Lenar Safin

Lenar Rinatovich Safin (Russian: Ленар Ринатович Сафин; born 11 February 1969) is a Russian politician. From 2020 to 2022, he served as a senator from Tatarstan.[1]

Lenar Safin
Ленар Сафин
Senator from Tatarstan
In office
2020–2022
Preceded byOleg Morozov
Succeeded byAlexander Terentyev
Personal details
Born
Lenar Safin

(1969-02-11) 11 February 1969
Arsk, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Political partyUnited Russia
Alma materKazan Federal University

Career

Lenar Safin was born on 11 February 1969 in Arsk, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1993, he graduated from the Kazan Federal University. After graduation, Safin worked as an Assistant at the Department of History and Law. From 1995 to 1998, he served as a senior teacher of the Department of Criminal Law of Kazan State University. In 1998–2008, he was the associate professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology. In 2010, he was appointed the Minister of Transport and Road Facilities of the Republic of Tatarstan. He left the position in 2020, to become the senator from Tatarstan. In 2022, he resigned to become the new rector of the Kazan Federal University.[1][2]

Sanctions

Lenar Safin is under personal sanctions introduced by the European Union, the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Ukraine, New Zealand, for ratifying the decisions of the "Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the Donetsk People's Republic and between the Russian Federation and the Luhansk People's Republic" and providing political and economic support for Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territories.[3][4][5][6]

References
  1. "Сафин, Ленар Ринатович". ТАСС. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  2. "Ленар Ринатович Сафин". Парламентская газета. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  3. "Safin Lenar Rinatovich". War and sanctions. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  4. "Sanctions – Russian invasion of Ukraine". Government of Canada. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  5. "Official Journal of the European Union". European Union. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  6. "Treasury Imposes Swift and Severe Costs on Russia for Putin's Purported Annexation of Regions of Ukraine". US Department of the treasury. 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
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