Vladimir Petrovich Lukin

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Vladimir Petrovich Lukin ( Russian: Владимир Петрович Лукин ; born July 13, 1937 in Omsk ) is a Russian politician and was a Duma deputy for the Yabloko party from 1993 to 2003 .

Life

Lukin graduated in 1959 the Faculty of History at the State Pedagogical Institute Moscow . After doing his doctorate and habilitation at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations , he worked from 1968 to 1987 as head of the department for Far Eastern Politics at the North America Institute of the USSR.

From 1992 to 1993 Lukin was Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the USA. Since 1993 he has been a Duma deputy and was one of the founders of the liberal Yabloko party , of which he was vice-chairman. In addition, since 1993 he has been chairman of the Duma committee on foreign affairs and permanent observer of the RF at the Organization of American States . After the elections in December 2003, he left the Duma.

In 2004, President Putin appointed him Human Rights Commissioner of the Russian Parliament (State Duma). The office commits itself to partisan political neutrality, its membership in Jabloko is suspended. After two five-year terms he was not allowed to run again. His successor was Ella Pamfilowa .

During the Euromaidan riots, on February 20, 2014, Putin asked Lukin to travel to Kiev as Russia's mediator . There he took part in the drafting of the agreement on the settlement of the crisis in Ukraine of February 21, 2014. In May 2014, as Russia’s human rights representative, together with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe , Thorbjørn Jagland, he successfully negotiated with separatists in Slavjansk about the release of seven Military observers and their five Ukrainian companions arrested on April 25 for alleged espionage for NATO.

Lukin has been President of the National Paralympic Committee of Russia since 1997.

Vladimir Lukin is married and has two sons.

Web links

Commons : Wladimir Lukin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ spiegel.de February 19, 2015: Anniversary of the Maidan uprising: "There was panic in the palace" (Interview)
  2. ↑ Lukin: “Voluntary humanitarian act” , NZZ, May 3, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Lukin, Vladimir Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лукин, Владимир Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Omsk