Mikhail Lobanov

Mikhail Lobanov was born into a family of engineers: his father worked as a builder, and his mother was a garment manufacturing technologist. He graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in discrete mathematics in 2006. He was a Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences since 2009 (the topic of his PhD thesis "On the relationship between algebraic immunity and nonlinearity of Boolean functions"[https://istina.msu.ru/profile/mannerheim/ Лобанов Михаил Сергеевич] // «ИСТИНА» — Интеллектуальная Система Тематического Исследования НАукометрических данных).

Since his student years, he participated in grassroots activism and the trade union movement (among other things, he personally supported the strike of workers at a cement plant in the city of Mikhaylov, Ryazan Oblast). A number of intra-university campaigns aimed at protecting the interests of students and teachers of Moscow State University are associated with his name.{{cite web|date=10 February 2021|title=Russia Has a New Socialist Movement|url=https://jacobin.com/2021/10/mikhail-lobanov-russia-communist-party-new-left-putin/|author-last=Budraitskis|author-first=Ilya|access-date=30 June 2022|work=Jacobin}}

In 2007, he organized a film club with his comrades at MSU, supported a group of dissatisfied students of the Faculty of Sociology (OD-Group). In 2009, he was among the founders and leaders of the "Initiative Group of students, graduate students and employees of Moscow State University", which arose from a successful campaign against the university administration's attempt to tighten the rules of admission to dormitories.[https://thevyshka.ru/29608-mikhail-lobanov-universitetskaya-povestka/ «Защищать свои интересы здесь и сейчас»: Михаил Лобанов об университетской повестке на выборах в Госдуму]. The Вышка (13 сентября 2021) Co-founder (in 2013) of the independent trade union "University Solidarity", member of the trade union committee at Moscow State University and the central council of the trade union association.[https://unisolidarity.ru/msu/?page_id=88 Профком] // Официальный сайт первичной профсоюзной организации «Университетская солидарность» МГУ

During the 2012 Russian protests, he was one of the organizers of scientific and educational columns at opposition marches. He is also known as a participant in urban protection and environmental actions (including the protection of historical buildings and green areas from construction business) in the Ramenka district, where the main complex of MSU is located.[https://zanovo.media/kategorii/vybory-2021/intervyu-s-lobanovym Михаил Лобанов: для успешных кампаний нужны люди с левым мировоззрением]. Заново (14 сентября 2021). He, like several other representatives of the scientific and pedagogical community, criticized and protested against the Law on Educational Activities.Кирилл Медведев. [https://www.colta.ru/articles/society/27300-kirill-medvedev-intervyu-mihail-lobanov-zakon-o-prosvet-deyatelnosti «Закон о просветительской деятельности вызовет отток в подполье»]. Colta.ru (14 мая 2021)

For his public activities, he was under pressure from the administration; in 2013 and 2018, they attempted to dismiss him from the university, but thanks to the solidarity campaign, he was reinstated as a teacher of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of MSU.Мария Голубева. [https://ug.ru/mihail-lobanov-ostanetsya-prepodavat-na-mehmate-mgu/ Михаил Лобанов останется преподавать на мехмате МГУ]. Учительская газета (12 марта 2013)[https://chronicles.igmsu.org/igmsu/lobanov/ За Лобанова! (2013)]. МГУ для вас: Хроники студенческого самоуправления МГУ им. М. В. Ломоносова

Lobanov himself supported political prisoners, including fellow mathematicians Dmitry Bogatov[https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3361010 Ученая поддержка: За математика Дмитрия Богатова вступились студенты и преподаватели МГУ]. Коммерсантъ (19 июля 2017). and Azat Miftakhov,[https://www.svoboda.org/a/30501194.html На пикете в поддержку Мифтахова задержан преподаватель МГУ]. Радио Свобода (21 марта 2020). as well as members of the editorial board of the student magazine "DOXA".[https://news.doxajournal.ru/delo-doxa/20-deputatov-gosdumy-otpravili-zaprosy-v-sk-prokuraturu-i-ombudsmenu-s-prosboj-proverit-zakonnost-presledovaniya-redaktorov-doxa/ 20 депутатов Госдумы отправили запросы в СК, прокуратуру и омбудсмену с просьбой проверить законность преследования редакторов DOXA]. DOXA (13 июля 2021).

