Dmitry Pevtsov

Dmitry Anatolyevich Pevtsov (born July 8, 1963) is a Russian actor, Member of the State Duma from Medvedkovo constituency of Moscow from 2021, member on New People political party. Biography Pevtsov was born in Moscow. He has Russian Jewish ancestry and his grandfather was executed by the NKVD in 1938. Political Views On September 17–19, 2021, under the motto "not only a national actor, but also a national candidate", he was elected as an independent deputy to the State Duma, Russia's federal legislative assembly. Later became a member of the New People fraction of the party. In October 2021, Pevtsov was confirmed as first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Cultural Affairs.