Gennady Kulik Explained

Gennady Kulik
Native Name Lang:ru
Office:Member of the State Duma
Term Start:18 January 2000
Term End:12 February 2020[1]
Office2:Deputy Prime Minister
Term Start2:21 September 1998
Term End2:12 May 1999
Premier2:Yevgeny Primakov
Office3:Member of the State Duma
Term Start3:11 January 1994
Term End3:21 September 1998
Constituency3:Kalmykia (1995–1998)
Office4:First Deputy Premier of the RSFSR
Term Start4:14 July 1990
Term End4:10 July 1991
Premier4:Ivan Silayev
Office5:Minister of Agriculture and Food of the RSFSR
Term Start5:14 July 1990
Term End5:15 November 1991
Premier5:Ivan Silayev
Successor5:Viktor Khlystun
Birth Date:20 January 1935
Birth Place:Zhelomskoye, Novosokolnichesky District, Western Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma Mater:Leningrad State University
Party:United Russia

Gennady Vasilyevich Kulik (Russian: link=no|Геннадий Васильевич Кулик; 20 January 1935 – 16 June 2023) was a Soviet and Russian politician. He held the post of the first deputy premier of the Russian SFSR in the last years of the Soviet Union, and also was a deputy of the 1st–7th State Dumas of the Russian Federation.

Biography

Gennady Kulik was born on 20 January 1935 in modern Pskov Oblast, Russia to a peasant family. In 1957 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University. To 1965 he worked at the Novosibirsk Scientific Research Institute of Agricultural Economics.[2]

Kulik died on 16 June 2023, at the age of 88.[3]

Minister

From July 1990 to July 1991 he was the First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Russia and Minister of Agriculture and Food in the Ivan Silayev's First Cabinet.[4] In April 1991 he signed an agreement with Nessim Gaon's Noga SA on the supply of food in exchange for oil.[5] Litigation under this agreement had not been resolved to 2008.[6] [7] In July 1991 Kulik's rank in the Ivan Silayev's Second Cabinet was lowered to "ordinary" deputy premier, retaining the position of the Minister of Agriculture.[8] In late 1991 Kulik was a member of Silayev-led Committee for Operative Management of National Economy, which acted as a provisional government of crumbling USSR.

Member of parliament

In 1993 Gennady Kulik was elected member of the 1st State Duma. He joined the faction of the Agrarian Party of Russia.[2] On 21 September 1998, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister in the Yevgeny Primakov's Cabinet, supervising the agro-industrial complex.[9]

In 1999 he was elected to the 3rd State Duma in the Kalmykia constituency. Kulik was a member of Fatherland – All Russia faction up to 2003 and deputy chairman of the Committee on Budget and Taxes. In 2002–07 — Chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Issues. Kulik resigned as a member of parliament on 11 February 2020.[10] His seat passed to Alexey Gordeyev.[11]

Gennady Kulik had been accused of lobbying the interests of tobacco companies.[12] In 2002 he supported the requests of the tobacco industry to allow the sale of unsold cigarettes produced before 2001 law "On the restriction of tobacco smoking", which made warning message on the packs mandatory.[13] In 2006 Kulik, together with MPs Ivan Savvidis and Airat Khairullin, initiated the consideration of draft "Technical regulations for tobacco products", allowing to use chemical additives banned in other countries, and making graphic warning messages unnecessary.[14]

Awards

Notes and References

  1. http://duma.gov.ru/duma/persons/99100225/ Kulik Gennady Vasilyevich
  2. http://www.biografija.ru/show_bio.aspx?id=71604 Kulik Gennady Vasilyevich
  3. News: Скончался известный политик связанный с Владимирской областью . 21 June 2023 . newsvladimir.ru . 17 June 2023.
  4. Web site: Постановление Верховного Совета РСФСР от 14 июля 1990 г. "Об утверждении состава Совета Министров РСФСР". ru. Resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 14 July 1990 "On the approval of the composition of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR".
  5. Web site: История конфликта России с фирмой Noga. ru. History of the conflict between Russia and the Noga firm. Kommersant. 9 March 2006.
  6. Web site: Noga décidée à "continuer à se battre" pour faire payer la Russie. 21 January 2009. Tribune de Genève . fr . 20 May 2018 . https://archive.today/20130905093732/http://journal.tdg.ch/geneve/actu/noga-decidee-continuer-battre-faire-payer-russie-2009-01-21 . 5 September 2013. dead.
  7. Web site: Noga отступила. ru. Noga retreated. Gazeta.ru. 23 January 2009.
  8. http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/45 Decree of the President of the RSFSR of 07/30/1991 No. 24
  9. Web site: Указ Президента РФ от 21 сентября 1998 г. № 1136 "О Кулике Г.В.". ru. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 21 September 1998 No. 1136 "On Kulik G.V.". 13 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150713230213/http://www.jurbase.ru/2006_archive_federal_laws_of_russia/texts/sector116/tez16101.htm . 13 July 2015 . dead.
  10. Web site: Госдума досрочно прекратила полномочия депутата Кулика. ru. State Duma annulled the mandate of deputy Kulik. RIA Novosti. 11 February 2020.
  11. Web site: ЦИК передал Гордееву мандат досрочно сложившего полномочия Кулика. ru. CEC delegated to Gordeyev the mandate of Kulik, who resigned early. RIA Novosti. 12 February 2020.
  12. Web site: В Госдуме ищут депутатов — лоббистов табачных компаний. ru. The State Duma is looking for deputies-lobbyists of tobacco companies. RBC. 9 October 2012.
  13. Web site: Табачники вызывают зависимость. ru. Tobacco growers cause addiction. Novaya Gazeta. 17 November 2010.
  14. Web site: Никотиновая зависимость власти. ru. Authorities' nicotine addiction. Moskovskij Komsomolets. 28 September 2012.
  15. http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/30524 Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 01/25/2010 No. 100
  16. http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/23724 Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 04/20/2006, No. 381
  17. http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/17604 Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 12/10/2001, No. 1420