Vadim Dengin | |
|---|---|
 Dengin in 2015 | |
| Russian Federation Senator fromBryansk Oblast | |
| Assumed office 23 September 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Sergey Kalashnikov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Vadim Yevgenyevich Dengin 23 September 1980 (1980-09-23) (age 45) Obninsk, USSR |
| Citizenship | Russian |
| Party | Liberal Democratic Party of Russia |
| Occupation | Politician |
Vadim Yevgenyevich Dengin (Russian:Вадим Евгеньевич Деньгин; born on 23 September 1980) is a Russian politician. He was a deputy of theState Duma of the Russian Federation. He is a member of theLiberal Democratic Party of Russia.[1]
Dengin was born inObninsk, in theSoviet Union. Beginning in 1997, Dengin worked as a teacher at the Obninsk Center of Extracurricular Activities and later in the youth wing of theLiberal Democratic Party of Russia. In 2004, he graduated from theMoscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics. He was a senior expert of the State Duma Committee on Youth Affairs.
He was a candidate for theGovernor of Kaluga Oblast on behalf of theLiberal Democratic Party of Russia on 13 September 2015gubernatorial election [ru]. He came in third place with 8.36 percent of the vote.[2][3]
Dengin has spoken strongly in favor of expanding the regulative powers of theFederal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) over the internet.[4] In October 2015, Dengin, and fellow deputiesAleksandr Yushchenko [ru] of theCommunist Party andVadim Kharlov [ru] ofA Just Russia, introduced an amendment to the Administrative Code which would have obliged media organizations to disclose foreign funds toRoskomnadzor within 30 days.[5]
He was sanctioned by theUK government in 2022 in relation to theRusso-Ukrainian War.[6]
He is married and has three daughters.
