Sergei Zheleznyak

{{Short description|Russian politician}}

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|honorific_suffix = MP

|native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|ru|Сергей Железняк}}}}

|image = Sergey Zheleznyak 2014.jpg

|caption = Zheleznyak in 2014

|office = Member of the State Duma for Moscow

|term_start = 5 October 2016

|term_end = 12 October 2021

|predecessor = constituency re-established

|successor = Tatyana Butskaya

|constituency = Perovo (No. 204)

|office1 = Deputy Secretary of the General Council of United Russia

|term_start1 = 2011

|term_end1 = 26 July 2018

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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|10|28|df=y}}

|birth_place = Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR

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|party = United Russia

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Sergei Vladimirovich Zheleznyak ({{langx|ru|Серге́й Влади́мирович Железня́к}}; born 1970) is a Russian politician.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/24/russia-toughens-punishment-separatist-ideas|title=Russia toughens up punishment for separatist ideas – despite Ukraine|author=Alec Luhn|work=The Guardian|date=23 May 2014|access-date=18 January 2015}} In 2007 he was elected as a member of State Duma and became its Deputy Chairman in June 2012. He was a member of the State Duma's Committee on International Affairs. Prior to his political career he was an advertising, media, and public relations executive.{{cite news|url=http://www.euractiv.com/general/duma-vice-chair-russian-speaking-interview-534112|title=Duma Vice-Chair: Russian-speaking people in Ukraine risk 'genocide'|date=13 March 2014|access-date=18 January 2015|archive-date=14 March 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314114906/http://www.euractiv.com/general/duma-vice-chair-russian-speaking-interview-534112}}

Following his nomination Zheleznyak co-authored a law which allowed the government to block websites that it sees harmful for children. He also co-authored a law which would force internationally funded non-profit organizations to register as "foreign agents".{{cite news|url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/free/2013/11/article/united-russia-to-dismiss-shamed-isayev-as-party-ideologist/489151.html|title=United Russia to Dismiss Shamed Isayev as Party Ideologist|work=The Moscow Times|date=8 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120062948/http://www.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/free/2013/11/article/united-russia-to-dismiss-shamed-isayev-as-party-ideologist/489151.html|archive-date=20 January 2015|url-status=live|access-date=18 January 2015}} In 2013 he spoke to RIA Novosti about prohibition of pedophilia in theatres after seeing a Golden Mask winner play called A Midsummer Night's Dream.{{cite news|url=http://www.blackbearevents.com/theatre/71-Sergey-Zheleznyak-proposed-to-prohibit-the-promotion-of-pedophilia-in-the-theater.html|title=Sergey Zheleznyak, proposed to prohibit the promotion of pedophilia in the theater|publisher=Black Bear Entertainment|date=4 May 2013|access-date=18 January 2015|archive-date=20 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120062948/http://www.blackbearevents.com/theatre/71-Sergey-Zheleznyak-proposed-to-prohibit-the-promotion-of-pedophilia-in-the-theater.html|url-status=dead}} In May of the same year Zheleznyak suggest the Duma to pass a bill that would make criticism of the World War II coalition member states' illegal and will be punished by imprisonment for up to 3 years. In June 2013 he told Economics and Life online journal that

"The US, which presents itself as a bastion of democracy, has in fact been carrying out minute-by-minute surveillance of tens of millions of citizens of Russia and other countries"

Following this remark which was in reference to Edward Snowden's leak, he referred to anti-gay law in Russia that it is an American reproach of sticking their noses into the personal correspondence of tens of millions of Russian citizens.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/19/russia-digital-soveriegnty-nsa-surveillance|title=Russia needs to reclaim its 'digital sovereignty' from US, says MP|work=The Guardian|date=19 June 2013|access-date=18 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105234556/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/19/russia-digital-soveriegnty-nsa-surveillance|archive-date=5 January 2015|url-status=live}}