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Andrey Zayakin was born on 23 February, 1981 in Yakutsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, is a Russian scientist, civil and political activist, and journalist. Discover Andrey Zayakin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 43 years old?

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Age 43 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 23 February, 1981
Birthday 23 February
Birthplace Yakutsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Russia

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1981

Andrey Viktorovich Zayakin (Андрей Викторович Заякин; born 23 February 1981) is a Russian physicist, political activist and journalist.

One of the founders of the volunteer community network Dissernet.

2004

In 2004 graduated from the Department of Physics of the Moscow State University.

2005

In 2005 and 2007 was a trainee at the Free University of Berlin; from 2008 until 2010 worked in Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

2009

In 2009 at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics defended a doctoral thesis “Nonperturbative Phenomena in Quantum Field Theory in External Fields and at a Finite Temperature”.

2011

In 2011—2011 worked at the University of Perugia, from 2012 – at the University of Santiago de Compostelam and (from 2005) – at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics.

Since mid-2011, Zayakin began to cooperate with Alexei Navalny, participating in the anti-corruption project RosPil.

2013

In 2013, together with Alexei Navalny and Dmitry Gudkov began searching for undeclared property of high-ranking officials: Andrey Zayakin was then known in the blogosphere under the nickname "Doctor Z" (doct_z).

Among the revelations of A. Zayakin are undeclared apartments in Miami of Vladimir Pekhtin and Mikhail Margelov.

From the beginning of 2013, Zayakin independently searched for plagiarism in dissertations of State Duma deputies defended in Russia.

One of the first victims of investigations became a State Duma deputy Rishat Abubakirov.

These works served as one of the grounds for the emergence in February 2013 of the volunteer community network "Dissernet", whose main task was to expose fake dissertations.

In addition to Zayakin, the founders of Dissernet are the journalist Sergey Parkhomenko, the physicist Andrey Rostovtsev and the biologist Mikhail Gelfand.

In Dissernet Zayakin leads a group of volunteers who write applications and apply for deprivation of academic degrees people with forged dissertations.

2015

In 2015 Zayakin became a journalist in Novaya Gazeta magazine, since 2018 — chief editor of the Data department there.

2016

In the elections to the State Duma in 2016, Andrey Zayakin headed the regional list of the Yabloko party in the Far East.

In February 2022, he signed an open letter from Russian scientists condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory.

On August 29, 2022, Zayakin was detained by police and charged with financial extremist activity for transferring 1000 rubles (about US$20) to the Anti-Corruption Foundation of Alexei Navalny.

Zayakin was given a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions.

2018

In 2018 Zayakin became secretary of the commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences, known as the Commission for Counteracting the Falsification of Scientific Research.

2019

Zayakin's articles were repeatedly nominated for the Redkollegia award, in 2019 he became the winner of this award.

2020

In 2020 the Commission initiated the first large retraction of scientific papers from Russian journals after Dissernet investigation.