Dmitry Rogozin
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Russia | |
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Assumed office 2011 |
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Dmitryi Olegovich Rogozin 21 December 1963 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Spouse(s) | Tatiana Gennadievna Rogozina |
| Children | Alexey (1983) |
| Religion | Russian Orthodox |
| Website | http://www.rogozin.ru/ |
Dmitryi Olegovich Rogozin (Russian: Дми́трий Оле́гович Рого́зин; born 21 December 1963) is a Russian politician who has been Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, in charge of defense industry, since 2011.
In January 2008, he became Russia's ambassador to NATO, serving until December 2011. He was a leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party, until it merged with other similar Russian parties to form the Fair Russia party. He holds a doctor's degree and speaks four languages.
On 18 February 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appointed Rogozin as Special Representative on anti-missile defense and negotiations with NATO countries on this issue.
On 23 December 2011, Rogozin was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister, in charge of defense and space industry. As responsible for the defense industry, he leads the creation of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry.
Rogozin is the head of Russia’s Arctic Commission.
He was born in Moscow to a family of a Soviet military scientist. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1986, with a degree in journalism, and in 1988, he graduated with another degree in economics. In 1996, he also got a PhD in philosophy.
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'. 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 former the Soviet republics.
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