Yury Trutnev

Yury Trutnev
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District
In office
August 31, 2013 – May 7, 2018
Preceded by Viktor Ishayev
Assistant to the President of Russia
In office
May 22, 2012 – August 31, 2013
2nd Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia
In office
March 9, 2004 – May 21, 2012
Preceded by Vitaly Artyukhov
Succeeded by Sergey Donskoy
3rd Governor of Perm Oblast
In office
December 17, 2000 – March 11, 2004
Preceded by Gennady Igumnov
Succeeded by Oleg Chirkunov
1st Mayor of Perm
In office
December 9, 1996 – December 17, 2000
Preceded by Vladimir Fil
Succeeded by Arkady Kamenev
Personal details
Born (1956-03-01) March 1, 1956
Perm, Perm Oblast, Soviet Union
(now Russia)
Political party United Russia

Yury Petrovich Trutnev (Russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Тру́тнев; born March 1, 1956) is a Russian politician who is 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%).

Federal government

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

In 2008 and 2009, Trutnev was officially named Russia's best earning government member. 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]

Defending seals

Russia made headlines worldwide when, on March 18, 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 defenseless animals can't be deemed a "hunt".[4]

References

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

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