Sergey Nikolayevich Baburin (, born 31 January 1959) is a
Russian nationalist politician and scholar of
constitutional law
Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in ...
, member of the
State Duma of the
first,
second and
fourth convocations where he served in the Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitral and Procedural Law, leader of the
Russian All-People's Union and an ex-leader of the
Rodina political party. He also served as a rector of the
Russian State University of Trade and Economics (RGTEU) from 2002 to 2012.
In 2018, Baburin was a presidential candidate from the
Russian All-People's Union.
Life and career
Baburin was born in
Semipalatinsk,
Kazakh SSR,
Soviet Union
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, where his parents were studying at the time. His father, Nikolai Naumovich Baburin, was a teacher who came from a long line of Sibiryaks (ethnically Russian natives of
Siberia
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), and moved to Semipalatinsk from
Tara, Omsk Oblast where Sergey later spent his childhood. His paternal grandfather, Naum Mikheevich Baburin, was a woodworker who built houses; during the
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War () was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the 1917 overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. I ...
he expressed support for the
White Army and was nearly shot by the
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...
s after they came to power. His paternal grandmother, Irina Sergeevna Baburina (née Koroleva), was a housewife.
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Sergey's mother, Valentina Nikolaevna Baburina (née Kulbedina), was a surgeon. Her father, Nikolai Petrovich Kulbedin (Kulbeda), came from a Belarusian family and moved to Semipalatinsk from Motol, a village in the Ivanava District of the Brest Region in search of work. According to Baburin, some sources indicate that Nikolai belonged to a family of priests; he actively participated in the civil war fighting the Basmachi, made a political career, was arrested during the ]Great Purge
The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (), also known as the Year of '37 () and the Yezhovshchina ( , ), was a political purge in the Soviet Union that took place from 1936 to 1938. After the Assassination of Sergei Kirov, assassination of ...
, but was released and then died on his way home. His wife, Anna Maksimovna Kulbedina (née Volkova), came from exiled Cossacks, and spent all her life working as a children's nurse in a hospital.Afghanistan
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and garnered several awards for his service. He was the founder and one of the leaders of the Russian All-People's Union. During Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 he was one of the most outspoken leaders of the anti- Yeltsin opposition.
In the 2007 Duma election campaign, Baburin gained broad media attention by proposing a bill giving every citizen 4 million rubles (approximately 150,000 US dollars) as a means of one-time compensation for the wrongdoings of the privatization of state property in the early 90s.
2018 presidential campaign
On 22 December 2017, the Russian All-People's Union nominated Sergey Baburin as its presidential candidate for the 2018 Russian presidential election. On 24 December, Baburin filed registration documents with the CEC. The CEC rejected Baburin's bid on 25 December because it identified violations in the information provided regarding 18 of his party's 48 representatives. Baburin resubmitted the documents and they were approved by the CEC.
On 30 January 2018, Baburin handed over the signatures to the CEC. When testing revealed only 3.28% of invalid signatures, due to which he was admitted to the election.
Baburin received 0.65% (479,013 votes), finishing last out of the eight candidates.
2024 presidential campaign
Baburin was nominated by his party in December 2023 during the party's congress. He submitted documents to participate in the election on 26 December, which were registered on 29 December. Baburin collected the required number of signatures, but decided to withdraw on the day before the deadline to submit signatures 30 January 2024. He endorsed Putin for the 2024 election.
See also
* Russian All-People's Union (1991–2001) and (2008–present)
* People's Union (2001–2008)
References
External links
"Zhirinovsky Is a New Version of Yeltsin" interview with Sergei Baburin
Demokratizatsiya, Winter, 1994.
Roman Woronowycz "Russian Duma vice-chairman calls bilateral treaty with Ukraine a 'mistake'"
The Ukrainian Weekly, December 20, 1998.
Yury Chernega, "State Duma Clones Rodina"
Kommersant, July 8, 2005.
Sergey Baburin presidential campaign 2018 website
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1959 births
Living people
People from Semey
Members of the Supreme Soviet of Russia
Defenders of the White House (1993)
First convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Omsk State University alumni
Russian legal scholars
Scholars of constitutional law
Russian nationalists
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Rodina (political party) politicians
Candidates in the 2018 Russian presidential election
Kazakhstani people of Russian descent
Second convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Fourth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Russian political party founders