Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov

Nikolai Vasilyevich Fyodorov (Russian: Николай Васильевич Фёдоров; born May 9, 1958 in Tschodino, Rajon Mariinsky Posad, Chuvash ASSR ) is a Russian politician Chuvash descent, former President of the Chuvash Republic ( 1993-2010 ) and, since May 21, 2012 Holiday Minister of Economy of Russia.

Biography

Nikolai Fyodorov studied law at the State University of Kazan, and then taught at the Chuvash State University, Cheboksary. In 1990 he was appointed to the Government of the RSFSR and became Minister of Justice of the Republic. He retained the post even after Russia became independent. In March 1993, he resigned from his post. In December 1993, he was elected the first President of the Republic of Chuvashia and sworn in on 21 January 1994. 1997 and 2001 he was re-elected, with the 2001 election is disputed. After the counting emerged allegations, the result was falsified in favor Fjodorows to secure the narrow victory. In 2005, after the abolition of the direct election of the heads of the federal subjects of Russia, he was re-appointed president of the republic by President Vladimir Putin. At the end of his fourth term of office in 2010 Fyodorov was replaced by Mikhail Ignatiev.

From January 2011 to May 2012 was Nikolai Fyodorov official ambassador of Russia in the Euro Europe. In addition, he was from Mai to November 2011 the Council of the "Institute for Socio- economic and economic research."

Now as Minister of Agriculture - In May 2012, it the new Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev summoned back into the government. Fedorov is a member of the United Russia party.

Fedorov won awards including the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th and 3rd class.

Private

Nikolai Fyodorov 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 Tschodino to Cheboksary, the capital of the Chuvash ASSR. The family lived in Cheboksary next to a huge factory that manufactured chemical weapons. The oppressive, industrial atmosphere influenced the childhood of the young Nikolai Fyodorov.

Since 1983 Nikolai Fyodorov is married to Svetlana Fedorova Yuryevna. His wife is Russian is a native of Kostroma. With it, he has a son Vasily (* 1985) and a daughter Karina (* 1990).

Fedorov is a member of the Association of the Club Rotary International. He is fluent in Russian, Chuvash, German and a little English, French and Turkish. In his spare time Fyodorov busy with karate, swimming, skiing and chess.

Nikolai Fyodorov is a practicing Russian Orthodox Christian. He has been awarded of Radonezh, First Class of the Order of the Church of Sergius.

Interesting Facts

• Nikolai Fyodorov has become popular in the Internet community after a video was released of him on which he very energetic dancing to a Chuvash folk song.
• Fyodorov was as President of the Chuvash Republic as very close to the people and was very popular among the population. So it happened that, without a bodyguard, he went completely to the bazaar of Cheboksary to shop for Easter dinner and talk with the local people. If Fyodorov stopped at the Ulyanov University in Cheboksary as a guest lecturer lectures, these were always accompanied by thunderous applause from the students.