Aleksey Zhuravlyov (politician)

Zhuravlyov was born 30 June 1962 in Voronezh in Soviet Union. In 1984 he graduated from Voronezh Polytechnic Institute majoring in "Physics of Metals". In 2004 he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. In 2001-2004 Zhuravlev is an authorized representative of the Governor of the Voronezh Oblast Vladimir Kulakov in the Oblast Duma.[1] In 2006–2007 he participated in the preparations for the creation of the party Great Russia led by Dmitry Rogozin.[1] From 2009 to 2011, was an advisor to the governor of the Voronezh Oblast Alexey Gordeyev.

In 2011, the results of the primaries has been nominated as a candidate for deputy of the State Duma of the All-Russia People's Front for the party list of United Russia. In the elections, he was elected to the 6th State Duma.[3]

On 29 September 2012, at the founding convention of the party Rodina Zhuravlev was elected as its chairman, while retaining his membership in the faction Rodina in the State Duma.[1]

In the 2016 parliamentary election, he headed the party list of the Rodina, and ran through Anna Constituency. The party list of the Rodina did not overcome the 5% electoral threshold, however, won in his constituency. In the State Duma of the 7th convocation did not join any of the factions.

In 2021, Zhuravlyov made negative comments about the participation of transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard in the 2020 Summer Olympics as a competitor in the Women's +87 kg Weightlifting section, condemning Hubbard's involvement in the competition as "smut and perversion."[4] His comments were flatly condemned by news outlets from around the world, as well as the International Olympic Committee.[5][6]

On December 15, 2021, Zhuravlyov appeared on the Russian television program 60 Minutes, advocating for the kidnapping and imprisonment of United States Congressman Ruben Gallego for his comments in support of providing arms and military training to Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War.[7] Gallego responded on Twitter with the message "fuck around and find out".[8]