Sergey Aleksandrovich Fursenko (Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Фу́рсенко; born 1954) is a Russian businessman.

Sergey Fursenko
Сергей Фурсенко
Fursenko in 2011
Born
Sergey Aleksandrovich Fursenko

1954 (age 69–70)
NationalityRussian
RelativesAndrei Fursenko (brother)

He is a brother of Andrei Fursenko.

Career

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Since the early 1990s, Fursenko has owned a dacha in Solovyovka, Priozersky District of the Leningrad region, on the eastern shore of Lake Komsomolskoye on the Karelian Isthmus near St. Petersburg. His neighbours there are Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Yakunin, his brother Andrei Fursenko, Yuriy Kovalchuk, Viktor Myachin, Vladimir Smirnov and Nikolay Shamalov. On 10 November 1996, together they instituted the co-operative society Ozero (the Lake) which united their properties.[1][2][3]

Since July 2003, Fursenko has been the director general of the JSC Lentransgaz, a subsidiary of Gazprom.[citation needed]

Since 2005, he has been the director general (later president) of the football club Zenit, Saint Petersburg.[citation needed]

From February 2010 until June 2012, he was the president of the Russian Football Union.[4]

Sanctions

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In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on him and 23 other Russian nationals.[5][6]

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [7]

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References

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  1. ^ How the 1980s Explains Vladimir Putin. The Ozero group. By Fiona Hill & Clifford G. Gaddy, The Atlantic, February 14, 2013
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2007-01-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Владимир Прибыловский, Юрий Фельштинский. Операция "Наследник". Главы из книги. Штрихи к политическому портрету В. В. Путина
  4. ^ uefa.com. "Russia - Member associations – UEFA.org". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  5. ^ "Ukraine-/Russia-related Designations and Identification Update". United States Department of the Treasury. 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  6. ^ "США ввели санкции против семи российских олигархов и 17 чиновников из "кремлевского списка"" [The US imposed sanctions against seven Russian oligarchs and 17 officials from the "Kremlin list"]. Meduza (in Russian). 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  7. ^ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
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