Vyacheslav Volodin | |
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Вячеслав Володин | |
![]() Volodin in 2024 | |
Chairman of the State Duma | |
Assumed office 5 October 2016 | |
Preceded by | Sergey Naryshkin |
Member of the State Duma for Saratov Oblast | |
Assumed office 12 October 2021 | |
Preceded by | Olga Alimova |
Constituency | Saratov (No. 163) |
In office 29 December 2003 – 24 December 2007 | |
Preceded by | Nikolay Sukhoy |
Succeeded by | constituencies abolished |
Constituency | Balakovo (No. 156) |
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) | |
In office 5 October 2016 – 12 October 2021 | |
In office 24 December 2007 – 21 December 2011 | |
In office 18 January 2000 – 29 December 2003 | |
First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia | |
In office 27 December 2011 – 5 October 2016 | |
Preceded by | Vladislav Surkov |
Succeeded by | Sergey Kiriyenko |
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia — Head of the Government Executive Office | |
In office 21 October 2010 – 27 December 2011 | |
Preceded by | Sergey Sobyanin |
Succeeded by | Anton Vaino |
Parliamentary leader of Fatherland – All Russia | |
In office 2001–2003 | |
Preceded by | Yevgeny Primakov |
Succeeded by | Boris Gryzlov (as Parliamentary leader of United Russia) |
Personal details | |
Born | Alekseyevka , Khvalynsky District, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 4 February 1964
Political party | United Russia |
Other political affiliations | Fatherland – All Russia |
Alma mater | Saratov State Agrarian University Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration |
Profession | Lawyer |
Website | www |
Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin (Russian: Вячеслав Викторович Володин, Russian pronunciation: [vʲɪt͡ɕɪsˈɫaf ˈvʲiktərəvit͡ɕ vɐˈɫodʲin] ; born 4 February 1964) is a Russian politician who currently serves as the 10th Chairman of the State Duma since 2016. He is a former aide to President Vladimir Putin.
The former Secretary-General of the United Russia party, he was a deputy in the State Duma from 1999 until 2011 and from 2016 to present day. From 2010 until 2012, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia. He is also a former first deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia.[1] He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[2] Volodin engineered Putin's conservative turn in his third term and is considered part of his inner circle.[3][4][5]