Sergey Nikolayevich Abeltsev (; born 6 May 1961 in

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) was a member of the

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and a former bodyguard of

Vladimir Zhirinovsky Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (, , né Eidelstein, ; 25 April 1946 – 6 April 2022) was a Russian right-wing populist politician and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) from its creation in 1992 until his death in 20 ...

. He has been a member of the State Duma's Committee on National Security since December 2003 and a member of the

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. Prior to his election to the State Duma, Abeltsev was a member of the LDPR Supreme Council. He has degrees in management, law, and military science.Матерщинник Йеху Абельцев, предлагающий травить «несогласных» бешеными собаками, сегодня вернулся в Госдуму
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Career

In 1991 he became an assistant to

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Chairman

. Since December 1992 he has been a member of the Supreme Council, deputy chairman of the party. In 1993 he was elected to the

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. In 1995 he was re-elected to the

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. In 2001 he graduated from the Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. In 2007 he was re-elected to the

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. In 2000 and 2018 he was a confidant of LDPR presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky. In 2021 he ran for the State Duma again, but was excluded from the LDPR list by decision of the supreme council of the party. From April 2022 to November 2023 he served as assistant to the first deputy head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma.

Controversial activities

He said: "

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came to

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only after the

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. We must learn from the lessons of History". Abeltsev has publicly proposed that Yevgeny Adamov, former Russian atomic energy minister, should be

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to prevent him from disclosing state secrets in

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. In June 2009, Abeltsev, in an interview with the Georgian television channel

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, advised the U.S.

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Philip H. Gordon to change his family name to a more resonant one — Condom and to give up politics and run a sex shop at the

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. He later claimed he had been provoked by the Georgian journalists, but refused to withdraw his remarks regarding Gordon.

References

External links

Official website

Instagram

VK

Profile at the LDPR website

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