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Rustem Umerov
Ukrainian politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rustem Enverovych Umerov (Ukrainian: Рустем Енверович Умєров, Crimean Tatar: Rüstem Enver oğlu Ümerov; born 19 April 1982) is a Ukrainian politician, businessman, investor, philanthropist and the current Defence Minister of Ukraine.
Rustem Umerov | |
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Рустем Умєров | |
![]() Umerov in 2023 | |
18th Minister of Defense | |
Assumed office 6 September 2023 | |
President | Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
Prime Minister | Denys Shmyhal |
Preceded by | Oleksii Reznikov |
Head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine | |
In office 7 September 2022 – 5 September 2023 | |
Preceded by | Dmytro Sennychenko [uk] |
Succeeded by | Olha Pishchanska[1] |
People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
In office 29 August 2019 – 7 September 2022 | |
Constituency | Holos, No. 18 |
Personal details | |
Born | (1982-04-19) 19 April 1982 (age 42) Krasnogvardeysk, Samarkand Oblast, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan) |
Nationality | Crimean Tatar |
Political party | Holos |
Education | National Academy of Management Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute |
Umerov is a former deputy head of the permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,[2] a delegate of the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People, and an adviser to former Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People chair Mustafa Dzhemilev. Since December 2020, Umerov has also co-chaired the Crimea Platform diplomatic initiative.
In September 2023, amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy named Umerov to replace Oleksii Reznikov as defense minister of Ukraine.[3]