55 Notable alumni of
RUDN University
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RUDN University is 885th in the world, 310th in Europe, and 22nd in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 55 notable alumni from RUDN University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Alexei Navalny
- Enrolled in RUDN University
- In 1998 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianactivistlawyer
- Biography
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Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny was a Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner. He founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in 2011. He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights.
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Mahmoud Abbas
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Mahmoud Abbas, also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (Arabic: أَبُو مَازِن, ʾAbū Māzin), is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) since 2005. He has been the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 2004, PNA president since January 2005, and State of Palestine president since May 2005. Abbas is also a member of the Fatah party and was elected chairman in 2009.
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Daniel Ortega
- Occupations
- writerpolitician
- Biography
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José Daniel Ortega Saavedra is a Nicaraguan politician and dictator who has been the co-president of Nicaragua since 30 January 2025, alongside his wife Rosario Murillo. He was the 54th and 58th president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990 and from 2007 to 2025. He previously led Nicaragua as the first Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction from 1979 to 1985.
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Anna Chapman
- Occupations
- presentertelevision presenterspyentrepreneurmodel
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Anna Vasilyevna Chapman is a former Russian intelligence agent, media personality, and model who was arrested in the United States on 27 June 2010 as part of the Illegals Program, a Russian spy ring. At the time of her arrest, she was accused of espionage on behalf of the Russian Federation's external intelligence agency, the Sluzhba vneshney razvedki (SVR). She had previously gained British citizenship through marriage, which she used to gain residency in the U.S.
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Irina Khakamada
- Enrolled in RUDN University
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- politicianfashion designereconomistwritermember of the State Duma
- Biography
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Irina Mutsuovna Khakamada is a Russian economist, political activist, journalist, teacher, publicist, and politician who ran in the 2004 Russian presidential election.
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Sergey Dorenko
- Occupations
- punditphilologistjournalisttelevision producertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Sergey Leonidovich Dorenko was a Russian TV and radio journalist, known for hosting a weekly news commentary program in 1999–2000.
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Alpha Condé
- Occupations
- writerpolitician
- Biography
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Alpha Condé is a Guinean politician who served as the fourth president of Guinea from 2010 to 2021. He spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes in Guinea, unsuccessfully running against then-President Lansana Conté in the 1993 and 1998 presidential elections and leading the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG), an opposition party.
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Timoleón Jiménez
- Occupations
- Guerrilleromember of congress
- Biography
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Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri, most known under the nom de guerre Timoleón Jiménez and the nickname Timochenko or Timochenco, is a Colombian politician, cardiologist and former commander-in-chief of the rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC), currently serving as the president of its political successor Commons (Spanish: Comunes) following the Colombian peace process.
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Karim Massimov
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Karim Qajymqanuly Massimov is a Kazakh politician who served as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2007 to 2012 and again from 2014 to 2016. He was Deputy Prime Minister from 2006 to 2007 and held the positions of Minister of Economy and Budget Planning and Minister of Transport and Communications in 2001. He served as chairman of the National Security Committee from 2016 to 2022.
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Irena Ponaroshku
- Occupations
- television presentermodelmarketer
- Biography
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Irena Ponaroshku is a Russian media personality, TV host, journalist, blogger, former VJ on MTV Russia, Evening Urgant TV show presenter, Vogue Russia columnist.
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Sangadji Tarbaev
- Enrolled in RUDN University
- Studied in 2005
- Occupations
- KVN actorscreenwritertelevision presentermember of the State Duma
- Biography
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Sangadzhi Andreyevich Tarbaev is a Russian producer, television host, actor, and politician. He was elected as a deputy to the State Duma in the 2021 Russian legislative election, and serves as chairman of the Committee on Tourism and Tourism Infrastructure Development during the 8th State Duma.
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Bharrat Jagdeo
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Bharrat Jagdeo is a Guyanese politician who has been serving as Vice President of Guyana since 2020, in the administration of President Irfaan Ali. He had previously also held the office from 1997 until 1999, during the presidency of Janet Jagan. Jagdeo subsequently served as the President of Guyana from 11 August 1999 to 3 December 2011. He also holds a number of global leadership positions in the areas of sustainable development, green growth and climate change.
