1. Lev Timofeev is a Russian economist, political commentator and novelist.
10 Facts About Lev Timofeev
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The son of a high-ranking government official, Timofeev graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
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Lev Timofeev was arrested and sentenced to 11 years of hard labour and internal exile on the grounds of "anti-Soviet propaganda".
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Lev Timofeev was freed in 1987 by a special decree signed by Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Lev Timofeev became one of the most vocal proponents of economic liberalization in Russia.
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In 1993 Lev Timofeev ran for parliament on the Democratic Russia ticket.
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Lev Timofeev was appointed professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Timofeev was for many years director of the Center for Research on Extralegal Economic Systems and advised the government of Boris Yeltsin.
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Lev Timofeev is one of the leading theorists of drug decriminalization.
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In early 2000 Lev Timofeev retired from politics and teaching and embarked on a career of a novelist: since 2004 he published three novels and a collection of short stories.
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Between 2011 and 2015 Lev Timofeev regularly published his short stories in the Russian Riviera magazine.