Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov (russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Фёдоров, cv, Фёдоров Николай Васильевич, ''Fyodorow Nikolay Wasilyewich''; born 9 May 1958) is the First Deputy Chairman of the
Federation Council
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. He is also the former
President of the Chuvash Republic in
Russia
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.
Early life
Nikolai Fyodorov was born in 1958 in the village of Chyodino,
Mariinsko-Posadsky District of the Chuvash ASSR (now part of
Novocheboksarsk
Novocheboksarsk (russian: Новочебокса́рск; cv, Ҫӗнӗ Шупашкар, ''Śĕnĕ Şupaşkar'') is a city in the Chuvash Republic, Russia, located on the southern bank of the Volga River, about east of Cheboksary, the capital o ...
), 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.
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
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. He was the
Justice Minister
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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
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, who was in the Chilean embassy in Moscow, must leave the USSR territory (six months later, in July 1992, Honecker was extradited to Berlin). 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
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
. Fyodorov critically assessed the
dispersal of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet of Russia in October 1993.
President of Chuvashia
In December 1993, he ran simultaneously to the
1st State Duma
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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
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, 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. 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
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from 1996 to 2001. In December 2000, Fyodorov was the only senator who voted against the new law on the
National Anthem of Russia
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, adopting
Alexandrov's melody (lyrics by
Sergey Mikhalkov
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were adopted later;
Oleg Chirkunov
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Early life
He ...
was the only one voting against it).
He served as the first President of
Chuvash Republic
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to 29 August 2010. He was a supporter of market reforms. Fyodorov opposed Russian
President
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Boris Yeltsin
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's policies in
Chechnya
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and
Vladimir Putin
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's 2000 federal reform initiatives.
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
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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. 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. The photo of Fyodorov leaving the cabin was first retouched and then removed from the website of the Ministry of Agriculture. In March 2015 deputy chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy of the
Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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Pavel Grudinin
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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.
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
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.
Honours and awards
*
Order of Merit for the Fatherland
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;
** 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 Alexander Nevsky
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(2017) — for his great contribution to the development of Russian parliamentarism and legislative activity
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* 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
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for science and technology, 1999 — for the revival of the historic part of the capital of Chuvashia — the city of Cheboksary
Cheboksary (; russian: Чебокса́ры, r=Cheboksáry, p=tɕɪbɐˈksarɨ; cv, Шупашкар, ''Şupaşkar'') is the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia and a port on the Volga River.
Geography
The city is located in the Volga Upland reg ...
* 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
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, 1st class
* Order of the Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow The Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow (russian: Орден святого благоверного князя Даниила Московского) is an award of the Russian Orthodox Church, established in 1988. There are three classes.
Hist ...
, 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 of Merit in the All-Russia Census
*
*
* Medal in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Russian Ministry of Justice
* Medal "200 Years of the Russian Interior Ministry"
Footnotes
References
Political System
Government of the Chuvash Republic
Chuvashia (russian: Чувашия; cv, Чӑваш Ен), officially the Chuvash Republic — Chuvasia,; cv, Чӑваш Республики — Чӑваш Ен is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuv ...
. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
Administrative Structure of the Republic. Administrative Centre and Largest Cities. Government Authorities
Government of the Chuvash Republic
Chuvashia (russian: Чувашия; cv, Чӑваш Ен), officially the Chuvash Republic — Chuvasia,; cv, Чӑваш Республики — Чӑваш Ен is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuv ...
. Retrieved January 2011.
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1958 births
Chuvash people
Chuvash State University alumni
United Russia politicians
21st-century Russian politicians
Heads of the Chuvash Republic
Justice ministers of Russia
Agriculture ministers of Russia
Government ministers of Russia
First convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates
Recipients of the Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow
People from Novocheboksarsk
Living people
Members of the Federation Council of Russia (1996–2000)
Members of the Federation Council of Russia (after 2000)