In the municipal elections in Moscow in 2022, he supported such candidates as Konstantin Konkov, Arseniy Lytar, Denis Zhilin, Vladlena Mokrousova, Nikita Kozlov.{{Cite web|title=Кандидаты от оппозиции|date=28 August 2022 |url=https://munplatform.ru/#candidates|access-date=2022-11-11|language=ru}}

On 23 June 2023, the Russian government declared him a foreign agent, and the following July, he was fired from his post as docent of mechanics and mathematics at the Moscow State University. He announced that he was planning to leave Russia.{{cite news |title=Математика и политика Михаила Лобанова уволили из МГУ — через две недели после того, как его объявили "иноагентом" |trans-title="Mathematician and politician Mikhail Lobanov fired from MSU - just two weeks after being declared a "foreign agent" |url=https://meduza.io/news/2023/07/10/matematika-i-politika-mihaila-lobanova-uvolili-iz-mgu-cherez-dve-nedeli-kak-ego-ob-yavili-inoagentom |access-date=11 July 2023 |work=Meduza |language=ru}}

Despite not being a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Lobanov received that party's endorsement, as well as support from Smart Voting, as a candidate for the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the 197th Kuntsevo single-mandate constituency. His main competitor was the candidate from the Moscow mayor's office, the TV presenter Yevgeny Popov, who was nominated by United Russia party and endorsed by Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.

According to the results of voting in precincts, Lobanov comfortably led by a margin of more than 10,000 votes,{{Cite web|date=2021-09-21|title=Московское электронное голосование — это что-то с чем-то. Посмотрите, как оно поменяло результаты выборов в округах, где побеждала оппозиция|url=https://meduza.io/slides/moskovskoe-elektronnoe-golosovanie-eto-chto-to-s-chem-to-posmotrite-kak-ono-pomenyalo-rezultaty-vyborov-v-okrugah-gde-pobezhdala-oppozitsiya|access-date=2021-09-22|website=Meduza|language=ru}} however, after the publication of the results of remote electronic voting (DEG), he lost to Popov.{{Cite web|date=2021-09-20|title=Еще утром математик Михаил Лобанов с отрывом побеждал телеведущего Евгения Попова. Но потом появились результаты электронного голосования… Вот рассказ кандидата в Госдуму от КПРФ и "Умного голосования"|url=https://meduza.io/feature/2021/09/20/esche-utrom-matematik-mihail-lobanov-s-otryvom-pobezhdal-televeduschego-evgeniya-popova-no-potom-poyavilis-rezultaty-elektronnogo-golosovaniya|access-date=2021-09-22|website=Meduza|language=ru}}{{Cite web|date=2021-09-20|title=Ни в одном округе Москвы не победил кандидат в Думу от оппозиции|url=https://www.rbc.ru/politics/20/09/2021/61484a3d9a7947752e7c0a6b?nw=1632239917000|access-date=2021-09-21|website=РБК|language=ru}} According to official data, he received 72,805 votes (31.65%), the best indicator among all opposition candidates in Moscow districts.

Mikhail Lobanov did not recognize the results of the elections, urging other opposition candidates to join the fight for annulment of the results. Lobanov took part in the CPRF rally on Pushkinskaya Square on the night of September 20.{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://kprf.ru/actions/kprf/205574.html|title=Не признаем! Не простим! Акция столичных коммунистов|website=kprf.ru|date=2021-09-20|accessdate=2021-09-22}}

On September 23, in advance of a planned rally for September 25, police visited Lobanov{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-58671977|title = Московская полиция взялась за КПРФ, чтобы помешать протестам после выборов|newspaper = BBC News Русская Служба}} as well as other protest leaders.[https://www.currenttime.tv/a/kandidati-gosduma-prishla-politsiya-predosterezheniya-aktsiya/31474497.html К кандидатам в Госдуму пришла полиция с предостережениями из-за планируемой акции]

Mikhail Lobanov was arrested in the end of December 2022 and held in administrative detention for two weeks.

Lobanov professes democratic socialism as his core ideology; among ideologically close non-Russian politicians, he names United States Senator Bernie Sanders and former leader of the British Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn.[https://www.opendemocracy.net/ru/mikhail-lobanov-nuzhny-razgovory-i-peregovory/ Михаил Лобанов: «Нужны разговоры и переговоры»]. openDemocracy (24 августа 2021). The key points of his electoral program in 2021, using the leitmotif of "fighting blatant economic and political inequality," were raising the minimum wage, increasing the progressive scale of taxation, increasing spending on education and science, canceling pension reform and lowering the retirement age, and protecting the environment. Lobanov's campaign was supported by independent trade unions (Confederation of Labour of Russia[http://ktr.su/content/news/detail.php?ID=7294 КТР поддерживает профсоюзных кандидатов в депутаты]) and a number of left-wing organizations (Russian Socialist Movement, Marxist Tendency,[https://marxist.news/novosti/vydvizhenie-lobanova-shans-dlya-soczialisticheskoj-politiki/ Выдвижение Лобанова: шанс для социалистической политики?] Union of Democratic Socialists[http://sd-inform.org/glavnye-novosti/demokraticheskii-socialist-mihail-lobanov-vydvinut-kandidatom-v-gosdumu-po-spisku-kprf-197-okrug-v-moskve.html Демократический социалист Михаил Лобанов выдвинут кандидатом в Госдуму по списку КПРФ (197 округ в Москве)] and others).

