Personnel changes continue in Ukraine - instead of Alexei Reznikov, Rustem Umerov became the Minister of Defense.
His candidacy was supported by the parliament - 338 people’s deputies of Ukraine voted for the appointment.
Rustem Umerov was born in 1982 in the city of Bulungur, Samarkand region of the Uzbek SSR, in a family of immigrants from the city of Alushta. His relatives were deported from the Crimea to Central Asia in 1944 and only 50 years later were able to return to the island.
In 2014, Umerov became a curator from the Mejlis on the exchange of political prisoners from Crimea, and in 2019 he entered parliament with the Holos party, became secretary of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Human Rights, De-occupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk and Lugansk Regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol, national minorities and interethnic relations.
In 2020, he joined the NSDC working group to develop a strategy for the de-occupation of Crimea, became a co-chair of the Crimean Platform initiative, and after Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, he was part of the Ukrainian delegation at several stages of negotiations with the Russian Federation, participated in negotiations on the exchange of prisoners. as well as the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Since September 2022 - Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, and since September 6, 2023 - the first Ukrainian minister from among Muslims and Crimean Tatars.
Recall that recently People’s Deputy of Ukraine Yaroslav Zheleznyak spoke about possible personnel rotations. According to him, the head of the State Property Fund, previously headed by Umerov, may be Olga Peschanskaya, who left the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. And the Antimonopoly Committee, according to him, may be headed by Pavel Kirilenko, who headed the Donetsk Regional State Administration.
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