Valentina Matviyenko
Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, born Tjutina (Russian Валентина Ивановна Матвиенко, scientific transliteration Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko; born April 7, 1949 in Shepetovka, now Ukraine) is a representative of the executive branch of St. Petersburg Chairman of Russian Federation Council, the third highest state office in Russia. Through her office she is a member of the most important Russian leadership body, the Security Council of the Russian Federation. From 2003 to 2011 she was governor of Saint Petersburg.
Life
Valentina Matviyenko was the daughter of a soldier and a costume seamstress. Her parents were members of the Russian minority in Ukraine. Spent her childhood Matvienko in Cherkassy. Matviyenko graduated in 1966 from high school and graduated in 1972 at the Leningrad Chemical- Pharmaceutical Institute and 1985 at the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
Since 1972, she ran her political career within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1989 she was voted one of People's Deputies of the USSR ( Members of the Congress of People's Deputies, the former Soviet Parliament ). 1998 to 2003 Matvienko was Deputy Russian Prime Minister and headed in that office in the social field. Later, she was for a time in the diplomatic service, including as Russian ambassador to Malta and Greece, and the Russian Foreign Ministry. From October 2003 to 20 December 2011 was Matvienko Governor of Saint Petersburg - she was the first woman in the office of governor in Russia. Another wife, Natalia Komarova, the Governor of the autosomes district of Khanty -Mansi was appointed only on 8 February 2010.
September 2011 were Matviyenko, was elected as the first woman in the post of chairman of the Russian Federation Council. Her successor in St. Petersburg ex - KGB officer Georgi Poltavchenko was appointed.
After the referendum on the incorporation of Crimea into the Russian Federation ( Krimkrise ), in which almost 97 percent had voted for it, there was her name, such as eleven, and on the sanctions list of the U.S., so she was of ban on entry into the United States blocking of U.S. account affected. She stated that she had no accounts abroad.
Private
Valentina Matviyenko is married to Vladimir Vasilievich Matvienko since 1971. Her husband, from whom she is separated lives, confined to a wheelchair and lives in a small house in the Leningrad Oblast.
The marriage produced a son named Sergei (born 1973 ) emerged. He is currently Director of Development for a subsidiary of the Russian bank VTB. Sergei was married from 2004 to 2006, with the Russian- Kurdish singer Zara, with whom he has a daughter named Arina.
Awards
- 2001: Grand Gold Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria
- Honorary Doctor of the Russian Military Medical Academy