Denis Kravchenko (; born 17 April 1976, in

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) is a Russian political figure and deputy of the

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. He holds a

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in Economics degree (2005) From 1999 to 2001, he was the Deputy Chairman and, later, the Chairman of the Student Council of the

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. From July 2001 to March 2002, he was an assistant to the First Vice-president of St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University. In 2003, Kravchenko joined the

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. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as deputy to the

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. In 2016, he became the deputy of the

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. In 2021, he was re-elected for the

from the

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constituency. He is one of the members of the

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the United States Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the

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