Dmitry Rogozin
Encyclopedia
Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin is a well-known Russia
n diplomat
and popular politician, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia. In January, 2008, he became Russia's ambassador to NATO. He was a leader of the Rodina
(Motherland) party until it merged with other similar Russian parties to form the Fair Russia
party. He speaks 4 languages and holds a doctor's degree.
On 18 February 2011 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
appointed Dmitry Rogozin as a Special Representative on anti-missile defence
and negotions with NATO countries on this issue.
in a family of a famous Soviet military scientist. He graduated from Moscow State University
in 1986 with a degree in journalism and in 1988 graduated with another degree in economics. In 1996 he also got a PhD in philosophy.
In 1993 Dmitry 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 - 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'. Rogozin was elected to the State Duma as a deputy from Voronezh
city in 1997 and became a vocal activist for protection of rights of ethnic Russians in former Soviet Union republics.
Rogozin was re-elected to Russian State Duma in 1999 and subsequently 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 Russian president to deal with Kaliningrad
problems that have arosen due to Baltic states joining the European Union. For this work Dmitry Rogozin received an official letter of gratitude from Russian president Vladimir Putin.
In 2003 Dmitry 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 2003 parliamentary election
, propelling Rogozin briefly to the post of Russian Duma's vice-speaker, from which he was dismissed a year and a half later as a result of some elaborate inter-faction dealings. He remained an ordinary member of the Duma until the following election in 2007.
After the breakthrough in 2003 elections, Rogozin became involved in power struggle with Rodina's other co-chairman Glazyev, who kept 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 President Vladimir 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 election to the Moscow City Duma for using what was considered as chauvinist slogan 'Let's clean the Garbage!'. Many analysts believe it was made illegally to prevent Dmitry Rogozin becoming a candidate at Russian presidential elections in 2008.
Rogozin's right views were not shared by all his party's members. In early 2006, at Rodina's congress, Rogozin was appeared to resign as party leader. Rogozin left Rodina
following its merger with the Russian Party of Life
and the Pensioners' Party
into Fair Russia
. As of November 2006 he has been the Chairman of the revived Congress of Russian Communities
. In April 2007 he announced that he may support the formation of the Great Russia Party, in conjunction with the Movement Against Illegal Immigration
. The party said it may consider supporting the candidacy of Belarus
ian President Alexander Lukashenko
for the Presidency of Russia in 2008, a move which was unconstitutional because Lukashenko is not a Russia
n citizen. Because Russian authorities had not registered Great Russia, the party could not contest 2007's Russian State Duma election
.
In 2008 he was appointed a Russian ambassador to NATO. As Russia's NATO envoy he was heavily opposed to Ukraine and Georgia becoming members of NATO. After the two countries were denied membership of the NATO Membership Action Plan he claimed that: "They will not invite these bankrupt scandalous regimes to join NATO...more so as important partnerships with Russia are at stake.". For such words he was criticized by some Ukrainian and Georgian officials. Former Ukraine’s envoy to NATO Ihor Sahach said: “In my opinion, he is merely used as one of cogs in the informational war waged against Ukraine. Sooner or later, I think, it should be stopped”. The envoy also expressed a surprise with Rogozin’s slang words. “It was for the first time that I heard such a higher official as envoy using this, I don’t even know how to describe it, whether it was a slang or language of criminal circles… I understand Russian, but, I’m sorry, I don’t know what his words meant”. The Foreign Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Ohryzko stated that he did not regard the statement as serious.
During his work in Brussels he has managed to establish effective cooperation between NATO and Russia. Currently NATO considers Russia as one of its main priorities and the most important partner.
His other book - War and Peace in Terms and Descriptions - was named the best book of 2004 in Russia.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n diplomat
Diplomat
A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...
and popular politician, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia. In January, 2008, he became Russia's ambassador to NATO. He was a leader of the Rodina
Rodina
Rodina or Motherland-National Patriotic Union was one of the four parties that controlled seats in the Russian legislature in 2003-2007...
