Nikolai Vasilyevich Fyodorov

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Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Fyodorow ( Russian: Николай Васильевич Фёдоров ; born May 9, 1958 in Chodino, Mariinsky Posad Raion, Chuvash ASSR ) is a Russian politician of Chuvash descent, former President of the Republic of Chuvashia, 2012–201510. From April 22 to September 28, 2015, Fyodorov was President Vladimir Putin's advisor on agricultural issues. He has represented Chuvashia on the Federation Council since September 2015 and, according to the Izvestia newspaper, will become its first deputy chairman.

biography

Nikolai Fyodorov in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin (March 2015)

Nikolai Fyodorov studied law at the Kazan State University and then taught at the Chuvash State University in Cheboksary . In 1990 he was appointed to the government of the RSFSR and became Minister of Justice of the Republic. He kept this post even after the collapse of the Soviet Union . In March 1993 he resigned from his position. In December 1993 he was elected the first President of the Chuvash Republic and sworn in on January 21, 1994. He was re-elected in 1997 and 2001, although the 2001 election is controversial. After the count, allegations surfaced that the result had been falsified in favor of Fyodorov in order to secure his narrow victory. In 2005, after the abolition of direct elections to the heads of federal subjects in Russia, he was reappointed President of the Republic by President Vladimir Putin . After his fourth term in 2010, Fyodorov was replaced by Mikhail Ignatiev .

From January 2011 to May 2012, Nikolai Fyodorov was Russia's official ambassador to the Council of Europe . In addition, from May to November 2011 he was council chairman of the "Institute for Socio-Economic and Economic Research".

In May 2012, the new Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev called him back to the government - now as Minister of Agriculture. Fyodorov belongs to the United Russia party . In April 2015, Putin dismissed the Minister of Agriculture because of rising prices, also because his task was to turn the Russian import sanctions against the West into an advantage for Russian agriculture.

Fyodorov was awarded, among other things, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th and 3rd class.

Private

Nikolai Fyodorow comes from a large, ethnic Chuvash family. His father was a veteran of the Great Patriotic War . In the early 1960s the family moved from the village of Chodino to Cheboksary , the capital of the Chuvash ASSR. The family lived in Cheboksary next to a huge chemical weapons factory . The oppressive, industrial atmosphere shaped the childhood of the young Nikolai Fyodorov.

Nikolai Fyodorov has been married to Svetlana Jurjewna Fyodorova, whom he met on New Year's Eve 1979, since 1983. His wife is Russian and was born in Kostroma . With her he has a son Wassili (* 1985) and a daughter Karina (* 1990).

Fyodorov is a member of the Rotary International Society . In addition to his mother tongues Russian and Chuvash, Nikolai Fjodorow also speaks fluent German , as he has given several lectures and guest lectures in Germany , as well as a little English, French and Turkish. In his free time, Fyodorov does karate , swimming, skiing and chess .

Nikolai Fyodorov is a practicing Russian Orthodox Christian . He was awarded the Order of Sergius of Radonezh, 1st class by the church .

Interesting facts

  • Nikolai Fyodorov became popular in the internet community after a video of him was shown dancing very vigorously to a Chuvash folk song.
  • As President of the Chuvash Republic, Fyodorov was very close to the people and was very popular with the population. So it happened that he went to the bazaar of Cheboksary without any bodyguards to shop for Easter food and to talk to the people there. Whenever Fyodorov gave lectures at the Ulyanov University in Cheboksary as a guest lecturer, these were always accompanied by stormy applause from the students.

Web links

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  1. ↑ «Известия»: Федоров станет первым вице-спикером Совфеда. In: Gazeta.ru . September 30, 2015, accessed September 30, 2015 (Russian).
  2. ↑ http://www.aktuell.ru/russland/menschen/kurzbiographie/nikolai_fjodorow_204.html
  3. ↑ Putin dismisses Minister of Agriculture , FAZ, April 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ I. Lenskij Президент с улицы Водопроводной // Pravda. - April 20, 1994. - Issue No. 66 (27241). - p. 2.
  5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avADu7uN32I
personal data
SURNAME Fyodorov, Nikolai Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Фёдоров, Николай Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Chodino, Mariinsky Possad Raion, Chuvash ASSR