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Viktor Medvedchuk

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Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk (Ukrainian: Віктор Володимирович Медведчук; born 7 August 1954), also known as Viktor Vladimirovich Medvedchuk (Russian: Виктор Владимирович Медведчук), is a former Ukrainian lawyer, business oligarch, and politician who has lived in exile in Russia since September 2022 after being handed over to Russia in a prisoner exchange. Medvedchuk is a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician and a personal friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prior to being deported from Ukraine, Medvedchuk was elected as People's Deputy of Ukraine on 29 August 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Medvedchuk has received more than 1,054,785 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Viktor Medvedchuk is the 7,323rd most popular politician (up from 9,686th in 2019), the 678th most popular biography from Russia (up from 977th in 2019) and the 196th most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Viktor Medvedchuk ranks 7,323 out of 19,576Before him are Enrique Peña Nieto, Ronglu, Eleanor of Castile, Dalia Itzik, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Alcetas I of Epirus. After him are Yvonne de Gaulle, Margaret of Durazzo, Adherbal, Manuel Zelaya, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, and Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Viktor Medvedchuk ranks 95Before him are Alejandro Sabella, Lorraine Bracco, Hrant Dink, Al Di Meola, Lina Romay, and Elvis Costello. After him are Steve Morse, Katey Sagal, László Krasznahorkai, Rafael Orozco Maestre, Sergey Naryshkin, and Annie Sprinkle.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Medvedchuk ranks 678 out of 3,761Before him are Agrippina Vaganova (1879), Sergei Dovlatov (1941), Elena Stasova (1873), Ladislas Starevich (1882), Andrei Mironov (1941), and Ruslan Khasbulatov (1942). After him are Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Marko Vovchok (1833), Yuriy Sedykh (1955), and Valery Bryusov (1873).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Viktor Medvedchuk ranks 196Before him are Khertek Anchimaa-Toka (1912), Praskovia Saltykova (1664), Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827), Yuriy Yekhanurov (1948), Elena Stasova (1873), and Ruslan Khasbulatov (1942). After him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (1886), Irina Godunova (1557), Faina Ranevskaya (1896), Mikhail of Vladimir (1145), and Fyodor Okhlopkov (1908).