(Motherland) party until it merged with other similar Russian parties to form the Fair Russia
Fair Russia
A Just Russia, , also translated as Fair Russia, is a social democratic political party in Russia currently holding 38 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. It was formed on October 28, 2006, as a merger of Rodina, the Russian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party. Later, 6 further minor...
party. He speaks 4 languages and holds a doctor's degree.
On 18 February 2011 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is the third President of the Russian Federation.Born to a family of academics, Medvedev graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1987. He defended his dissertation in 1990 and worked as a docent at his alma mater, now renamed to Saint...
appointed Dmitry Rogozin as a Special Representative on anti-missile defence
Anti-ballistic missile
An anti-ballistic missile is a missile designed to counter ballistic missiles .A ballistic missile is used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional warheads in a ballistic flight trajectory. The term "anti-ballistic missile" describes any antimissile system designed to counter...
and negotions with NATO countries on this issue.
Biography
Dmitry Rogozin was born in MoscowMoscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
in a family of a famous Soviet military scientist. He graduated from Moscow State University
Moscow State University
Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...
in 1986 with a degree in journalism and in 1988 graduated with another degree in economics. In 1996 he also got a PhD in philosophy.
In 1993 Dmitry Rogozin joined the recently-created party "Congress of Russian Communities
Congress of Russian Communities
The Congress of Russian Communities is a nationalist political organization in Russia. It was created in the early 1990s initially to promote the rights of ethnic Russians living in the newly independent countries of the former Soviet Union....
" led by General Alexander Lebed and, after its founder died in a 2002 helicopter crash, Rogozin became joint leader with Sergey Glazyev
Sergey Glazyev
Sergey Yurievich Glazyev is a Russian politician and economist, Academician of Russian Academy of Science since 2008. He was a minister in 1993, a member of the State Duma in 1993-2007, and ran for President of Russia in 2004...
of what became the Rodina party - described by Novaya Gazeta
Novaya Gazeta
Novaya Gazeta is a Russian newspaper well known in the country for its critical and investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs....
liberal journalist Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist, author, and human rights activist known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and then-President of Russia Vladimir Putin...
as 'created by the Kremlin’s spin doctors specifically...to draw moderately nationalist voters away from the more extreme National Bolsheviks'. Rogozin was elected to the State Duma as a deputy from Voronezh
Voronezh
Voronezh is a city in southwestern Russia, the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is located on both sides of the Voronezh River, away from where it flows into the Don. It is an operating center of the Southeastern Railway , as well as the center of the Don Highway...
city in 1997 and became a vocal activist for protection of rights of ethnic Russians in former Soviet Union republics.
Rogozin was re-elected to Russian State Duma in 1999 and subsequently 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 Russian president to deal with Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea...
problems that have arosen due to Baltic states joining the European Union. For this work Dmitry Rogozin received an official letter of gratitude from Russian president Vladimir Putin.
In 2003 Dmitry Rogozin became one of the leaders of the Rodina
Rodina
Rodina or Motherland-National Patriotic Union was one of the four parties that controlled seats in the Russian legislature in 2003-2007...
(Motherland) "national-patriotic" coalition, which won 9.2 % of the popular vote or 37 of the 450 seats in the Duma in 2003 parliamentary election
Russian legislative election, 2003
Legislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on December 7, 2003. At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma , the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia ....
, propelling Rogozin briefly to the post of Russian Duma's vice-speaker, from which he was dismissed a year and a half later as a result of some elaborate inter-faction dealings. He remained an ordinary member of the Duma until the following election in 2007.
After the breakthrough in 2003 elections, Rogozin became involved in power struggle with Rodina's other co-chairman Glazyev, who kept socialist
Socialism
Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...
views. Glazyev nominated himself as the party's candidate in the 2004 presidential election
Russian presidential election, 2004
Presidential elections were held in Russia on 14 March 2004. Incumbent Vladimir Putin was seeking a second full four-year term. He was re-elected with 71.31% of the vote.-Sergey Glazyev:...
