Oleg Smolin


Oleg Nikolayevich Smolin is a Soviet and Russian politician and philosopher, a specialist in the philosophy of politics and social philosophy. State Duma deputy, member of the Communist Party faction, First Deputy Chairman of the Education Committee of the State Duma. Doctor of Philosophy, corresponding member of Russian Academy of Education. President of the Society :ru: Знание |Znanie of Russia. Chairman of the All-Russian Public Movement Education for All.
He is almost blind from birth.
First Vice-President of the Russian Paralympic Committee, the vice-president of the All-Russian Society for the Blind, an honorary member of the All-Russian Society for the Disabled.
Cavalier of the Golden Honorary sign Public Recognition. Order of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of States — members of the Commonwealth of Independent States Commonwealth.