Rifat Shaykhutdinov
Rifat Gabdulkhakovich Shaykhutdinov is a Russian politician. He currently serves as a member of the State Duma and the Chairman of the State Duma's Committee on Relations with CIS States and Compatriots, and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma's Committee on Power, Transport and Telecommunications. From 1992 to 1997 he was director of the Center for Experts in the Ministry of State Property in the Northwest Region.
An ethnic Tatar, Shaykhutdinov is a deputy for the Urals Federal District. He is also an author of a novel Political hunting that contains his works in relation to the political analysis of the social and political situation in Russia as well as worldwide. Shaykhutdinov is a father of two children, Anna and Rod.
