Sergei Shoigu. Biography of Valentina Matvienko Childhood, early years and family
Time spares no one - even people, so to speak, with opportunities. Most of the current political elite are now on average between forty and sixty years old. Thus, their youth fell - at the latest - in the late eighties. We offer you a selection of photographs of Russian politicians in their youth and today.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
The man who in the 90s said about himself “my mother is Russian, and my father is a lawyer” was born in Alma-Ata in 1946. Vladimir Zhirinovsky did not know his own father, who immigrated to Israel in the Soviet years. He was raised by his stepfather.In 1970, Zhirinovsky graduated from the Institute of Oriental Languages, then served in the army and got married. He entered politics in 1988, when he spoke at the congress of the "Democratic Union". Since 1990 - at party work in the Liberal Democratic Party.
Gennady Zyuganov
A staunch communist Gennady Zyuganov was born near Orel in 1944. His father and mother are teachers. In his college years, Zyuganov played in KVN, after graduating from the university he served in Germany, since 1966 he has been a member of the CPSU. After the collapse of the USSR, he was a member of all the compositions of the Russian State Duma, as well as the leader of the Communist Party of Russia. 
Valentina Matvienko
The future governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko was born in the town of Shepetovka in Ukraine in 1949. She spent her student years in Leningrad, studied to be a pharmacist, but after the institute she worked on the Komsomol line. In the 90s she was the ambassador to Malta until she went to work for the Russian government. In 2003-2011 - Governor of St. Petersburg. In 2011, she was appointed to the Federation Council. 
Mikhail Prokhorov
Businessman, former leader of the Civic Platform party Mikhail Prokhorov was born in Moscow in 1965. He studied at a special school, graduated from the institute with honors. In the 90s he was a banker, in the 2000s he became president of the biathlon union, bought a basketball team. He was engaged in a startup for the production of the first Russian hybrid Yo-mobile (the project was not implemented). 
Anatoly Chubais
Anatoly Chubais has been influencing Russian politics and the economy since 1991 in the most serious way - from the implementation of the privatization program in 1991 to the leadership of Rosnano. In the 1990s, a popular folklore phrase appeared: “Chubais is to blame for everything,” while the politician posted a section of jokes about himself on his website. In 2012, he married director and TV presenter Dunya Smirnova with his third marriage. 
Igor Sechin
The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, was born in 1960 in Leningrad into a family of workers. He has a twin sister. He studied at the Portuguese department of the philological faculty of Leningrad State University. In the late 80s, he worked in the Leningrad City Council on the line of international relations (with the twin city of Leningrad, Rio de Janeiro). After the 1996 presidential election, together with Vladimir Putin, he moved to Moscow to work. In 2008, he was appointed to the post of Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. 
Elena Mizulina
Elena Mizulina, chairman of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, was born in 1954. She graduated from the Faculty of History and Law of Yaroslavl University, married a classmate. She defended her dissertation; in one of the interviews she called herself "a scientist from God." 
In 1995, she became a deputy of the State Duma, since then, in one way or another, she has participated in the legislative process. She became famous for her initiatives regarding the ban on obscenities, abortions, and the adoption of Russian orphans by foreign citizens. Author of several bills against propaganda of homosexual relations.
Vitaly Milonov
Vitaly Milonov is a Russian politician with German roots and traditional beliefs. He is best known as the author of the law banning propaganda of homosexuality to minors. Born in Leningrad in 1974, he began his political career as an assistant to Galina Starovoitova. In 2017, he moved from the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly to work in the State Duma. 
Vitaly Milonov tried to prosecute several world stars for promoting homosexuality: Madonna, Lady Gaga and the entire Rammstein group. His attempts were not successful.
When actor and writer Stephen Fry came to Russia to shoot a film about the living conditions of LGBT people, he met with Vitaly Milonov. At this meeting, Milonov accused the liberals of "destroying Europe".
Irina Yarovaya
The author of the most criticized legislative initiatives, a member of the United Russia party, Irina Yarovaya, began her career in Kamchatka and then (until 2007) was in the Yabloko party. She got into the State Duma after the governor of the region handed over his mandate to her. 
