He chairs the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans' Affairs.

From 2003 to 2007, Nilov was continue as an assistant Zhirinovsky who at that time held the post of deputy chairman of the State Duma.

From 2007 to 2011, Nilov was the Head of the Secretariat of Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

In March 2016, Zhirinovsky named Nilov, now a member of the LDPR Supreme Council, one of his possible successors.

[1] On 24 March 2022, the United States Treasury sanctioned him in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.