Yaroslav Nilov

Russian politician

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Ярослав Нилов

Nilov in August 2016

Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)

Incumbent

Assumed office
14 July 2011Preceded byMikhail Pitkevich [ru]Chairman of the Duma Committee on Labour, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs

Incumbent

Assumed office
5 October 2016 Personal detailsBorn (1982-03-20) 20 March 1982 (age 42)
Chișinău, Moldovan SSR, Soviet UnionPolitical partyLiberal Democratic Party of RussiaEducation

Moscow Energy Institute
RANEPA

ReligionRussian Orthodox

Yaroslav Yevgenyevich Nilov (Rus. Ярослав Евгеньевич Нилов; born 20 March 1982, Chisinau, Moldova) is a Russian politician and deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. He chairs the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans' Affairs. He is a member of the populist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.

Biography

Nilov joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia in 1997 after which he helped create the party's young wing in the Lyuberysy Moscow Region. In 2005, he graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.

From 1998 to 2003, Nilov was an assistant to LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky and created the youth organization "Center for Youth Initiatives". From 2003 to 2007, Nilov was continue as an assistant Zhirinovsky who at that time held the post of deputy chairman of the State Duma. From 2007 to 2011, Nilov was the Head of the Secretariat of Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

In March 2016, Zhirinovsky named Nilov, now a member of the LDPR Supreme Council, one of his possible successors.^[1]

Sanctions

On 24 March 2022, the United States Treasury sanctioned him in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[2]

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. ^[3]

References

^ "Жириновский пойдёт на выборы президента с четырьмя преемниками". 2 March 2016.
^ "U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russia's Defense-Industrial Base, the Russian Duma and Its Members, and Sberbank CEO". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
^ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.