Position
Acting Rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities
Academic degree
Doctor of Political Science (2006), Candidate (Ph.D.) of Historical Science (1984), Professor
State awards, honors, recognitions
Order of Honor (2006)
Order of Alexander Nevsky (2022)
Medal of Stolypin, I and II degrees (2020, 2017)
Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation (2008)
Master of Sports in sailing.
Background
1979 – graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (major “History, with a knowledge of a foreign language.”)
1978-1987 – worked at the Lomonosov Moscow State University
1984 – Ph.D. (dissertation “Formation of the Indian Population of Oklahoma in the 19th century”).
1987 – 1988 - counsellor at the USSR Embassy in Afghanistan.
1994 – Head of the Department for Interaction with Representatives of the Federation Council and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly (Administration of the President of the Russian Federation).
1997-2000 – Head of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Domestic Policy.
2000 – graduated from the Russian Presidential Academy of Public Administration (currently the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) (major “State Construction and Law”).
2000-2012 – Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of the Russian Federation in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
2006 – Doctor of Political Science (dissertation “State-Church Relations: Political Science Analysis”).
2012-2020 – Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation.
2015-2018 – Head of the Department of Management in the Field of Interethnic and Interfaith Relations at the Faculty of Public Administration of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
2020-2024 – State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.
June 21, 2024 - currently – Acting Rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities.
