Nils Ušakovs
Nils Ušakovs | |
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Нил Валерьевич Ушаков | |
Ušakovs in 2024 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for Latvia | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
| 8th Mayor of Riga | |
| In office 1 July 2009 – 4 April 2019 | |
| Deputy | Ainārs Šlesers (2006–2010) Andris Ameriks (2010–2018) Oļegs Burovs (2018–2019) Vadims Baraņņiks (2019) |
| Preceded by | Jānis Birks |
| Succeeded by | Dainis Turlais |
| Member of the Saeima | |
| In office 7 November 2006 – 1 July 2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 June 1976 Riga, Latvia |
| Citizenship | USSR (1976–1991) Stateless (1991—1998) Latvia (since 1998) |
| Political party | Harmony (2010–present) |
| Other political affiliations | National Harmony Party (2005–2010) |
| Spouse(s) | Marija Ušakova (divorced 2008) Jeļena Ušakova
(m. 2010; div. 2014)Iveta Strautiņa-Ušakova
(m. 2014) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Latvia University of Southern Denmark |
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Nils Ušakovs (Russian: Нил Валерьевич Ушаков, romanized: Nil Valeryevich Ushakov; born 8 June 1976) is a Latvian politician, former mayor of Riga and former journalist. He was the board chairman of the left-wing party alliance Harmony Centre (2005–2014) and afterwards board chairman of the Social Democratic Party "Harmony" (2014–2019). In 2009 Ušakovs was elected the Mayor of Riga, becoming the first ethnic Russian Riga Mayor since Latvia's restoration of sovereignty in 1991, a position he continuously held until his dismissal in 2019.