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TORSHIN, Alexander Porfiryevich
Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council
Born Nov. 27, 1953 in Mitoga, Bolsheretsk district, Kamchatka region.
Graduated in 1978 from the All-Union Law Correspondence Institute with a degree in law.
1978-1981, postgraduate courses with the same institute.
Graduated in 1990 from the Training Center for High School Teachers.
Member of the Mercury Club - Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
1971-1973, secretary, office worker at Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR).
1973-1975, service in the Soviet Army.
1976-1979, legal consultant, Republic Association for Building Fuel Enterprises, USSR Ministry of the Fuel Industry.
1981-1983, assistant, Department of State and Law Theory, All-Union Law Correspondence Institute.
1983-1984, academic secretary of, Soviet Association of Political Science.
1984-1986, First researcher, Social Sciences Section, USSR Academy of Sciences (as from 1991, Russian Academy of Sciences).
1987-1990, First teacher, then assistant professor of Department of Soviet State Building and Law, Academy of Social Sciences under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (SPSU) Central Committee.
1990-1991, First adviser, consultant, Department of Relations with Social Political Organizations, CPSU Central Committee.
1991, expert, Administration of the President of the USSR (Mikhail Gorbachev); 1991-1992, head, Department of Social and Political Cooperation, simultaneously, board member of the Service of State Advisers of the RSFSR for Cooperation with Social Associations (since 1992, State Advisors of the Russian Federation on Political Issues).
1992-1993, advisor to head of Administration of the Russian Federation President; 1993-1995, deputy head, then head, department of cooperation with legislative bodies and public organizations, Administration of the Government of the Russian Federation.
1995-May 1998, secretary, state secretary of (ranked as first vice-chairman) the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
May - July 1998, first deputy head, Administration of the Russian Federation Government.
July – September 1998, Authorized Representative of the Government at the State Duma.
September 1998 – February 1999, Deputy Head of the Cabinet Apparatus.
From March 1999 – Deputy General Director of The Agency for Restructuring of Crediting Organizations (ARCO).
Form January 31, 2001, member of the Federation Council.
January 2002 – elected Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council.
March 17th, 2004 elected Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Union of Russia and Byelorussia Union
Since January 26th 2001, representative of the Marii-El Republic Government in the Federation Council.
Member of the Committee for Financial Markets And Money Circulation.
Member of the Commission for Regulations and Parliamentary Procedures.
Member of the Commission for Supervising Federation Council Activities.
Married, with two children. Wife - Nina Valeryevna.
Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
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Tel.: (+7 095) 692-59-21 or 926-62-80.
last updated May 18, 2005
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