Ivan Zhdanov

Ivan Yurievich Zhdanov (Russian: Иван Юрьевич Жданов; born August 17, 1988) is a Russian politician and lawyer. He was the director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and is a member of the Central Council of the Russia of the Future political party. Ivan Zhdanov was born on August 17, 1988, in Moscow, in a military family. In 2005 he entered the Moscow State Law University, from which he graduated in 2010, and was also a graduate student there until 2013.After practicing in the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the State Duma apparatus in 2011—2013, he was engaged in his own legal practice, headed the regional branch of the People's Alliance political party in the Nenets Autonomous District.

In 2014, he began working at the Anti-Corruption Foundation as a lawyer, and later was appointed head of the legal department of FBK. He worked in Rostov-on-Don.

During the election campaign in Novosibirsk in 2015, a criminal case was opened against Ivan Zhdanov under Art. 142 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Falsification of electoral documents, referendum documents."In 2016, he was registered as a self-nominated candidate to the Council of Deputies of the Barvikhinskoye rural settlement. During the pre-election campaign, a criminal case was opened against Ivan Zhdanov for alleged evasion of military service (part 1 of article 328 of the Criminal Code of Russia), and searches were conducted in his apartment.Subsequently, the elections were canceled by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation (CEC); representatives of the FBK linked the cancellation of the elections with the complaints they filed regarding early voting, but the head of the CEC said that the elections were canceled for completely different reasons.Zhdanov said that the cancellation of the election results is a confirmation of the rightness of the candidates from the Anti-Corruption Foundation.