Editing List of Russian people (section)

=== Contemporary Russian politicians ===
{{Main|Russian Presidents|Russian Prime Ministers}}

* [[Viktor Chernomyrdin]], leading politician and businessman, served as the first Chairman of [[Gazprom]] and the [[Prime Minister of Russia|Premier of Russia]]
* [[Yegor Gaidar]], leading politician and economist, served as the Premier of Russia, launched the controversial ''[[shock therapy (economics)|shock therapy]]'' reforms aimed at creating a liberal [[free market economy]] in Russia
* [[Boris Gryzlov]], leading politician, parliamentarian and diplomat, served as the [[Minister of Internal Affairs (Russia)|Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia]] and the [[Chairman of the State Duma]], currently serves as the Russian Ambassador to [[Belarus]]
* [[Mikhail Fradkov]], leading politician, intelligence official and scholar, served as Premier of Russia and the Director of the [[Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)|Foreign Intelligence Service]], currently heads the [[Russian Institute for Strategic Studies]]
* [[Sergei Kiriyenko]], leading politician and [[apparatchik]], served as the Premier of Russia and the General Director of [[Rosatom]], currently serves as the First Deputy Chief of Staff of the [[Presidential Administration of Russia]] 
[[File:Dmitry Medvedev official large photo -1.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Dmitry Medvedev]]]]
* [[Sergey Lavrov]], leading politician and diplomat, served as the [[Russian Ambassador to the United Nations]], currently the [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia]]
* [[Yury Luzhkov]], leading politician, served as the [[Mayor of Moscow]], was one of the founders of the ruling [[United Russia]] party
* [[Evgeny Markin]], businessman, public figure and politician
* [[Valentina Matviyenko]], leading politician, parliamentarian and diplomat, served as the Russian Ambassador to [[Malta]] and Greece as well as the [[Governor of Saint Petersburg]], currently the [[Chairman of the Federation Council]]
* [[Dmitry Medvedev]], leading politician and security official, served as the [[President of Russia|President]] and the [[Prime Minister of Russia|Premier of Russia]], currently the Deputy Chairman of the [[Security Council of Russia]]
* [[Sergei Mironov]], leading politician and parliamentarian, served as [[Chairman of the Federation Council]], founder and current Chairman of the [[A Just Russia — For Truth]] party
* [[Yevgeny Primakov]], leading politician, diplomat, intelligence officer and academician, served as the Director of the [[Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)|Foreign Intelligence Service]], the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the [[Prime Minister of Russia|Premier of Russia]], presided over the start of Russian economic recovery and a significant change in foreign policy
* [[Vladimir Putin]], leading politician and intelligence officer, served as the Director of the [[Federal Security Service]] and the Premier of Russia, currently the [[President of Russia]], presided over impressive Russian economic recovery and military build-up, annexed [[Crimea]]
[[File:Vladimir Putin-5 edit.jpg|90px|thumb|[[Vladimir Putin]]]]
*[[Anatoly Sobchak]], first post-Soviet mayor of St. Petersburg
*[[Sergei Stepashin]], Prime Minister in 1999, currently the head of the Account Chamber of Russia (the state audit agency)
*[[Boris Yeltsin]], the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999 
[[File:Борис Николаевич Ельцин-1 (cropped) (cropped).jpg|90px|thumb|[[Boris Yeltsin]]]]
*[[Vladimir Zhirinovsky]], founder and the leader of the [[Liberal Democratic Party of Russia]], Vice-chairman of the State Duma
*[[Gennady Zyuganov]], head of the [[Communist Party of the Russian Federation]] since 1993