| Dmytro Albertovych Salamatin Дмитро Альбертович Саламатін | |
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| File:Solomatin D A.jpg | |
| Minister of Defence of Ukraine | |
In office 8 February 2012 – 24 December 2012[1] | |
| President | Viktor Yanukovych |
| Preceded by | Mykhailo Yezhel |
| Succeeded by | Pavlo Lebedyev |
| General Director of Ukroboronprom | |
In office 2011–2012 | |
| President | Viktor Yanukovych |
| General Director of Ukrspetsexport | |
In office 2010–2011 | |
| President | Viktor Yanukovych |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 May 1965 Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan) |
| Political party | Party of Regions |
| Spouse(s) | Natalya Salamatina |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Mining University (1991) Karaganda State Technical University (1989) |
Dmytro Salamatin (Ukrainian: Дмитро Альбертович Саламатін) is a Ukrainian politician who is a former Minister of Defence of Ukraine.[1][2][3]
Salamatin was born in Karaganda (now Kazakhstan; then Soviet Union) on 26 April 1965.[3][4] He graduated from the Karaganda Polytechnic Institute in 1989 in "underground mining of mineral deposits";[4] in 1991 he finished a course in "staff engineer and economist" at the Moscow Mining Institute.[5] After working in Russia from 1991 till 1999 (until 1999 Salamatin had Russian citizenship[6]). Salamatin moved to Ukraine in April 1999.[3][4] During the 2006 and 2007 parliamentary elections, he was elected as a deputy to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) for Party of Regions.[3][4] In June 2010, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych appointed Salamatin as director general of Ukraine's state arms exporter Ukrspetsexport.[3] Total revenue from the activity of GK "Ukrspetsexport" and its subsidiaries for 2011 was a record for the first time exceeded one billion dollars. [7]
On 4 January 2011 Salamatin was appointed director general of the newly created Ukroboronprom state concern.[3] On 8 February 2012 Salamatin was appointed Minister of Defence of Ukraine.[3]
According to Ukrayinska Pravda Salamatin is the son-in-law of former First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Oleg Soskovets.[8]
Controversy[]
Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc People's Deputy of Ukraine Volodymyr Stretovych claimed in April 2012 that Salamatin had received Ukrainian citizenship in 2005 and thus was illegally elected into parliament in 2007.[9] According to Central Election Commission of Ukraine member Mykhaylo Okhendovsky Salamatin was legally electable in 2007, because he had been living in Ukraine the prior 5 years.[10] The article 76 of the Constitution of Ukraine states that:
| “ | The People's Deputy of Ukraine may be elected a citizen of Ukraine, which on the day of the elections reached twenty one years of age, has the right to vote and resides in Ukraine during the last five years. | ” |
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yanukovych appoints new Cabinet of Ministers, Kyiv Post (24 December 2012)
- ↑ Ukraine gets new defence minister, Kyiv Post (8 February 2012)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Yanukovych replaces defense minister, Kyiv Post (8 February 2012)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 (Russian) Саламатин Дмитрий Альбертович
- ↑ (Russian) Саламатин Дмитрий Альбертович, Ubop.net.ua
- ↑ (Russian) Биография нового министра обороны: российское гражданство и драка в Раде, www.glavred.info (8 February 2012)
- ↑ (Ukrainian) Общая выручка Укрспецэкспорта впервые превысила $1 миллиард, UNIAN (29.12.2011)
- ↑ (Ukrainian) ЯНУКОВИЧ ЗМІНИВ ЄЖЕЛЯ НА САЛАМАТІНА, Ukrayinska Pravda (8 February 2012)
- ↑ (Ukrainian) Скандальний міністр незаконно був обраний до Верховної Ради, Ukrayinska Pravda (12 April 2012)
- ↑ (Ukrainian) Член ЦИК: Саламатин законно стал нардепом, UNIAN (12.04.2012)
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