Konstantin Borovoi
{{Short description|Russian politician}}
{{family name hatnote|Natanovich|Borovoi|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Konstantin Borovoi
| native_name = {{nobold|Константин Боровой}}
| native_name_lang = ru
| image = File:Konstantin Natanovich Borovoy.jpg
| image_upright =
| caption = Borovoi in 2023
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|6|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
| party = {{plainlist|
- Party of Economic Freedom (1992–2003)
- Western Choice (2013–2014)
}}
| alma_mater = Moscow State University
| occupation = Politician, entrepreneur
| office = Member of the State Duma
| termstart = 17 January 1996
| termend = 24 December 1999
| constituency = Tushino
| predecessor = Yury Vlasov
| successor = Alexander Shokhin
}}
Konstantin Natanovich Borovoi ({{langx|ru|Константи́н Ната́нович Борово́й}}; born 30 June 1948) is a liberal{{cite book|last1=Lukin|first1=Alexander|title=The political culture of the Russian "democrats"|date=2000|publisher=Oxford Univ. Press|location=Oxford [u.a.]|isbn=978-0-19-829558-7|page=260n|edition=1. publ.}} Russian politician and entrepreneur, Russian Parliament Member (1995–2000), former Chair of Party of Economic Freedom (1992–2003), and Chair of Party Western Choice (since 17 March 2013).
Biography
Borovoi was born in 1948 in Moscow and is the son of a math professor. He is a graduate of Moscow State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (1974). In 1990, he founded the first Russian commodities market,{{cite web|title=Bilked Russian Investors Search for Redemption|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/30/world/bilked-russian-investors-search-for-redemption.html|website=www.nytimes.com|access-date=19 July 2018|date=30 August 1995}}{{cite web|title=A market grows in Russia|url=https://www.forbes.com|website=www.forbes.com|access-date=19 July 2018|date=8 June 1992}} and was its president from 1990 to 1992. He also opened the first clearing bank, an investment company and the first business-news wire.{{cite web|title=Out of Russia: Moscow's father of capitalism sires a political party|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/out-of-russia-moscows-father-of-capitalism-sires-a-political-party-1550643.html|website=Independent.co.uk|access-date=22 September 2016|date=10 September 1992}} He was a financial director of Russia's Open Film Festival.[http://bozaboza.narod.ru/borovoy.html Где дремлют мёртвые]
In 1992, he created an Economic Freedom Party ({{Langx|ru|Партия экономической свободы (ПЭС)}}, Partiya Ekonomicheskoi svobody).{{cite web|title=Партия экономической свободы (ПЭС) Лидер - Константин Боровой.|url=http://www.panorama.ru/works/vybory/party/borovoy.html|website=Panorama.ru|access-date=22 September 2016}} The party ran in the 1995 parliamentary elections, but received 0.13% of the proportional representation vote, failing to cross the electoral threshold. However, it did win a constituency seat in the State Duma, taken by Borovoi.{{cite book|last1=Jackson|first1=Nicole J.|title=Russian Foreign Policy and the CIS|date=4 September 2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134403592|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BEqBAgAAQBAJ&q=Konstantin+Borovoi+State+Duma+Party+of+Economic+Freedom&pg=PA190|access-date=22 September 2016|language=en}} The party was deregistered in 2003.
