Sergey Fursenko Explained

Sergey Fursenko
Native Name:Сергей Фурсенко
Native Name Lang:ru
Birth Name:Sergey Aleksandrovich Fursenko
Birth Place:Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Nationality:Russian
Relatives:Andrei Fursenko (brother)

Sergey Aleksandrovich Fursenko (Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Фу́рсенко; born 1954) is a Russian businessman.

He is a brother of Andrei Fursenko.

Career

Since the early 1990s, Fursenko has owned a dacha in Solovyovka, Priozersky District of the Leningrad region, on the eastern shore of Lake Komsomolskoye on the Karelian Isthmus near St. Petersburg. His neighbours there are Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Yakunin, his brother Andrei Fursenko, Yuriy Kovalchuk, Viktor Myachin, Vladimir Smirnov and Nikolay Shamalov. On 10 November 1996, together they instituted the co-operative society Ozero (the Lake) which united their properties.[1] [2] [3]

Since July 2003, Fursenko has been the director general of the JSC Lentransgaz, a subsidiary of Gazprom.

Since 2005, he has been the director general (later president) of the football club Zenit, Saint Petersburg.

From February 2010 until June 2012, he was the president of the Russian Football Union.[4]

Sanctions

In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on him and 23 other Russian nationals.[5] [6]

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/02/how-the-1980s-explains-vladimir-putin/273135/# How the 1980s Explains Vladimir Putin. The Ozero group.
  2. Web site: Archived copy . 2007-01-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090302114010/http://anticompromat.ru/oligarhi/ppo.html . 2009-03-02 .
  3. http://www.lib.ru/HISTORY/FELSHTINSKY/naslednik.txt Владимир Прибыловский, Юрий Фельштинский. Операция "Наследник". Главы из книги. Штрихи к политическому портрету В. В. Путина
  4. Web site: Russia - Member associations – UEFA.org. uefa.com. UEFA.com. 2016-08-02.
  5. Web site: Ukraine-/Russia-related Designations and Identification Update. 2018-04-06 . . 2018-04-06 .
  6. Web site: США ввели санкции против семи российских олигархов и 17 чиновников из "кремлевского списка" . The US imposed sanctions against seven Russian oligarchs and 17 officials from the "Kremlin list" . 2018-04-06 . . 2018-04-06 . ru.
  7. Web site: CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK . 16 April 2023.