Anatole Ignatievich Apraxin
His Excellency Anatole Ignatievich Apraxin Анатоль Игнатьевич Апраксин | |||||||||||||||||||||
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President of Seredinia | |||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 1 May 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Prime Minister | Mikhail Luzhkov Nadezhda Vyrubova | ||||||||||||||||||||
Deputy | Tatiana Ilyukhina | ||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Osip Korneyev | ||||||||||||||||||||
Leader of the Constitutional Democrats | |||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 6 August 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Boris Gulianskoi | ||||||||||||||||||||
Ispolnitel of Seredinia | |||||||||||||||||||||
In office 22 May 1995 – 18 May 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||
President | Boris Gulianskoi Osip Korneyev | ||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Yevgeny Rozhdestvensky | ||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Ruslan Chistiakov | ||||||||||||||||||||
Minister for Foreign and Belisarian Affairs | |||||||||||||||||||||
In office 26 June 1990 – 8 December 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Stanislav Kondrashchenko | ||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Boris Gulianskoi | ||||||||||||||||||||
Chair of the Public Accounts Select Committee | |||||||||||||||||||||
In office 5 August 1987 – 3 May 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Irisa Kiriyenka | ||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Artyem Neverov | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Deputy of the Zemsky Sobor | |||||||||||||||||||||
In office 11 May 1980 – 22 May 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Fedor Gamov | ||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Ravil Morgunova | ||||||||||||||||||||
Constituency | Sovetskoye II | ||||||||||||||||||||
Majority | 12,568 (63.55%) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Anatole Ignatievich Apraxin Анатоль Игнатьевич Апраксин Anatol' Ignat'yevich Apraksin 29 July 1949 (age 75) Yekateringrad, Palochka oblast, Seredinia | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Seredinian | ||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Constitutional Democrats | ||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Yulia Luzhkova (m. 1981) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Children | Ignatiev Pavel Mikhail Yevgenia | ||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | State University of Zolodolina (B.A. Politics, Philosophy, and Economics) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Profession | Politician | ||||||||||||||||||||
Website | president.gov.su | ||||||||||||||||||||
Anatole Ignatievich Apraxin (Velik: Анатоль Игнатьевич Апраксин, tr. Anatol' Ignat'yevich Apraksin; b. 29 July 1949) is a Seredinian politician and the twentieth, incumbent, President of Seredinia. Apraxin is the nephew of late President Gavril Apraxin. He has also served as Ispolnitel, or Prime Minister, and Minister for Foreign and Belisarian Affairs. Apraxin defeated incumbent Osip Korneyev to win the presidency in 2010, and defeated Korneyev again in 2015 to retain it for a second, final term.
Apraxin is a member of the moderate wing of the Constitutional Democrats, also known as the Kadets. While his ministries as Ispolnitel and early Presidential administration were decidedly conservative, rejecting calls for new LGBT-related anti-discrimination laws and systematically lowering the tax rate for rich citizens, his government has become decidedly centrist after the 2015 General Elections which saw the Kadets lose the Zemsky Sobor and thus the premiership. He has since worked alongside incumbent Ispolnitel Nadezhda Vyrubova in increasing funding to the Seredinian universal healthcare system and setting a moratorium on capital punishment nationwide.
While Apraxin won the 2010 election to the Presidency with a strong Duma majority, and his 2015 re-election campaign, he has been forced to work with a Social Democratic-Liberal Republican coalition in the Duma since 2015. For the period of the 2010 Duma, he worked alongside fellow Kadet and Ispolnitel Mikhail Luzhkov.