In addition to the prohibitive high-profile bills, Yarovaya is known as “the woman who pissed off Vladimir Pozner” - in an interview with him, she answered questions very evasively.
Irina Yarovaya at Pozner's. Fragment
Sergei Shoigu
In the mass consciousness, the current head of the Ministry of Defense is practically a superhero. From year to year he is appointed to the most responsible posts in Russia. Before he was transferred from the Ministry of Emergency Situations to the Ministry of Defense, there were rumors that he could sit in the chair of the mayor of Moscow. 
Sergei Lavrov
Sergei Lavrov was born into an Armenian family from Tbilisi in 1950, studied in Moscow - first at a special school, then at MGIMO. He began to build a diplomatic career immediately after graduation. He lived in New York for seven years, working for the UN. From 1994 to 2004 he was the official representative of the Russian Federation to the UN and the UN Security Council. He became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia in 2004. 
Vladislav Surkov
Vladislav Surkov, an employee of the presidential administration, held various positions in the Menatepa companies (a holding owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky) in the 90s, then he was engaged in PR on the ORT channel. In the noughties he came to work in the government. 
He is called the author and inspirer of the United Russia party and the Nashi politicized youth movement. In 2013, he resigned from the post of chief of staff of the Government of the Russian Federation, but remained in the status of presidential adviser.
Dmitry Medvedev
It is widely known that in his youth, the current Russian prime minister was fond of rock music. . The editors of the site suggest reading 11 facts from the president's family life. He lived in Germany for several years, working there undercover. From the beginning of the 90s he worked at Leningrad State University, and was also an adviser to Anatoly Sobchak, in those years - the chairman of the Leningrad City Council of People's Deputies. 
In March 1994 he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Government of St. Petersburg. After Sobchak's defeat in the 1996 elections, he left for work in Moscow. Since 1998, he headed the Federal Security Service. In 2000, he was elected President of the Russian Federation, a few months after the voluntary resignation of Boris Yeltsin.
This selection mainly includes male politicians, although women play a rather prominent role in Russian political life. There has been a trend in the world to strengthen women's positions in public life. The editors of the site invite you to read about the most influential women in the politics of the 21st century.
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Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov - Soviet and Russian politician, head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. He ran four times for the presidency and each time ended up in second place.
Gennady Andreevich was born a hundred kilometers from the ancient city of Orel, in the village of Mymrino. His parents were school teachers: his mother Marfa Petrovna taught primary classes, and his father Andrei Mikhailovich, who lost his leg in the battles near Sevastopol during the Great Patriotic War, taught almost all subjects in a rural school, with the exception of languages. By the way, Gennady Zyuganov has a real surname, not a pseudonym, although such rumors are common. By nationality, he is Russian, according to the sign of the zodiac - Cancer.
By the way, the first place of work in the biography of Gennady Zyuganov was also his native school, which he graduated with a silver medal. After one year of teaching, the young man decided to get a higher education, became a student at the Oryol Pedagogical Institute and graduated with honors from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. For three years, Gennady Zyuganov served in the military for three years in a platoon of radiation and chemical reconnaissance in East Germany, and after demobilization, he began to teach at the Pedagogical Institute. But even in his youth, he was attracted by Komsomol and party work, and Gennady Andreevich became a permanent deputy at the district, city and regional levels.
Having risen to the head of the department of propaganda and agitation, Zyuganov enters graduate school at the Academy of Social Sciences, where he defends his dissertation and becomes a doctor of philosophical sciences. He authored many books and articles in the press on the topic of economics, patriotism and communism. In the last years of the Soviet Union, Gennady Zyuganov was in charge of the ideological department of the Communist Party and had a serious confrontation with the head of the country,. Gennady Zyuganov actively called for the removal of the general secretary and the first president of the USSR from office.
