Ilya Ponomarev

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ilya Ponomarev
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Aug 6, 1975(1975-08-06)
Age	49
Birthplace	Moscow
Country	Russia
Birth City	Moscow
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ilya Ponomarev Biography

Ilya Ponomarev is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on August 6, 1975 in Moscow, Moscow, Russia. Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev (Russian: Илья́ Влади́мирович Пономарёв ; born 6 August 1975) is a Russian politician, former member of the State Duma and a technology entrepreneur.

In December 2007 Ponomarev was elected to the State Duma, representing Novosibirsk. In the Duma, Ilya Ponomarev chaired the Innovation and Venture Capital subcommittee of the Committee for Economic Development and Entrepreneurship, and the Technology Development subcommittee of the Committee of Information Technologies and Communications. He introduced and secured passage of legalization of LLPs in Russia, the Net Businesses Act, and tax breaks for technology companies.

In October 2012, the pro-government news channel NTV aired a documentary which accused Ponomarev’s aide Leonid Razvozzhayev of arranging a meeting between a former opposition leader, the Left Front’s Sergei Udaltsov, and Givi Targamadze, a Georgian official, for the purpose of overthrowing President Vladimir Putin. A spokesman for Russian investigators stated that the government was considering terrorism charges against Udaltsov, and Razvozzhayev, Udaltsov, and Konstantin Lebedev, an assistant of Udaltsov’s, were charged with “plotting mass riots”. Razvozzhayev fled to Kiev, Ukraine, where he applied for asylum from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, but disappeared after leaving the office for lunch. He resurfaced in Moscow three days later, where the website Life News recording him leaving a Moscow courthouse, shouting that he had been abducted and tortured. A spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee claimed that Razvozzhayev had not been abducted, but had turned himself in freely and volunteered a confession of his conspiracy with Udaltsov and Lebedev to cause widespread rioting.

In 2012 Ponomarev supported the Internet Restriction Bill, with the stated purpose of fighting online child pornography and drug sales, introduced by fellow Just Russia parliamentarian Yelena Mizulina. Critics compared the results to those of the Chinese Internet firewall: a RosKomCenzura blocklist of censored pages, domain names, and IP addresses. Ponomarev claimed that he wished to ultimately limit government involvement in Internet regulation and allow more self-regulation, but Maxim “Parker” Kononenko (a Russian blogger and journalist) accused Ponomarev of acting in the commercial interests of a technology company which had Ponomarev’s father Vladimir as a member of the board of directors According to the law, all Internet providers are obliged to install expensive DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) hardware, which it was believed would be sold by said company. However, the company ultimately never sold any DPI servers, and Vladimir Ponomarev resigned from the board to avoid the appearance of impropriety.

From 2006 to 2007, Ponomarev served as the national coordinator for the “high- tech parks task force”, a $6 billion private-public project to develop a network of small communities across the country to foster innovation and R&D activities.

Ilya Ponomarev Net Worth

Ilya Ponomarev is one of the richest Politician from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ilya Ponomarev 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ponomarev was born in Moscow. He holds a BSc in Physics from Moscow State University and a Master of Public Administration from the Russian State Social University. He started his career when he was 14 years old at the Institute for Nuclear Safety (IBRAE), Russian Academy of Sciences. Ponomarev was one of the founders of two successful high technology start-ups in Russia, the first one (RussProfi) when he was sixteen years old. His first job position was at the Institute for Nuclear Safety (IBRAE) at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1995 and 1996 Ponomarev acted as a representative of the networking software company Banyan Systems in Russia, creating one of the largest distributed networks in Russia for the now-defunct oil company Yukos. Following jobs at Schlumberger and Yukos in the late 1990s, he became a successful technology entrepreneur. From 2002 to 2007, Ponomarev served as the chief information officer of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

During his political career, he was a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation from 2002 to 2007, and a member of the Central Committee of the social-democrat political party A Just Russia from 2007 to 2013. In the spring of 2014, he took part in forming an alliance between Greens and Social Democrats.

He was a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (IT), Council for Foreign and Defense Policies, and the Council for National Strategy, and a fellow at the Open Russia foundation. He also chaired the Boards of Trustees of the Institute of Innovation Studies (a think tank working on legislation for high-tech industries) and the Open Projects Foundation (an investment vehicle for projects in crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and open government). In 2010 Ponomarev co-founded the Korean-Russian Business Council (KRBC).. In 2014, Ponomarev founded the Institute of Siberia, an analytical center focused on the regional development of Siberia.

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Who is Ilya Ponomarev Dating?

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In July 2013, Ponomarev stated during a meeting of the Russian Pirate Party that his support for Mizulina’s bill had been a mistake; he later voted against new initiatives by the Russian government to restrict Internet freedom, and became instrumental in the campaign against the “Russian version of SOPA”. Despite this, Ponomarev is portrayed by some other opposition activists (such as Alexey Navalny and Leonid Volkov) as a “censorship lobbyist”, which Ponomarev claims is due to unrelated political disagreements and the struggle for influence over the Russian Internet community.

Facts & Trivia

Ilya Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Ilya Ponomarev celebrates birthday on August 6 of every year.

In August 2014 both Udaltsov and Razvozzhayev were sentenced to four and a half years in prison.