Boris Gryzlov

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vyacheslavovich and the family name is Gryzlov.

Boris Gryzlov
Борис Грызлов
Vladimir Rushaylo
Succeeded byRashid Nurgaliyev
Parliamentary leader of United Russia in the State Duma
In office
7 December 2003 – 24 September 2011
Preceded byVladimir Pekhtin
Succeeded byAndrey Vorobyov
Personal details
Born
Boris Vyacheslavovich Gryzlov

(1950-12-15) 15 December 1950 (age 73)
Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyUnited Russia
SpouseAda Viktorovna Gryzlova
ChildrenDmitry (1979)
Evgeniya (1980)
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Boris Vyacheslavovich Gryzlov (Russian: Борис Вячеславович Грызлов, Russian pronunciation: [bɐˈrʲiz ɡrɨˈzɫof];[1] born 15 December 1950) is a Russian politician currently serving as the Russian Ambassador to Belarus. Previously, he served as the chairman of the State Duma from 2003 to 2011 and as interior minister from 2001 to 2003. He was also the leader of the ruling United Russia party.

Early career

Gryzlov was born in

was elected
to the State Duma running on the Unity party ticket. In January 2000, he was elected chairman of the Unity faction in the Duma.

Interior Minister

In March 2001, he was appointed to the post of chief of Russian police and became Interior Minister. In this position, Gryzlov proclaimed that the fight against terrorism and corruption were his priorities.

Gryzlov supported the Kremlin's policies in Chechnya[when?] and won the reputation of being a trusted and loyal supporter of the president.

In August 2001, Boris Gryzlov claimed that up to 100 industrial enterprises in

Prosecutor General's Office in April that the Saint Petersburg City Administration had given preferential treatment to the Petersburg Fuel Company.[4]

Parliament speaker

Within a year, he returned to

party politics, and in November 2002, became the head of the United Russia
, a centrist pro-Putin group what emerged from Unity and several other pro-government movements that joined it. In December 2003, Boris Gryzlov was elected as speaker of the Duma.

In November 2009, Gryzlov defined United Russia's ideology as "Russian conservatism" – characterizing such conservatism as "an ideology of stability and development, constant creative renovation of society without stagnation and revolutions."[5] Gryzlov resigned from the office of Parliament speaker on 14 December 2011, amongst accusations of polling fraud orchestrated by the United Russia party in the 2011 Russian Duma elections.[6]

Sanctions

Sanctioned by the

UK government in 2014 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.[7]

Diplomat

From December 2015, Gryzlov has been representative of Russia in the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine.[8]

On 14 January 2022, president Vladimir Putin appointed Gryzlov as Russian ambassador to the Republic of Belarus.[9] On February 3, Belarusian president Lukashenko received credentials of the new ambassador of Russia.[10]

Memorable quotes

Following the

2007 Parliamentary elections, Gryzlov responded to criticism of electoral violations saying: They in no way put in doubt the final result. The fact that these violations have been registered shows that we have a transparent ballot.[11]

Following the 2009

prosecutor general
.

He has also voiced significant support for the controversial Russian inventor Viktor Petrik, even co-signing together with Petrik a number of patent applications. After the Russian Academy of Sciences commission claimed that Petrik was a fraud, Gryzlov denounced the panel as obscurantism.[14]

References

  1. ^ In isolatio, Борис is pronounced [bɐˈrʲis].
  2. ^ "Биография (Biography in Russian)". Archived from the original on 9 July 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Newsweek details Putin's alleged organized crime ties..." Vol. 7, no. 155. The Jamestown Foundation. 27 August 2001. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
  4. ^ Business - IN BRIEF, St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved on 2008-10-26
  5. Xinhua
    . Retrieved 7 March 2011.
  6. ^ Schwirtz, Michael (14 December 2011). "Boris V. Gryzlov, a Putin Ally, Resigns as Parliament Speaker". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  8. ^ "Путин назначил Грызлова представителем России в контактной группе по Украине" [Putin appoints Gryzlov as Russian representative in contact group on Ukraine]. Interfax (in Russian). 26 December 2015.
  9. ^ "Putin appoints Boris Gryzlov as Russian Ambassador to Belarus". TASS. 14 January 2022.
  10. ^ "Лукашенко принял верительные грамоты нового посла России в Белоруссии Грызлова" [Lukashenko received credentials of new Russian Ambassador to Belarus Gryzlov]. Kommersant (in Russian). 3 February 2022.
  11. ^ "Russia's Parliamentary Election Was "Not Fair" – OSCE". Trend.Az. 3 December 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  12. ^ Cited source in Russian. Archived 2009-11-24 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ "АПН Северо-Запад / ДПНИ требует привлечь Бориса Грызлова по статье 282 УК РФ". www.apn-spb.ru. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  14. ^ White, Gregory L., "Russian Inventor Has Friends In Kremlin, but Skeptics Outside It", The Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2010.
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