Yury Luzhkov
Yuri Luzhkov (Russian Юрий Михайлович Лужков; scientific transliteration Yuri Michajlovič Lužkov; born September 21, 1936 in Moscow ) is a Russian politician and the husband of businesswoman Elena Nikolaevna Baturina. From 1992 to 2010 he was mayor of Moscow.
Life
In 1958 he completed his studies at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas Industry IM Gubkin from. After college degree Luzhkov worked in the chemical industry and as a department head in the Ministry of Chemical Industry of the Soviet Union.
In 1987 he joined the Moscow City Government, later became a deputy in the Supreme Soviet. In July 1991 he was proposed by Gavriil Popov, the former mayor of Moscow, for the office of Vice- Mayor and confirmed by a majority of MPs. Following the resignation Popov in June 1992 Luzhkov was appointed by President Boris Yeltsin to Moscow Mayor. On June 16, 1996, and 1999 and 2003 he was re-elected with 88.5 %, 69.9 % and 74.8 % of the vote. In June 2007, Luzhkov was re-elected for the fourth time, this time - according to revised legislation now - by the majority ( 32 per -versus three Contra votes) deputies of the Moscow City Duma on the proposal of President Putin.
The end of 1998, he founded the political movement fatherland, united and 2001 the good stuff in the United Russia party went up in the run-up to the 1999 parliamentary elections with the movement of All Russia, in Luzhkov held the post of the Chairman of the Supreme Council. In the presidential elections in March 2000, he supported Vladimir Putin. From September 2000 to March 2001 he was a member of the Presidium of the State Council of the Russian Federation.
In May 2004, he gave the resignation of his friend, President of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara in Georgia, Aslan Abashidze, who got into trouble after mass protests against his autocratic style of government, and enabled him to exile in Moscow.
2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, Luzhkov began as a homosexual opponents in scene. On a mayor meeting in Berlin in February 2006 he described homosexuality as unnatural. The annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade Moscow he has regularly banned and called them in January 2007 as "Satan Show". The organizers of this demonstration thereupon appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, since the European Convention on Human Rights (CETS 005) represents the right to freedom of assembly. At the unveiling of a Washington, D.C. donated statue of Walt Whitman, also attended by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his counterpart Hillary Clinton attended, he praised the " the spirit of American optimism " permeated poetry.
In 2008, Yuri Luzhkov described the city of Sevastopol as a Russian city actually. As a result, it gave him the Ukrainian government ban on entry into the Ukraine and the status of an unwanted person. He is also known for his visionary ideas; as Moscow's waste problem should be removed by a powered by hydropower enigmatic plant for waste separation or armed janitor in the fight against icicles with laser cannons.
In September 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the dismissal of Luzhkov as mayor of Moscow, was named as the basic loss of confidence. This was preceded by a media campaign which is controlled by the Russian government TV station. This Luzhkov was accused of corruption and abuse of office. Luzhkov, who had been a board member of "United Russia" up to this point, then he resigned from the party and accused of not having defended him against the objections raised in the mass media claims, although the Moscow party leadership before him with allegations of corruption against had been standing behind him. Before the definition of a successor Luzhkov's office of Deputy Mayor Vladimir Resin has been adopted provisionally. His successor as mayor of Moscow was elected on 21 October 2010 Sergei Sobyanin.
Private
Luzhkov lives in a second marriage with Yelena Baturina, a well known entrepreneur. She is on the Forbes list of the richest people of Russia the only woman. Luzhkov has four children: two sons from his first and two daughters from his current marriage.
His hobbies are football, tennis and beekeeping.
Awards
Luzhkov was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner of Labour and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the stages I, II and III. For his military services he was awarded the medal of honor and the medal defender of free Russia.
In 2007 he received from the Mayor of Vienna Michael Häupl the Great Golden Medal for Service to the City of Vienna.