In April 1996, he was speaking with the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev by phone when Dudayev was assassinated by two laser-guided missiles, after his location was detected by a Russian reconnaissance aircraft, which intercepted his phone call.{{cite web|url=http://www.ericmargolis.com/political_commentaries/time-to-set-the-chechen-free.aspx |title=TIME TO SET THE CHECHEN FREE |date=5 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105203129/http://www.ericmargolis.com/political_commentaries/time-to-set-the-chechen-free.aspx |archive-date=5 January 2012 |access-date=4 October 2014 }}{{cite news|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/02/kill_the_messenger?page=0,1 |title=Kill the messenger |author=Robert Young Pelton |author-link=Robert Young Pelton |date=2 March 2012 |newspaper=Foreign Policy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816090458/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/02/kill_the_messenger?page=0,1 |archive-date=16 August 2012 }}
Up until December 1999, Borovoi was a member of the State Duma,{{cite book|last1=Keefe|first1=Patrick Radden|title=Chatter: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping|date=11 July 2006|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=9781588365330|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6sahBZQXbNkC&q=Konstantin+Borovoi+deputy+of+the+Russian+Parliament&pg=PA164|access-date=22 September 2016|language=en}} representing the Tushino constituency.{{Cite web |title=БОРОВОЙ Константин Натанович |trans-title=Borovoy, Konstantin Natanovich |url=http://duma2.garant.ru/deputats/74-2.htm |website=State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation |language=ru}}
In the spring of 2013, together with Valeriya Novodvorskaya, he created a liberal political party, Western Choice. On 17 March, he was elected its president.
In 2019, Borovoi fled to the United States after learning that there were plans to assassinate him.[https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/russias-disinformation-campaign-against-us Russia's disinformation campaign against the U.S.] Penn Today.
Political activism
File:Novodvorskaya Borvoi.jpg in 2009]]
Borovoi self-identifies primarily as a liberal politician. In 1991, he participated in the resistance to the Communist Coup d'État in Russia State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP).{{cite web|title=Wheeling and Dealing, Moscow Style; Soviet Entrepreneurs Lobbying Hard to End Socialist Stagnation|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1086724.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719233320/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1086724.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 July 2018|website=www.washingtonpost.com|access-date=19 July 2018|date=26 September 1991}} On 20 August 1991, he and the 2,000 members of his stock exchange carried a huge flag of Russia to the White House, Russia's parliament building. From 2001 to 2004 Editor-in-Chief of America Magazine. In the spring of 2010, he was among the 34 first signatories of the online anti-Putin campaign "Putin Must Go" (Путин должен уйти).{{cite web|url=http://kborovoi.livejournal.com/35500.html |title=Konstantin Borovoi's blog, 16 March 2010 |publisher=Livejournal.com |date=16 March 2010 |access-date=17 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305151607/http://kborovoi.livejournal.com/35500.html |archive-date= 5 March 2012 }} The campaign was begun by a coalition of opposition to Putin who regard his rule as lacking any rule of law. Together with Valeriya Novodvorskaya, he made video clips which he published on Live Journal, Facebook and YouTube. In 2012, he created a campaign called "Russia without Hitler".{{cite news|title=Russian Liberals Growing Uneasy With Alliances|newspaper = The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/world/europe/russian-liberals-weigh-alliance-with-nationalists.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=70BBCEF42CEF88B52BFDEEED3F95B39E&gwt=pay|access-date=19 July 2018|date=29 January 2012|last1 = Schwirtz|first1 = Michael}} In 2016, he created the Valeriya Novodvorskaya Foundation.{{cite web|title=Jevgeni Krištafovitš: Kuidas mu emakeelest tehakse okupatsioonikeel|url=http://www.delfi.ee/archive/jevgeni-kristafovits-kuidas-mu-emakeelest-tehakse-okupatsioonikeel?id=63995631|website=Delfi.ee|access-date=22 September 2016}}
Bibliography
- Konstantin Borovoi, The Price of Freedom. M.: Novosti, 1993. 240 pages, 100 000 copies. {{ISBN|5-7020-0829-4}} {{in lang|ru}}
- Konstantin Borovoi, Twelve Most Successful. How to Become Rich. M.: Vagrius, 2003. 224 pages. {{ISBN|5-264-00881-7}} {{in lang|ru}}
- Konstantin Borovoi, Prostitution in Russia. Report from the bottom of Moscow. M.: Vagrius, 2007. 272 pages. {{ISBN|978-5-9697-0405-3}}, {{ISBN|978-5-9697-0393-3}} {{in lang|ru}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.westchoice.ru Western Choice website]
- {{YouTube|u=borovonovodvo|Konstantin Borovoy}}
- [https://midtowntribune.com/2020/01/20/11-september-russian-involvement/ Konstantin Borovoi: Putin and Russian Involvement in 9/11 2001]
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