Dmitry Mezentsev
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Dmitry Mezentsev | |
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Дмитрий Мезенцев | |
General Secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus | |
Assumed office 19 March 2021 | |
Preceded by | Grigory Rapota |
Ambassador of Russia to Belarus | |
In office 30 April 2019 – 19 March 2021 | |
Preceded by | Mikhail Babich |
Succeeded by | Yevgeny Lukyanov |
Russian Federation Senator from Sakhalin Oblast | |
In office 31 December 2015 – 30 April 2019 | |
Preceded by | Zhanna Ivanova |
Succeeded by | Grigory Karasin |
Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation | |
In office 1 January 2013 – 31 December 2015 | |
Preceded by | Muratbek Imanaliyev |
Succeeded by | Rashid Alimov |
5th Governor of Irkutsk Oblast | |
In office 8 June 2009 – 18 May 2012 | |
Preceded by | Igor Yesipovsky |
Succeeded by | Sergey Yeroshchenko |
Personal details | |
Born | Leningrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union | 18 August 1959
Political party | United Russia |
Dmitry Fyodorovich Mezentsev (Russian: Дми́трий Фёдорович Ме́зенцев; born 18 August 1959)[1] is a Russian politician and diplomat serving since 2021 as the State Secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Previously he was Ambassador of Russia to Belarus (2019–2021), Senator from Sakhalin Oblast (2015–2019), Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (2013–2015) and Governor of Irkutsk Oblast (2009–2012).[2][3]
In 2012 Mezentsev ran for President of Russia, but was rejected by the Central Election Commission.[4]
2012 presidential campaign
[edit]Mezentsev tried to run for President of Russia in 2012. On 14 December 2011, the trade Union Committee of the East Siberian railway nominated Dmitry Mezentsev as a presidential candidate. His candidacy was supported by the then President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin.[5] However, the CEC rejected Mezentsev's candidacy, as after checking the signatures collected in his support, too many signatures were not recognized as valid.[6]
On 19 March 2021, Mezentsev was relieved of his post as ambassador to Belarus by presidential decree.[7] On the same day President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko appointed Mezentsev State Secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, replacing Grigory Rapota.[8]
Awards
[edit]- Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class
- Order of Honour
- Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" (USSR)
- Commander of the Order of the Legion of Honour (France)
References
[edit]- ^ "Our Campaigns - Candidate - Dmitry Mezentsev". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ "Путин назначил Дмитрия Мезенцева новым послом России в Белоруссии - ТАСС". TACC. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ Pravda, Alex (2005). Leading Russia--Putin in perspective: essays in honour of Archie Brown. Oxford University Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-19-927614-1.
- ^ "ЦИК официально отказал Г.Явлинскому и Д.Мезенцеву". РБК (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ "По шпалам выборов". ВЗГЛЯД.РУ (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ "ЦИК: Мезенцев не будет участвовать в президентских выборах". vesti.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ "Путин освободил Дмитрия Мезенцева от должности посла в Белоруссии" [Putin has dismissed Dmitry Mezentsev from the post of Ambassador to Belarus]. TASS. 19 March 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ "Лукашенко назначил Мезенцева госсекретарем Союзного государства" [Lukashenko appoints Mezentsev as Secretary of State of the Union State]. Kommersant. 19 March 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Diplomats from Saint Petersburg
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Russian Federation)
- Members of the Federation Council of Russia (after 2000)
- Ambassadors of Russia to Belarus
- Governors of Irkutsk Oblast
- Politicians from Saint Petersburg
- Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
- Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
- Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
- Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University
- Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Russian politician stubs