Dmitry Vadimovich Zelenin (; born 27 November 1962) is a Russian businessman and politician. During 2003-2011 he was governor of

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Biography

Zelenin graduated from the

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT; , also known as PhysTech), is a public university, public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It prepares specialists in theoretical physics, theoretical and applied physics, ...

(Phystech) in 1986 and worked in the electronics industry until 1990 when he became commercial director of Resurs Bank and chief executive of this bank in 1995. Zelenin was one of the top managers of

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having joined in 1996 as first deputy general director. This company is one of the largest

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producers in the world. Dmitry Zelenin was elected governor of Tver Oblast in December 2003, bypassing incumbent

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officer Igor Zubov and communist

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. He was appointed for a second term by president Vladimir Putin in July 2007. In 2010, Zelenin caused a scandal when he posted photos of a salad containing an earthworm on his Twitter account, which was allegedly served to German President

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. Sergei Prikhodko, foreign policy adviser to president

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, then asked him to resign. Zelenin resigned as governor in June 2011. The main reason was not the Kremlin incident, but the result of the Legislative Assembly election, where

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party suffered its second-worst electoral performance in the 2011 regional elections. Zelenin is married with two daughters and a son.

References

External links

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Personal website of Dmitry Zelenin
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