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Public Official
5) public official - a person who permanently, temporarily, or on special authority performs functions of a representative of power or carries out organizational-dispositional, administrative-economic functions in a state body or local self-government body
Source: Federal Law No. 59-FZ of May 2, 2006 (as amended on July 27, 2010, with amendments dated July 18, 2012) "On the Procedure for Considering Citizens' Appeals of the Russian Federation"