11 Facts About Alexander Babakov

Alexander Mikhailovich Babakov is a Russian politician and member of the State Duma, the Russian parliament.

Alexander Babakov was appointed Special Presidential Representative to Russians by Vladimir Putin in 2012.

Alexander Babakov has been under EU, Canadian and Swiss sanctions since 2014, as well as US sanctions since 2017.

Alexander Babakov is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Deputy Co-chairman of Inter-Parliamentary Group of the Russian Federation, Head of Delegation of the State Duma in the Inter-Parliamentary Union and Chairman of State Duma Commission on legal support to military and defense industrial complex of the Russian Federation.

Alexander Babakov was appointed Deputy speaker of the Duma in 2010, a position he held until December 2011.

Alexander Babakov was the leader of Rodina, a political party in Russia, for several months in 2006 and organised the formation of A Just Russia, a merger between Rodina, the Russian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party, sitting on its governing committee.

Alexander Babakov was elected to the Russian State Duma in 2003 and became party leader of Rodina in March 2006 following the surprise resignation of Dmitry Rogozin.

In September 2014, following the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the wider Russo-Ukrainian War, Babakov was subjected to sanctions, including an asset freeze, by the European Union.

Alexander Babakov was sanctioned by the UK government in 2014 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Alexander Babakov was reported to own a residential flat in Richmond Court, Knightsbridge, London.

In 2011 Alexander Babakov passed ownership of his British Virgin Islands registered holding company AED International to his daughter.