Gennady Onishchenko | |
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| Member of theState Duma fromMoscow's Tushino constituency | |
| In office 10 October 2016 – 12 October 2021 | |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Mazhuga |
| Chief Sanitary Inspector of Russia | |
| In office 25 October 1996 – 23 October 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Yevgeny Belyayev [ru] |
| Succeeded by | Anna Popova |
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| Born | (1950-11-20)November 20, 1950 (age 74) Changyr-Tash,Jalal-Abad Oblast,Kirghiz SSR,Soviet Union |
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Gennadiy Grigoryevich Onishchenko (Russian:Геннадий Григорьевич Онищенко, born 20 November 1950[1]) is a Russian government official who was theChief Sanitary Inspector of Russia from 1996 to 2013. He has the federal state civilian service rank of1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[2]
Gennady Onishchenko was born on 20 November 1950 in Changyr-Tash village, modernKyrgyzstan. In 1973 he graduated from theM. Gorky Donetsk State Medical Institute. He is a Candidate Master of Sports in weightlifting.[3]
From 1973 to 1987 he worked in the Ministry of Railways of the USSR as a doctor-epidemiologist. In 1982 he became the chief sanitary doctor of theMoscow metro, in 1983 — the head of the central sanitary and epidemiological station of the Ministry of Railways. In 1988 he was appointed Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Quarantine Infections of the USSR Ministry of Health. Onishchenko participated in the liquidation of theChernobyl disaster.
In the fall of 1995, during theFirst Chechen War, Onishchenko was kidnapped on the way fromMozdok toGrozny, and was held captive byChechen separatists.[3][4]
From 1993 to 2002 he was a member of the Constructive-Ecological Movement of Russia "Kedr", transformed into theRussian Ecological Party "The Greens" in 2002.[5]
On June 24, 2009,Eduard Kokoity granted Onishchenko honorary citizenship ofSouth Ossetia.[6]
From 1996 to 2013 Onishchenko was the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Russia and ex officio First Deputy Minister of Health. Since 2004 he was the head of newly establishedFederal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection (Rospotrebnadzor).
During Onishchenko's 17-year-long tenure his department made numerous radical and controversial actions:
On 22 October 2013, Deputy Prime Minister of RussiaOlga Golodets, commenting on rumors about Onishchenko's resignation, said: "Gennady Onishchenko's term as head of Rospotrebnadzor has expired, so he is leaving this post. Deputy Head of RospotrebnadzorAnna Popova will be appointed the new head of the department."[11] Later that day, Onishchenko refused to confirm information about his resignation, calling Golodets "a strange person" who "does not belong to the number of decision-makers." On the evening of October 23, Gennady Onishchenko was officially dismissed from his post as head of Rospotrebnadzor and appointed assistant to thePrime Minister of RussiaDmitry Medvedev.[12] The reason for the resignation of Onishchenko, according to one of the government officials, was the "problem of controlling him."[13]
On 22 May 2016, Onishchenko wonUnited Russia's primaries in Tushino constituency No. 206 in Moscow. Two days later, the prime minister Dmitry Medvedev removed the reprimand imposed on Onishchenko in February "for violating the requirements of article 18 of the Law on the state civil service."[14] When submitting the declaration, Onishchenko did not mention the residential building inMoscow Oblast.
On 18 September 2016 he was elected member of the7th State Duma[15] He became first deputy Chairman of the Committee on Education and Science in the new Duma convocation.
In July 2017, Onishchenko proposed to banfidget spinners in Russia.[16] In April 2018 he became one of the initiators of the bill "On measures of counteraction on unfriendly actions of the USA and (or) other foreign states" in the article 2 of which it was proposed to ban or restrict the import of drugs produced in the United States or other foreign countries.[17] The project law was criticized by a number of public organizations, theFederation Council committee on social policy and State Duma committee on foreign affairs.
Onishchenko has three children, one daughter and two sons.[citation needed]
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