Mikhail Berulava Explained

Honorific Suffix:MP
Office:Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
Term Start:11 April 2019
Predecessor:Zhores Alferov
Term Start1:21 December 2011
Term End1:5 October 2016
Birth Date:3 August 1950
Birth Place:Sukhumi, Abkhaz ASSR, Georgian SSR, USSR
Party:Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Blank1:Religion
Education:Chelyabinsk Mechanization and Agricultural Electrification Institute (EdD, DSc)
Occupation:Professor

Mikhail Nikolaevich Berulava (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Берулава; Georgian: მიხეილ ნიკოლოზის-ძე ბერულავა; born 3 August 1950, Sukhumi) is a Russian scientist and politician. He is the Deputy of the State Duma of Russia, a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), and is the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Education. Doctor of pedagogical sciences, professor, and academician of the Russian Academy of Education. Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Education.

Biography

Berulava was born on 3 August 1950 in Sukhumi, at the time the capital of the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, but is now the capital of the partially recognized Abkhazia.[1] In 1978, he graduated from the Chelyabinsk Mechanization and Agricultural Electrification Institute, which is now part of .[2]

He became a Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences in 1982 and a Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences in 1989, working in various academic and education administrative since the mid-1980s. He is the editor-in-chief of "Humanization of Education" and "Herald of the Russian Academy of Education University".[3]

Political Career

Berulava was a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation from 2008 to 2010. In the 2011 Russian legislative election, he received a deputy mandate in the 6th State Duma on the list of the CPRF. In the 2016 election, the communist party lost 50 seats and his mandate was not renewed. However, the death of Russian Nobel laureate and politician Zhores Alferov in 2019 brought Berulava back to the State Duma to fill his vacant seat.[3] In the 2021 election, he was re-elected for the 8th State Duma.[2]

Sanctions

Berulava was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 concerning the Russo-Ukrainian War. [4]

Awards

Order of Friendship (March 11, 2008)

Some publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Персональные страницы / Берулава Михаил Николаевич . Personal pages / Berulava Mikhail Nikolaevich . kprf.ru . . 21 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230930114112/https://kprf.ru/personal/berulava-mihail-nikolaevich . 30 September 2023 . ru.
  2. Web site: Берулава Михаил Николаевич . Berulava Mikhail Nikolaevich . duma.gov.ru . . 21 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190416140508/http://duma.gov.ru/duma/persons/99111793/ . 16 April 2019 . . ru.
  3. Web site: Энциклопедия: Берулава, Михаил Николаевич . Encyclopedia: Berulava, Mikhail Nikolaevich . . Информационное агентство России ТАСС . 21 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230607002215/https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/berulava-mihail-nikolaevich . 7 June 2023 . ru.
  4. Web site: CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK . 16 April 2023.