Mikhail Alexandrovich Fedotov
Mikhail Alexandrowitsch Fedotow ( Russian Михаил Александрович Федотов ; born September 18, 1949 in Moscow ) is a Russian lawyer and journalist, former media minister and UNESCO ambassador. Fedotov was secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists from 1989 to 2010 and was appointed by President Dmitry Medvedev as his advisor and chairman of the Russian President's Human Rights Council on October 12, 2010 .
Life
Mikhail Fedotov grew up in Moscow and graduated from Lomonosov University in 1972 as a lawyer .
He received his doctorate in law in 1976 (“The freedom of the press - the constitutional right of Soviet citizens”) and obtained his habilitation in 1989 (“The media as an institution of socialist democracy”) on topics that were controversial in the Soviet Union.
From 1972 to 1990 he worked as a law professor and correspondent for several Moscow newspapers.
From 1990 to 1992 Fedotov was deputy media minister. After a brief interlude as General Director of the Russian Intellectual Property Agency, Fedotov was Minister of Media from December 1992 to September 1993.
From September 1993 to January 1998 he was the Permanent Representative of Russia to UNESCO in Paris. From 1989 until his appointment as Chairman of the President's Human Rights Council in October 2010, Fedotov held the post of Secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists.
Chairman of the President's Human Rights Council
On October 12, 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev appointed Mikhail Fedotov as his adviser and chairman of the Russian President's Human Rights Council . Fedotov replaced Ella Pamfilova , who resigned at the end of July 2010 out of annoyance about what she believed to be a deteriorating human rights situation.
As chairman of the Russian President's Human Rights Council, he will primarily deal with the “de-Stalinization of social awareness, the reform of the courts and the police, and the legal protection of children and families,” said Fedotov after his appointment.
Russian human rights activists and opposition leaders welcomed the election of Fedotov. The head of the Moscow Helsinki Group , the former Soviet dissident Lyudmila Alexejewa , described Fedotov as "a personality with democratic principles". Fedotov is "a good choice for this extremely difficult post between two almost incompatible worlds - the Russian bureaucracy and the democratic public".
At the end of October 2017, Fedotov spoke out in favor of “disarming” state propaganda in order to reduce dangerous disunity in society and restore respect for human dignity.
Works
Fedotow is the author of around 100 books and articles on problems of human rights, in particular the legal guarantee of freedom of speech and freedom of the press, as well as on intellectual property and international cooperation in the humanitarian field.
family
Mikhail Fedotov is married and has two children.
Web links
- Секретарь СЖР Михаил Федотов , biography at the Russian Union of Journalists
- The RF President's Council on Civil Society and Human Rights Development , official website (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ RIA Novosti: Mikhail Fedotov becomes presidential adviser and head of the Human Rights Council . RIA Novosti. October 12, 2010. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
- ^ Interfax: New Russian human rights chief appointed . Interfax (via Russia Today). October 12, 2010. Archived from the original on October 16, 2010. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
- ^ Meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights on October 30, 2017 on the website of the President of Russia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fedotov, Mikhail Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Федотов, Михаил Александрович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian lawyer and journalist, former media minister and UNESCO ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |