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Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin (Russian: Дми́трий Оле́гович Рого́зин; born 21 December, 1963) is a Russian popular politician and diplomat. In January, 2008, he became Russia's ambassador to NATO. He was a leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party until it merged with other similar Russian parties to form the Fair Russia party. He speaks 4 languages and holds a doctor's degree.
Dmitry Rogozin was born in Moscow into the family of a famous Soviet military historian. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1986 with a degree in journalism and in 1988 graduated with another degree in economics. In 1996 he also got a PhD in philosophy.
In 1993 Dmitry Rogozin joined the recently-created party "Congress of the Russian Communities" led by General Alexander Lebed and, after its founder died in a 2002 helicopter crash, Rogozin became joint leader with Sergey Glazyev of what became the Rodina party - described by Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya as 'created by the Kremlin’s spin doctors specifically...to draw moderately nationalist voters away from the more extreme National Bolsheviks'. Rogozin was elected to the State Duma as a deputy from Voronezh city in 1997 and became a vocal activist for protection of rights of ethnic Russians in former Soviet Union republics.