Mikhail Lobanov opposes the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 7 June 2022 he was arrested by the police for anti-war banner «No War».[https://www.svoboda.org/a/v-moskve-za-plakat-na-balkone-net-voyne-zaderzhan-dotsent-mgu/31887752.html В Москве за плакат на балконе «Нет войне» задержан доцент МГУ] On 24 June 2022, he was detained for fifteen days by Russian police and fined 40 000 rubles for having made statements on social media opposing the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{cite web|date=30 June 2022|title=Multiple Russian Party Members Arrested, Fined for Denouncing Putin's War|url=https://www.newsweek.com/russian-party-members-arrested-fined-denouncing-putins-war-ukraine-1720609|author-last=van Brugen|author-first=Isabel|access-date=30 June 2022|work=Newsweek}}

{{election table|title=2021 Russian legislative election (Kuntsevo constituency)}}

|-

! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate

! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party

! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes

! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%

|-

|style="background-color: {{party color|United Russia}}" |

|align=left|Yevgeny Popov

|align=left|United Russia

|80,894

|35.17%

|-

|style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of the Russian Federation}}" |

|align=left|Mikhail Lobanov

|align=left|Communist Party

|72,805

|31.65%

|-

|style="background-color: {{party color|A Just Russia}}" |

|align=left|Aleksandr Tarnavsky

|align=left|A Just Russia — For Truth

|13,421

|5.84%

|-

|style="background-color: {{party color|New People (political party)}}"|

|align=left|Boris Balmont

|align=left|New People

|11,709

|5.09%

|-

|style="background-color: {{party color|Yabloko}}" |

|align=left|Kirill Goncharov

|align=left|Yabloko

|11,648

|5.06%

|-

|style="background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party of Russia}}" |

|align=left|Pavel Ramensky

|align=left|Liberal Democratic Party

|10,475

|4.55%

|-

|style="background-color: {{party color|Communists of Russia}}" |

|align=left|Darya Mitina

|align=left|Communists of Russia

|6,493

|2.82%

|-

|style="background: {{party color|Russian Ecological Party "The Greens"}};"|

|align=left|Igor Glek

|align=left|The Greens

|5,473

|2.38%

|-

|style="background: {{party color|Green Alternative (Russia)}};"|

|align=left|Vladislava Gorshkova

|align=left|Green Alternative

|5,436

|2.36%

|-

|style="background-color:{{party color|Rodina}}"|

|align=left|Aleksey Sobolev

|align=left|Rodina

|3,789

|1.65%

|-

|style="background-color:{{party color|Party of Growth}}"|

|align=left|Mikhail Menshikov

|align=left|Party of Growth

|3,604

|1.57%

|-

| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|

|- style="font-weight:bold"

| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total

| 230,007

| 100%

|-

| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|

|- style="font-weight:bold"

| colspan="4" |Source:

|[http://www.moscow-city.vybory.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom?action=show&root=1000259&tvd=100100225883698&vrn=100100225883172&prver=0&pronetvd=null®ion=77&sub_region=77&type=464&report_mode=null Результаты выборов по одномандатному избирательному округу, 2021]

|}

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite news |last1=Budraitskis |first1=Ilya |title=Russia Has a New Socialist Movement: An interview with Mikhail Lobanov |url=https://jacobinmag.com/2021/10/mikhail-lobanov-russia-communist-party-new-left-putin |access-date=3 October 2021 |work=Jacobin}}
• {{cite news |last1=Sidorov |first1=Dmitry |title=A democratic socialist running for Russian parliament. What could go wrong? |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/mikhail-lobanov-democratic-socialist-running-for-russian-parliament/ |access-date=3 October 2021 |work=openDemocracy}}
• [https://lobanov2021.ru/ Сайт кандидата в депутаты Государственной Думы Михаила Лобанова]
• [https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/09/16/matematik-i-politik Математик и политик. Как доцент МГУ конкурирует на западе и юго-западе Москвы с «журналистом ВГТРК»] // Новая газета

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