Yury Trutnev

Yury Trutnev
Yury Trutnev
Юрий Трутнев
	Trutnev in 2022
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia; Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 31 August 2013; Acting: 7 – 18 May 2018 and 15 – 21 January 2020
President	Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister	Dmitry Medvedev; Mikhail Mishustin
Preceded by	Viktor Ishayev
Assistant to the President of Russia
	In office; 22 May 2012 – 31 August 2013
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment
	In office; 9 March 2004 – 21 May 2012
Preceded by	Vitaly Artyukhov
Succeeded by	Sergey Donskoy
3rd Governor of Perm Oblast
	In office; 17 December 2000 – 11 March 2004
Preceded by	Gennady Igumnov
Succeeded by	Oleg Chirkunov
1st Mayor of Perm
	In office; 9 December 1996 – 17 December 2000
Preceded by	Vladimir Fil
Succeeded by	Arkady Kamenev
Personal details
Born	1 March 1956 (age 68); Perm, Perm Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union; (now Perm Krai, Russia)
Political party	United Russia

Yury Petrovich Trutnev (Russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Тру́тнев; born 1 March 1956) is a Russian politician who serves as a Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District since 2013. From 2004 to 2012, he served as Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment of Russia.

He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.^[1]

Political career

Local government

Trutnev was elected mayor of Perm in 1996 (achieving 61.42% support in the first round) and governor of the Perm Oblast in 2000 (51.48%).^{[citation needed]}

Federal government

During his term as governor, Trutnev maintained a neutral stance towards the Kremlin administration.

In 2008 and 2009, Trutnev was officially named Russia's highest earning member of government. In April 2010, he reported an overall income of 155 million rubles ($5.34 million) for the past fiscal year, according to figures published by the government.^[2] President Dmitry Medvedev in 2008 obliged all government officials to publish their incomes and assets, in his drive to fight rampant corruption. However, the figures do not explain how money was earned.^[3]

On 31 August 2013 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District in the First Medvedev Cabinet. He was re-appointed to this office on 18 May 2018 with the Second Medvedev Cabinet, and again on 21 January 2020 with the Mishustin Cabinet.

Defence of seal clubs

Russia made headlines worldwide when, on 18 March 2010, it announced that it would ban the killing of seals less than a year old,^[4] effectively ending one of the biggest kills of harp seals in the world. Yury Trutnev called the seal slaughter "bloody", and remarked that the killing of defenceless animals can't be deemed a "hunt".^[5]