsky's candidacy for the presidency. But on the eve of the elections, on March 13, unexpectedly for everyone, he announced that he was terminating cooperation with Yabloko. And on March 15, together with Ksenia Sobchak, another presidential candidate, he announced the creation of a new political party. It is based on the Civil Initiative party. He specified that in the political arena they will take an "anti-Putin" position and will seek his resignation from the presidency.

In the 2018 presidential elections, Gudkov ran a massive campaign in which he mobilized over 4,000 supporters to ensure the presence of observers at the polling stations.

After the elections, he and Ksenia Sobchak voiced the main goal of their party. It will be the passage to parliament, namely the victory in the parliamentary elections in 2021. A congress is scheduled for June 23, 2018, at which it is planned to change the name of the party to the "Party of Change". True, the party will go to the regional elections under its old name.

Back in February 2017, Dmitry Gennadievich announced his intention to become the single opposition candidate for mayor of Moscow. The program of the potential future mayor is presented on the official website of Dmitry Gudkov. But he clearly will not become a "single" candidate from the opposition, since his ex-partner in protests, Ilya Yashin, is also planning to participate in these elections. He was also supported by Alexei Navalny, who was against Sobchak's participation in the presidential race. Yes, and the current colleague of Gudkov Ksenia behaved rather strangely - she supported both the candidacy of Gudkov and the current mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin, thereby causing a wave of criticism among the opposition.

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