Oksana Dmitriyeva | |
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| Оксана Дмитриева | |
 Dmitriyeva in 2021 | |
| Member of theState Duma forSaint Petersburg | |
| Assumed office 12 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Mikhail Romanov |
| Constituency | Southeast St. Petersburg (No. 217) |
| In office 18 January 2000 – 24 December 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Aleksandr Mazur |
| Succeeded by | constituencies abolished |
| Constituency | Southern St. Petersburg (No. 213) |
| Member of theLegislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg | |
| In office 18 September 2016 – 19 September 2021 | |
| Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) | |
| In office 24 December 2007 – 5 October 2016 | |
| In office 11 January 1994 – 20 May 1998 | |
| Minister of Labour | |
| In office 30 April 1998 – 11 September 1998 | |
| Prime Minister | Sergey Kiriyenko |
| Preceded by | Oleg Sysuyev |
| Succeeded by | Sergey Kalashnikov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1959-04-03)3 April 1959 (age 66) |
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| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University of Economics |
| Website | www |
Oksana Genrikhovna Dmitriyeva (Russian:Оксана Генриховна Дмитриева; born 3 April 1958) is a Russian politician and economist, who currently serves as a deputy of theState Duma since 2021, having previously served in the position from 1993 to 2016. A former government minister in the administration ofBoris Yeltsin, she is the most senior member of theParty of Growth in the national legislature and was so in her local legislature.
During her successful2021 campaign, she was supported byAlexei Navalny'sSmart Voting system. In the previous election in2016, she had lost her seat in a highly controversial election, the results of which she did not recognize. Dmitriyeva has considered running forpresident several times.
Oksana Dmitriyeva (sometimes spelledDmitrieva) was born on April 3, 1958, inLeningrad. Her father Genrikh Rosenberg (1925-2007) was a scientist specialized in ship mechanics. He graduated from theMakarov School and is credited as the creator of Soviet gas turbine installations[citation needed] and worked at the Institute of the Navy until his death. He held the title of Honored Inventor of the Russian Federation. Her grandfather Sholom Rosenberg (1887-1942) was awarded the St. George Cross for bravery in theFirst World War and was killed during thesiege of Leningrad. Her mother Natalia Dmitriyeva (born in 1931) is acandidate of economic sciences, graduate of the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport, and a student of the Nobel laureateLeonid Kantorovich.[1]
In 1980 she graduated from the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics of theSaint Petersburg State University of Economics, specializing in regional economics.
In 1993, she was elected as Deputy of theState Duma on the federal list of theYabloko party. In 1995 she was re-elected. She worked in the State Duma Committee on Budget, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Budget, Extrabudgetary Funds and Intergovernmental Relations. She is the author of the first edition of the Budget Code, adopted in 1998, for which she received the nickname "mother of the Budget Code" among her colleagues[citation needed]. She has developed procedures for considering the federal budget in the State Duma.[2]
In May 1998, she was appointed Minister of Labor and Social Development inSergei Kiriyenko's Cabinet. Simultaneously, she was expelled from theYabloko party, as the party was in the opposition and did not want to have Ministers in the current government. Dmitriyeva resigned on 30 September 1998, after resignation of the government, and did not receive a post of Minister in thenew government.
In December 1999, she was elected to the State Duma as an independent candidate. She served as deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes.
She has submitted for consideration to the State Duma a package of bills targeting an improvement of the social status of the poorest part of the Russian population. In 2000, she achieved the law on granting the status of a WWII participant to persons awarded with themedal "For the Defence of Leningrad". When considering the law "On labor pensions", the right of working pensioners to receive pensions was fully upheld. She has made a number of bills providing improvement of the budgetary and tax legislation. Such amendments were adopted to the 2001 budget as an amendment to the return of personal income tax to regions (St. Petersburg received an additional 2 billion rubles from this), investments in the construction of a subway in St. Petersburg increased by 550 million rubles.
