Vladimir Resin

Vladimir Iosifovich Resin (Влади́мир Ио́сифович Ре́син; born 21 February 1936) is a Russian politician who was the acting Mayor of Moscow, appointed by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to succeed Yury Luzhkov on 28 September 2010. Resin previously served as the first deputy mayor under Luzhkov.

Biography
Resin was born to a Jewish family on 21 February 1936 in Minsk. He graduated from the Moscow Mining Institute in 1958 and worked in the construction and mining sectors. In 1988, he started working in the Moscow city administration. He was the head of architecture and construction, as well as the acting mayor after Yury Luzhkov's dismissal in September 2010. Soon after he joined the ruling United Russia party and was considered possible candidate for mayoralty. Resin kept his position of first deputy mayor for more than a year after Luzhkov's dismissal. In December 2011 he was elected member of the 6th State Duma of Russia. In the 8th convocation of Russia's lower house Resin is the oldest member.

Resin has a penchant for expensive wristwatches the most expensive recognized by experts as Swiss-made DeWitt, La Pressy Grande Complication, costing more than $1 million.

Sanctions
Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.

He is one of the members of the State Duma the United States Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.