He is a member of Harmony and a deputy of the Saeima, elected to represent the Kurzeme electoral district.

From 1994 to 1998 he studied at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad, graduating in history.

He obtained a master's degree in pedagogy, and in 2002, he graduated from the Baltic Russian Institute as a lawyer.

From 1997 to 1998 he worked in a teacher training summer camp and from 1995 to 1999 as a law and political science lecturer at the Institute of Social Technologies.

[1] He speaks three languages, Russian, Latvian, English and enjoys football, swimming, volleyball and basketball.