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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. He served as the chairman of the pro-Russian political organization Ukrainian Choice from 2018 to 2022. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Medvedchuk has received more than 1,001,397 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Viktor Medvedchuk is the 7,324th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Viktor Medvedchuks by language

Over the past year Viktor Medvedchuk has had the most page views in the with 205,715 views, followed by English (94,203), and Ukrainian (57,844). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (833.33%), Persian (41.75%), and Czech (−7.17%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Viktor Medvedchuk ranks 7,324 out of 19,576. Before 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 95. Before 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 3,761. Before 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).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Viktor Medvedchuk ranks 196. Before 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).

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