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Leonid Reiman

Leonid Dodojonovich Reiman (Russian: Леонид Дододжонович Рейман; born 12 July 1957) is a Russian businessman and government official, former Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Russian Federation. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.

Leonid Reiman has been numerously rated most influential person in Russian telecom business with personal wealth over $1 bln., according to Finance magazine.

Leonid Reiman was born on July 12, 1957, in Leningrad. His father, Dodojon Tadjiyev, was a Soviet and Tajik philologist, professor, and head of the Tajik language department at Tajik State University. His mother, Ekaterina Reiman, a professor, served as the head of the St. Petersburg Department of Foreign Languages at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 1979, Leonid Reiman graduated from the M.A. Bonch-Bruevich Leningrad Institute of Communications Technology (now SPbGUT - Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications and IT).

In 2000, Reiman defended his MPhil thesis titled “Improving the System of State Regulation of the Telecommunications Industry”.

In 2004, he earned his doctoral degree with a dissertation on “The Formation and Development of the Infocommunication Services Market,” receiving the title of Doctor of Economic Sciences.

Founder of RIO-Center, now Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR), Russian liberal think tank chaired by President Dmitry Medvedev.

In 1991, Leonid Reiman organized the first mobile phone call in Russia, connecting the Mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, with the Mayor of Seattle, Norman Rice.

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