23 Facts About Sergey Glazyev

Sergey Yurievich Glazyev is a Russian politician and economist, member of the National Financial Council of the Bank of Russia, and, since 2008, a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Sergey Glazyev entered government service in 1991, becoming First Deputy Minister of External Economic Relations under Yegor Gaidar.

Sergey Glazyev served in this capacity for a year, and then was promoted to Minister by Viktor Chernomyrdin, serving until 1993, when he resigned.

Sergey Glazyev resigned from office before his first four-year term was complete, as he had been named economic security advisor for the Federation Council of Russia and head of the Council's analytical department.

Sergey Glazyev was associated with Rogozin and Aleksandr Lebed in the short-lived nationalist political project, the Congress of Russian Communities.

Sergey Glazyev, who had nominated himself as an Independent, did not have any such problems, and appeared on the ballot.

Sergey Glazyev pledged to write a guarantee of a high standard of living into the constitution, provide universal health care and free public education, triple the minimum wage, protect the rights of trade unions, redistribute the wealth belonging to the oligarchs, and increase economic growth.

Sergey Glazyev promised to eradicate the notorious Russian Mafia, purge corrupt bureaucrats and police, and protect the country from terrorism.

Sergey Glazyev announced his retirement from politics in March 2007, and said that he did not intend to seek a further term in the Duma, arguing that Vladimir Putin's rule had crowded out all forms of political opposition and debate in the country.

Sergey Glazyev has authored more than forty books and hundreds of pamphlets and research papers.

Sergey Glazyev was sanctioned by the UK government in 2014 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.

On March 17,2014, a day after the Crimean status referendum, Sergey Glazyev was one of the first seven persons who were placed under executive sanctions by President Obama.

However, according to Sergey Glazyev, he has not been negatively affected by these sanctions because he has neither property nor accounts of any sort in the United States, nor had he any plans to come to America.

In 2015, Sergey Glazyev felt that the American capitalist model was entering an inevitable, very dangerous, phase of self-destruction.

Sergey Glazyev ran as an independent candidate in the 2004 Russian presidential election.

Sergey Glazyev had hoped that he could perform well enough in the election to cement a perception of him as the rising political star of the Russian far-left.

Sergey Glazyev had greater name recognition than many of the other candidates that were running against Putin.

Sergey Glazyev was, arguably, best known as a supporter of raising taxes on the high-earning natural resource companies.

Sergey Glazyev declared that, while he found Putin to be a charismatic leader, he considered his policies to be too weak.

Sergey Glazyev criticized Putin for running, "a corrupt and irresponsible regime".

Sergey Glazyev initially failed to receive the backing of Rodina, which had instead nominated Viktor Gerashchenko.

However, Rodina co-chair Dmitry Rogozin disavowed Sergey Glazyev's candidacy, insisting that Gerashchenko was the only candidate that Rodina was going to support, and that the party would fight in the Supreme Court for the reinstatement of Geraschenko's registration.

The party, now led by Sergey Glazyev, was able to provide support to the independent Sergey Glazyev campaign.