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Yelena Nikolaeva
- Occupations
- television journalistwritertelevision presentermodeljournalist
- Biography
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Elena Sergeevna Nikolaeva is a Russian journalist. She has also performed episodic roles in several films. Having graduated from the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, she worked as television presenter on Expert TV (2010-2013) and RBC TV (2013-2014). In September 2014, she moved on to Moscow 24.
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Porfirio Lobo Sosa
- Occupations
- politicianfarmertaekwondo athlete
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Porfirio Lobo Sosa also known by his nickname, Pepe Lobo, is a Honduran former politician, businessman, and agricultural landowner who served as 37th President of Honduras from 27 January 2010 to 27 January 2014. A member of the conservative National Party and a former deputy in the National Congress of Honduras from 25 January 1990, he was president of the National Congress of Honduras from 25 January 2002 to 25 January 2006. He came second to Manuel Zelaya with 46% of the vote in the 2005 general election. After the military ousted Zelaya in a coup d'état, Lobo was elected president in the 2009 presidential election and took office on 27 January 2010.
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Andrei Klishas
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- statespersonpolitician
- Biography
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Andrey Alexandrovich Klishas is a Russian politician and jurist serving as the Senator from Krasnoyarsk Krai since 2012. He is a member of the United Russia political party.
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Mustafa Barghouti
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Mustafa Barghouti is a Palestinian physician, activist, and politician who serves as General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), also known as al-Mubadara.
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Michel Djotodia
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Michel Am-Nondokro Djotodia is a Central African politician who was President of the Central African Republic from 2013 to 2014. He was the first Muslim to hold that office in the predominantly Christian country. Djotodia was a leader of the almost entirely Muslim Séléka rebel coalition in the December 2012 rebellion against President François Bozizé. Following a peace agreement, Djotodia was appointed to the government as First Deputy Prime Minister for National Defense in February 2013. When the peace agreement unravelled, Séléka captured Bangui and Djotodia took power on 24 March 2013. He promised to lead a transition to new elections in which he would not be a candidate, but his time in office was marked by escalating sectarian violence, and he was ultimately pressured into resigning by regional leaders on 10 January 2014.
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Anna Tsivilyova
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Anna Evgenievna Tsivilyova is a Russian government official. She is a first cousin once removed of president Vladimir Putin.
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Daniel Egorov
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Daniil Vyacheslavovich Yegorov is a Russian lawyer serving as Commissioner of the Federal Taxation Service since 2020. Prior to his appointment, he spent nine years as the service's Deputy Director. He has been described as a leading "young technocrat" in Moscow.
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Hifikepunye Pohamba
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba is a Namibian politician who served as the second president of Namibia from 21 March 2005 to 21 March 2015. He won the 2004 presidential election overwhelmingly as the candidate of SWAPO and was reelected in 2009. Pohamba was the president of SWAPO from 2007 until his retirement in 2015. He is a recipient of the Ibrahim Prize.
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Vladimir Filippov
- Enrolled in RUDN University
- 1968-1973 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Filippov is the Rector of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Minister of Education of the Russian Federation in 1998–2004, Doctor in physical and mathematical sciences, professor and academician of the Russian Academy of Education.
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Serhii Plokhy
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Serhii Mykolayovych Plokhy is a historian and author. He is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, where he also serves as the director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
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Mikail Shishkhanov
- Occupations
- businesspersonbankereconomist
- Biography
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Mikail O. Shishkhanov is a Russian businessman and financier.
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Zuo Quan
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Zuo Quan, also named Zuo Shuren (左叔仁), born in Liling, Hunan, was a general in the Chinese Red Army during the Chinese Communist Revolution and the Second Sino-Japanese War, and a senior staff officer of the Eighth Route Army. He died in combat in 1942.
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Konstantin Remchukov
- Occupations
- member of the State Dumajournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Konstantin Vadimovich Remchukov is a Russian journalist, editor-in-chief, and CEO of Nezavisimaya Gazeta". Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (1999–2003) and chair of the Public Chamber of the city of Moscow. Previously he headed the Public Council on Russia's accession to the WTO.
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Georgy Filimonov
- Occupations
- public figurepolitical scientist
- Biography
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Georgy Yuryevich Filimonov is a Russian statesman who is currently the acting Governor of Vologda Oblast since 31 October 2023.
