Anatoly Nikolaevich Greshnevikov (; born August 29, 1956, Krasnodubrovsky, Zavyalovsky District, Altai Krai) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the

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, 3rd,

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, 6th,

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, and

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s. From 1974 to 1976, Greshnevikov served at the

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. From 1982 to 1990, he worked as a journalist at the Borisoglebsk regional newspaper Novoe Vremya. From 1990 to 1993, he was the deputy of the

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. During the

1993 Russian constitutional crisis In September and October 1993, a constitutional crisis arose in the Russian Federation from a conflict between the then Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the country's parliament. Yeltsin performed a self-coup, dissolving parliament and insti ...

he stood for the side of the

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. In December 1993, he was elected deputy of the

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from the

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constituency. On December 17, 1995, he became the deputy of the

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. Later he was re-elected for the 3rd,

, 6th,

, and

s, respectively.

Sanctions

In December 2022 the EU sanctioned Anatoly Greshnevikov in relation to the

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Awards

Order of Friendship The Order of Friendship (, ') is a state decoration of the Russian Federation established by Boris Yeltsin by presidential decree 442 of 2 March 1994 to reward Russian and foreign nationals whose work, deeds and efforts have been aimed at ...

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" () is a state decoration of the Russian Federation. It was instituted on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree 442. Until the re-establishment of the Order of St. Andrew in 1998, it was the highest order of ...

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