1. Yury Luzhkov was the vice-chairman and one of the founders of the ruling United Russia party.
29 Facts About Yury Luzhkov
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On 28 September 2010, Yury Luzhkov was fired from his post by a decree issued by then-President Dmitry Medvedev.
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Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov was born on 21 September 1936 in Moscow.
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Yury Luzhkov was responsible for questions related to the agro-industrial complex, trade, foreign economic relations and the social sphere.
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Some most blatant limitations were removed by the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court after a long fight with Yury Luzhkov's lawyers, making the registration process somewhat simpler.
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Allegations of wrongdoing by Yury Luzhkov had been made before, but he had been notable for never having lost a libel suit in his career, including against Boris Nemtsov, the newspaper Kommersant, and The New York Times.
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Yury Luzhkov was dismissed by President Medvedev on 28 September 2010, after returning from a holiday in Austria, citing "loss of trust".
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The September 2010 dismissal followed weeks of speculation regarding Yury Luzhkov's position, caused by his questioning of Medvedev's leadership.
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Government-controlled television channels had run programs criticizing Yury Luzhkov's handling of the 2010 summer peat fires and accused him and his wife of corruption.
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Yury Luzhkov officially declared that he had left the United Russia party.
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On 1 October 2010 Yury Luzhkov was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Management of major cities of the International University in Moscow.
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In 2010, Yury Luzhkov became head of Veedern, the agricultural enterprise with the territory of 5,500 hectare in the North-West of Russia.
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Yury Luzhkov established and managed a large farmstead that was active in horse and sheep breeding, grain growing and cereal production, cheese making, etc.
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Yury Luzhkov claimed that his main goal as a farmer was the creation of a self-sustainable and business efficient enterprise, developing and promoting to the regional and federal authorities a system of support for private agricultural enterprises.
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In 1998, as Boris Yeltsin's political troubles grew partly because of the August economic crisis, Yury Luzhkov formed his own national political faction, Otechestvo, to serve as his base for the upcoming presidential election.
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Yury Luzhkov is blamed for traffic congestion in the city.
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In 2002, Yury Luzhkov proposed returning to Lubyanka Square the fifteen-ton iron statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet Cheka.
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In 1996 Yury Luzhkov, hoping to advance his political stature on a national level, became the main advocate for a claim to the city of Sevastopol in Ukraine.
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On 12 May 2008 Yury Luzhkov was banned from entering Ukraine by the Security Service after his statement concerning the legal status of Sevastopol:.
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Nevertheless, Yury Luzhkov stated that the city was ready to provide full compensation by offering other land plots in the vicinity of Moscow for veterans of World War II who lived in Rechnik since Soviet times.
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In 2010, Yury Luzhkov made public his plans to honour Soviet leader Joseph Stalin with ten posters of him in the city of Moscow, for the first time in around fifty years after Nikita Khrushchev's criticism of Stalin-period policies.
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Yury Luzhkov married his first wife, Marina Bashilova, in 1958, and had two sons with her, Mikhail and Alexander.
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Yury Luzhkov met his second wife, businesswoman Yelena Baturina, 27 years his junior, in 1987.
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Yury Luzhkov frequently appeared in public at different festivals and celebrations, and was an enthusiastic promoter of Moscow.
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Yury Luzhkov was allegedly a devoted Orthodox Christian believer, often appearing at Christmas and Easter liturgies.
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Yury Luzhkov was critical of homosexuality and issued several bans on the Moscow Pride parade, organised by Nikolay Alexeyev.
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Yury Luzhkov was known as an enthusiastic advocate of the Northern river reversal project, which he believed would solve the water problem of Central Asia and earn money for Russia.
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Yury Luzhkov was administered anesthesia and died from subsequent anaphylactic shock.
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The Yury Luzhkov Foundation was established in September 2020 with the purpose of preserving his memory, work and accomplishments, as well as popularizing his socio-political, literary and scientific heritage.