- but Rogozin called on his party comrades to support incumbent President Vladimir 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 election to the Moscow City Duma for using what was considered as chauvinist slogan 'Let's clean the Garbage!'. Many analysts believe it was made illegally to prevent Dmitry Rogozin becoming a candidate at Russian presidential elections in 2008.
Rogozin's right views were not shared by all his party's members. In early 2006, at Rodina's congress, Rogozin was appeared to resign as party leader. Rogozin left Rodina
Rodina
Rodina or Motherland-National Patriotic Union was one of the four parties that controlled seats in the Russian legislature in 2003-2007...
following its merger with the Russian Party of Life
Russian Party of Life
The Russian Party of Life was a political party in Russia, led by Sergey Mironov . According to its website, the party was liberal on economic issues and nationalistic on everything else...
and the Pensioners' Party
Russian Pensioners' Party
The Russian Pensioners' Party is a political party in Russia.The party was founded as the Party of Pensioners in 1997...
into Fair Russia
Fair Russia
A Just Russia, , also translated as Fair Russia, is a social democratic political party in Russia currently holding 38 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. It was formed on October 28, 2006, as a merger of Rodina, the Russian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party. Later, 6 further minor...
. As of November 2006 he has been the Chairman of the revived Congress of Russian Communities
Congress of Russian Communities
The Congress of Russian Communities is a nationalist political organization in Russia. It was created in the early 1990s initially to promote the rights of ethnic Russians living in the newly independent countries of the former Soviet Union....
. In April 2007 he announced that he may support the formation of the Great Russia Party, in conjunction with the Movement Against Illegal Immigration
Movement Against Illegal Immigration
The Movement Against Illegal Immigration is a Russian nationalist and anti-Illegal immigration organization. The organization is led by Aleksandr Belov a former member of ultra-nationalist Pamyat...
. The party said it may consider supporting the candidacy of Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
ian President Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has been serving as the President of Belarus since 20 July 1994. Before his career as a politician, Lukashenko worked as director of a state-owned agricultural farm. Under Lukashenko's rule, Belarus has come to be viewed as a state whose conduct is out of line...
for the Presidency of Russia in 2008, a move which was unconstitutional because Lukashenko is not a Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n citizen. Because Russian authorities had not registered Great Russia, the party could not contest 2007's Russian State Duma election
Russian legislative election, 2007
Legislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on 2 December 2007. At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia . Eleven parties were included in the ballot, including Russia's largest party, United Russia, which was supported by...
.
In 2008 he was appointed a Russian ambassador to NATO. As Russia's NATO envoy he was heavily opposed to Ukraine and Georgia becoming members of NATO. After the two countries were denied membership of the NATO Membership Action Plan he claimed that: "They will not invite these bankrupt scandalous regimes to join NATO...more so as important partnerships with Russia are at stake.". For such words he was criticized by some Ukrainian and Georgian officials. Former Ukraine’s envoy to NATO Ihor Sahach said: “In my opinion, he is merely used as one of cogs in the informational war waged against Ukraine. Sooner or later, I think, it should be stopped”. The envoy also expressed a surprise with Rogozin’s slang words. “It was for the first time that I heard such a higher official as envoy using this, I don’t even know how to describe it, whether it was a slang or language of criminal circles… I understand Russian, but, I’m sorry, I don’t know what his words meant”. The Foreign Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Ohryzko stated that he did not regard the statement as serious.
During his work in Brussels he has managed to establish effective cooperation between NATO and Russia. Currently NATO considers Russia as one of its main priorities and the most important partner.
Writings
His political autobiography Enemy of the People became a best-seller in Russia.His other book - War and Peace in Terms and Descriptions - was named the best book of 2004 in Russia.