Career
After the August coup, in which the name of Gennady Zyuganov did not appear on either side, since he was on vacation in Kislovodsk in those days, the politician remained faithful to his native party. Soon he became chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the permanent head of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma. By the way, there is information, not confirmed by Gennady Andreevich himself, that he proposed to cancel the Belovezhskaya agreement and create a union state of Belarus and Russia. One way or another, Gennady Zyuganov has always remained a supporter of the revival of a single state from the countries of the former USSR.
Zyuganov participated in the presidential elections four times. Each time he was the main competitor of the winner, but he conceded ahead, and twice -. It is noteworthy that after the first two defeats, Gennady Andreevich raised the issue of violations in the election campaign. Later, he called on Boris Yeltsin to voluntarily resign, and when he was refused, he officially put the question of impeaching the president to a vote, but Zyuganov's supporters did not get the necessary minimum of votes on any point.
After the first loss to Vladimir Putin, the head of the Communist Party sent a deputy request to the Prosecutor General's Office and demanded that a case be opened against the new president, since, according to Zyuganov, Putin was campaigning outside the set time for United Russia. However, law enforcement agencies did not find anything illegal in Vladimir Vladimirovich's speech. And after the presidential elections of 2012, Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov was the only candidate who ran who did not recognize the results of the vote count.
For the third decade, remaining at the head of the faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Zyuganov is considered a talented organizer, but at the same time he is regularly criticized both by liberals and socialists, and by the communists, who left his party and created an alternative cell "Communists of Russia". Biographical books and films were devoted to this controversial, but extremely influential politician, of which the documentary “Gennady Zyuganov. History in Notebooks” and a monograph by Alexander Ilyin, editor-in-chief of the Pravda newspaper, “Gennady Zyuganov: Pravda about the Leader”.
Personal life
Gennady Andreevich met his future wife when he was still at school. Nadezhda Vasilievna Amelicheva is two years younger than her husband. As mentioned above, Zyuganov after school remained there as a teacher, and it turns out that he was a teacher for his girlfriend for a year. Then they went together to enter the Pedagogical Institute, only the future wife of Gennady Zyuganov began to study at the Faculty of Chemistry. Later, the woman worked as an engineer at the Second Moscow Watch Factory.
Bachelor status Gennady Zyuganov changed when he returned from the army. He married his beloved Nadezhda Amelicheva, who took her husband's surname and became Zyuganova. Two children were born in the family: in 1968, son Andrei was born, and six years later, daughter Tatyana. It is noteworthy that Zyuganov's wife is not a public person. She does not give interviews, is not a member of her husband's party, does not appear at social events or public rallies.
The politician himself is known for preferring to lead a healthy lifestyle. For his age, he is in excellent physical shape - his height is 176 cm, and his weight is 73 kg. The man loves to play billiards, has categories in athletics, volleyball and triathlon. Zyuganov spends his days off at a dacha near Moscow, where he grows flowers, and goes on vacation not to exotic countries, but to Kislovodsk and participates in hiking trips.
By the way, Gennady Zyuganov has repeatedly won literary competitions and is considered a talented writer. More than 80 literary works came out from under his pen, including "Holy Russia and Koshcheevo's Kingdom", where he talked about Christianity, trying to reconcile the communist ideology and the Orthodox faith. True, the work received a harsh response from the oldest cleric of the St. Petersburg diocese, Archpriest Vasily Ermakov. But some of his works were sold for quotes, or rather, for anecdotes. In 2007, he published the book 100 Jokes from Zyuganov. So the leader of the Communist Party has the talent of not only a bright speaker, but also a wit.
In 2017, he published the book "The Feat of Socialism", which he timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution.
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Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko - a famous Soviet and Russian politician and diplomat, a native of the city of Shepetovka, Kamenetz-Podolsk region (now Khmelnitsky region) of the Ukrainian SSR, was born on April 7, 1949.
Although a woman politician in our time is no longer surprising to anyone, and yet, the brightest of them are few. One of such outstanding, smart and beautiful women in the political space of Russia is undoubtedly Valentina Matvienko.
