Dmitry Rogozin
Dmitry Rogozin | |
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Дмитрий Рогозин | |
Konstantin Kosachyov | |
Member of the State Duma from Voronezh Oblast's Anna constituency | |
In office 1997–2003 | |
Preceded by | Ivan Rybkin |
Succeeded by | Aleksey Zhuravlyov |
Personal details | |
Born | Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin 21 December 1963 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Political party | United Russia |
Other political affiliations | Congress of Russian Communities (1999) |
Spouse |
Tatyana Gennadyevna Serebriakova
(m. 1983) |
Children | Alexey Rogozin (b. 1983) |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Website | www |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Russia Transnistria |
Years of service | 1992 |
Battles/wars | Transnistria War |
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Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin (Russian: Дми́трий Оле́гович Рого́зин; born 21 December 1963) is a Russian politician serving as the
He was co-founder of the far-right
Early life and education
Rogozin was born in Moscow to the family of a Soviet military scientist. He graduated from
His thesis on "Philosophy and Theory of Wars" earned him a Doctor of Philosophy while a
Political career
Early career
In 1992, Rogozin fought in the Transnistria War against the Moldovan forces as a soldier of a volunteer detachment.[5] In Transnistira, he became acquainted with the general Alexander Lebed. He is a vocal supporter of Transnistria's independence from Moldova.[6][7]
In 1993, Rogozin joined the recently created party Congress of Russian Communities led by General Alexander Lebed and, after its founder died in a 2002 helicopter crash, Rogozin became joint leader with Sergey Glazyev of what became the Rodina party, which was described by Novaya Gazeta liberal journalist Anna Politkovskaya as "created by the Kremlin's spin doctors specifically ... to draw moderately nationalist voters away from the more extreme National Bolsheviks".[8] Rogozin was elected to the State Duma as a deputy from Voronezh Oblast in 1997, and he became a vocal activist for protection of rights of ethnic Russians in the former Soviet republics.[citation needed]
Rogozin was re-elected to the State Duma in 1999 and then appointed the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, drawing a lot of media attention and a share of criticism for some of his flamboyant public remarks. In 2002, he was appointed a Special Representative of the Russian President to deal with Kaliningrad problems that arose by the Baltic states joining the European Union. Rogozin received an official letter of gratitude from Russian President Vladimir Putin.[citation needed]
In 2003, Rogozin became one of the leaders of the Rodina (Motherland) "national-patriotic" coalition, which won 9.2% of the popular vote or 37 of the 450 seats in the Duma in the 2003 parliamentary election, briefly propelling him to the post of the Duma's vice-speaker, from which he was dismissed a year and a half later as a result of some elaborate interfaction dealings. He remained an ordinary member of the Duma until the following election, in 2007.[citation needed]
After the breakthrough in the 2003 elections, Rogozin became involved in a power struggle with Rodina's other co-chairman, Glazyev, who had socialist views. Glazyev nominated himself as the party's candidate in the 2004 presidential election, but Rogozin called on his party comrades to support incumbent Putin. Rogozin soon ousted Glazyev, to become the party's sole leader.
Under Rogozin, Rodina shifted towards the right wing of Russian politics and became the second largest and one of the country's most successful parties. A number of controversies on Rogozin's policies culminated in it being banned in 2005 from standing for
Rogozin's right-wing views were not shared by all his party's members. In early 2006, at Rodina's congress, Rogozin resigned as party leader. Rogozin left Rodina after its merger with the
Ambassador to NATO
In 2008, Rogozin was appointed by the
On 18 February 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appointed Rogozin as the Special Representative on anti-missile defense; he negotiated with NATO countries on this issue.
Deputy Prime Minister
On 23 December 2011, Rogozin was appointed as Putin's Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the defense and space industries. For the defense industry, he led the creation of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry.
