Nikolay Fyodorov (politician)
Nikolay Fyodorov | |
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Николай Фёдоров | |
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| Succeeded by | Yury Kalmykov |
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| Born | 9 May 1958 Kazan State University |
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Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov (
Early life
Nikolai Fyodorov was born in 1958 in the village of Chyodino, Mariinsko-Posadsky District of the Chuvash ASSR (now part of Novocheboksarsk), into a large family of a WWII veteran. In 1980, after graduating from the law faculty of Kazan State University, he came to Cheboksary and taught the disciplines "Soviet law" and "Scientific communism" in 1980–82 and 1985–89 at the Chuvash State University.
Career
Federal minister
In 1989 he was elected
President of Chuvashia
In December 1993, he ran simultaneously to the 1st State Duma and for the president of Chuvashia, his home region. Fyodorov was elected to the State Duma on the list of the Democratic Party of Russia, became a member of the Defense Committee. In the Chuvash presidential elections, none of the candidates received the required 25% of the vote. Fyodorov with 24.9%, and Lev Kurakov, the rector of the Chuvash University, who gained 21.9%, entered the second round. On December 26, Fyodorov won the majority of the vote.[1] On 21 January 1994, he took office as president of the Chuvash Republic, and in February he resigned as a State Duma deputy.
He was reelected in 1997 and 2001, and appointed by president Putin in 2005. As a head of the region, he was a member of the second
He served as the first President of
Post-presidency
On 8 September 2010, at the session of the State Council of Chuvashia, he was approved as a member of the Federation Council of Russia.
He had been the Minister of Agriculture from 21 May 2012 until April 2015. Two days after his appointment he sent a letter to Mikhail Ignatyev, who was his successor as the president of Chuvashia. Fyodorov criticized the economic policy of Ignatyev's administration.[3] From April to September 2015 Fyodorov was an advisor to the President of Russia on agroindustrial complex issues.
In January 2014, Fyodorov arrived in Berlin for the Green Week agriculture exhibition on a business-class Cessna private jet, which was registered in Serbia.[4] The photo of Fyodorov leaving the cabin was first retouched[5] and then removed from the website of the Ministry of Agriculture.[6] In March 2015 deputy chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Pavel Grudinin criticized Fyodorov's department for imposing transport tax on agricultural machinery operating in the fields, despite the fact that this transport is not intended to use the motorways.
After his resign from the federal cabinet Fyodorov was appointed a member of the Federation Council from Chuvashia for the second time. In 2015–2020 he was the First Deputy Chairman of the council.
Sanctions
Sanctioned by the
Personal life
He is an ethnic Chuvash. He is married and has one son and a daughter. His son Vasily is a lawyer. In addition to his native Chuvash, he speaks Russian and German.
Honours and awards
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
- 3rd class (5 August 2003) — for outstanding contribution to strengthening Russian statehood and many years of diligent work
- 4th class (9 May 1998) — for services to the state and a major contribution to socio-economic development of Chuvash Republic
- Order of Alexander Nevsky (2017) — for his great contribution to the development of Russian parliamentarism and legislative activity[8]
- Order of Honour(11 September 2008) — for outstanding contribution to the socio-economic development of the long and fruitful work
- State Prize of the Russian Federation for science and technology, 1999 — for the revival of the historic part of the capital of Chuvashia — the city of Cheboksary
- Honorary Builder of the Russian Federation
- Medal "For Services to the national health care"
- Medal "75 years of civil defence"
- Order "For Services to the Chuvash Republic" (29 August 2010)
- Order of St. Sergius, 1st class
- Order of the Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow, 1st class
- Winner of the All-Russian legal award "Themis"
- Title of "President of the Year - 2001" All-Russia public premium "Russian National Olympus"
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
- Medal of Merit in the All-Russia Census
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan"
- Medal in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Russian Ministry of Justice
- Medal "200 Years of the Russian Interior Ministry"
Footnotes
- ^ Gubernatorial Elections — 1993, politika.su
- ISBN 978-0-7656-0559-7. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- ^ "Письмо не счастья". Kommersant (in Russian). 2012-05-23.
- ^ "Улетаешь? Лети, пожалуйста!". Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2014-09-10.
- ^ С официальной фотографии главы Минсельхоза стерли самолет
- ^ "С официального сайта Министерства сельского хозяйства удалили скандальную фотографию прибытия главы ведомства Николая Федорова в Германию" [The scandalous photo of Nikolay Fyodorov's arrival in Germany was removed from the official website of the Ministry of Agriculture]. Echo of Moscow (in Russian).
- ^ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 27 June 2017 No. 288 "On awarding state awards of the Russian Federation"
References
- Political System. Government of the Chuvash Republic. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- Administrative Structure of the Republic. Administrative Centre and Largest Cities. Government Authorities. Government of the Chuvash Republic. Retrieved January 2011.
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