In 1992, the tobacco factory was privatised and renamed CJSC Donskoy Tabak; in the following year Ivan Savvidis was appointed as its General Director.
13 Facts About Ivan Savvidis
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Between July 2002 and July 2005, Ivan Savvidis was President of FC Rostov.
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In February 2013, Ivan Savvidis took over the management of the Macedonia Palace in Thessaloniki.
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Ivan Savvidis was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Rostov Oblast in 1998 and 2003.
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In 2003, Ivan Savvidis was elected as a Deputy in the State Duma; he subsequently served as the Deputy Chairman of the Budget Committee and Taxes.
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In 2007, Ivan Savvidis was re-elected as a Deputy in the State Duma as a member of the party United Russia led by chairman Vladimir Putin, serving until 2011.
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Ivan Savvidis served as a member of the Committee International Affairs, as coordinator of Interparliamentary Relations with the Hellenic Parliament and as Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Russia-Belarusian Union.
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Ivan Savvidis has previously made positive comments about the Greek political party Syriza and has likened Alexis Tsipras to Vladimir Putin.
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Ivan Savvidis is accused by a section of the press of being involved with Kyriakos Velopoulos, president of the Greek Solution.
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The Greek Super League was suspended and Ivan Savvidis had a three-year punishment of entering football stadiums by the HFF.
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Ivan Savvidis is President of the Federation of Greek Communities of Russia, and was a key figure in pushing for the newly created region by the World Council of Hellenes Abroad in the Black Sea countries.
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In 2022, during the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, Ivan Savvidis ordered his associates to prepare around 487 rooms available at the Porto Carras resort in Chalkidiki within northern Greece in order to hose refugees of the country during this time.
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Ivan Savvidis is married to Kyriaki Savvidi and has two sons, George and Nick.