Konstantin Zatulin

Date of birth: 09.07.1958

Place of birth. Education.

Career. From 1989 to 1993, Zatulin was the chairman of the Association of Young Managers of Enterprises of the USSR (later – the Association of Managers of Enterprises of the USSR, International Association of Managers of Enterprises) - a prototype of the future Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Russia.

In 1991, Zatulin joined a new team of Moscow managers led by Yuri Luzhkov. He was one of the initiators of establishing the Council of Entrepreneurs under the Mayor and the Government of Moscow. This institution helped attract investments to the economy and social sector of the Russian capital. Since 1997 - advisor to the Mayor of Moscow.

From 1993 to 1995, he was a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, chairman of the Committee for CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots, chairman of the parliamentary committee for the Black Sea Fleet. In 1995, he founded the Council of Compatriots at the State Duma of the Russian Federation. In the same year, along with the late General Alexander Lebed and Sergey Glazyev, he was one of the organizers of the electoral coalition of the Congress of Russian Communities.

Since 1996 to this day, he has been the director of the Institute of CIS Countries (Institute of Diaspora and Integration) that he founded. As noted on the politician's website, it is 'the first and so far the only scientific institution that deals with the study of problems of near abroad and the situation of compatriots.'

Until April 2011, he was a member of the Russian government's commission on compatriots abroad. In 2003, at the request of the Mayor of Moscow Luzhkov, Zatulin created and was the first director of the Moscow House of Compatriot, a budgetary institution of Moscow created to support Russian communities and utilize the potential of the million-strong Russian diaspora for the development of the city.

In December 2003 and December 2007, he was again elected deputy to the State Duma of the Russian Federation (from the United Russia party). Since January 2008, he has served as the first deputy chairman of the Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots.

In the Fifth Duma, he was the coordinator of the State Duma parliamentary group for contacts with the Parliament of Ukraine. He was a deputy co-chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Commission on Cooperation of the Federal Assembly of Russia and the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. He was a member of the permanent delegation of the Federal Assembly of Russia in the Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy. Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy Committee on International Affairs (from 2008 to 2012).

In April 2011, at the request of the United Russia faction, he was dismissed from the position of first deputy chairman of the committee, remaining a regular member. According to Zatulin, the 'real reason (for the rotation, - note) was the sharp reaction of President Medvedev's Administration to Zatulin's critical speech during a discussion in the Duma on March 23, 2011, on the resolution concerning left-wing issues.'

Later, he was removed from the political council of the Moscow regional branch of United Russia and was not allowed to participate in primary elections in Moscow (he underwent this procedure in Nizhny Novgorod). He was not included on the candidate lists for the Duma in the 2011 elections.

On August 1, 2012, by presidential decree, he was appointed to the Council under the President of Russia on the Cossacks.

Views.

On July 25, 2008, Konstantin Zatulin was detained at the airport in Simferopol when he was denied entry to Ukraine for the third time for one year. According to the SBU, this decision was made due to violations of Articles 14 and 294 of the Criminal Code (preparation for mass violations during the visit of the Patriarch of Constantinople to Ukraine). In May 2008, the SBU officially warned Zatulin against expressing radical opinions about Ukraine.

On October 20, 2015, the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine opened preliminary investigations into suspected criminal offenses related to the harm to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, planning, preparing, starting, and conducting an aggressive war. On September 12, 2017, a warrant for Zatulin's arrest was issued, and later he was allowed to be detained and brought to court.

Awards.

Awarded the Order of Friendship (2006) and medals of the Russian Federation, orders of the III degree of St. Sergius of Radonezh and St. Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow of the II and III degrees of the Russian Orthodox Church, orders and medals of foreign countries.

Family.

The politician is married. He has a daughter, Daria.

Hobbies.

He is interested in sports - plays tennis and football, and for 10 years has been appearing as a defender in the football team of the Moscow government club.

09.06.2022.