Sergey Kalashnik

Sergey Kalashnik was born on 31 March 1978 in Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast. In 2000, he graduated from the Kostroma State University. Afterward, he worked as the head of the production and dispatching department in the machining shop of OAO "Kostroma plant "Motordetal". From 2010 to 2020, he was the deputy of the Kostroma Oblast Duma. On 5 October 2020, Muratov was appointed the senator from Kostroma Oblast.^[1][2]

Sergey Kalashnik 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]