The Egyptian-Russian Foundation for culture and science (ERFCS) has published a book entitled “The Russian concept of leadership” by Vyacheslav Nikonov.
The book gives a closer look at the Russian community, in the light of the changes that have swept it since the 1980s.
The book emphasizes that Russia is one of the few countries in the world that will continue to be a center of creativity. The richness of its resources, wealth and science will remain influential in presenting different civilizational and leadership models for the world.
Throughout its history, the Russian leadership has exonerated itself of any ethnic cleansing, did not engage in the global slave trade, wage opium wars, or succumb to racism and genocide, a matter which reflects the strength of the Russian leadership and its unique humanity.
“Nikonov is a Russian historian and political writer,” head of ERFCS Hussein El-Shafaei said. “He was born in 1956.”
“He is one of Russia's most prominent political figures,” El-Shafaei added.
Noteworthy, the Russian writer currently chairs the state Duma education and science committee and a member of the presidential council of the united Russia party.
Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Nikonov, a Russian political scientist was born June 5, 1956 in Moscow.
He is a grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov, prominent Bolshevik and Soviet foreign minister under Joseph Stalin, whom he was named after, and Polina Zhemchuzhina, a Jewish Soviet politician.
Nikonov graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University in 1978 and has been studying the history of the U.S. Republican Party after World War II. He has been involved in Soviet and Russian politics since the 1970s, first as a local Komsomol leader, later in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and as a member of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin's staff. In 1993 Nikonov was elected to the State Duma. In 2005 he published an early biography of Molotov (in Russian). According to some, Nikonov as a biographer of his own grandfather cannot be regarded as an objective source. He personally recognized this fact in the interview. In the same interview Nikonov is proud that Molotov was a wise and coolly ruthless man, giving him the right to be listed together with Timur (by the words of Winston Churchill). In 2005-2007 he was a member of the Public Chamber of Russia. Since 2007, Nikonov has been heading the Russkiy Mir Foundation established by Vladimir Putin to promote Russian language and culture internationally. Since 2011 Nikonov has been heading School of Public Administration at Moscow State University. In 2011 was once again elected to the State Duma and in 2013 became the Chairman of the Education Committee.
Nikonov received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Edinburgh in July 2012.
During the 2014 Winter Olympics, The Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones engaged Nikonov in a mock interview about Russia-United States relations.
Translated by: Nada Mustafa
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