Boris Gryzlov
Boris Gryzlov Vyacheslavovich (Russian Борис Вячеславович Грызлов; * December 15, 1950 in Vladivostok ) is a Russian politician. He was Interior Minister of Russia from 2001 to 2003 and from 2004 to 2008 chairman of the United Russia party. From 29 December 2003 to 14 December 2011, he was Chairman of the Russian State Duma.
Biography
Gryzlov was born in Vladivostok, but moved at the age of four years with his family to St. Petersburg ( then Leningrad ). His father Vyacheslav Gryzlov was used in the German -Soviet War of 1941-1945 as a fighter pilot in the Far East. His mother was a teacher. Both parents of Boris Gryzlov were of Russian origin. His grandfather was a Russian Orthodox priest.
Gryzlov closed the school No. 211 in Leningrad with honors and studied from 1967 to 1973 at the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications Technology for the Wireless Engineering. He then worked in a equipment manufacturing company first as an engineer and later as chief engineer and head of department.
The political career Gryslows began in the later 90s, which for its rise among other things, existing since the study years of friendship with the late Nikolai Patrushev intelligence chief has played a role. 1998 Gryzlov candidate in the elections to the St. Petersburg City Council, but failed. During the election campaign for the Duma elections in 1999, he headed the St. Petersburg Regional Staff of the moving unit ( Edinstvo ), which later became the United Russia party. In the subsequent elections, he was elected a deputy appointed and shortly thereafter became the leader of the Edinstvo. On 28 March 2001 President Putin Gryzlov appointed Minister of the Interior of the Russian Federation. In this office he was primarily known for his crackdown on corrupt police officers - he himself coined for this to become prominent term " werewolves in uniform". Liberal opposition threw Gryzlov before, however, to operate with these measures only populism ahead of the parliamentary elections.
In November 2002, the party leadership of United Russia Gryzlov elected as Chairman of the Supreme Council of the party. In the 2003 parliamentary elections Gryzlov moved again to the State Duma, United Russia and Chairman of the Group and of the deputies was elected as the new parliamentary speaker. Shortly after the elections in December 2003 ranged Gryzlov Putin announced his resignation as Minister of the Interior, a; then Rashid Nurgaliyev was appointed to succeed him in that office. In November 2004, Gryzlov was elected chairman of the United Russia party. A post he joined in 2008 from to Prime Minister Putin and has been Chairman of the Supreme Council of the party.
Boris Gryzlov has a Ph.D. in political science.
Since May 2011 Gryzlov is a member of the Coordination Council of the All-Russian National Front.
On December 14, 2011 Boris Gryzlov announced his resignation from the office of the Duma President and the Chairman of the United Russia faction in the Duma. The reason the weak performance of the ruling party "United Russia" at the Russian parliamentary election was called in 2011.
On November 18, 2012 it was announced that Boris Gryzlov executive chairman of the Russian nuclear energy agency Rosatom to be.
Private life
With her Boris Gryzlov has two children: Dmitri (* 1979) and Eugenia ( b. 1980 ).
Gryslows annual income for 2009 amounted to 16 million rubles according to official figures (just over 400 000 EUR ).
Gryzlov lives with his wife in a 274.5 -square-meter apartment in Moscow. In his spare time enjoys playing football Gryzlov.
Awards and honors
- Medal of honor of the Russian Federation ( 20 December 2000), for the active legislative and social enjoyment.
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, Second Class (15 December 2005), awarded for an outstanding contribution to strengthening Russian statehood, the development of parliamentarism, and the many years of conscientious work.
- Medal of honor of the Russian Federation ( 5 September 2006 ), for services in relation to the organization of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg in 2006.
- Medal of honor of the Moldovan Republic of Transnistria (5 September 2006), for personal use for the development and strengthening of friendship between the Russian Federation and the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic, for the active operation for representing the interests of citizens in connection with the 16th anniversary Transnistrian Moldovan founding of the Republic.
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III. Class (21 May 2008), awarded for achievements in the areas of legislation and the strengthening and development of Russian statehood.
- Alexander Nevsky Order (15 December 2010), for special, personal merits against the fatherland at the level of state-building and strengthening the international authority of Russia.
- Stolypin Medal (15 December 2011), for services with regard to the strengthening of Russian statehood, the development of parliamentarism, and the many years of conscientious work.
- Honorary doctorate from the Russian - Tajik ( Slavonic ) University.
- Candidate in political science (see Kandidat_der_Wissenschaften # CIS)