Stanimir Konstantinovich Osinov (13 October 1942-16 September 2016) was a Russian politician. Osinov was once a Communist Party of the Soviet Union politician, but he later became a Liberal Democratic Party of Russia party official.
Biography[]
Stanimir Konstantinovich Osinov was born in Zelenogorsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 13 October 1942, and he was raised in a working-class family; his father worked on a collective farm. Osinov attended Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow and completed his three-year internship as a Komsomol youth leader in 1963. Osinov decided to continue being involved with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and he became the chief party official in Zelenogorsk during the late 1970s and 1980s. Osinov was a critic of Mikhail Gorbachev's financial reforms, seeing them as too liberal and anti-Russian. Following the fall of the USSR in 1991 and the rise of the Russian Federation, Osinov became an opponent of the new Western-dominated economy under Boris Yeltsin, and he became a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. Osinov became a fierce Russian nationalist, advocating the restoration of the Russian Empire and the reinstitution of autocracy to the Russian government. Osinov was also quick to condemn communism, his former ideology, claiming that he had always been a conservative at heart. Osinov died of kidney failure in 2016 at the age of 73.