# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonid-markelov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:50:20.571Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonid-markelov"
name: "Leonid Markelov"
slug: "leonid-markelov"
description: "Leonid Igorevich Markelov is a Russian politician and lawyer, who is the former Head of Mari El. He took office on January 14, 2001, and resigned from office on April 6, 2017. Markelov was later arrested under suspicion of accepting bribes."
tagline: "Russian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leonid_Markelov_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1963-06-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.067608
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump