Rifat Gabdulkhakovich Shaykhutdinov is a member of the State Duma

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 of Russia

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 for the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

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. He is 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.
http://www.usrbc.org/Members-Only/Russian%20Government%20and%20Regions/duma/deputy.htm http://www.kosovo.com/news/archive/2005/November_09/2.html Shaykhutdinov is a deputy for the Urals Federal District

Urals Federal District

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. He is also an author of a novel "Охота на власть" ("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 (born in 1989) and Rod (born in 1992).