Name

Valery Aleksandrovich Fadeyev

Year of birth

1960

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Additional Information

Nationalities:

Russian Federation

Places of birth:

Uzbekistan

Other information:

Function: Journalist, former secretary of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, incumbent Chairman of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights

Associated individuals: President Vladimir Putin

Associated entities: Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights

Justifications:

Valery Fadeyev is a chairman of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. He helped to subordinate that body to the political line of the Government of the Russian Federation upon Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He is an advisor to Vladimir Putin.

Since the start of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, he has justified Russia’s invasion, and spread Russian war disinformation and propaganda about the war. He supported the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by the Russian Federation in 2014, and the illegal referenda in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in 2022.

Therefore, he is responsible for supporting and implementing actions and policies which undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.