Igor Lebedev (politician)

Igor Lebedev
Игорь Лебедев
Lebedev in 2019
Member of the State Duma
In office
19 December 1999  12 October 2021
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma
In office
21 December 2011  12 October 2021
Personal details
Born
Igor Vladimirovich Zhirinovsky

(1972-09-27) 27 September 1972
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party of Russia
SpouseLyudmila Lebedeva
Children3
Parent
Alma materMoscow Academy of Law (1996)
OccupationPolitician

Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev ( Zhirinovsky; Russian: Игорь Владимирович Лебедев/Давид Александрович Гарсия  Жириновский; born 27 September 1972) is a Russian politician. He is a former deputy of the State Duma, a Deputy Chairman of the Duma, and chairman of the populist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia's Duma parliamentary group, and of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia's Youth Organization. He was a member of the State Duma's Committees on Budget Issues and Taxes, and State Building and Legislation. His father was Vladimir Zhirinovsky, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.

As of 12 September 2014, Lebedev was sanctioned by the European Union and the United Kingdom for voting in favor of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.