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Dmitry Nikolayevich Patrushev (Russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Патрушев; born 13 October 1977) is a Russian banker and politician serving as the deputy prime minister for agriculture since May 2024. He previously served as Minister of Agriculture of Russia from 2018 to 2024.[1]
Dmitry Patrushev | |
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Дмитрий Патрушев | |
![]() Patrushev in 2019 | |
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for Agro-Industrial Complex, Natural Resources and Ecology | |
Assumed office 14 May 2024 | |
President | Vladimir Putin |
Prime Minister | Mikhail Mishustin |
Preceded by | Viktoria Abramchenko |
Minister of Agriculture | |
In office 18 May 2018 – 7 May 2024 Acting: 15 January 2020 – 21 January 2020 Acting: 7 May 2024 – 14 May 2024 | |
President | Vladimir Putin |
Prime Minister |
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Preceded by | Alexander Tkachov |
Succeeded by | Oksana Lut |
Personal details | |
Born | Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) | 13 October 1977
Political party | Independent |
Children | 6 |
Parent | Nikolai Patrushev (father) |
Alma mater | |
Dmitry Patrushev is the son of Nikolai Patrushev, former director of FSB and secretary of the Russian Security Council.[2]
Dmitry Patrushev was born in Leningrad on 13 October 1977.[3]
In 1999, he graduated from the State University of Management with a degree in Management.[4][5]
From 2002 to 2004, he studied at the Diplomatic Academy in the specialty "World Economy".[6]
In 2006, he graduated from the FSB Academy.[7]
On 16 April 2003, Patrushev defended his PhD dissertation on organizational and economic foundations of quality management in research organizations at the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance under G. N. Ivanova's supervision.[8] The official referents for the defense were B. V. Pryankov and P. M. Shavkunov.[9]
On 3 July 2008, he defended his Doctor of Sciences (DSc) dissertation in Economics at the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.[10] The dissertation entitled "State and market regulators in the formation and implementation of industrial policy: The case of natural monopolies of the Fuel-Energy Complex"[11] was defended under the supervision of V. V. Korelin; the official referents were V. V. Glukhov, A. V. Kruglov and S. A. Uvarov.[12]
From 1999 to 2002, he worked in the Ministry of Transport.[13][14]
In 2004, he joined VTB Bank.[15][16]
Since 2007, he has held the position of senior vice president of VTB bank.[17]
From 2010 to 2018, he was chairman of the board and member of the supervisory board of the Russian Agricultural Bank.[18] During Patrushev's chairmanship, the bank extended the variety of products and services offered to individuals and businesses. New insurance and investment business lines were established, and the bank increased its support for the agro-industrial complex. Moreover, from 2010 to 2017, Russian Agricultural Bank's loan portfolio qudripled. In 2017, its amount was estimated to be 2.97 trillion rubles.[19]
From 2016 to 2021, he was a member of the Gazprom board of directors.[20][21]
On 18 May 2018, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture.[22] On 21 January 2020, he was re-appointed for this post in Mikhail Mishustin's Cabinet.[23] Under the direction of Patrushev, the state program "Integrated Development of Rural Areas" was implemented. By the end of 2020, it covered 82 regions of the Russian Federation and affected 6 million people.[24]
On 14 May 2024, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in Mikhail Mishustin's Second Cabinet.[25]
Since 2016, Patrushev has been a member of PJSC Gazprom's board of directors.[26][27]
Since 2018, he has served as chairman of the supervisory board of Russian Agricultural Bank JSC.[28][29]
Following the publication of the Navalny 35 list of Russian human rights abusers and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, sanctions were imposed against Patrushev by Australia, Canada, Ukraine, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.[30][31][32][33][34][35][36]
Dmitry Patrushev has never been formally married, and has six illegitimate children: three sons and three daughters.[37][38][39]
His father, Nikolay Platonovich Patrushev, is a Russian statesman. He held the post of director of the Federal Security Service of Russia from 1999 to 2008. On 12 May 2008, he was appointed secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.[40]
His mother, Elena Nikolaevna Patrusheva (born 1955), worked as a doctor of ultrasound diagnostics and was an employee of Vnesheconombank. In 1993, together with Boris Gryzlov and other classmates and coworkers of her husband, she became a founder of Borg LLP, which specialized in exporting scrap metal.[41]
Patrushev has a brother, Andrey, known as the former deputy general director for offshore project development at Gazprom Neft and former general director of Gazprom Neft Shelf.[42] As of 2021, Andrey Patrushev has been working as director general of the Arctic Initiatives Center.[43][44]
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