Vladimir Iosifovich Sloutsker (; born 27 August 1956) is a Russian businessman and former

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who represented

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in the Russian parliament. Sloutsker is the co-founder and President of the Israeli Jewish Congress. In 2015, Sloutsker won damages over stories critical of him that appeared on the internet.

Biography

Vladimir Sloutsker (real name - Moshe Shlomo Slutsker) was born in

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on August 27, 1956. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railway Engineers in 1978. After graduation, he worked at the Institute and received a candidate of technical sciences. Since 1988 he has been the director of Ronar Projects (

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), which supplied technical equipment to the

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, then to the CIS countries. He headed the Swiss company Acron Oil Trading. From 1992 to 2002 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the investment company Finvest Group (

). In 1993-1998 he served as Vice President of Intermedbank. In 2002 Vladimir became a member of the

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, representing the

. He worked in the Commission on National policy and relations between the state and religious organizations. Since 2006 he has been Deputy Chairman of the Joint Commission on National Policy and Relations between the State and Religious Associations under the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. In 2014 Sloutsker was ranked 40th in

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's list of the 50 most influential Jews.

Awards

2007 – Order of Honour

Personal life

In 1990 he married to Olga Sergeevna Sloutsker (nee Berezovskaya). In 2009 they divorced. Vladimir and Olga have two children. In 2012 Sloutsker lost a legal battle with his ex-wife over the ownership of a house in London. Brother Isaac Sloutsker — CEO of JSC "Novgorod Timber producers". He is fond of karate

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, has 4 dan. In 2000 he became one of the authors of the publication "Kyokushin — martial karate. The combat purpose of the basic equipment". In 2013 he founded the World Fighting Kyokushin Organization,https://wfko.pro/ an international fighting organization, together with the heads of the national Kyokushin federations of Russia, the

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and

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. Since 2014 he has been the president of this organization.

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