Nikolay Fyodorov (politician) explained

Nikolay Fyodorov
Office:First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council
Term Start:30 September 2015
Term End:23 September 2020
1Blankname:Chairman
1Namedata:Valentina Matviyenko
Office1:Russian Federation Senator
from the Chuvash Republic
Term Start1:20 September 2015
Predecessor1:Konstantin Kosachev
Term Start2:22 September 2010
Term End2:23 May 2012
Predecessor2:Vladimir Sloutsker
Successor2:Galina Nikolayeva
Office3:Minister of Agriculture
Premier3:Dmitry Medvedev
Term Start3:21 May 2012
Term End3:22 April 2015
Predecessor3:Yelena Skrynnik
Successor3:Aleksandr Tkachyov
Office4:1st President of the Chuvash Republic
Vicepresident4:Enver Ablyakimov (1994–97),
Lev Kurakov (1997–2000)
Term Start4:21 January 1994
Term End4:29 August 2010
Successor4:Mikhail Ignatyev
Office5:Minister of Justice
President5:Boris Yeltsin
Term Start5:14 July 1990
Term End5:24 March 1993
Predecessor5:Vladimir Abolentsev (under RSFSR)
Successor5:Yury Kalmykov
Birth Date:9 May 1958
Birth Place:Chyodino, Chuvash ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Party:United Russia
Spouse:Svetlana Yuryevna Fyodorova
Alma Mater:Kazan State University
Native Name Lang:ru

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

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.[1]

Career

Federal minister

In 1989 he was elected People's Deputy of the USSR. He was one of the leaders of the committee on legislation of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. He was the Justice Minister of Russia from 14 July 1990 to 24 March 1993. In December 1991, Fyodorov stated that the 79-year-old former leader of the GDR Erich Honecker, who was in the Chilean embassy in Moscow, must leave the USSR territory (six months later, in July 1992, Honecker was extradited to Berlin).[2] In March 1993, during the power struggle between the reformist cabinet and anti-reform legislature Fyodorov resigned protesting against the unconstitutional introduction of a "special procedure for governing" by Boris Yeltsin.[3] Fyodorov critically assessed the dispersal of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet of Russia in October 1993.[4]

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.[5] 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 Federation Council from 1996 to 2001.[6] In December 2000, Fyodorov was the only senator who voted against the new law on the National Anthem of Russia, adopting Alexandrov's melody (lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov were adopted later; Oleg Chirkunov was the only one voting against it).

He served as the first President of Chuvash Republic to 29 August 2010.[7] He was a supporter of market reforms. Fyodorov opposed Russian President Boris Yeltsin's policies in Chechnya and Vladimir Putin's 2000 federal reform initiatives.[8]

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.[9] 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.[10] The photo of Fyodorov leaving the cabin was first retouched[11] and then removed from the website of the Ministry of Agriculture.[12] 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 UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.[13]

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

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Первый Президент Чувашской Республики » Биография . 2024-08-01 . gov.cap.ru.
  2. Web site: Эрих Хонеккер: взлет и падение генсека – DW – 18.10.2019 . 2024-08-01 . dw.com . ru.
  3. Web site: Федоров Николай Васильевич: биография . https://web.archive.org/web/20111126042908/http://ladno.ru/person/fedorov/bio/ . 2011-11-26.
  4. Web site: Федоров Николай Васильевич .
  5. http://www.politika.su/vybory/rre93t.html Gubernatorial Elections — 1993
  6. Web site: Федоров Николай Васильевич . 2024-08-01 . Совет Федерации Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации . ru.
  7. Web site: В Чувашии сменится президент .
  8. Book: Robert W. Orttung. Danielle N. Lussier. Anna Paretskaya. The republics and regions of the Russian Federation: a guide to politics, policies, and leaders. 27 January 2011. 2000. M. E. Sharpe. 978-0-7656-0559-7. 104–106.
  9. Web site: Письмо не счастья. ru. Kommersant. 2012-05-23.
  10. News: Улетаешь? Лети, пожалуйста!. ru. Novaya Gazeta. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140910195945/http://www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/61700.html. 2014-09-10.
  11. http://lenta.ru/news/2014/01/06/selhoz/ С официальной фотографии главы Минсельхоза стерли самолет
  12. News: 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. ru. Echo of Moscow.
  13. Web site: CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK . 16 April 2023.
  14. Web site: 2014-01-07 . Указ Президента РФ от 5 августа 2003 г. N 920 "О награждении орденом "За заслуги перед Отечеством" III степени Федорова Н.В." . https://web.archive.org/web/20140107205709/http://bazazakonov.ru/doc/?ID=1888104 . 2014-01-07 .
  15. Web site: 2014-01-07 . Указ Президента РФ от 9 мая 1998 г. N 517 "О награждении орденом "За заслуги перед Отечеством" IV степени Федорова Н.В." . https://web.archive.org/web/20140107205707/http://bazazakonov.ru/doc/?ID=1889869 . 2014-01-07 .
  16. http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201706270046?index=11&rangeSize=1 Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 27 June 2017 No. 288 "On awarding state awards of the Russian Federation"
  17. Web site: Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 11 сентября 2008 г. № 1340 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110214174857/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=47742 . 2011-02-14.
  18. Web site: 2014-01-07 . Указ Президента РФ от 29 сентября 1999 г. N 1307 "О присуждении Государственных премий Российской Федерации 1999 года в области науки и техники" . https://web.archive.org/web/20140107205702/http://bazazakonov.ru/doc/?ID=1889410 . 2014-01-07 .