Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko

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Valentina Matviyenko, 2007

Valentina Matviyenko ( Russian Валентина Ивановна Матвиенко , scientific. Transliteration Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko ; * 7. April 1949 in Shepetovka , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian politician and as a representative of the executive branch of St. Petersburg since 2011. Chairman of the Federation Council , the third highest public office in Russia . Through her office, she is a member of the most important Russian governing body, the Security Council of the Russian Federation . From 2003 to 2011 she was governor of Saint Petersburg .

Life

Valentina Matviyenko was born the daughter of a soldier and a costume tailor. Her parents were from the Russian ethnic group in Ukraine. Matviyenko spent her childhood in Cherkassy . Matviyenko graduated from middle school in 1966 and graduated from the Leningrad Chemical-Pharmaceutical Institute in 1972 and from the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1985 .

Since 1972 she pursued her political career within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1989 she was elected as a member of the People's Deputies Congress of the USSR. From 1998 to 2003 Matviyenko was deputy head of the Russian government and in this office she was in charge of the social sector. She later served in the diplomatic service for a while, including as the Russian ambassador to Malta and Greece, and to the Russian Foreign Ministry. From October 2003 to December 20, 2011, Matviyenko was governor of Saint Petersburg - she was the first woman to hold the post of governor in Russia. It was not until February 8, 2010 that another woman, Natalia Komarova , was appointed governor of the autonomous district of Chanty and Mansen .

September 2011 Matviyenko was elected as the first woman to the office of chairman of the Russian Federation Council. Ex-KGB officer Georgi Poltavchenko was appointed her successor in St. Petersburg .

After the referendum on the integration of Crimea into the Russian Federation ( Crimean crisis ), her name is on the sanction lists of the USA and the European Union, so she is subject to an entry ban and an asset freeze.

Private

Valentina Matviyenko has been married to Vladimir Vasilyevich Matviyenko since 1971. The marriage resulted in a son named Sergei (* 1973). Her husband, from whom she lives separately, lives in a small house in Leningrad Oblast .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aktuell.ru: Valentina Matvijenko elected head of the Federation Council
  2. ↑ " Aimed at Putin's center of power" Sueddeutsche.de of March 21, 2014, sighted on November 10, 2014
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  4. ↑ Will the strongest woman in St. Petersburg become the “third man” in Russia?
personal data
SURNAME Matviyenko, Valentina Ivanovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tjutina, Valentina Ivanovna (maiden name); Матвие́нко, Валенти́на Ива́новна (Russian); Matvienko, Valentina Ivanovna (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician, governor (mayor) of Saint Petersburg
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Shepetovka , Ukrainian SSR