Childhood, early years and family
The father of our heroine, Ivan Tyurin, was a front-line soldier. Mother - Irina Tyurina, worked as a costume designer in the theater. The couple had two more eldest daughters - Lydia and Zinaida.
The future politician spent her childhood in the city of Cherkasy. Her father died early - the girl went only to the second grade. The widow Matvienko had a hard time, because she had to feed three children on her modest salary.
After school, Valentina Ivanovna entered a medical school in the city of Cherkasy, which she graduated with honors. Then she becomes a student at the Leningrad Chemical Pharmaceutical Institute (1972).
As the heroine of our article admits, in her youth she dreamed of becoming a scientist, not a politician. But fate decreed otherwise. When she finished her studies, she received an invitation to work in the district committee of the Komsomol.
Valentina Matvienko showed herself as a strong and purposeful person even in her youth. She did not stop at one higher education, and became a student of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU. She also attended diplomatic courses at the USSR Foreign Ministry. He is fluent in foreign languages - English, German, Greek.
Party and political career
Valentina Matvienko firmly and confidently climbed the career ladder. She worked in the district committee of the Komsomol for five years (1972-1977). There she changed several positions - she was in charge of the department, was the secretary and first secretary of the district committee. Her career continued in the regional committee of the Komsomol, and then in the Krasnogvardeisky district committee of the city of Leningrad (1977-1986).
Having risen to the rank of first secretary, Valentina Ivanovna did not want to stop there, and continued to work in the executive committee of the City Council of People's Deputies, where she became deputy chairman (she was in charge of education and culture).
1989-1991 - Valentina Matvienko heads the Committee of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on Women's Affairs and Family Protection. Later - a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council.
The biography of Valentina Ivanovna is very rich and full of interesting facts. From 1991 to 1997, she worked as a diplomat in various positions. In 1991-1994 she represented the USSR and Russia as Ambassador to the Republic of Malta.
From 1994 to 1995, she served as Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry. For the next two years, Matvienko was the director of the Department, which was responsible for interaction with the subjects of the Federation.
In 1995, Valentina Matvienko was elected a member of the board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1997 to 1998 she served as Ambassador to Greece.
After 7 years of a diplomatic career, our heroine goes to work in the Government. There, she served as Deputy Chairman for five years, then became the Representative of the President in the Northwestern Federal District.
In 2003, Matvienko became a member of the Security Council. Colleagues note her as an active and strong Deputy Prime Minister who fought for every line of the budget, for every social facility. The politician paid special attention to the problems of the disabled and low-income citizens, made a lot of efforts to pay off arrears in wages and pensions.
In the same 2003, she occupies the chair of the governor of St. Petersburg. In 2009, he became a member of the United Russia party.
In 2011, Valentina Ivanovna leaves the post of governor of her own free will. Soon she becomes the speaker of the State Duma. She is the first female chairman of the State Council in the history of the USSR and the Russian Federation. The initiator of her appointment was the head of Bashkiria Rustem Khamitov. In turn, the head of state Dmitry Medvedev supported her candidacy.
The “anti-orphan law” of Valentina Ivanovna, which was unanimously approved by deputies in 2012, is widely known. The document established a ban on the transfer of children-citizens of the Russian Federation for adoption by US citizens.
According to sociological data, he was supported by about 50 percent of the inhabitants of Russia. But, despite the positive attitude of the majority of Russian citizens, this law caused a great resonance in society.
Valentina Matvienko is an outstanding politician, whose opinion is listened to by the first persons of the state. She has many state awards - orders, medals and diplomas. In 2014, in the Ogonyok magazine, she leads the ranking of the most influential women in Russia.
Criticism and sanctions
Despite the fact that during her governorship, Matvienko actively undertook to restore St. Petersburg, her activities were repeatedly criticized. During her reign, the city changed a lot - many old buildings disappeared, and new buildings and shopping and entertainment centers appeared in their place.
Opponents of the politician accuse her of allegedly destroying the historical monuments of St. Petersburg. However, a flurry of criticism did not prevent the purposeful governor from pulling the city out of the last century.
