Sergey Vasilievich Yakhnyuk (; born 3 July 1962, Altynivka,

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) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the

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and 8th State Dumas. From 1984 to 1989 he was the chief agronomist of the

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Pervomaisky in the

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. In 1986-1989, he was the first secretary of the City Committee of the

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. From 1997 to 1999, he was the Deputy of the

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. On 19 September 1999 he was elected Head of Administration of the

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of the Leningrad Oblast. From 2007 to 2017, he worked at the administration of the Leningrad Oblast. On 9 August 2007 he was appointed Vice Governor of the Leningrad Oblast. In 2017, following the resignation of Sergey Naryshkin in order to become direct of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Yakhnyuk was elected Deputy of the

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in the Kingisepp by-election. In September 2021, he was re-elected in

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as deputy for the

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Sanctions

He was sanctioned by the UK government on 11 March 2022 in relation to the

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