Leonid Yakovlevich Gozman (Russian: Леонид Яковлевич Гозман; born 13 July 1950) is an Israeli-Russian politician who served as the president of the Union of Right Forces.

In 1993, he joined the Choice of Russia,[3] an electoral bloc of Boris Yeltsin supporters led by Gaidar.

In 1996, Gozman became an adviser to Anatoly Chubais, presidential chief of staff and later First Deputy Prime Minister.

[1] In August 1999, Gozman became a deputy chief of staff of the Union of Right Forces, a coalition of liberal political parties created for that year's legislative election.

[14] According to journalist Mikhail Zygar, in 2010 the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev tasked Vladislav Surkov to create a liberal counterpart to the ruling United Russia.

[15] Gozman supported the accession of the president's allies to the party leadership, since it would facilitate its aspirations to govern.

[19] In September, after Prokhorov's refusal to remove Yevgeny Roizman from the party list, the billionaire was ousted from Right Cause by Surkov.

[22] On 25 July 2022, he was detained by Russian police in Moscow over his alleged "failure to inform the authorities swiftly enough about his citizenship of Israel".

[23] In August 2022, he was arrested for 15 days based on a Facebook post he made in 2022, which stated that: "Hitler was an absolute evil, but Stalin was even worse.