Sergey Aksyonov
| Sergey Aksyonov Сергей Аксёнов |
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| Head of the Republic of Crimea | |
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Assumed office 9 October 2014 |
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| President | Vladimir Putin |
| Preceded by | Position introduced |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea | |
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Assumed office 17 March 2014 |
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| President | Vladimir Putin |
| Governor | Himself (since 14 April 2014) |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea | |
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In office 27 February 2014 – 17 March 2014 |
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| President | Not approved |
| Preceded by | Anatolii Mohyliov (Last Ukrainian backed PM) |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
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Sergey Valeryevich Aksyonov 26 November 1972 Bălți, Soviet Union (now Moldova) |
| Political party | United Russia |
| Children | 2 |
| Religion | Russian Orthodoxy |
Sergey Valeryevich Aksyonov (Russian: Сергей Валерьевич Аксёнов, Ukrainian: Сергій Валерійович Аксьонов, Romanian: Serghei Valerievici Aksionov; born November 26, 1972) is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Crimea which is an internationally disputed federal subject of the Russian Federation located on the Crimean Peninsula.
Sergey Aksyonov was born in Bălți in the Moldovan SSR on 26 November 1972. His father was the leader of a group called the Russian Community of Northern Moldova in Bălți.
In 1989 he moved to Crimea and enrolled in a college for military engineers in Simferopol, however the fall of the Soviet Union occurred before he could graduate from the academy to become a Soviet Army officer. He then refused to swear an oath of allegiance to Ukraine, which he considered 'an unjustly severed appendage of Russia'.
From 1993—1998 he was deputy director of a company named Ellada, a business related to food products. From October 1998 to March 2001 he was deputy director of the Asteriks company, and since April 2001 he has been deputy director of the Eskada company. Aksyonov is also the head of Crimea's Greco-Roman wrestling organization, Sports club Hwarang-do. His Ukrainian passport Aksyonov received on August 12, 1997.
Sources have alleged that Aksyonov served in the mid 1990s as a lieutenant, or overseer, with the nickname "Goblin" in the organized criminal gang "". Aksyonov's connection with the criminal world is acknowledged by the former chief of militsiya in Crimea Hennadiy Moskal (1997-2000). In 1995 some members of Salem had taken office as local deputies, receiving Legislative immunity. “Aksyonov used to work side-by-side with another gang member, Serhiy Voronkov, in the early 1990s. Voronkov is a well-known mafia boss who was released from prison in 2008 and is still doing business in Crimea," said Andrei Yanitskiy, a journalist of Livy Bereh newspaper who investigated Aksyonov. A native of Sevastopol, Yanitskiy alleges that Aksyonov is still a member of the Salem gang.
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