In 2015, Naryshkin's dissertation in economics was exposed as fraudulent in an investigation by Dissernet, with more than half of the text plagiarized from other publications.[4]
Career
Naryshkin meeting with Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva during his working visit to Bishkek in August 2011.
In 1982, Naryshkin was appointed Deputy Vice-Rector of the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute. From 1988 to 1992, he worked in the Soviet Embassy in Brussels as an expert in the State Committee on Science and Technologies in the office of the economic adviser, but Alexei Pastyukhov, a childhood friend, stated that Naryshkin worked as third secretary. Some sources suggest that while there he began to work for the KGB after he had been at a group of the KGB Higher School where he and Vladimir Putin were fellow students.[3][5][6][7]
Municipal and Oblast political staffer (1992-2004)
From 1992 until 1995, he worked in the Committee for Economy and Finance of Saint Petersburg Mayor Office. After he left, he became the chief of the external investment department of Promstroybank—a position he would hold until 1997. From 1997 until 1998, Naryshkin led the Investment Department of the Leningrad Oblast government. From 1998 until 2004, he was the Chairman of the Committee for External Economic and International Relations of the government of Leningrad Oblast.
Deputy Prime Minister (External affairs) and siloviki (2004-2008)
Since 2004, he has been a member of the board of directors of Sovkomflot and a deputy chairman of the board of directors of Rosneft. Since 31 August 2004, Naryshkin has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the state-owned television channel Channel One.
Since 13 September 2004, he has been a Minister, Chief of Staff of the Government of Russia. On 15 February 2007, President Vladimir Putin announced that Naryshkin had been appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for external economic activity, focusing on collaboration with the Commonwealth of Independent States.
In June 2012, Naryshkin signed a resolution on setting up a culture council under the State Duma speaker. The council is “a standing advisory body”. The tasks of the council are “the examination and drafting of initiatives on topical problems of legislative regulations in culture and associated industries, the development of recommendations on culture for the use in lawmaking”.[11]
On 2 September 2013, Naryshkin stated that there are no political prisoners in today's Russia.[12]
Since the rise of tensions between European Union and Russia in 2014, Naryshkin was perceived as one of the main coordinators of contacts with European far-right and far-left parties supporting Russian foreign policy in Europe.[13]
His son, Andrey Naryshkin, had EU residence in Hungary, a registered address in Budapest and actively appealed the decision against its revocation in 2022. Other Naryshkin's relatives travelled across Europe a lot between 2018 and 2021.[22]
In November 2021, Naryshkin dismissed reports of a possible invasion of Ukraine asserting that it was "malicious propaganda by the US State Department".[24]
Days before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Naryshkin received widespread attention in the global press[25][26][27] for visibly trembling and "stutter[ing] uncomfortably"[28] as Putin humiliated him publicly for "fumbling"[29] his response to the Russian President's questioning during a Security Council of Russia meeting concerning the abandonment of the Minsk agreements and recognizing the Russian-backed separatist regions[30] of Donetsk and Luhansk.
On 15 August 2023 Naryshkin gave a speech at a security conference in Moscow, where he argued that for "a spiritually and physically healthy person, it’s unpleasant and sometimes even scary to travel to Europe–so many perversions of various kinds have thrived there".[32]
Membership in advisory and scientific councils and commissions
^ ab"Sergei Naryshkin". The Moscow Times. Archived from the original on 29 October 2011. Education: Radio-mechanical engineering, Leningrad Mechanical Institute, 1978. Economics, Petersburg International Management Institute, 1997.
^Neyfakh, Leon (22 May 2016). "The Craziest Black Market in Russia". Slate. ISSN1091-2339. Archived from the original on 30 December 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2016. Late last year, Russian newspapers reported what would have qualified as a stunning piece of news almost anywhere else: The chairman of the country's largest parliamentary body had been exposed as a plagiarist. Sergei Naryshkin, the former chief of staff in Vladimir Putin's administration and a prominent member of his United Russia party, stood accused of receiving the Russian equivalent of a doctoral degree on the strength of a dissertation in which more than half of the pages contained material lifted from other sources.
^"Кто такой Нарышкин" [Who is Naryshkin] (in Russian). Gazeta.ru. 15 February 2007. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
^Указом Президента Российской Федерации от 14 февраля 2012 г. № 183—Presidential decree of February 14, 2012 No. 183 repealed ("abrogated") the original decree: May 15, 2009 No. 549 (Collected Legislation of the Russian Federation, 2009, No. 21, p. 2541); and amendments: January 22, 2010 No. 97 (Collected Legislation Russian Federation, 2010, No. 4, p. 372); and September 8, 2010 No. 1103 (Collected Legislation Russian Federation, 2010, No. 37, article 4644).