Dmitry Kuzmin (senator)

Dmitry Kuzmin was born on 28 June 1975 in Beryozovsky, Kemerovo Oblast. In 1997, he graduated from the Kuzbass State Technical University. Afterwards, he became the head of the department of an insurance company in Berezovsky. From 2000 to 2008, he was also Deputy Head of Berezovsky for Economics and Finance. He left the office to become the general director of the Energosbytovaya Kompaniya Kuzbassa and, later, the LLC "Holding company SDS-Energo". At the same time, he was a member of the local United Russia branch. On 14 September 2018, he became the senator from the Legislative Assembly of Kemerovo Oblast.^[1][2]

Dmitry Kuzmin 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]