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Sergey Tsoy

Russian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ4506047
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Sergey Petrovich Tsoy (Russian: Сергей Петрович Цой; born 1957) is a Russian executive. He previously held roles in the Moscow City Hall and "RusHydro".

Biography

Sergey Tsoy was born in the Karablak city, the USSR, in 1957. After graduating from the Rostov State University, faculty of journalistics, Tsoy has worked a journalist of the Stroitelnaya newspaper.

Sergey Tsoy married Anita Tsoy in the late 1980s, a future famous Russian pop-singer of Korean descent and has a son.

Career

He has been working in the executive branch of the Moscow city government since March 26, 1989.

Starting on that date, he served as head of the press service and press secretary to the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council. Since 1992, he was an advisor and press secretary to Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.

Since 1997, he has been a member of the board of directors of the TV channel TV Centre (TVC), and since 2006, chairman of the board of directors of JSC "TV Centre".

In 2009, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the media group "Radio–Center", which includes three radio stations: "Govorit Moskva" ("Moscow Speaks"), "Sport-FM", and "Public Russian Radio".

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sergey Tsoy” as russian politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 1989, 1992, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957-04-23. The account is most persuasive where Sergey, Tsoy and Russian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as russian politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4506047. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957, 1989, 1992 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from Sergey Tsoy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.