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Vladimir Resin

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Vladimir Resin
Владимир Ресин
Resin in 2018
Member of the State Duma
Assumed office
21 December 2011
First Deputy Mayor of Moscow
In office
27 August 2001 – 13 December 2011
Acting Mayor of Moscow
In office
28 September 2010 – 21 October 2010
Preceded byYury Luzhkov
Succeeded bySergey Sobyanin
Personal details
Born (1936-02-21) 21 February 1936 (age 88)
Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus)
Political partyUnited Russia
Alma materMoscow State Mining University
ProfessionDoctor of Science in Economics
Awards






Vladimir Iosifovich Resin (Russian: Влади́мир Ио́сифович Ре́син; born 21 February 1936) is a Russian politician who was the acting Mayor of Moscow, appointed by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to succeed Yury Luzhkov on 28 September 2010.[1] Resin previously served as the first deputy mayor under Luzhkov.[2]

Biography

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Resin was born to a Jewish family on 21 February 1936 in Minsk. He graduated from the Moscow Mining Institute in 1958 and worked in the construction and mining sectors. In 1988, he started working in the Moscow city administration. He was the head of architecture and construction, as well as the acting mayor after Yury Luzhkov's dismissal in September 2010.[3] Soon after he joined the ruling United Russia party and was considered possible candidate for mayoralty.[4] Resin kept his position of first deputy mayor for more than a year after Luzhkov's dismissal. In December 2011 he was elected member of the 6th State Duma of Russia. In the 8th convocation of Russia's lower house Resin is the oldest member.[5]

Resin has a penchant for expensive wristwatches the most expensive recognized by experts as Swiss-made DeWitt, La Pressy Grande Complication, costing more than $1 million.[6][7]

Sanctions

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Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [8]

He is one of the members of the State Duma the United States Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Russian president fires Moscow's mayor". CNN. 28 September 2010.
  2. ^ Moscow City Government. Vladimir Iosifovich Resin Archived 3 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "5 Facts About Moscow's Acting Mayor". The Moscow Times. 28 September 2010.
  4. ^ "Врио мэра Москвы Ресин стал членом "Единой России", откуда со скандалом ушел Лужков" [Interim mayor of Moscow Resin became a member of United Russia, which Luzhkov left with a scandal]. newsru.com (in Russian). 6 October 2010.
  5. ^ "Терешкова откроет первое заседание Госдумы нового созыва" [Tereshkova will open the first meeting of the State Duma of the new convocation]. TASS (in Russian). 5 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Фото 1 Часы политиков".
  7. ^ "Часы российских чиновников". 3 August 2015.
  8. ^ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  9. ^ "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.
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Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Moscow
(acting)

2010
Succeeded by