Aleksandr Zharov

Aleksandr Zharov
Александр Жаров
Zharov in 2020
Head of Roscomnadzor
In office
3 May 2012  23 March 2020
Preceded bySergey Sitnikov
Succeeded byAndrey Lipov
Personal details
Born (1964-08-11) August 11, 1964

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zharov (also spelled Alexander Zharov; Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Жа́ров; born 11 August 1964) is a Russian politician. He served as head of Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications) from 2012 to 2020.

He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.