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| image = Дмитрий Рогозин - Роскосмос.jpg
| caption = Rogozin in 2020
| office = [[Federation Council (Russia)|Russian Federation Senator]] <br /> from Russia-occupied [[Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast|Zaporizhzhia Oblast]]
| term_start = 23 September 2023
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{{Conservatism in Russia|Politicians}}
'''Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Дми́трий Оле́гович Рого́зин}}; born 21 December 1963) is a Russian nationalist politician<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-racist/russian-ultra-nationalists-rally-as-police-watch-idUSL2851145120070128/ |title=Russian ultra-nationalists rally as police watch |date=2007-08-09 |website=[[Reuters]] |last=Golovnina |first=Maria}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/id-moe/09348.pdf |title=The Ultra-Right in Russia in 2012 |date= September 2012 |last=Verkhovsky |first=Alexander}}</ref> serving as the [[Russian Senate|senator]] from the [[Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast|Russian-occupied Zaporozhye Oblast]] since 23 September 2023. He previously served as director general of [[Roscosmos]] from 2018 to July 2022, as [[Deputy Prime Minister of Russia|deputy prime minister]] in charge of the [[defense industry of Russia|defense industry]] from 2011 to 2018, and as [[Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to NATO|Russia's ambassador to NATO]] from 2008 to 2011.{{cn|date=April 2023}}
He was co-founder of the far-right [[Rodina (political party)|Rodina]] political party, which was created in 2003. Parts of the party later merged with other parties to form [[A Just Russia]] in 2006.<ref>{{cite web
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In the lack of an official position of power in Russia, Rogozin declared himself the head of the "[[Tsar's Wolves]]" inspection group of volunteers, with the stated aim of testing and supplying weapons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.<ref name=ft1>{{Cite news |last=Ivanova |first=Polina |date=2023-06-16 |title=Russia's latest space agency mission: raising a militia for the war in Ukraine |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/c194cb2d-3aa0-4195-9be5-e78c1d2fd183 |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref> By early December 2022, Rogozin had been posting images of himself dressed up as a soldier in expensive military gear on Telegram. [[Wagner PMC]] commander [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]] said that "the actions of Rogozin in Ukraine are clearly being done for the purposes of public relations rather than furthering the Russian war effort."<ref name=ars20221205>{{cite news |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/dmitry-rogozin-may-be-in-some-trouble-in-russia/ |title=Dmitry Rogozin may be in some trouble in Russia |work=Ars Technica |date=5 December 2022 |access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref>
On 21 December 2022, whilst celebrating his 59th birthday in a restaurant in [[Donetsk]], Rogozin and [[Vitaliy Khotsenko]], the chairman of the self-proclaimed separatist [[Donetsk People's Republic]], received shrapnel injuries from the explosion of a precision munition fired by Ukraine.<ref name=ft1/><ref name=ki1>{{cite news |title=Ex-Roscosmos head Rogozin, Donetsk proxy leader injured in possible targeted strike |url=https://kyivindependent.com/national/ex-roscosmos-head-dmitrii-rogozin-donetsk-proxy-leader-injured-in-possible-targeted-strike |work=[[Kyiv Independent]] |date=22 December 2022 |access-date=23 December 2022 }}</ref> Rogozin, over a Telegram chat room, claimed someone had leaked his coordinates or general location in Donetsk.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-22 |title=Russia's notorious former space chief Rogozin wounded in shelling |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-notorious-ex-space-chief-dmitry-rogozin-roscosmos-wounded-donbas-ukraine-shelling/ |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=Politico |language=en-US}}</ref> On 4 January 2023, Rogozin sent to the French ambassador in Moscow what he claimed was a shell fragment removed from his body by chirurgians after he was wounded. He alleged that the shell had been fired by a French [[CAESAR self-propelled howitzer]], and asked for the fragment to be given to French President [[Emmanuel Macron]], adding that "nobody will evade responsibility for war crimes".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/international/live/2023/01/04/guerre-en-ukraine-en-direct-emmanuel-macron-annonce-la-livraison-de-chars-de-combat-legers-a-kiev-plusieurs-villes-ukrainiennes-bombardees_6156533_3210.html#id-804055 |title=L’ex-chef de Roscosmos envoie à Macron un éclat de l’obus qui l’a blessé en Ukraine |date=2023-01-04 |website=[[Le Monde]]}}</ref>
In May 2023, Rogozin expressed doubt that the US [[Apollo 11]] mission really landed on the Moon in 1969, saying he had yet to see conclusive proof.<ref name=ther1>{{cite web | url=https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/09/dmitry_rogozin_moon_landing_sceptic/ | title=Russia's ex-space boss doubts US set foot on the Moon |first=Katyanna |last=Quach |date=9 May 2023 |publisher=The Register}}</ref>
==== Senator from Zaporozhye Oblast ====
On 23 September 2023, the governor of [[Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast|Russian-occupied Zaporozhye Oblast]] [[Yevgeny Balitsky]] appointed Rogozin as an aspirational [[Federation Council (Russia)|senator]] from Zaporozhye Oblast. Following his appointment, Rogozin stated that it is an "honor for me to defend the interests of the Zaporozhye Oblast and [[Novorossiya]] as a whole".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-23 |title=Дмитрий Рогозин назначен сенатором от Запорожской области |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6236566 |access-date=2023-09-23 |website=Коммерсантъ |language=ru}}</ref> Russia does not control entire Zaporozhye Oblast and it specifically doesn't control its capital, the
==Personal life==
In 2016, his son Alexei Rogozin was appointed deputy director of the Property Department of the [[Ministry of Defense (Russia)]].<ref>{{cite web |title=he Rogozins and an apartment worth half a billion rubles |url=https://transparency.org.ru/en/special/rogozin |website=transparency.org.ru}}</ref>
According to anti-corruption activist [[Alexei Navalny]], Rogozin earned while he led Roscosmos in 2018 a salary of 29.5 million rubles ($460,000)
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