My work is concentrated in the areas where IT meets politics — or where politics meets IT. I’m trying to bring as much of the best IT-practices and approaches to political campaigns in Russia as possible, as well as to use political tools to protect the Internet and digital freedoms in Russia from its irresponsible politicians. I do strongly believe that one day Russia will become a free and democratic country, a part of European family, where it belongs by its whole culture and history.
2018
Leonid Volkov
Cofounder & Chairman
Internet Protection Society
Leonid Volkov is a Russian politician of the Russia’s Future Party. Leonid was campaign manager and chief of staff for Alexei Navalny’s 2013 mayoral campaign for Moscow, as well as Alexei Navalny’s attempt to get registered for the 2018 presidential election. Currently, Leonid oversees all regional political operations of the Russia’s Future Party over Russia’s 11 time zones.
He is a former deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma and the head of the central election committee of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council. Leonid has over 20 years of experience as an IT professional, running and consulting several of Russia’s largest software firms. Together with Fyodor Krasheninnikov he published three editions of "The Cloud Democracy", a book on how modern technology could re-shape and re-define democracy and elections.
Leonid is also founder of the Internet Protection Society, a NGO focused on internet freedom and digital rights in Russia.
