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Alexander Sergeyevich Kosopkin Presidential Representative in the State Duma

Biography

Alexander Kosopkin was born in Chita on June 1, 1957.

From 1976–1978, he served in the Armed Forces.

He graduated from the Chelyabinsk Railway Transport Institute in 1976 and from the Moscow State Legal Academy in 1996. He holds a candidate degree in psychology.

From 1978–1990, he worked as an engine driver’s assistant and an engine driver at the Zlatoust railway depot on the South Urals Railways.
In 1990, he was elected a people’s deputy of Russia and until 1993, he chaired a subcommittee in the Russian Supreme Soviet’s Social Policy Commission. He was a member of the Democratic Russia, Working Union of Russia and Chernobyl deputies’ groups.

In 1993–1994, he was leading specialist in a section of the Russian Federal Assembly’s Information and Technology Support Department.

In 1994, he joined the Presidential Administration, working first as a consultant and then as head of a group, deputy department head and section head.

From 1996–2000, he was deputy department head and head of the section for relations with the State Duma deputies and members of the Federation Council in the Presidential Domestic Policy Department.
From 2000–2001, he was deputy head of the chief department and head of the department for relations with the Federal Assembly, political parties and movements in the Chief Presidential Domestic Policy Department.

In March 2001, he was appointed head of the Chief Presidential Domestic Policy Department.

In 2004, he was appointed presidential representative in the State Duma.

Kosopkin is married and has a son and a daughter.

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