Nikolay Bortsov

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| image = Nikolay Bortsov.jpg

| caption = Official Duma photograph, 2018

|office = Member of the State Duma for Lipetsk Oblast

|term_end = 23 April 2023

|term_start = 5 October 2016

|predecessor = constituency re-established

|successor = Dmitry Averov

|constituency = Lipetsk (No. 114)

|term_start1 = 29 December 2003

|term_end1 = 24 December 2007

|predecessor1 = Vladimir Toporkov

|successor1 = constituency abolished

|constituency1 = Yelets (No. 102)

|office2 = Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)

|term_start2 = 24 December 2007

|term_end2 = 5 October 2016

|birth_date = {{birth date|1945|05|08|df=y}}

|birth_place = Lebedyan, Ryazan Oblast (now – Lipetsk Oblast), Russian SFSR, USSR

| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|4|23|1945|5|8|df=y}}

|death_place = Lebedyan, Russia

|party = United Russia

|spouse = Nina Bortsova

|children = Yuri Bortsov, Natalia Bortsova

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|alma_mater = All-Russian Distance Institute of Finance and Economic

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Nikolay Ivanovich Bortsov ({{langx|ru|Николай Иванович Борцов}}; 8 May 1945 – 23 April 2023) was a Russian politician who served as a deputy of the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas convocations.{{cite web|url=https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/borcov-nikolay-ivanovich|title= Борцов, Николай Иванович|publisher=ТАСС Энциклопедия|language=ru|accessdate=15 February 2022}}{{cite web

|url=https://www.pnp.ru/person/nikolay--borcov/|title=Николай Иванович Борцов|publisher=Парламентская газета|language=ru|accessdate=15 February 2022}}

Biography

Bortsov was raised by his mother and grandmother as his father died at the front. After the 8th grade of secondary school, he started working as a loader at a pasta factory, simultaneously studying at an evening school.

In 1969 he graduated from the Michurinsk Technological College, in 1980 he received a second degree at the All-Russian Correspondence Institute of Finance and Economics.{{Cite web |date=2023-04-23 |title=Депутат Госдумы Николай Борцов. Досье |url=https://aif.ru/politics/russia/deputat_gosdumy_nikolay_borcov_dose |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=AiF |language=ru}}

After serving in the army, he got a job as a mechanic at a winery in Lebedyan.

Bortsov died on 23 April 2023, at the age of 77.{{Cite web |title=Депутат Госдумы Николай Борцов |url=https://ria.ru/20230423/bortsov-1867190465.html |date=23 April 2023 |access-date=23 April 2023 |website=RIA Novosti |language=ru}}

Career

In 1981, he was appointed Director of the Cannery Lebedyansky. In 1992, together with his son Yuri, they acquired a controlling interest in Lebedyansky. By 2003, the factory ranked third in Russia in juice production. In 2008, Lebedyansky was sold to PepsiCo and The Pepsi Bottling Group.{{cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3135042|title=Вся Дума|date=7 November 2016|publisher=Коммерсантъ|accessdate=16 February 2022}}

In 2004, together with his son, he founded a charitable foundation that shares their second name. The fund specializes in the restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church temples, also assists war veterans and allocates funds to support science and education.

From 2003, Nikolay Bortsov was a deputy of the State Duma, running with the United Russia in 4th State Duma. In 2007 he was elected to the 5th State Duma. In 2011 he was elected to the 6th State Duma. In 2016 he was elected to the 7th State Duma. Since September 2021, he had served as a deputy of the 8th State Duma.

Wealth

In 2021, Forbes included Bortsov in the list of the two hundred wealthiest businessmen in Russia.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.ru/profile/nikolai-bortsov|title=Николай Борцов|work=Forbes|language=ru|accessdate=15 February 2022}}

Sanctions

On 23 February 2022, against the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he was included in the EU sanctions list, as he "supported and pursued actions and policies that undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, which further destabilize Ukraine".{{Cite journal |author = Official Journal of the European Union L 042I |editor= |format= |url= https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L:2022:042I:FULL&from=EN |title= COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2022/259 |type= |orig-year= | agency = |edition= |location= |date= 2022 |publisher= |at= |volume= |issue= |number= |pages = |page= |series= |isbn = |issn = 1977-0677 |doi = |bibcode = |arxiv = |pmid = |archive-url = |archive-date = |language= |quote= }}

On 24 March 2022, he was included in the US sanctions list alongside many members of the Duma for "supporting the Kremlin's efforts to violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine" and "complicity in Putin's war".{{Cite web |title=U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russia's Defense-Industrial Base, the Russian Duma and Its Members, and Sberbank CEO |url=https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0677 |access-date=23 April 2023 |website=U.S. Department of the Treasury |language=en}}

Later, for similar reasons, he was included in the sanctions lists of Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Ukraine and New Zealand.{{Cite web |title=БОРЦОВ Николай Иванович - биография, досье, активы {{!}} Война и санкции |url=https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/ru/sanction-person/515/ |access-date=23 April 2023 |website=sanctions.nazk.gov.ua |language=uk}}{{Cite web |title=PEP: Борцов Николай Иванович, Государственная Дума, депутат, член комитета по делам национальностей |url=https://rupep.org/ru/person/1957 |access-date=23 April 2023 |website=rupep.org |language=ru}}

Bortsov was also sanctioned by the United Kingdom Government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.{{cite web |title=CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1150217/Russia.pdf |access-date=16 April 2023}}