| Honorific Suffix: | MP |
| Office: | Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) |
| Term Start: | 21 December 2011 |
| Birth Date: | 8 May 1962 |
| Birth Place: | Yasnoye, Slavsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Party: | A Just Russia - For Truth |
| Blank1: | Religion |
Oleg Anatolyevich Nilov (Russian: Олег Анатольевич Нилов; b. May 8, 1962, Kaliningrad Oblast) is a Russian politician and member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (since 2011), deputy head of the fraction of the A Just Russia party.[1] [2]
In 1985, he graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation.He worked at a plant and was a Komsomol member.
In 1999, he graduated from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and in 2004 from the Saint Petersburg State University.
In 2014 he received a Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour.
On 24 March 2022, the United States Treasury sanctioned him in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3]
Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.[4]
In December 2022, during the charity event at the State Duma, where participants were supposed to fulfill a child's New Year's wish written on a card they select from a tree, Nilov made a comment regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A video of the event showed Nilov saying: "The boy Vova from Kiev dreams of rockets. Vova, you will get missiles. This is a joke, of course." His comment was met with criticism, and Artem Metelev, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Youth Policy, was seen covering his face with his hand in response.[5]
In April 2023, Nilov proposed a "military tax" of 2-3% on individuals to support the Russian army in the conflict with Ukraine.[6]