Aleksandr Zharov
| Aleksandr Zharov Александр Жаров |
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| Head of Roscomnadzor | |
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Assumed office May 3, 2012 |
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| Born | August 11, 1964 |
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zharov (also spelled Alexander Zharov;Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Жа́ров) is a Russian politician. The head of Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) since 3 May 2012.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zharov was born on 11 August 1964 in Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Zharov studied medicine at the Chelyabinsk Medical Academy and graduated in 1987. His specialization is anesthesiologist and intensive care specialist. He worked at the Chelyabinsk Regional Clinical Hospital from 1987 to 1996.
He moved to Moscow in 1997 and worked for one year at the "Family Doctor: Practical Medical Advice" magazine. Later career:
Zharov is married, his wife is a businesswoman, her name and business are not officially disclosed. They have 6 children.
Zharov has the class rank of 1st Class Government Councilor of State.
Zharov is periodically criticized as the head of Roskomnadzor and within the scope of activities of this organization, sometimes called a "watchdog" threatening the media freedom in Russia, particularly the Internet in Russia (Runet).
Zharov argues that neither himself nor his organization initiate new limitations but has to follow existing laws and court rulings. He says in a private interview:
A chastener punishes innocents and Roskomnadzor punishes guilty ones. Unfortunately we have such a function and if we don't execute it then we worth nothing as a service for supervision.
Zharov became a Candidate of Sciences in 2004, his thesis was on "Medico-hygienic bases forming a healthy way of life in the Russian Federation" (Russian: "Медико-гигиенические основы формирования здорового образа жизни в Российской Федерации"). Upon analysis made by Dissernet, a substantial part (52 pages out of 145) has been taken unaltered or slightly altered from two state reports of the Ministry of Health (1998, 2002). Such reports as official documents of state government agencies are in public domain in Russia yet they have been used without attribution.
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