Soyun Kasumovich Sadykov (Russian: Союн Касумович Садыков, Azerbaijani: Soyun Kasum oğlu Sadıqov, Georgian: სოიუნ კასუმის ძე სადიკოვი; born 5 March 1960 in Gardabani, USSR) is a Russian politician, public figure and statesman, and former sambo martial artist.

Soyun Kasumovich Sadykov
Personal details
Born (1960-03-05) 5 March 1960 (age 64)
Gardabani, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Alma materHigher KGB School named after F.E.Dzerzhinsky,
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionEconomist
Awards Taraggi Medal
Websitehttps://msr.center/team/president/
Military service
AllegianceSoviet Union Soviet Union
Russia Russian Federation
RankStarshina

Sadykov is a Master of Sports, a USSR sambo champion and a prize-winner of European Sambo Championships. He headed the Federal National Cultural Autonomy of Azerbaijanis in Russia (FNCA AZERROS). Sadykov is the President of the "Strategic Development Modeling Center " and an authorized representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the elections from 2012 to 2018.[1][2][3][4]

Early life

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Soyun Sadykov was born in 1960 in Gardabani, Georgian SSR. He studied at Gardabani Secondary School from 1967 to 1977, where he learned sambo. He moved to Moscow after leaving school as a member of the USSR national team.[5] He earned a PhD in Economics.[6]

Sadykov served in the Soviet Army from 1978 to 1980. In 1980 he graduated from the Higher KGB School named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky. He worked in KGB from 1980 to 1981. Sadykov was a foreman, a head of construction department No. 210 under the KGB and a manager of a construction trust in 1981–2000.[7][8]

Assassination attempt

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On 18 March 2005, Sadykov was fired on by an assailant with a machine gun on Khavskaya Street in Moscow while driving.[9][10][11]

Career

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In 2008 Soyun Sadykov became head of the Strategic Development Modeling Center, which engages in geopolitical research.[12][13][14]

Politics

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Sadykov actively opposed the recruitment of Azerbaijanis into the ranks of Chechen fighters during the First and Second Chechen War.[15]

In 2012, Sadykov became Putin's confidant during his election campaign and after his victory joined the Council on Interethnic Relations. Sadykov is the author of administrative reform to enlarge the regions of the Russian Federation. He fought for the rights of emigrants and national minorities.

On 25 January 2013 at the V Congress of the Federal National Cultural Autonomy of Azerbaijanis in Russia, he was elected honorary president of that organization.

In February 2013 he organized the creation of the Borgia party in Georgia. The aim of the party was to protect the rights of Azerbaijanis in Georgia, as well as to achieve the autonomy of Kvemo-Kartli[16][17][18]

In December 2014 he proposed holding the World Congress of Crimean Tatars in Moscow and the Crimean Development Fund was established in Ankara with his help.

He supported the Russian military operation in Syria.[19] Sadykov's aided the reconciliation between Russia and Turkey after the conflict over a Russian plane shot down in Turkey. He helps the War and Labor Veterans Council of the Danilovsky District of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow, the Russian community of Azerbaijan and a Russian-language school in Ganja, Azerbaijan.[20]

Sport

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Soyun Sadykov is a USSR master of sports. He was the sambo champion of the Soviet Union in 1978 and a prize-winner of European sambo championships in 1979 and 1980.[8] Seriously injured, Soyun then retired from sports.[20] He is a vice president of the Combat Sambo Federation of Russia since 2005.[15]

Books

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  • S.K. Sadykov The Construction Economics in the Market Period (1990)
  • S.K. Sadykov Russia is not a chess board: is the proposed alternative in tandem proper? Russia is power 25 October 2011.[21]

References

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  1. ^ Комсомольская правда | Сайт «Комсомольской правды». "Встреча-примирение сторон конфликта из-за гибели футболиста из Азербайджана" (in Russian). KP.RU – сайт «Комсомольской правды». Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  2. ^ 33 и еще одна история из жизни нашего "Материка". ОЛМА Медиа Групп. 2003. ISBN 978-5-224-04553-2.
  3. ^ "Союн Садыков: Диалог власти и общества — новая политтехнология или новый Путин? - ИА REX" (in Russian). iarex.ru. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Союн Садыков: "Быть или не быть Сталину..."". gosnews.ru. 25 December 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Интервью с президентом ФНКА "АзерРос" Союном Садыковым". SKNews.ru. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Путин 2012 – путь к цивилизованному государству: Союн Садыков – ИА REX" (in Russian). iarex.ru. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  7. ^ "სოიუნ სადიკოვი: ,,რომ არა რუსეთი, საქართველო როგორც სახელმწიფო არ იარსებებდა". NewPosts. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  8. ^ a b Noev Kovcheg Media. "Союн Садыков: "Надо найти мужество договориться без посредников"" (in Russian). noev-kovcheg.ru. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Суд оправдал режиссера ГЦКЗ "Россия"" (in Russian). kommersant.ru. 23 April 2007. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  10. ^ tech (20 March 2005). "Азербайджанская общественность возмущена покушением на Садыкова" (in Russian). NewsInfo.Ru. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  11. ^ "Азербайджанский деятель уклонился от пули". Коммерсантъ (Коммерсантъ ed.). 19 March 2005.
  12. ^ "Союн Садыков задержан за вымогательство, ему грозит до 10 лет лишения свободы — AZRU" (in Russian). 12 February 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  13. ^ "Кому мешают кавказцы в России, – мнение экспертов" (in Russian). Новый День. 4 October 2007. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  14. ^ "Союн Садыков – Сергею Маркову: Путин и Медведев должны знать правду! | АНО "Центр моделирования стратегического развития"". Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  15. ^ a b "Легко ли быть патриотом?" (in Russian). Регионы России. 18 December 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  16. ^ "მიხეილ სააკაშვილი: ვარწმუნებდი აზერბაიჯანელებს, რომ საქართველოში ფული ჩაედოთ |". ნეტგაზეთი. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  17. ^ "Саакашвили: "Садыков и Чахалян вместе с Россией угрожают Грузии и Азербайджану"".
  18. ^ "Civil.Ge | სააკაშვილი აზერბაიჯანის და საქართველოს წინაშე მდგარ 'საფრთხეზე' საუბრობს". old.civil.ge. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  19. ^ "Союн Садыков: Россия в Сирии "спасает честное имя ислама"" (in Russian). EADaily. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  20. ^ a b "Союн Садыков: "Строители-реставраторы подобны пластическим хирургам"". as-sro.ru. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  21. ^ "РОССИЯ НЕ ШАХМАТНАЯ ДОСКА: ПРАВОМЕРНА ЛИ ПРЕДЛАГАЕМАЯ РОКИРОВКА В ТАНДЕМЕ?". russian.kiev.ua. Retrieved 24 January 2020.