41 Facts About Dmitry Rogozin

Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin is a Russian nationalist politician serving as the senator from the Russian-occupied Zaporozhye Oblast since 23 September 2023.

Dmitry Rogozin previously served as General Director of Roscosmos from 2018 to July 2022, as deputy prime minister in charge of the defense industry from 2011 to 2018, and as Russia's ambassador to NATO from 2008 to 2011.

Dmitry Rogozin was co-founder of the far-right Rodina political party, which was created in 2003.

In 1992, Dmitry Rogozin fought in the Transnistria War against Moldovan forces as a soldier of a volunteer detachment.

Dmitry Rogozin is a vocal supporter of Transnistria's independence from Moldova.

Dmitry Rogozin was elected to the State Duma as a deputy from Voronezh Oblast in 1997, and he became a vocal activist for protection of rights of ethnic Russians in countries that gained independence from the Soviet Union.

Dmitry Rogozin was re-elected to the State Duma in 1999 and then appointed the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, drawing a lot of media attention and a share of criticism for some of his flamboyant public remarks.

Dmitry Rogozin received an official letter of gratitude from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Dmitry Rogozin remained an ordinary member of the Duma until the following election, in 2007.

Glazyev nominated himself as the party's candidate in the 2004 presidential election, but Dmitry Rogozin called on his party comrades to support incumbent Putin.

Dmitry Rogozin soon ousted Glazyev, to become the party's sole leader.

Under Dmitry Rogozin, Rodina shifted towards the right wing of Russian politics and became the second largest and one of the country's most successful parties.

Many analysts believe it was made illegally to prevent Dmitry Rogozin becoming a candidate at the Russian presidential elections in 2008.

In early 2006, at Rodina's congress, Dmitry Rogozin resigned as party leader.

Dmitry Rogozin left Rodina after its merger with the Russian Party of Life and the Pensioners' Party into Fair Russia.

On 18 February 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appointed Rogozin as the Special Representative on anti-missile defense; he negotiated with NATO countries on this issue.

On 23 December 2011, Dmitry Rogozin was appointed as Putin's Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the defense and space industries.

In 2014, Dmitry Rogozin was involved in several diplomatic conflicts following the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.

On 17 March 2014, the day after the Crimean status referendum, Dmitry Rogozin became one of the first seven people who were put under executive sanctions by US President Barack Obama.

Dmitry Rogozin was added to the United Kingdom, Canadian and to the EU sanction list due to the Russian annexation of Crimea.

In 2015, Dmitry Rogozin stated that Russia's defence sector has "many other ways of traveling the world besides tourist visas" and "tanks don't need visas".

On 10 May 2014, Dmitry Rogozin started a diplomatic conflict between Romania and Russia after Romania barred his plane from entering its airspace.

Dmitry Rogozin wrote a foreword for a book published in 2014, Alaska Betrayed and Sold: The History of a Palace Conspiracy, by Ivan Mironov.

Dmitry Rogozin spent two years in prison before the Duma pardoned him.

Dmitry Rogozin finished his foreword with a call for Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to be returned to Russia.

In 2015, Dmitry Rogozin was the head of Russia's Arctic Commission.

In May 2018, Putin selected Dmitry Rogozin to be the head of Roscosmos, the Russian state space agency for two decades after the early 1990s and, in the past few years, transformed by Dmitry Rogozin from a state agency into a state corporation.

On 24 February 2022, Dmitry Rogozin stated on Twitter that the international sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War could lead to the uncontrolled deorbiting of the International Space Station onto the territory of multiple countries.

Dmitry Rogozin criticized the sanctions that US President Joe Biden said were designed to "degrade [Russia's] aerospace industry, including their space program".

On 26 February 2022, Rogozin posted a video threatening to leave US astronaut Mark T Vande Hei in space and separate Russian modules of the space station altogether.

Dmitry Rogozin tweeted: "The launchers at Baikonur decided that without the flags of some countries, our rocket would look more beautiful".

Dmitry Rogozin further commented "The other people that work in the Russian civilian space program, they're professional", and explained "The professional relationship between astronauts and cosmonauts, it hasn't missed a beat".

Dmitry Rogozin said that "I suggest that aggressors speak to us more politely".

On 28 June Dmitry Rogozin had Roscosmos publish satellite images of the building in use for the 2022 NATO Madrid summit, as well as defense headquarters in France, UK, Germany and the US.

Dmitry Rogozin personally remarked that the satellite imagery firm Maxar maintained the government of Ukraine on its client list and he complained about the formation of a single cloud data pipeline from NATO to the Ukrainian military.

On 15 July 2022 Dmitry Rogozin was dismissed from the position of the head of Roscosmos; former Vice Prime Minister Yury Borisov was appointed as his successor.

In October 2022, the Executive Director of Human Spaceflight Programs at Roscosmos, Sergei Krikalev, confirmed the reason for Dmitry Rogozin's dismissal was to ease tensions.

On 4 January 2023, Dmitry Rogozin sent to the French ambassador in Moscow what he claimed was a shell fragment removed from his body by surgeons after he was wounded.

Dmitry Rogozin alleged that the shell had been fired by a French CAESAR self-propelled howitzer, and asked for the fragment to be given to French President Emmanuel Macron, adding that "nobody will evade responsibility for war crimes".

In May 2023, Dmitry Rogozin expressed doubt that the US Apollo 11 mission really landed on the Moon in 1969, saying he had yet to see conclusive proof.

In 2016, his son Alexei Dmitry Rogozin was appointed deputy director of the Property Department of the Ministry of Defense.