In 2000 she headed the "Block of Oksana Dmitriyeva" in the municipal elections in St. Petersburg. The campaign ended in a serious victory: block received more than 100 seats in municipal authorities.[3]
In the 2003 elections she was again elected to the State Duma. In 2006, Oksana Dmitriyeva developed a package of bills aimed at stimulating innovation. 13 bills contained measures aimed at reducing the tax component in the price of a scientific and innovative product, which would allow to expand the possibilities for conducting research and creating an innovative product. However, all bills were rejected by the State Duma. Some of these bills were later changed and, in the modified form without the most significant items, introduced from the Government of the Russian Federation.
In the 2007 elections, she was elected to the State Duma by the Just Russia party. She was the first deputy head of the faction "A Just Russia:Motherland /Pensioners /Life". Member of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes.[4] In 2007, Oksana Dmitriyeva developed 6 bills aimed at adjusting the pension legislation and allowing a qualitative change in the standard of living of current pensioners. In particular, it was proposed to index the pension in accordance with the growth of wages, to increase the ratio of the individual wage to the national average, to restore the so-called "non-insurance periods", grant the right to receive a second pension to the workers of the home front, prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, as well as war veterans who do not have a disability. These bills were rejected by the State Duma.
She was the author of alternative draft budgets of the Russian Federation for 2009, 2010 and 2011, 2012, 2013, which the Just Russia fraction introduced to the State Duma simultaneously with the governmental projects. Consistent opponent of Finance MinisterAlexei Kudrin in the creation of the Stabilization Fund and the introduction of a funded part of the pension.[5] Furthermore, she was the main political opponent to theGovernor of Saint Petersburg, and later to the senator andFederation Council ChairwomanValentina Matvienko.[6][7]
In 2012, Dmitriyeva was considered as a possible candidate for the post ofPresident of Russia from theA Just Russia party, butSergey Mironov was nominated instead, who promised to appoint Oksana Dmitriyeva asPrime Minister, in case of victory in theelection.[8][9] However, Sergey Mironov lost the election.
In 2014, she tried to participate in the election of the Governor of St. Petersburg, but was unable to collect enough signatures of municipal deputies in her support (this is a necessary condition for participating in elections).
In early March 2015, as a result of the raider seizure, Oksana Dmitriyeva was removed from the leadership of the St. Petersburg regional branch of the party, on March 30 she wrote a statement on the withdrawal from the party "A Just Russia". In April 2015, deprived of the post of deputy head of the faction "A Just Russia" in the State Duma of Russia. Also, the husband of Oksana Dmitriyeva, Ivan Grachev, was removed from the post of chairman of the State Duma committee on energy.[10][11]
In July 2016, Oksana Dmitriyeva headed the lists of theParty of Growth in theState Duma election (2nd in the federal list afterBoris Titov) and the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg (1st place in the list). She also ran in the 217th South-East single-mandate Constituency of St. Petersburg.[12]
During the campaign against Oksana Dmitriyeva, "black technologies" were used (in particular, candidates of namesake were nominated). Outdoor advertising with the image of Oksana Dmitriyeva was broken or damaged, anonymous newspapers were published against her. During the voting, mass violations were noted at the polling stations, counting of votes was also conducted with violations, which was noted by representatives of theCentral Election Commission. Oksana Dmitryieva lost the election in her constituency, but she said she did not recognize the results and appealed to the prosecutor's office demanding investigation of violations and cancellation of election results in this constituency.[13]
At the simultaneous elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, the list of the Party of Growth, headed by Oksana Dmitriyeva, received 10.7% of all votes. According to the results of elections Oksana Dmitriyeva was elected to the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly of the Party of Growth.[14]
In July 2017, Oksana Dmitriyeva began to participate in theprimaries of the Party of Growth, for the selection of a presidential candidate in the2018 election.[15]
In September 2021 Dmitriyeva waselected member of the8th State Duma in theSouth East constituency of Saint Petersburg, earning 34.91% of the vote.[16] She became the first Duma deputy from the Party of Growth. Unlike other minor party MPs and independents, Dmitriyeva refused to join any faction.[17]
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