Alexander Shokhin
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Alexander Shokhin

Russian politician

Alexander Nikolayevich Shokhin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Шохин; born 25 December 1951) is a Russian political and public figure and a Member of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the party United Russia. He was the Minister of Labour of the Russian SFSR (26 August 1991 – 10 November 1991).2

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Born Dec 25, 1951.1

About

From 20 January 1994 to 6 November 1994, he was Minister of the Russian economy, and from 23 March 1994 to 6 November 1994, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government.

In September 1998, he was appointed Deputy Premier of the Russian Government in the Cabinet of Yevgeny Primakov, but even before the official addition of deputy powers in October 1998, has resigned from this position.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedLomonosov Moscow State University3
  • Date not recordedMoscow State University Faculty of Economics3

Career

Occupation: politician, economist.9

  • Since 2005Chairperson4
  • 2000 to 2003Member of the State Duma4
  • 1998Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe4 5
  • 1994Chair, Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation8
  • Date not recordedDeputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation4
  • Date not recordedChair, National Research University – Higher School of Economics6
  • Date not recordedChair, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs7

Scientific work

In 1974, he graduated from M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in political economy. He is a Doctor of Economics (1989), and Professor (1991).

Since 1969, he has been a laboratory assistant at the MSU Faculty of Economics, then a scientific and technical employee of the Central Economic Mathematical Institute (CEMI) of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

From 1974 to 1979, he was a research fellow at the Scientific Research Economic Institute under the USSR State Planning Committee.

In 1978, he defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.

From 1979 to 1982, he was a senior researcher, Head of the sector of the Research Institute of Labor of the USSR State Committee of Labor.

From 1982 to 1986, he was Head of the Laboratory of the Central Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

From 1986 to 1987, he was Head of the Laboratory of the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of Scientific and Technological Progress of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Since 1987, he has been an adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, then Head of the Department of International Economic Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From May to August 1991, he was Director of the Institute of Employment Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the USSR State Labor Committee.

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Personal life

  • BornDec 25, 1951, Savinsky, Arkhangelsk Oblast10
  • CitizenshipSoviet Union, Russia11

He is married to Tatiana, and has two children, Dmitry and Evgenia Shokhin, and five grandchildren. Dmitry Shokhin is married to actress Alice Khazanova, daughter of Russian artist Gennady Khazanov.

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Politics

Since 1995, he has been the President of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE).

From 2002 to 2005, he served as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Renaissance Capital Investment Group.

Since February 2003, he has been Chairman of the Expert Council at the Federal Commission of Securities Market of Russia (FCSM of Russia).

Since 2004, he is a member of the United Russia Party.

Since 2004, he is the Vice-President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Chairman of the All-Russian Association of Employers «Coordinating Council of Employers' Associations of Russia».

Since 30 September 2005, he has been President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

From 2007 to July 2014, he headed the Russian part of the Russian-Chinese Chamber for Trade Promotion of Machine-Technical and Innovative Products, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Russian-Chinese Center for Trade and Economic Cooperation.

Since 2011, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Russian International Affairs Council.

He was a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation before being elected in 2009 to the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia. On 30 May 2008, he was elected to the Board of Directors of TGC-10. He has also been a member of the Boards of Directors of Russian Railways and Baltika Breweries Company since 2008.

On 6 February 2012, he was officially registered as a proxy for the presidential candidate of the Russian Federation, at that time the current Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin.

In September 2016, he became a trusted representative of the United Russia Party in 2016 Russian legislative election.

In 2023, he joined the initiative group to nominate Vladimir Putin as a candidate for the 2024 Russian presidential election.

In 2024, he became a confidant of Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.

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Awards

  • Date not recordedKnight of the Legion of Honour12
  • Date not recordedKnight of the Order of the Star of Italy12
  • Date not recordedMedal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"12
  • Date not recordedOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class12
  • Date not recordedOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class12
  • Date not recordedOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class12
  • Date not recordedOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class12
  • Date not recordedOrder of Alexander Nevsky12
  • Date not recordedOrder of Friendship12
  • Date not recordedOrder of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow 2nd class12
More awards (9)
  • Date not recordedOrder of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow12
  • Date not recordedOrder of Honour12
  • Date not recordedOrder of the Rising Sun, 2nd class12
  • Date not recordedOrder of the Rising Sun12
  • Date not recordedOrder of the Star of Italy12
  • Date not recordedRussian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude12
  • Date not recordedStolypin Medal, 1st class12
  • Date not recordedStolypin Medal, 2nd class12
  • Date not recordedStolypin Medal12

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