Nikolay Fyodorov (politician)

Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Фёдоров, Chuvash: Фёдоров Николай Васильевич, Fyodorow Nikolay Wasilyewich; born 9 May 1958 in Chedino, Chuvash ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is the First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council. He is also the former President of the Chuvash Republic in Russia.

Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov
Николай Васильевич Фёдоров
First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council
Assumed office
30 September 2015
Senator from Chuvashia
Assumed office
20 September 2015
Presidential Counselor
In office
22 April 2015 – 27 September 2015
Minister of Agriculture
In office
21 May 2012 – 22 April 2015
PresidentVladimir Putin
Preceded byYelena Skrynnik
Succeeded byAleksandr Tkachyov
1st President of the Chuvash Republic
In office
21 January 1994 – 29 August 2010
Vice PresidentEnver Abliyakimov
Succeeded byMikhail Ignatyev
Minister of Justice
In office
1990–1993
PresidentBoris Yeltsin
Preceded byVladimir Abolentsev (under RSFSR)
Succeeded byYuri Kalmykov
Personal details
Born (1958-05-09) 9 May 1958
Chedino, Chuvash ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyUnited Russia
Other political
affiliations		Award:
Spouse(s)Svetlana Yuryevna Fyodorova

Career

He was the Justice Minister of Russia from 14 July 1991 to 24 March 1993.

He served as the first President of Chuvash Republic from 21 January 1994 to August 2010. He was a supporter of market reforms and was reelected in 1998 and 2001. Fyodorov opposed Russian President Boris Yeltsin's policies in Chechnya and Vladimir Putin's 2000 federal reform initiatives.[1]

He had been the Minister of Agriculture from 21 May 2012 until April 2015.

Presently, he is the First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament, a position he has held since 2015.

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.

Fyodorov (right) with his Hungarian colleague Sándor Fazekas (center) - OMÉK, 2013

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 Honour (11 September 2008) - for outstanding contribution to the socio-economic development of the long and fruitful work
  • State Prize of the Russian Federation, 1999, for science and technology - for the revival of the historic part of the capital of Chuvashia - Cheboksary the city
  • 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
  1. Robert W. Orttung; Danielle N. Lussier; Anna Paretskaya (2000). The republics and regions of the Russian Federation: a guide to politics, policies, and leaders. M. E. Sharpe. pp. 104–106. ISBN 978-0-7656-0559-7. Retrieved 27 January 2011.

References
Political offices
Preceded by
None		 President of the Chuvash Republic
21 January 1994 – 29 August 2010		 Succeeded by
Mikhail Ignatyev
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