Vladimir Shumeyko

{{Short description|Russian politician (born 1945)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2015}}

{{family name hatnote|Filippovich|Shumeyko|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

{{Infobox Politician

| name = Vladimir Shumeyko

| image = Sergey Mironov and Vladimir Shumeyko (2018-12-11) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Shumeyko in 2018

| office = 1st Chairman of the Federation Council

| term_start = 13 January 1994

| term_end = 23 January 1996

| predecessor = Office established

| successor = Yegor Stroyev

| office1 = First Deputy Prime Minister

| primeminister1 = Boris Yeltsin (extraordinary)
Yegor Gaidar (acting)
Viktor Chernomyrdin

| predecessor1 = Gennady Burbulis

| successor1 = Oleg Lobov

| term_start1 = 2 June 1992

| term_end1 = 12 December 1993

| office2 = Minister of Press and Mass Media

| term_start2 = 5 October 1993

| term_end2 = 22 December 1993

| president2 = Boris Yeltsin

| primeminister2 = Viktor Chernomyrdin

| predecessor2 = Mikhail Fedotov

| successor2 = Office disestablished

| office3 = Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet

| 1blankname3 = Chairman

| 1namedata3 = Ruslan Khasbulatov

| predecessor3 = Svetlana Goryacheva

| successor3 = Nikolay Ryabov

| term_start3 = 1 November 1991

| term_end3 = 1 July 1992

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|2|10|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

| party = CPSU

| education = Kuban Polytechnic Institute

| native_name = {{nobold|Владимир Шумейко}}

| native_name_lang = ru

}}

Vladimir Filippovich Shumeyko (also spelled Shumeiko) ({{langx|ru|link=no|Влади́мир Фили́ппович Шуме́йко}}; born 10 February 1945) is a Russian political figure.

In November 1991, Vladimir Shumeyko was appointed deputy chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation. In May 1992, Shumeyko, leading a parliamentary delegation, visited Damascus.{{cite book |author=Kreutz, Andrej |title=Russia in the Middle East: friend or foe? |publisher=Praeger Security International |location=Westport, Conn |year=2007 |page=18 |isbn=978-0-275-99328-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QI9atBdvM3MC&pg=PA18 |access-date=April 7, 2011}} In June 1992, he became a first deputy prime minister of the Russian government and held that office during the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993. In August 1992, Shumeyko announced that $1 billion of foreign investment was obtained for Russia.{{cite book |author=Crane, Keith |title=Foreign direct investment in the states of the former USSR |publisher=World Bank |location=Washington, D.C.|year=1992 |page=104 |isbn=0-8213-2269-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TOy2JPuEoE4C&pg=PA104 |access-date=April 7, 2011}} Shumeyko held the post of the chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia between January 1994 and January 1996.