- Sanctions
In 2014, Rogozin was involved in several diplomatic conflicts following the
In 2015, Rogozin stated that Russia's defence sector has "many other ways of traveling the world besides tourist visas" and "tanks don't need visas".[13][14] On 29 April 2014, he tweeted: "After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline".[15] On 31 May 2020, Elon Musk replied following the successful launch of Crew Dragon Demo-2, that "the trampoline is working".[16]
On 10 May 2014, Rogozin started a diplomatic conflict between Romania and Russia after Romania barred his plane from entering its airspace. In response, he made two threatening posts on his Twitter account, one of which stated that next time, he would fly on board a Tu-160 bomber carrying maximum payload.[17]
Rogozin wrote a foreword for a book published in 2014, Alaska Betrayed and Sold: The History of a Palace Conspiracy, by Ivan Mironov. In it, Rogozin supported Mironov's claim that the
In 2015, Rogozin was the head of Russia's Arctic Commission.[19]
On 28 July 2017, he boarded an
On 2 August 2017, he was declared persona non grata by the Government of Moldova.[25]
Head of Roscosmos
In May 2018, Putin selected Rogozin to be the head of
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Rogozin stated on Twitter that the
On 26 February 2022, Rogozin posted a video threatening to leave US astronaut Mark T. Vande Hei in space and separate Russian modules of the space station altogether.[31][32] In March Roscosmos produced a mocked-up video portraying this, with cosmonauts saying goodbye to Vande Hei and detaching the Russian segment from the ISS. The Telegraph reported that this video was provocative and sparked fears because Vande Hei was scheduled to return to Earth along with two Russian cosmonauts in a Russian Soyuz capsule on 30 March. President Biden protested and demanded an apology, which was refused by Rogozin. [27]
On 2 March Rogozin posted on Twitter a video of workers removing the US, UK, and Japanese flags from a
On 2 April, Rogozin said that the aim of the economic sanctions against Russia was to "kill the Russian economy and plunge our people into despair and hunger, to get our country on its knees".[39] The next day he called for the lifting of sanctions on two Russian companies, TsNIIMash and Progress Rocket Space Centre, that are involved in the ISS.[40]
On 10 May, Rogozin observed that
On 22 May Rogozin warned that 50 new Satan II/RS-28 Sarmat/SS-X-30 intercontinental nuclear missiles would soon be combat ready. He said that "I suggest that aggressors speak to us more politely".[42]
On 13 June Rogozin stated that Ukraine must be destroyed once and for all: "what appeared in the place of Ukraine is an existential threat to the Russian people, Russian history, Russian language and Russian civilization. If we do not put an end to them, as, unfortunately, our grandfathers failed to, our grandchildren will be dying while putting an end to them at even greater cost. So let's put an end to them. Once and for all. For the sake of our grandchildren."[43]
On 28 June Rogozin had Roscosmos publish satellite images of the building in use for the
On 15 July 2022 Rogozin was dismissed from the position of the head of Roscosmos; former Vice Prime Minister Yury Borisov was appointed as his successor.[45] In October 2022, the Executive Director of Human Spaceflight Programs at Roscosmos, Sergei Krikalev, confirmed the reason for Rogozin's dismissal was to ease tensions.[46]
After Roscosmos
As of December 2022, Rogozin had not been given a new job, though President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state news agency TASS in July 2022 that Rogozin would get a new job "in due time".[47][failed verification]
In the lack of an official position of power in Russia, Rogozin declared himself the head of the "Tsar's Wolves" inspection group of volunteers, with the stated aim of testing and supplying weapons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.[48] By early December 2022, Rogozin had been posting images of himself dressed up as a soldier in expensive military gear on Telegram. Wagner paramilitary group commander Yevgeny Prigozhin said that "the actions of Rogozin in Ukraine are clearly being done for the purposes of public relations rather than furthering the Russian war effort."[49]
On 21 December 2022, whilst celebrating his 59th birthday in a restaurant in Donetsk, Rogozin and Vitaliy Khotsenko, the chairman of the self-proclaimed separatist Donetsk People's Republic, received shrapnel injuries from the explosion of a precision munition fired by Ukraine.[48][50] Rogozin, over a Telegram chat room, claimed someone had leaked his coordinates or general location in Donetsk.[51]
In May 2023, Rogozin expressed doubt that the US Apollo 11 mission really landed on the Moon in 1969, saying he had yet to see conclusive proof.[52]
Senator from Zaporozhye Oblast
On 23 September 2023, the governor of
Personal life
In 2016, his son Alexei Rogozin was appointed deputy director of the Property Department of the Ministry of Defense.[54]
According to anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, Rogozin earned a salary of 29.5 million rubles ($460,000) in 2018, which is vastly higher than that of NASA's chief. Engineers at Roscosmos make about $10,000 a year.[55] Rogozin owns a 800 m2 (8,600 sq ft) dacha north of Moscow worth about $3 million in 2019.[55]
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External links
- Media related to Dmitry Rogozin at Wikimedia Commons
- Quotations related to Dmitry Rogozin at Wikiquote
- Official website (in Russian)
- Dmitry Rogozin on Twitter(blogs) (in English)
- Dmitry Rogozin on Twitter(in Russian)
- Russian Mission to NATO (in English)
- Congress of Russian Communities (in Russian)