Yury Trutnev

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

For the Soviet/Russian physicist, see Yuri Trutnev (scientist).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Petrovich and the family name is Trutnev.

Yury Trutnev
Юрий Трутнев
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District
Assumed office
31 August 2013
Acting: 7 – 18 May 2018 and 15 – 21 January 2020
PresidentVladimir Putin
Prime MinisterDmitry Medvedev
Mikhail Mishustin
Preceded byViktor Ishayev
Assistant to the President of Russia
In office
22 May 2012 – 31 August 2013
2nd Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia
In office
9 March 2004 – 21 May 2012
Preceded byVitaly Artyukhov
Succeeded bySergey Donskoy
3rd Governor of Perm Oblast
In office
17 December 2000 – 11 March 2004
Preceded byGennady Igumnov
Succeeded byOleg Chirkunov
1st Mayor of Perm
In office
9 December 1996 – 17 December 2000
Preceded byVladimir Fil
Succeeded byArkady Kamenev
Personal details
Born (1956-03-01) 1 March 1956
Perm, Perm Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
(now Perm Krai, Russia)
Political partyUnited Russia

He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[1]

Political career

Local government

Trutnev was elected mayor of Perm in 1996 (achieving 61.42% support in the first round) and governor of the Perm Oblast in 2000 (51.48%).

Federal government

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

In 2008 and 2009, Trutnev was officially named Russia's highest earning member of government. 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.[2] 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.[3]

On 31 August 2013 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District in the First Medvedev Cabinet. He was re-appointed to this office on 18 May 2018 with the Second Medvedev Cabinet, and again on 21 January 2020 with the Mishustin Cabinet.

Defence of seal clubs

Russia made headlines worldwide when, on 18 March 2010, it announced that it would ban the killing of seals less than a year old,[4] 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 defenceless animals can't be deemed a "hunt".[5]

Sanctions

In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 6 April 2022 the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury added Trutnev to its list of persons sanctioned pursuant to Executive Order 14024.[6]

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.[7]

References
  1. "О присвоении классного чина государственной гражданской службы Российской Федерации Трутневу Ю.П.". Decree No. 1195 of 21 August 2012 (in Russian). President of Russia.
  2. (in Russian) Income declarations of Russian government officials for 2009 Archived 15 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Published 12 April 2010
  3. "Article in the Moscow Times". Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  4. "Russia bans hunting of baby harp seals". The Guardian. Associated Press. 19 March 2009. Retrieved 19 November 2017 – via www.theguardian.com.
  5. "International Fund for Animal Welfare Press Release". Reuters. Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  6. Office of Foreign Assets Control. "Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions." Published 2022-0418. 87 FR 23023
  7. "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
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