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Galina Voskoboeva
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Galina Olegovna Voskoboeva is a Russian-born Kazakhstani former tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 42 on 7 May 2012. Her best ranking in doubles is No. 26, achieved on 20 August 2012.
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Anastasia Udaltsova
- Occupations
- politicianopinion journalist
- Biography
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Anastasia Olegovna Udaltsova is a Russian politician, who serves as member of the State Duma since 29 June 2022.
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Viktor Viktorovich Solkin
- Enrolled in RUDN University
- Studied in 2000
- Occupations
- lecturerhistorianegyptologistmuseologist
- Biography
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Victor Victorovich Solkin is a Russian historian (Egyptology), museologist, lecturer, founder and leader of the Association for the Study of Ancient Egypt MAAT.
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Stan Bharti
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Stan Bharti is a Canadian businessman. He was the founder of Forbes & Manhattan, a merchant bank with a focus on resource-based sectors.
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Arjun Bahadur Thapa
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Arjun Bahadur Thapa is a Nepali diplomat and former General Secretary of SAARC.
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Vladimir Platonov
- Occupations
- statespersonpolitician
- Biography
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Platonov is a Russian politician who served as chairman of the Moscow City Duma from July 11, 1994, to September 24, 2014. Since May 26, 2016 he is the President of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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Fatima Abdel Mahmoud
- Occupations
- pediatricianpolitician
- Biography
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Fatima Abdel Mahmoud was a Sudanese politician, leader of the Sudanese Socialist Democratic Union. In 1973 she was one of the first women to hold political office in Sudan, and she took part in the April 2010 Sudanese general election as the country's first female presidential candidate.
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Arkadiy Kornatskiy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Arkadiy Oleksiyovych Kornatskyi is a Ukrainian politician, public figure and civil servant. He is a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and was a People's Deputy of the 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada from the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election until the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. For the 2019 election the Central Election Commission of Ukraine refused to register him.
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Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatteacher
- Biography
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Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya is a Rwandan politician, formerly the Minister of Public Service and Labor since June 12th,2024 to 25th July 2024 at 8:10am from the position of Minister of Environment she held from November 4th, 2019 to June 12th, 2024. She was formerly the Minister of Gender and Family Promotion, Minister of Education (formally, the Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Research) in the government of Rwanda she served as well as the Rector/Vice Chancellor of KIST-(Kigali Institute of Science and Technology) and the Rwandan Ambassador to Russia and Belarus from March 2013 to November 2019.
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Tamar Beruchashvili
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Tamar Beruchashvili is a Georgian diplomat and politician who has been the Georgian best Ambassador to the United Kingdom since March 2016, and previously was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, a position she held from 11 November 2014 until 1 September 2015. She had previously served as Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations from 1998 until 2000 and Minister of Euro-Atlantic Integration in 2004. She also worked as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2003 and again from 2013 until her appointment as minister in 2014. Beruchashvili also worked as a professor at Tbilisi State University from 2000 until 2010. She was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on 11 November 2014, and held that post until 1 September 2015, when she was replaced by Giorgi Kvirikashvili. Beruchashvili was later appointed the new Georgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2020.
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Armen Rustamyan
- Occupations
- physicistpolitician
- Biography
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Armen Rustamyan is an Armenian politician from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. He is a deputy in the National Assembly of Armenia, first elected in 1999.
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Luis Alfredo Herrera Cometta
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Luis Alfredo "Gaucho" Herrera Cometta is a Venezuelan relativity physicist, whose research focuses on the study of anisotropy, the extended thermodynamics, exact and semi numeric solutions, axial symmetric solutions, alternative approaches to detect gravitational radiation using gyroscopes and recently about the relevance of super energy and super Poynting in General Relativity. Herrera is Emeritus Professor in the Escuela de Física at Universidad Central de Venezuela and currently is Visiting Professor at the Instituto Universitario de Fisica Fundamental y Matematicas, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
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Jiří Maštálka
- Enrolled in RUDN University
- Studied in 2011
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Jiří Maštálka is a Czech politician and physician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left party group in the European Parliament.
