Vyacheslav Nikonov
Dr. NIKONOV Vyacheslav
Alekseevich
Date of birth – June 5, 1956
Citizenship – Russian
Marital status – married, three children
Education
1978 - M.A. in
History, Moscow State University
1982 - Ph.D. in History, Moscow State
University
1989 - 2-d Doctoral, Moscow State University
Publications
9 books, 550
articles
Professional
experience
9.1978–10.1988 – research fellow, senior research
fellow, History Department, Moscow State University
10.1988– 1.1991 -
speechwriter, head of sector CPSU Central Committee.
1.1991–1.1992 – member
of staff, assistant to the Chief of Staff, Office of the President of the
USSR
1.1992–1.1994 – senior fellow, “Reforma” Foundation
9.1992-12.1992 –
professor of Political Science, California Institute of Technology
(USA)
1.1994–1.1996 – member of the State Duma, chairman of the Subcommittee
for International Security and Arms Control
1.1996–7.1996 – deputy Chairman,
All-Russian Public Movement to Support the President (Yeltsin’s re-election
committee)
5.1993–up to now – President, “Polity” Foundation
Other positions
President, "Unity for Russia" Foundation
Dean of History and Political Science, International University in Moscow
Head of the Commission on International Cooperation and Public Diplomacy of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Editor-in-Chief, “Russia’s Strategy”
Deputy Chairman of Editorial Board, “Russia in Global Affairs”
President, "Club - 93"
Member of the Board, Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
Vice-President, Association of Political Consultancy Centers
Member of the Board, Russian Public Policy Center
Member, Advisory Council of Carnegie Endowment (Moscow Branch)
Other skills
Fluent English,
competent French.
Profile
Dr. Vyacheslav Nikonov is the President of the "Polity" Foundation since May 1993.
Born in 1956, Vyacheslav Nikonov has a M.A. in History (1978) and a Ph.D. in History (1982) in history in Moscow State University. He began his researcher's career in 1978, in the same University.
Between 1988 and 1991, he was speechwriter then head of sector CPSU Central Committee, before integrating the Office of the President of the USSR as member of staff then as assistant to the Chief of Staff (1991 - 1992).
In 1992, he was a professor of Political science at the California Institute of Technology (USA). Then he returns to Russia where he was senior fellow in the "Reforma" Foundation from 1992 till 1994. Between 1994 and 1996 he a member of the State Duma and chairman of the Subcommittee for International Security and Arms Control, then in 1996 he is deputy Chairman All-Russian Public Movement to Support the President (Yeltsin's re-election committee).
He is the author of "A Code to politics" (2006), "Molotov" (2005), "Contemporary Russian Politics", ed. (2005), "Contemporary Russian Politics", ed. (2003), "The Age of Change: Russia of the 1990s through Conservative's Eyes" (1999), "Conservative Manifesto" (1994), "The Republicans: From Nixon to Reagan" (1988), "Iran-Contra Affair" (1987), "The Republicans : From Eisenhower to Nixon" (1984).
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