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 The Far Eastern Federal District (russian: Дальневосто́чный федера́льный о́круг, ''Dalnevostochny federalny okrug'') is the largest of the eight federal districts of Russia but the least populated, with a p ...

since 2013. From 2004 to 2012, he served as Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment of Russia.

Political career

Local government

Trutnev was elected mayor of

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in 1996 (achieving 61.42% support in the first round) and governor of the

Perm Oblast Until 1 December 2005, Perm Oblast (russian: Пе́рмская о́бласть) was a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District. According to the results of the referendum held in October 2004, Perm Oblast was ...

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. 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. On 31 August 2013 he was appointed

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and Presidential Envoy to the

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, 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".

Sanctions

In response to the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. ...

, on 6 April 2022 the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the

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added Trutnev to its list of persons sanctioned pursuant to . Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions
" Published 2022-0418.

References

External links

Official site
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