H.E. Dr. Dmitry Rogozin

Born 21st Dec 1963 in Moscow.

His father, lieutenant-general Oleg Konstantinovich Rogozin, is a Hero of Socialist Labour and winner of the USSR State Prize. He headed the Office of Armament Development and was deputy head of the Armament Service of the USSR’s Ministry of Defence. His mother, Tamara Vasilievna Rogozina (Prokofieva) was, until her retirement, head nurse at the Semashko Stomatological Institute.

Rogozin went to a school that specialised in intensive French tuition, and since 1981 studied at the Moscow State University. In 1986, he graduated with a degree in international journalism and began working for the Committee on Youth Organizations of the Soviet Union. In 1988, he received a degree in economics.

In 1996 wrote his doctoral dissertation on "The Russian Question and Its Influence on National and International Safety". In 1999 got Grand PhD after defence of thesis “Russian National Security Problems on the Eve of XXI Century”.

In 1990 elected President of the Association of Young Leaders of Russia, Forum-90. This group and others sought to bring together politically active youths on the center-right. In the same time he was the First Vice President of the research and education company "Russian-American University".

In 1993 Rogozin was one of the founders of the Congress of Russian Communities (KRO), a political movement dedicated to voicing the concerns of ethnic Russians in former USSR states. In 1994 – 1997 was the Chairman of the Executive Committee of KRO.

In March 1997 Rogozin was elected to the State Duma in a by-election in the Anninsky electoral district in the Voronezh region. In Duma Rogozin became deputy chairman of the Duma’s commission on ethnic affairs.

In 1999 was reelected, became member of People's Deputies parliamentary group and was appointed chairman of the Duma's Committee on Foreign Affairs. Appointed Head of the permanent Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

In June 2002, in addition to his posts at Duma and PACE was appointed President’s special envoy on Kaliningrad. He used to deal with relations between the European Union and Russia’s western enclave on the Baltic coast. He retained this post until January 2004, when he was relieved of his duties for having ‘solved the main complex of tasks’.

In 2003 Dmitry Rogozin became one of the leaders of the Rodina (Motherland) coalition, which won 9.2 % of the popular vote or 37 of the 450 seats in the Duma in 2003 parliamentary election. Rogozin himself won around 80% votes in his electoral district and became Duma vice-chairman and the member of Foreign Affairs committee. Since July 2004, Rogozin has been chairman of the Rodina political party.

Since September 2007 – vice-chairman of Duma Committee for Security.

In January 2008, Dmitry Rogozin replaced General Konstantin Totsky as Russia’s NATO envoy. In 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has conferred to Dmitry Rogozin a diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Rogozin speaks French, Italian, Spanish, English, Czech and Ukrainian. He is married, has son (1983), grandson (2005) and granddaughter (2008).