| Honorific Suffix: | MP |
| Office: | Member of the State Duma for Moscow |
| Term Start: | 5 October 2016 |
| Term End: | 12 October 2021 |
| Predecessor: | constituency re-established |
| Successor: | Tatyana Butskaya |
| Constituency: | Perovo (No. 204) |
| Office1: | Deputy Secretary of the General Council of United Russia |
| Term Start1: | 2011 |
| Term End1: | 26 July 2018 |
| Birth Date: | 28 October 1976 |
| Birth Place: | Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR |
| Party: | United Russia |
Sergei Vladimirovich Zheleznyak (ru|Серге́й Влади́мирович Железня́к; born 1970) is a Russian politician.[1] In 2007 he was elected as a member of State Duma and became its Deputy Chairman in June 2012. He was a member of the State Duma's Committee on International Affairs. Prior to his political career he was an advertising, media, and public relations executive.[2]
Following his nomination Zheleznyak co-authored a law which allowed the government to block websites that it sees harmful for children. He also co-authored a law which would force internationally funded non-profit organizations to register as "foreign agents".[3] In 2013 he spoke to RIA Novosti about prohibition of pedophilia in theatres after seeing a Golden Mask winner play called A Midsummer Night's Dream.[4] In May of the same year Zheleznyak suggest the Duma to pass a bill that would make criticism of the World War II coalition member states' illegal and will be punished by imprisonment for up to 3 years.[3] In June 2013 he told Economics and Life online journal that
"The US, which presents itself as a bastion of democracy, has in fact been carrying out minute-by-minute surveillance of tens of millions of citizens of Russia and other countries"Following this remark which was in reference to Edward Snowden's leak, he referred to anti-gay law in Russia that it is an American reproach of sticking their noses into the personal correspondence of tens of millions of Russian citizens.[5]
As a result of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the federal government of the United States under Barack Obama blacklisted Sergei Zheleznyak.[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Sanctioned by the UK government on 18 March 2014 in relation to actively supporting the use of Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. [12]
Zheleznyak's daughter, Anastasia Zheleznyak, lives in London.[13] Two of his children were educated in the UK.[14]