Igor Zhirinovsky

Igor Lebedev is the son of a famous Russian politician, deputy chairman of the lower house of the Russian parliament. He came out of the shadow of his father Vladimir Zhirinovsky long ago, the name of the parliamentarian also appears in the chronicles, both good and bad.

Igor Vladimirovich is a native of Moscow, born in September 1972 in the family of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, an employee of the international department of the Soviet Peace Committee, and Galina Lebedeva, a graduate of the biological faculty of Moscow State University.

When the time came to receive a passport, the young man, at the insistence of his father, changed his surname to his mother's. Vladimir Volfovich had already switched to politics and was closely engaged in the creation of the Liberal Democratic Party. Zhirinovsky was well aware that with a surname like his, it would not be easy for loved ones.

Igor has a legal education, which he received at the Moscow State Law Academy. Even as a student, Lebedev was listed as an assistant to a deputy of the State Duma.

After graduation, the young man had no problems with a place of work: Zhirinovsky's son was promoted to a specialist-expert in the apparatus of the LDPR faction and headed the youth wing of the party. In addition, he supervised the Youth Initiatives Support Center.

After a couple of years, having studied political cuisine, Lebedev changed his occupation. Since 1998, Igor Vladimirovich has been on the staff of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, as an advisor to the minister. The head of the Ministry of Labor, of course, was then in the ranks of the Liberal Democratic Party.

The political biography of the son of a famous parliamentarian began from the very bottom - from the position of a simple driver in the central office of the Liberal Democratic Party. Then Igor grew up to the head of the transport department, later - a lawyer. According to rumors, the guy had a dream - his own business related to cars. The business acumen of the young man, according to observers, is manifested in the fact that Lebedev independently places the people he needs in the leading places, without taking into account the decisions and instructions of the party and Zhirinovsky personally.

For the first time, Igor's surname appeared on the ballot papers back in 1995, but then no one knew about the young politician, and family ties did not help either. A second attempt at the 1999 parliamentary elections was successful - Lebedev was elected to the State Duma on the list from Zhirinovsky's bloc.

In the lower house of the Russian parliament, Igor inherited the post of head of the faction, in addition, he was a member of the Counting Commission and the Committee on Information Policy. The eminent father by that time had taken the chair of the vice-speaker of the State Duma.

Lebedev was elected a deputy of parliament of the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh convocations, and in three of them - as part of the federal list of candidates, he led the party faction. In the State Duma of the sixth convocation, father and son changed places: Igor sat in the chair of the deputy chairman, Vladimir Volfovich headed the faction.

According to some publications, Lebedev, in addition to being a direct deputy, edited the party press and actually managed the party's treasury. This alignment of things allowed the same media to assert that Igor is the richest member of the Zhirinovsky family, the owner of tens of thousands of square meters of housing and land.

Seeker of compromising evidence Alexei Navalny accuses Zhirinovites of discrepancy between the declared principles and reality. While Vladimir Zhirinovsky claims that the elected official has no right to own property outside of Russia, the Anti-Corruption Foundation has released the details of an apartment in Dubai in the name of Igor Lebedev.

The Deputy Speaker of the State Duma is harsh and not restrained in his words, like his father. In 2017, on his Twitter page, Igor Vladimirovich spoke about the worthlessness of the life of disabled children, which immediately caused a wave of indignation from parents and human rights organizations. There was no particular condemnation from colleagues. The vice-speaker from United Russia, former journalist Pyotr Tolstoy noted that Lebedev was wrong, but refused to comment.

Almost nothing is known about the young politician's personal life, unlike his father. Igor had known his wife Lyudmila Nikolaevna since childhood. The family has twin sons Sergey and Alexander. According to unconfirmed reports, the children graduated from the boarding school at Moscow State University and continue their education in Switzerland. Photos of family members appear very rarely.

The wife's occupation is a secret sealed with seven seals. On the websites of some Internet publications, data have been published that Igor and Lyudmila divorced back in 2001. In 2016, Lyudmila was suspected of involvement in the illegal activities of the research and production association "Kamena".

An NGO, formed as an international consumer community, attracted deposits from the population at 100% per annum, but payments stopped in 2015. Another pyramid would hardly have attracted so much attention if it were not for the recommendation of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf: there were many disabled people among the depositors.

Another scandal is associated with Igor Lebedev's scientific dissertation for a doctoral degree. Blogger Andrei Rostovtsev found plagiarism from two previously published dissertations in the deputy's work submitted to the scientific council in 2006.

By the way, similar accusations were made against Vladimir Volfovich. The Higher Attestation Commission refused to revise the results of the award of a scientific degree, since three years had passed at the time the plagiarism was detected. There was also no reaction from the Ethics Committee of the State Duma.

In February 2018, the vice-speaker of the State Duma spoke sharply about the first successes of Russian athletes at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. Lebedev does not follow the events at the Games, since he believes that Russia does not participate in them.

According to the politician, the medals, which if athletes receive, do not belong to a great country, but to an incomprehensible combination of letters OAR, which no one will remember in ten years. But on the other hand, they will remember that Russia has silently accepted humiliation and is dragging its feet in the tail of the Olympic movement.

No less emotional were the words of Igor Vladimirovich to the Russian Olympic Committee and the Minister of Sports: the deputy wished these officials to shoot themselves. Moreover, Lebedev said that the president of the country should have made a tough decision instead of an unnecessary apology (and, in fact, a confession of helplessness).

Candidate of Sociological Sciences Doctor of Historical Sciences 2006 - Medal "For Strengthening the Military Commonwealth" 2006 - Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree 2008 - Certificate of honor of the Government of the Russian Federation 2009 - Certificate of honor of the President of the Russian Federation 2011 - Order of Honor 2013 - Order of Friendship

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