The communal collapse of 2010-1011 also became an unpleasant page in Matvienko's work as governor. To eliminate the consequences caused by adverse weather conditions, the politician resorted to the help of students and the homeless. This fact did not please the opponents of the governor.
Like many other statesmen of the Russian Federation, Valentina Matvienko fell under Western sanctions due to the difficult situation in Ukraine. She was among the first Russian politicians to support the annexation of Crimea to Russia.
The politician is on the sanctions lists of the USA, Switzerland, the EU and Australia.
Personal life
Personal life, like the political career of Valentina Matvienko, is marked by stability. When the future politician was educated in Leningrad at the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Institute, she tied her fate with her classmate Vladimir Matvienko. Until 2002, he worked as a teacher at the Military Medical Academy. Now he does not get up from a wheelchair and lives in the Leningrad region in a country house.
The couple have an only son, Sergei. He takes a place in the top management of the bank "Saint Petersburg", and is also engaged in cleaning, transportation and media activities. Has two higher educations (specialty "international economics" and "finance and credit").
Valentina Matvienko with her son Sergei
The son of the current speaker of the State Duma was married twice. His first wife is the singer Zara, with whom he has been married for 2 years. The couple has no children. The second time Sergey married fashion model Yulia Zaitseva, and now Valentina Matvienko has a long-awaited granddaughter, Arina.
Sergei Shoigu is a prominent statesman and Russian military man, army general, Hero of the Russian Federation, who holds the post of Minister of Defense of Russia. One of the few political centenarians, whom Russians today consider "the main savior of the country", because Shoigu set an absolute record for being the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations: he led the department in all governments from 1991 to 2012.
Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu was born on May 21, 1955 in the town of Chadan, Tuva region. All his childhood was spent in Tuva. Father Kuzhuget Sereeevich is a Tuvan by nationality, worked as an editor in the regional newspaper Shyn, and then served as deputy chairman in the Tuvan Council of Ministers. Sergey's mother, Alexandra Yakovlevna Kudryavtseva, is Russian (born in the village of Yakovlevo near Orel), was a livestock specialist, then for a long time led the planning department of the agricultural department of the republic. The family name of Sergei Shoigu is Kuzhuget, but when reissuing his father's documentation, a mistake was made, and in his passport the name and surname were accidentally swapped.
Sergei Shoigu with his parents and sister
During his school years, Sergei was an ordinary boy and did not stand out in any way in the children's team. In 1972, he graduated from a local school with good marks and went to Krasnoyarsk, where he received his higher education, enrolling at the Polytechnic Institute at the Faculty of Civil Engineering.
In 1996, Sergei Shoigu defended his dissertation on the organization of public administration in predicting emergency situations, for which he received the degree of candidate of economic sciences.
In his youth, Sergei Kuzhugetovich worked in the construction industry for almost 15 years: he worked at large construction sites in Siberia, where he held mainly managerial positions.
At the very end of the 1980s, the future minister tried his hand at party positions: from 1988 to 1989 he worked as the second secretary of the Abakan Committee of the CPSU, for another year he worked as an inspector of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Committee of the CPSU.
In 1990, the Moscow period of the biography of Sergei Shoigu begins: he is appointed deputy chairman of the RSFSR State Committee for Architecture and Construction. But he did not stay in this position for long - only a year.
Politics and civil service
A few months later, Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu initiated the creation of the Russian Rescue Corps, which he headed. Later, this department was transformed into the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters. Shoigu worked at the head of this department as chairman from 1991 to 1994.
Thanks to the initiative and developments of Sergei Kuzhugetovich, the Russian Emergencies Ministry currently includes several areas, in particular, it has search and rescue services in all regions of Russia, civil defense troops, the Civil Protection Academy, specialized centers for training Russian rescuers and monitoring and forecasting emergency situations, as well as a research institute. This department has become one of Shoigu's most important merits.
