Yury Trutnev

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Yury Trutnev
Юрий Трутнев
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Deputy Prime Minister of Russia — Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District
Assumed office
31 August 2013
Acting: 7 – 18 May 2018 and 15 – 21 January 2020
PresidentVladimir Putin
Prime MinisterDmitry Medvedev
Mikhail Mishustin
Preceded byViktor Ishayev
Assistant to the President of Russia
In office
22 May 2012 – 31 August 2013
2nd Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia
In office
9 March 2004 – 21 May 2012
Preceded byVitaly Artyukhov
Succeeded bySergey Donskoy
3rd Governor of Perm Oblast
In office
17 December 2000 – 11 March 2004
Preceded byGennady Igumnov
Succeeded byOleg Chirkunov
1st
In office
9 December 1996 – 17 December 2000
Preceded byVladimir Fil
Succeeded byArkady Kamenev
Personal details
Born (1956-03-01) 1 March 1956 (age 66)
Perm, Perm Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyUnited Russia

Yury Petrovich Trutnev (Russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Тру́тнев; born 1 March 1956) is a Russian politician who serves as a Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District since 2013. From 2004 to 2012, he served as Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment of Russia.

Political career[]

Local government[]

He was elected mayor of Perm in 1996 (achieving 61.42% support in the first round) and governor of the Perm region in 2000 (51.48%).[citation needed]

Federal government[]

During his term as governor, Trutnev maintained a neutral stance towards the Kremlin administration.

In 2008 and 2009, Trutnev was officially named Russia's highest earning member of government. In April 2010, he reported an overall income of 155 million rubles ($5.34 million) for the past fiscal year, according to figures published by the government.[1] President Dmitry Medvedev in 2008 obliged all government officials to publish their incomes and assets, in his drive to fight rampant corruption. However, the figures do not explain how money was earned.[2]

On 31 August 2013 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District in the First Medvedev Cabinet. He was re-appointed to this office on 18 May 2018 with the Second Medvedev Cabinet, and again on 21 January 2020 with the Mishustin Cabinet.

Defending baby seals[]

Russia made headlines worldwide when, on 18 March 2010, it announced that it would ban the killing of seals less than a year old,[3] effectively ending one of the biggest kills of harp seals in the world. Yury Trutnev called the seal slaughter "bloody", and remarked that the killing of defenceless animals can't be deemed a "hunt".[4]

References[]

  1. ^ (in Russian) Income declarations of Russian government officials for 2009 Archived 15 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Published 12 April 2010
  2. ^ "Article in the Moscow Times". Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  3. ^ "Russia bans hunting of baby harp seals". Associated Press. March 19, 2009. Retrieved November 19, 2017 – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. ^ "International Fund for Animal Welfare Press Release". Archived from the original on September 7, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2017.

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