Nikolai Anatolyevich Nikiforov

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Nikolai Nikiforov (left) at an IT press conference with the Minister of Communications and Information Technology of Iran

Nikolai Anatoljewitsch Nikiforow ( Russian: Николай Анатольевич Никифоров ; born June 22, 1982 in Kazan ) is a Russian politician . Since May 2012 he has been a Minister in the Government of the Russian Federation .

Life

Nikiforov graduated from the Institute of Social and Humanities in Kazan with a degree in economics.

As early as 2004 he was Deputy Head of the IT company Sowremenye Internet Technologi and since 2005 he has been an administrative advisor to the Russian Republic of Tatarstan in the field of information technology . In 2010 he was appointed Minister of Telecommunications by Tatarstan's President Rustam Minnichanow .

In May 2012, Nikiforov finally succeeded Igor Shchogolev as Russia's Minister for Networking and Mass Communication . He was only 29 years old at the time of his appointment, making him the youngest minister in Dmitry Medvedev's cabinet .

Plagiarism allegation

In 2011 Nikiforov received his PhD in economics from the State University of Economics and Finance in Saint Petersburg . After examining his doctoral thesis using plagiarism detection software , Dissernet came to the conclusion in 2014 that 76 of the 167 pages examined from a total of six third-party works were plagiarized. Nikiforov did not publicly comment on the allegation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Никифоров Николай Анатольевич (2011). Таблица заимствований . (Results of the evaluation of Nikolai Nikiforov's doctoral thesis dated December 16, 2011). On wiki.dissernet.org (Russian)
  2. ↑ Постановление Правительства Российской Федерации от 2 июня 2008 г. № 418 - О Министерстве связи и массовых коммуникаций Российской Федерации ( Memento from February 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). On minsvyaz.ru (Russian)
  3. ↑ В диссертации руководителя Минкомсвязи нашли плагиат . On April 7, 2014 on lenta.ru (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Nikiforov, Nikolai Anatolyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Никифоров, Николай Анатольевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Kazan