In politics, Sergei Shoigu began to show himself in 1995 as part of the Our Home - Russia association, which he headed. In 2000, Sergei Kuzhugetovich became chairman of the Unity political party, which after some time was transformed into the United Russia party, which also included the All Russia and Fatherland parties of Mintimer Shaimiev.
The authority of the Minister of Defense of the Ministry of Emergency Situations is indisputable, and he won it not in the capital's offices of the ministry, but in the hot spots of disaster zones around the world, where Sergei Shoigu flew with his subordinates. For his active rescue work, he was repeatedly awarded not only in Russia, but also in foreign countries where Russian rescuers worked. In 1999, Sergei Shoigu was awarded the highest award - the title of Hero of Russia.
In 2012, Shoigu was nominated by United Russia for the post of governor of the Moscow Region, where he was unanimously supported by all members of the Moscow Regional Duma. This year was significant in the biography of Sergei Shoigu - on the recommendation, he was appointed to the post of Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, replacing the ex-minister who was dismissed amid the scandal with Oboronservis.
In a new responsible post, Sergei Shoigu was marked by a number of reforms. On his initiative, the Arctic troops were created, the construction of the largest and only military-patriotic park "Patriot" began, and the development of army sports received a powerful impetus.
In November 2012, the Minister of Defense appointed former TV presenter Maria Kitaeva as his adviser, who, when Sergei Shoigu was governor, worked under him as an adviser on information policy.
The reforms led by the new minister made the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation invulnerable to external threats. The whole world saw the increased combat capability of the RF Armed Forces during the events of 2014 on the Crimean Peninsula. The President of Russia highly appreciated the actions of the Ministry of Defense, which, under the guise of strengthening the protection of Russian military facilities in Crimea, managed to quickly deploy GRU special forces and marines to the peninsula, which ensured the disarmament of the Ukrainian military stationed on the peninsula.
It was possible to prove the power of the Russian army again in 2015-16 during. By 2015, the Russian army becomes the second most powerful in the world.
Public opinion polls have shown that Army General Sergei Shoigu has been the leader in performance assessment among Russian government ministers since 2013.
In addition to his main activities, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation has been head of the Russian Geographical Society since 2009, holds the chair of the International Sports Federation of Firefighters and Rescuers, and also manages the website of the forum of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Unconditional attention is riveted to the undoubtedly bright and charismatic minister, so his statements and speeches are often parsed into quotes. For example, speaking to the members of the Federation Council in March 2010, Sergei Shoigu spoke so floridly about the production of fire extinguishers that his quote was savored for a long time in various media.
But sometimes Shoigu is credited with other people's statements. For example, in 2015, the minister was convicted for a Twitter post in which he allegedly called for Russian tanks to enter Poland. As it turned out, Sergei Shoigu never wrote anything like this.
Situation in Ukraine
In July 2014, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine opened a criminal case against Sergei Shoigu, in which the Russian Defense Minister was accused of financing the militia in the Donbass. The defendants in this criminal case, along with Shoigu, are Konstantin Malofeev. According to the Kyiv authorities, Sergei Shoigu and a number of Russian politicians are involved in organizing the participation of unidentified persons in illegal armed groups in the south-east of Ukraine.
The criminal prosecution of Sergei Shoigu in Ukraine is not the only case of accusations by the Ukrainian authorities of Russian politicians and businessmen. Criminal cases of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine were opened against the adviser to the Russian president, Sergei Glazyev, and the head of the border service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Kulishov. They are accused of public calls to unleash a military conflict and of illegal supply of weapons to the south-east of Ukraine.
According to politicians, the opening of criminal cases against Russian politicians is a response of the Ukrainian authorities to the criminal prosecution of some Ukrainian businessmen and politicians in Russia. In particular, criminal cases in Russia have been brought against the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov and the ex-governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the oligarch.
Personal life
Unlike open political and social activities, the personal life of Sergei Shoigu is in the shadows. It is known that the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation met his future wife in his student years, and already in the fifth year of the university they legalized their relationship. The wife of Sergei Shoigu, Irina Antipina, is a self-sufficient person who is active in the business field.
