Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov

Yuri Luzhkov

Juri Michailowitsch Luschkow ( Russian Ю́рий Миха́йлович Лужко́в ; scientific transliteration Jurij Michajlovič Lužkov ; born  September 21, 1936 in Moscow ; † December 10, 2019 in Munich ) was a Russian politician and the husband of the entrepreneur Jelena Nikolajewna Baturina . From 1992 to 2010 he was Lord Mayor of Moscow.

Life

In 1958 he graduated from the Moscow Oil and Gas University IM Gubkin . After graduating from college, Luzhkov worked in the chemical industry and as a department head in the Ministry of Chemical Industry of the Soviet Union .

In 1987 he joined the Moscow city administration and later became a member of the Supreme Soviet . In July 1991 he was proposed for the office of Vice Mayor by Gavriil Popov , the then Lord Mayor of Moscow, and was confirmed by a majority of MPs. After Popov's resignation in June 1992, President Boris Yeltsin named Luzhkov as Lord Mayor of Moscow. On June 16, 1996, as well as 1999 and 2003, he was re-elected with 88.5%, 69.9% and 74.8% of the vote, respectively. In June 2007, Luzhkov was confirmed in office for the fourth time, this time - in accordance with the now amended legislation - by a majority (32 pro versus three opposed votes) of the members of the Moscow City Duma on the proposal of President Vladimir Putin .

At the end of 1998 he founded the political movement Fatherland , which merged with the All Russia movement in the run-up to the 1999 parliamentary elections and was absorbed into the United Russia party in 2001, in which Luzhkov held the post of chairman of the Supreme Council. He supported Putin in the presidential election in March 2000. From September 2000 to March 2001 he was a member of the Presidium of the State Council of the Russian Federation .

In May 2004, he gave the resignation of his friend, President of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara in Georgia , Aslan Abashidze , who was advised by mass protests against his autocratic style of government in trouble, and enabled him to exile in Moscow.

In 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, Luzhkov staged himself as an opponent of homosexuals. At a mayors' meeting in Berlin in February 2006, he described homosexuality as unnatural. He regularly banned the annual Moscow Pride gay and lesbian parade and in January 2007 referred to it as a "Satan Show". The organizers of this demonstration then turned to the European Court of Human Rights , as the European Convention on Human Rights (CETS 005) secures the right to freedom of assembly . At the unveiling of a statue of Walt Whitman donated by Washington, DC , which was also attended by Secretary of State Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov and his counterpart Hillary Clinton , he praised his poetry, imbued with "the spirit of American optimism".

In 2008, Yuri Luzhkov described the city of Sevastopol as "a real Russian city". As a result, the Ukrainian government banned him from entering Ukraine and granted him undesirable status .

In September 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree to dismiss Luzhkov as mayor of Moscow, citing a loss of confidence as the reason. This was preceded by a media campaign by the television stations controlled by the Russian government. Luzhkov was accused of corruption and abuse of office. Luzhkov, who had been a member of the Presidium of United Russia up to this point, then declared his resignation from the party and accused him of failing to defend him against the allegations made in the mass media, despite the fact that the Moscow party leadership had previously alleged corruption against him had stood behind him. Until the appointment of a successor, Luzhkov's office was temporarily taken over by Vice Mayor Vladimir Ressin . Sergei Sobyanin was elected as his successor as Moscow Mayor on October 21, 2010 .

Private

Luzhkov lived in his second marriage to Jelena Baturina , a well-known entrepreneur. She is the only woman on Forbes' list of the richest people in Russia. Luzhkov had four children: two sons from his first marriage and two daughters from his second marriage. In 2010 the couple left Russia.

His hobbies were soccer , tennis and beekeeping .

Awards

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On his 80th birthday, Luzhkov received the fourth degree "For Services to the Fatherland" on September 22, 2016

Luzhkov was awarded the Order of Lenin , the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland from Levels I to IV. For his military services he received the Order of Honor and the Medal Defender of Free Russia.

In 2001 Luschkow received the Dr. Friedrich Joseph Haass Prize of the German-Russian Forum for his services to German-Russian friendship.

In 2002 he received the European Craftsman Award .

In 2007 he received the Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold from the Mayor of Vienna Michael Häupl for services to the State of Vienna .

Web links

Commons : Juri Michailowitsch Luschkow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Moscow City Council
• Slider, Darell: "Jurij Lushkow, retired mayor" in Analyzes of Russia No. 207 (PDF; 1.4 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ivan Nechepurenko: Yuri M. Luzhkov, 83, Dies; Mayor at Dawn of Post-Soviet Moscow. In: The New York Times , December 10, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
2. ^ Moscow Gay Pride Not a Priority of the European Court of Human Rights, Russian Activists Told . Retrieved on August 21, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ RIA Novosti: Moscow: Mayor Luschkow calls gay parade a "Satanshow"
4. ↑ Gay hater Yuri Luschkow reveals statue of the icon of the gay movement ( memento of the original from October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , russland.ru, October 15, 2009 
5. ↑ Die Welt: Medvedev fires Moscow's mayor Luzhkov
6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ NEWSru.com : Юрий Лужков заявил о своем выходе из “Единой России” и пожаловался на “ожесуточенную атаку”
8. ↑ russland.RU of September 29, 2010: Luschkow - Those who go too late are punished by life ( memento of the original from April 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Putin's head of cabinet is to become Moscow mayor. In: ORF . October 15, 2010, accessed October 15, 2010 . 
10. ↑ Walter Mayr, Matthias Schepp: "Everything was possible" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 2015, p. 74–76 ( online - Spiegel interview with Jelena Baturina).