Nationality Russian Spouse Tamara Borovaya | Website www.borovoi.ru | |
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Full Name Konstantin Natanovich Borovoi Political party Party of Economic Freedom (1992—2003)Western Choice (2013—current) Occupation Politician and entrepreneur Children Yuliya Borovaya, Yelena Borovaya Parents Yelena Borovaya, Natan Borovoy Similar Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Andrey Piontkovsky, Victor Shenderovich, Stanislav Belkovsky, Andrey Illarionov | ||
Konstantin Natanovich Borovoi (Russian: Константи́н Ната́нович Борово́й), (born 6 June 1948) is a liberal Russian politician and entrepreneur, Russian Parliament Member (1995-2000), former Chair of Party of Economic Freedom (1992-2003), and Chair of Party Western Choice (since 17 March 2013).
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Biography
Borovoi was born in 1948 in Moscow and is the son of a math professor. He is a graduate of Moscow State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (1974). In 1990, he founded Russia's first stock exchange, and was its president from 1990 to 1992. He also opened the first clearing bank, an investment company and the first business-news wire. He was a financial director of Russia's Open Film Festival.
In 1992 he created a Party of Economic Freedom (Russian: Партия экономической свободы (ПЭС), Partiya Ekonomicheskoi svobody). The party ran in the 1995 parliamentary elections, but received 0.13% of the proportional representation vote, failing to cross the electoral threshold. However, it did win a constituency seat in the State Duma, taken by Borovoi. The party was deregistered in 2003.
Up until December 1999, Konstantin Borovoi was a deputy of the Russian Parliament (Duma).
In the spring of 2010 together with Valeriya Novodvorskaya he created a liberal political party, Western Choice. On 17 March he was elected its president.
Political activism
Borovoi self-identifies primarily as a liberal politician. In 1991 he participated in the resistance to the Communist Coup d'Etat in Russia State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP). On 20 August 2001 he and the 2,000 members of his stock exchange carried a huge flag of Russia to the White House, Russia's parliament building. In the spring of 2010 he was among the 34 first signatories of the online anti-Putin campaign "Putin must go" (Путин должен уйти). The campaign was begun by a coalition of opposition to Putin who regard his rule as lacking any rule of law. Together with Valeriya Novodvorskaya he made video clips which he published on Live Journal, Facebook and Youtube. In 2016 he created the Valeriya Novodvorskaya Foundation.