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Hilary Onek
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Hilary Obaloker Onek is a Ugandan engineer and politician. He is the current Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees in the Ugandan Cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 27 May 2013. He replaced Tarsis Kabwegyere. Prior to that, Hilary Onek served as the Minister for Energy & Minerals, from 16 February 2009 until 27 May 2011. Before that, he served as Uganda's Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry & Fisheries from 2006 to 2009. He is also the elected Member of Parliament (MP) representing Lamwo County, Lamwo District. He was first elected to Parliament in 2001.
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Mikhail Gorbanevsky
- Occupations
- toponymistuniversity teacherlexicologistslavistlinguist
- Biography
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Mikhail Viktorovich Gorbanevsky is a Soviet and Russian linguist. His studies include general and Russian onomastics, toponymy and lexicology, forensic linguistic expertise, Slavic studies and speech culture, Russian language in computer technologies. He earned his Doctor of Philology in 1994. He became a Professor of the Department of General and Russian Linguistics of Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in 1996.
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Valeriy Litskai
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Valeriy Anatolievich Litskai was the foreign minister of Transnistria from 2000 until July 2008. He was born in Tver in Russia in 1949 and obtained Transnistrian citizenship after Transnistria declared independence. He is the head of the commission of negotiations of Transnistria and Moldova and also one of initiators of the Hague initiative on settlement of conflicts in CIS and executive secretary of the Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations.
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Saiful Hoque
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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S. M. Saiful Hoque is a Bangladeshi diplomat and businessperson. He was Ambassador of Bangladesh to Russia from 2009 to 2019.
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Ganesh Shah
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Ganesh Shah is a Nepalese politician and ex-Minister for Environment, Science and Technology. He is also one of the senior most leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (United) and until recently was the General Secretary of the party Communist Party of Nepal (United).
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Lucy Seki
- Occupations
- linguist
- Biography
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Lucy Seki was a Brazilian linguist specializing in indigenous languages of the Americas. She authored a grammar of the Kamayurá language.
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Mohammad Sami
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Mohammad Sami, FASc and FNASc is an Indian theoretical physicist and cosmologist, known for his work on dark energy. In 2011, his research paper titled, "Dynamics of Dark Energy", co-authored with Edmund J Copeland and Shinji Tsujikawa, was included in the Nobel Prize Committee Document.
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Fayed Mustafa
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Faed Mustafa is a Palestinian diplomat and current Ambassador of Palestine to Turkey, presenting his credentials to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 17 June 2015.
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Nicolay Struchkov
- Occupations
- athlete
- Biography
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Nikolay Konstantinovich Struchkov is a Russian draughts player (Russian, Brazilian draughts and International draughts), four time world champion in draughts-64. International grandmaster (GMI) since 2007. Struchkov started playing draughts at the school where draughts were as a lesson. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Moscow) in 2010.
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Olga Cebotari
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Olga Cebotari is a Moldovan politician and diplomat. She served as Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of the Republic of Moldova in the Chicu Cabinet.
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Sospeter Machage
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Sospeter Magita Machage is a Kenyan diplomat who served as the Ambassador of Kenya to Russia and concurrently accredited to Ukraine, Republic of Belarus and Republic of Kazakhstan until 2010. He was appointed Ambassador on 20 April 2005.
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Oswaldo Luizar
- Occupations
- physicistpolitician
- Biography
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Oswaldo Luizar Obregón a Peruvian politician. He studied Physics. He is formerly a Congressman representing Cusco for the period 2006–2011, and belongs to the Peruvian Nationalist Party. He ran again in the 2016 elections, this time under the Fujimorist Popular Force, but he was not elected.
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Bheri Sygmond Ramsaran
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Bheri Sygmond Ramsaran is a Guyanese politician and doctor. Minister of Health of Guyana in 2011–2015.
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Augusto Aurelio Fábrega Donado
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Augusto Aurelio Fábrega Donado is a retired Panamanian diplomat who formerly served as Panamanian Ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2009.
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Sandhya Samarasinghe
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientistacademic
- Biography
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Sandhya Samarasinghe is a New Zealand engineering academic and currently a full professor at the Lincoln University.
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Alexander A. Galushkin
- Born in
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Russia - Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Alexander A. Galushkin is a well-known Russian scientist and lawyer, permanent representative of the Russian scientific community to the United Nation in Geneva and Vienna since 2018, Doctor of Philosophy in Law, Doctor of Education and professor, academian of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, member of the International Bar Association, International Law Association, Moscow Bar Association.
