Education
In 1969 he finished university and started working for the Pravda newspaper.
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In 1969 he finished university and started working for the Pravda newspaper.
Born at Serov in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Gennadiy Seleznyov went to school from 1954 to 1964. He went to study journalism and joined the communist party. After the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was outlawed in 1991 Seleznyov quit lieutenant
In 1993, however, he joined the Communist Party of the Russian Federation led by Gennadiy Zyuganov.
In the 1995 Parliamentary elections in Russia the Communist Party took the majority. However, Zyuganov did not become the speaker of the Duma as he was too busy with his 1996 Presidential campaign.
Instead, he offered the job to his fellow communist Gennadiy Seleznyov. Seleznyov took office in 1996.
As speaker Seleznyov protested against many reforms of President Boris Yeltsin and the Party rejected several reforms like the proposed complete denationalization of land in 1998.
When Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko opened the markets, Seleznyov protested saying the Russian economy wasn"t ready yet. In 1999 the Communist Party once again took the largest number of seats and Seleznyov was re-inaugurated. In 1999 Gennadiy Seleznyov also ran for governor of the Moscow Region.
However, he lost to the former general and vice presidential candidate Boris Gromov Seleznyov originally supported the new President Vladimir Putin when the latter made a majority, making an alliance with the centrists and the ultra-rightist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.
He supported Putin on most issues. When in 2001 the communists lost many seats he surprisingly did not protest.
Seleznyov then said that the Communist Party had to adapt to the new generation and to adopt liberal social values creating a Eurocommunist party. However, party leader Gennadiy Zyuganov dismissed such calls and in 2002 Seleznyov was expelled from the party.
Following his expulsion, Seleznyov remained the Duma Speaker.
However, he was frequently attacked by both the leftists and the rightists. He received support from former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and was considered a Social Democrat. Seleznov stood for the Duma as the leader of a new party, the Party of Russia"s Rebirth.
Seleznyov had a son, Kirill Seleznyov (b 1974), who is a prominent Russian businessman and a top-manager of Gazprom.
Gennadiy Seleznyov died from complications due to lung cancer in Moscow on 19 July 2015.
In 2003 the party United Russia supporting President Putin took the majority in the Duma and Boris Gryzlov became the new Speaker. Order Foreign Merit to the Fatherland, 2nd class.
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Academician and Member of the International Academy of Social Sciences
Member of the International Academy of Information Technology.