Valery (later Will) Nikolayevich Volkov
Date of birth: November 5, 2001
Place of birth: Moscow
Biography: Born on November 5, 2001, in the family of a deputy and a Gazprom shareholder. His father was a supporter of Yeltsin, a former deputy (and senator), party committee and party member, who managed to privatize several factories at the height of perestroika, becoming their owner, by 1991 he also privatized the bank, since they were sold at a meager price, and also collected shares of Gazprom and various plants, rising under Yeltsin. In 1993, he supported Yeltsin as a guarantor of his business and health. In 1997, Gergeev, having come to power, began to throw out the pro-Yeltsin politicals from power, Among them was a Valery's father, Nikolai Kolokolitsev. Being dismissed from post of in Federation Council, he stood in opposition to the government, calling for new elections and accusing Gergeev of "election fraud", standing in line with the so-called "liberal opposition", but the family had enough money for a comfortable life. In 2009, he was arrested on charges of corruption and illegal privatization of people's property, which was not far from the truth, because Will's father stuffed a lot of money into his pocket during Yeltsin rule and received state-owned enterprises, bringing vodka or cognac to Yeltsin. Will's mother, realizing that government arrests her too, flees with their father's stolen money on the West.
