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Viktor Medvedchuk

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Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk (Ukrainian: Віктор Володимирович Медведчук; born 7 August 1954), also known as Viktor Vladimirovich Medvedchuk (Russian: Виктор Владимирович Медведчук), is a former Ukrainian lawyer, business oligarch, and politician who has lived in exile in Russia since September 2022 after being handed over to Russia in a prisoner exchange. Medvedchuk is a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician and a personal friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prior to being deported from Ukraine, Medvedchuk was elected as People's Deputy of Ukraine on 29 August 2019. He served as the chairman of the pro-Russian political organization Ukrainian Choice from 2018 to 2022. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Medvedchuk is the 7,514th most popular politician (down from 7,322nd in 2019), the 661st most popular biography from Russia (up from 678th in 2019) and the 193rd most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Viktor Medvedchuk ranks 7,514 out of 19,576. Before him are Ferenc Gyulay, Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, Justo José de Urquiza, and Seonjong of Goryeo. After him are Indravarman I, Charles II, Elector Palatine, Inayatullah Khan, Pallas, Mohammed bin Thani, and Galvarino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Viktor Medvedchuk ranks 106. Before him are Milan Martić, Alejandro Sabella, Juliane Koepcke, Ellen Barkin, Michael Emerson, and Morten P. Meldal. After him are Yoshiichi Watanabe, Philip J. Pierre, Chris Noth, Mordechai Vanunu, Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria, and Hisao Sekiguchi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Medvedchuk ranks 661 out of 3,761. Before him are Sophia Perovskaya (1853), Nikolai Ogarkov (1917), Alexander Bortnikov (1951), Lev Pontryagin (1908), Sergey Taboritsky (1897), and Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906). After him are Zinaida Gippius (1869), Ruslan Khasbulatov (1942), Maria Sharapova (1987), Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (1782), Ğabdulla Tuqay (1886), and Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Viktor Medvedchuk ranks 193. Before him are Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (1864), Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia (1826), Pavel Axelrod (1850), Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301), Ulugh Muhammad (1405), and Alexander Bortnikov (1951). After him are Ruslan Khasbulatov (1942), Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (1782), Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (1842), Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827), Elena Stasova (1873), and Irina Rodnina (1949).

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