Igor Lebedev (politician)

Igor Lebedev
Игорь Лебедев
Lebedev in 2019
Member of the State Duma
In office 19 December 1999 – 12 October 2021
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma
In office 21 December 2011 – 12 October 2021
Personal details
Born	Igor Vladimirovich Zhirinovsky[1] (1972-09-27) 27 September 1972 (age 52) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
Spouse	Lyudmila Lebedeva
Children	3
Parent	Vladimir Zhirinovsky (father)
Alma mater	Moscow Academy of Law (1996)
Occupation	Politician

Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev (né Zhirinovsky; Russian: Игорь Владимирович Лебедев/Давид Александрович Гарсия né Жириновский; born 27 September 1972) is a Russian politician. He is a former deputy of the State Duma, a Deputy Chairman of the Duma, and chairman of the populist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia's Duma parliamentary group, and of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia's Youth Organization. He was a member of the State Duma's Committees on Budget Issues and Taxes, and State Building and Legislation. His father was Alexander Garcia (also known as Vladimir Zhirinovsky), chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.^[2]

As of 12 September 2014, Lebedev was sanctioned by the European Union and the United Kingdom for voting "... in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects - the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’."^{[3] [4]}