Mikhail Murashko

{{short description|Russian politician, Minister of Health of the Russian Federation}}

{{family name hatnote|Albertovich|Murashko|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

{{infobox officeholder

| name = Mikhail Murashko

| image = Mikhail Murashko (2020-01-29).jpg

| office = Minister of Health

| primeminister = Mikhail Mishustin

| term_start = 21 January 2020

| term_end =

| predecessor = Veronika Skvortsova

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|1|9|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

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| education =

| alma_mater = Ural State Medical University

| profession = Physician, politician|

| native_name = {{nobold|Михаил Мурашко}}

| native_name_lang = ru

| caption = Murashko in 2020

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Mikhail Albertovich Murashko ({{langx|ru|link=no|Михаил Альбертович Мурашко}}; born 9 January 1967) is a Russian physician and a politician, serving as the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation since 21 January 2020.{{cite web|url=https://ria.ru/20200121/1563692222.html|title=Путин назначил Михаила Мурашко министром здравоохранения – РИА Новости, 21.01.2020|website=ria.ru|date=21 January 2020 |access-date=21 January 2020}}

Biography

Born in Sverdlovsk, he graduated from a city school with an in-depth study of physics, mathematics and chemistry.{{Cite news|url=https://www.kazan.kp.ru/daily/27081/4152921/|title=Биография Михаила Мурашко: что известно о новом министре здравоохранения России|newspaper=Kp.ru - |date=21 January 2020 |publisher=Комсомольская правда|access-date=22 January 2020 |last1=Николаева |first1=Анна }} From 1986 to 1988, he served in the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs ({{langx|ru|link=no|Внутренние войска МВД СССР}}).{{Cite news|url=https://www.kazan.kp.ru/daily/27081/4152921/|title=Биография Михаила Мурашко: что известно о новом министре здравоохранения России|newspaper=Kp.ru - |date=21 January 2020 |publisher=Комсомольская правда|access-date=22 January 2020 |last1=Николаева |first1=Анна }}{{Cite web|url=https://ria.ru/20200121/1563693735.html|title=Биография Михаила Мурашко|date=21 January 2020 |publisher=РИА Новости|access-date=22 January 2020}} In 1992, he graduated from the Ural State Medical University ({{langx|ru|link=no|Уральский государственный медицинский университет}}), after which until 1996 he worked as an intern doctor and obstetrician-gynecologist at the Republican Hospital of the Komi Republic in Syktyvkar. In 1996, he was successively appointed deputy chief doctor for consultative and diagnostic work, and then chief doctor of the Komi Republican Perinatal Center.

He defended his thesis on the topic "Features of the course and outcomes of childbirth in women with certain types of urogenital infection". From 1996 to 1999, he served as the chief physician of the Republican Medical Association. From 2000 to 2006, he worked as the chief physician of the Republican Perinatal Center. In 2006, he moved to the civil service, taking the post of Minister of Health of the Komi Republic. In parallel with this, in 2011 and 2012 he headed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Republican Branch of the Kirov State Medical University ({{langx|ru|link=no|Кировский государственный медицинский университет}}) of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia, located in Syktyvkar.

In 2012, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor). Since 2013, he was temporarily acting head of the department, and on 14 July 2015 he officially headed Roszdravnadzor. Under his leadership, Roszdravnadzor created a modern service for state control of the quality of medicines, one of the advanced systems for monitoring the circulation of medical devices and monitoring the quality and safety of medical care for the population.{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}} The Federal Service for Supervision of Healthcare has reached a high international level, its employees are heads of expert structures of international organizations at the World Health Organization and the Council of Europe.{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}}

On 21 January, he was appointed by presidential decree signed by President Vladimir Putin to the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation in Mikhail Mishustin's Cabinet.

Sanctions

Because of his support of Russian aggression and violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity during the Russian-Ukrainian war, he is under personal sanctions from various countries.{{Cite web |title=MURASHKO Mikhail Albertovich - biography, dossier, assets {{!}} War and sanctions |url=https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/en/sanction-person/439/ |access-date=2023-09-03 |website=sanctions.nazk.gov.ua |language=en}}

On 6 March 2022 he was placed on Canada's sanctions list of "regime associates" for "complicity in Russia's unjustified invasion of Ukraine".{{Cite web|url=https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/issues_development-enjeux_developpement/response_conflict-reponse_conflits/crisis-crises/ukraine-sanctions.aspx?lang=eng|title=Sanctions – Russian invasion of Ukraine|author=Global Affairs Canada|website=GAC|date=2022-02-04|access-date=2023-06-08}}{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://ru.krymr.com/a/news-kanada-sanktsii-15-rossiyskikh-chinovnikov-voyennyye/31754392.html|title=Канада ввела санкции в отношении еще 15 российских чиновников и военных|website=Крым.Реалии|date=2022-03-15|access-date=2023-06-08}} Justin Trudeau noted that Murashko was taken from a list compiled by Alexei Navalny.{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/07/canada-sanctions-putin-00014636|title=Canada sanctions 10 Putin allies from Navalny's list|language=en|first=Andy|last=Blatchford|website=POLITICO|date=2022-03-07|access-date=2023-08-18}}

By decree of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on 9 June 2022 he is under sanctions by Ukraine because he "supported and implemented actions and policies that undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine".{{Cite web |date=2022-06-09 |title=Ukraine sanctions Putin, Mishustin, Shoigu, hundreds if Russian uni rectors |url=https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/06/09/ukraine-sanctions-putin-mishustin-shoigu-hundreds-if-russian-uni-rectors-news |access-date=2023-09-03 |website=Novaya Gazeta Europe}}{{Cite web|url=https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/ru/sanction-person/439|title=Среди Лиҵ, Уже Под Санкҵиями: Мурашко, Михаил Альбертович|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126140748/https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/ru/sanction-person/439/|archive-date=2022-11-26|access-date=2022-12-28|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.currenttime.tv/a/ukraina-vvela-sanktsii-protiv-putina-i-shoygu/31891017.html|title=Украина ввела санкции против 35 россиян, включая Путина, Мишустина, Шойгу и Лаврова|language=ru|website=Настоящее Время|date=2022-06-09|access-date=2023-08-02}} On the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 24 February 2023, Murashko is under sanctions by Australia and New Zealand on similar grounds.{{Cite web|language=en|url=https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/Q83379002/|title=MURASHKO Mikhail Albertovich|website=OpenSanctions|date=9 January 1967|access-date=2023-06-08}}

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