Konstantin Borovoi

Konstantin Natanovich Borovoi (Russian: Константи́н Ната́нович Борово́й), (born 6 June 1948) is a liberal[1] Russian politician and entrepreneur, Russian Parliament Member (1995-2000), former Chair of Party of Economic Freedom (1992-2003), and Chair of Party Western Choice (since 17 March 2013).

Konstantin Borovoi
Personal details
Born
Konstantin Natanovich Borovoi

(1948-06-30) 30 June 1948
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Political party
Alma materMoscow State University
OccupationPolitician and entrepreneur
Websitewww.borovoi.ru

Biography

Borovoi was born in 1948 in Moscow and is the son of a math professor. He is a graduate of Moscow State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (1974). In 1990, he founded the first Russian commodities market,[2][3] and was its president from 1990 to 1992. He also opened the first clearing bank, an investment company and the first business-news wire.[4] He was a financial director of Russia's Open Film Festival.[5]

In 1992 he created an Economic Freedom Party (Russian: Партия экономической свободы (ПЭС), Partiya Ekonomicheskoi svobody).[6] The party ran in the 1995 parliamentary elections, but received 0.13% of the proportional representation vote, failing to cross the electoral threshold. However, it did win a constituency seat in the State Duma, taken by Borovoi.[7] The party was deregistered in 2003.

Up until December 1999, Konstantin Borovoi was a deputy of the Russian Parliament (Duma).[8]

In the spring of 2010 together with Valeriya Novodvorskaya he created a liberal political party, Western Choice. On 17 March he was elected its president.

Political activism

Borovoi self-identifies primarily as a liberal politician. In 1991 he participated in the resistance to the Communist Coup d'État in Russia State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP).[9] On 20 August 2001 he and the 2,000 members of his stock exchange carried a huge flag of Russia to the White House, Russia's parliament building. In the spring of 2010 he was among the 34 first signatories of the online anti-Putin campaign "Putin must go" (Путин должен уйти).[10] The campaign was begun by a coalition of opposition to Putin who regard his rule as lacking any rule of law. Together with Valeriya Novodvorskaya he made video clips which he published on Live Journal, Facebook and YouTube. In 2012 he created a campaign called "Russia without Hitler".[11] In 2016 he created the Valeriya Novodvorskaya Foundation.[12]

Bibliography
  • Konstantin Borovoi, The Price of Freedom. M.: Novosti, 1993. 240 pages, 100 000 copies. ISBN 5-7020-0829-4 (in Russian)
  • Konstantin Borovoi, Twelve Most Successful. How to Become Rich. M.: Vagrius, 2003. 224 pages. ISBN 5-264-00881-7 (in Russian)
  • Konstantin Borovoi, Prostitution in Russia. Report from the bottom of Moscow. M.: Vagrius, 2007. 272 pages. ISBN 978-5-9697-0405-3, ISBN 978-5-9697-0393-3 (in Russian)

References
  1. Lukin, Alexander (2000). The political culture of the Russian "democrats" (1. publ. ed.). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press. p. 260n. ISBN 978-0-19-829558-7.
  2. "Bilked Russian Investors Search for Redemption". www.nytimes.com. 30 August 1995. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  3. "A market grows in Russia". www.forbes.com. 8 June 1992. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  4. "Out of Russia: Moscow's father of capitalism sires a political party". Independent.co.uk. 10 September 1992. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  5. Где дремлют мёртвые
  6. "Партия экономической свободы (ПЭС) Лидер - Константин Боровой". Panorama.ru. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  7. Jackson, Nicole J. Russian Foreign Policy and the CIS. Routledge. ISBN 9781134403592. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  8. Keefe, Patrick Radden. Chatter: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9781588365330. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  9. "Wheeling and Dealing, Moscow Style; Soviet Entrepreneurs Lobbying Hard to End Socialist Stagnation". www.washingtonpost.com. 26 September 1991. Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  10. "Konstantin Borovoi's blog, 16 March 2010". Livejournal.com. 16 March 2010. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  11. "Russian Liberals Growing Uneasy With Alliances". 29 January 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  12. "Jevgeni Krištafovitš: Kuidas mu emakeelest tehakse okupatsioonikeel". Delfi.ee. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
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