The wife of Sergei Shoigu heads the Expo-EM travel agency, whose clients are not only private individuals, but also rescuers from the Ministry of Emergencies. In addition, Irina Shoigu holds the position of Dean of the Faculty of the Higher School of the Sports Industry of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Republic of Sport children's social fund and the International Humanitarian Dimension public organization, where she takes a special interest in creating and implementation of youth programs.
The family of the Minister of Defense of Russia has two daughters - Yulia and Ksenia. The daughter of Sergei Shoigu, Yulia, is currently in charge of the psychological assistance service of the Ministry of Emergencies, and the youngest daughter, Shoigu, received a diploma from the Faculty of Economics at MGIMO. It is noteworthy that Ksenia starred in an episode of the drama Burnt by the Sun-2, playing a nurse.
Yuli Shoigu, the eldest daughter of Sergei Kuzhugetovich A few years ago, there were rumors that the minister had a second wife, an unofficial one, whom he hides from society. Her name is Elena, and she previously worked as a flight attendant on an EMERCOM plane. According to unverified information, the woman allegedly gave birth to a son, Daniil, from Sergei Shoigu, who is very similar to his father. There is no confirmation of these rumors, Shoigu's entourage believes that such gossip is spread in order to discredit the minister, whose trust rating is very high today.
Sergei Shoigu fishing As for the habits and preferences of Shoigu, then, according to him, a healthy lifestyle is not for him. The head of the RF Ministry of Defense loves good food, tasty meat, fresh fish and red wine. Also, Sergei Shoigu is, and the minister is not going to part with his addiction, explaining his position by his unwillingness to lose pleasure. Sergei Kuzhugetovich is in excellent shape, actively involved in football and horseback riding.
It is known that Sergei Shoigu is fond of studying the history of Russia of the times and hockey. He is an old fan of the CSKA team, but he also loves football and is a fan of Spartak.
Sergei Kuzhugetovich collects sabers, daggers, and Japanese samurai swords. He plays the guitar very well and paints with watercolors.
Income
Many citizens are interested in the minister's income, especially the opposition is following this closely. It is known that Sergei Shoigu, having worked as Minister of Defense during 2012, earned over 15 million rubles, which is more than 4 times the income of his predecessor in 2011.
According to Forbes, the total income of the family of the Minister of Defense in 2012 amounted to 83.02 million rubles.
- In April 1993, after recertification, Sergei Shoigu (at that time the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations was in the rank of senior lieutenant of the reserve) received the rank of major general. It is noteworthy that at the same time the order of assignment of officer ranks was violated.
- In October 1993, Shoigu responded to the request by providing him with 1,000 machine guns with ammunition. True, it did not come to the distribution of machine guns.
- Son-in-law of Sergei Kuzhugetovich - Alexei Kuzovkov - in 2005 won the competition announced by the Moscow government to fill the vacancies of public notaries. The competition was later declared illegal.
- Thanks to the efforts of Sergei Shoigu, the medieval Tuvan fortress Por-Bazhyn acquired the status of a monument of federal significance.
- In 2009, the minister proposed introducing criminal liability for those who deny the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War.
- In the spring of 2012, the opinion expressed by the minister that it would be nice to move the capital of Russia to Siberia caused a great resonance.
Minister Sergei Shoigu - In October 2012, the Federal Antimonopoly Service imposed a ban on placing the name of Sergei Shoigu on Viktor Petrik's water filters.
- On May 9, 2015, the minister, leaving the gates of the Spasskaya Tower before the start of the Victory Parade, crossed himself, because an Orthodox icon rises above the arch of the gate. Before the start of the parade in 2016, Sergei Kuzhugetovich did the same.
Sergei Shoigu today
On March 18, 2018, Vladimir Putin won again. Immediately after the elected president of the Russian Federation, the government headed by the chairman resigned.
Immediately after taking office, Vladimir Putin again offered the post of prime minister to Dmitry Medvedev. May 18 was announced to reporters. Sergei Shoigu retained his position as head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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