Name
Pavel Valentinovich Shperov
Year of birth
1971
Additional Information
Places of birth:
Ukraine
Justifications:
Former Member of the State Duma, elected from the illegally annexed Autonomous "Republic of Crimea".
Former Member of the Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots.
In Sep 2014, Shperov was elected to the State Council of the so-called "Republic of Crimea".
He has publicly admitted, including in an interview published on ldpr-rk.ru website on 3 Sep 2016, his role in the events of 2014 that led to the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol and in particular his role in the organisation of the illegal referendum on the illegal annexation of the peninsula.