Biography
General of Justice of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, heads the investigative committee of the Russian Federation. Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor. A member of several Russian academies and the Union of Writers of Russia. Marked by state and public awards.Childhood and youth
The origin of Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykina contributed to the promotion of the career staircase in the Soviet Union: neither nobles nor repressed relatives were in the form of the future lawyer. Father Ivan Ilyich Bastrykin took place from the Kuban Cossacks, from nineteen years later in a fleet, awarded medals for feats during the Great Patriotic War.
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Antonov's mother Evgenia Antonovna was born in the city of Luga near Leningrad in a large peasant family, the head of which died at the front in the first world war. During the blockade of Leningrad worked on the defense plant and defended the city, he was awarded combat medals. After the war, the Chief of Senior Bastrykinsky Yella in Pskov, where the son of Alexander was born on August 27, 1953.
In 1958, the family moved to Leningrad, where Sasha was educated. School №27 on Vasilyevsky Island helped the boy deeply explore Russian, literature and history, so that he did without any problems in LDA, despite the contest of 40 people in place. Vladimir Putin studied at the Law with Alexander Bastrykin at the Law Faculty of Law, Friendship with whom contributed to the successful career of the Russian official.
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Studying did not take all the strength of the student: the future lawyer danced classic dances, played volleyball, worked in the theater studio and the school of a young journalist, played the guitar in Via of his faculty. After graduating from the University in 1975, the young lawyer went to work in a specialty and three years served by the investigator of the criminal investigation department. At the same time, he entered the party (at that time - the only one in the country, communist).
Career
In 1979 he entered the graduate school LDU and in 1980 defended his thesis, began teaching work. In parallel with the teaching in the native university, he built a political career, consistently rising from the secretary of the Komsomol cell LSU (1980) before the secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee VLKSM (1983-1985), was a deputy of a district council. He led the education of young people, culture, agitation and propaganda.
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In 1987 he defended his doctoral dissertation in the field of interaction between international and Soviet law. In 1988, he headed the Institute for the Advancement of the qualifications of investigative workers at the USSR Prosecutor's Office in Leningrad, heated the Department of Investigative Tactics. In parallel, engaged in party work.
In 1991, the CPSU terminates existence, and Alexander Bastrykin adapts to the changed conditions. Knowledge of a lawyer are in demand and after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1992-1995, he heads the St. Petersburg Legal Institute, teaching law and other educational institutions of the city.
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In 1996, the legal administration of the North-West District of the Interior Ministry of the Interior was added to the teaching office. Ten years later, Bastrykin took first the post of chief of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District, and after - Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
In 2007, a freshly prone position of the First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation was added to his duties - Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. A new organization whose task was to investigate crimes, 18 thousand prosecution officers moved. In 2009, Bastrykin was injured during operational work at the site of the "Nevsky Express" undermining.
![Alexander Bastrykin and Yuri Chaika Alexander Bastrykin and Yuri Chaika](/userfiles/126/15411_5.webp)
On January 15, 2011, Alexander Bastrykin was appointed Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the responsibilities of which he performed from October 2010, when the Investigative Committee became a structure that did not subordinate the prosecutor's office and Yuri Seagull. In the new position, Bastrykin is every month in Moscow and regions personally meets with citizens who have written in advance at the reception.
Practice has shown that the personal participation of Colonel-General of Justice (the title was obtained simultaneously) in the investigation accelerates the course of the case. In addition to direct responsibilities, while the post of Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin takes care of the upbringing of the young change of investigators: on his proposal, Cadet Corps and CC classes are open.
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Recreated Institute of Criminalistics. The Chairperson holds meetings with young investigators, trying to quickly solve their problems. Was accused of journalists and public figures in plagiarism and ties with crime. Included in the sanctions lists of the United States, Great Britain, Ukraine and Lithuania. According to the reviews of the subordinates - authoritarian leader, the rigid party functionar of the old hardening.
In 2015, the media quoted the statement of Bastrykina that the investigation was established by Arseny Yatsenyuk and the squad of the Ukrainian nationalists of UNU-UNO in the first Chechen war on the side of Ichkeria. In the same year, the general made a legislative initiative on the abolition of the priority of international law over intracetable, proposing relevant articles from the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Personal life
In the first marriage, Alexander joined 1981. Bastrykina (in the greatness of Kuznetsova) Natalia Nikolayevna studied with him in LSU at one faculty. Spouses divorced in 1988, retaining a friendly relationship. Natalia Bastrykina Talented Business Lady, which belongs, in particular, the Publishing House "Oreole", publishing the books of the former husband of Natalia.
![Alexander Bastrykin and his wife Olga Alexander Bastrykin and his wife Olga](/userfiles/126/15411_7.webp)
Together with the second wife, Alexander Olga Ivanovna, Alexander Bastrykin brought up two children. Olga Alexandrova - a colleague of her husband in the field of legal sciences, leads the All-Russian State University of Justice. Evgeny Bastrykin, the Son of General, also successfully builds a career in the public service.
Alexander Bastrykin now
News about the professional activities of the Chairman of the SC of Russia can be obtained from the media, from the personal blog of the official on the official website of the Investigative Committee, read on the personal pages in Facebook and in Vkontakte. You can also ask Bastrykin questions and get answers to the most relevant of them. Message about the resignation of the chair there is unlikely to appear soon: Alexander Bastrykin is full of strength.
![Alexander Bastrykin in 2018 Alexander Bastrykin in 2018](/userfiles/126/15411_8.webp)
Alexander Bastrykin voiced to journalists the official position of the Government of the Russian Federation on resonant issues related to crimes against citizens of the country and emergencies. Photo and video from press conferences of general and government meetings quickly disagree on the Internet together with the news.
On March 2, 2021, the EU introduced new sanctions against the head of the SC in connection with the completion of the trial of Alexei Navalny, who was sentenced to a real prison sentence.
Awards
- 2007 - the title "Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation"
- 2008 - Order "For Merit to Fatherland" IV degree
- 2009 - Order of Honor (South Ossetia)
- 2009 - Honorary Mission of the President of the Russian Federation
- 2011 - Prize Association of Lawyers of Russia "Femid"
- 2012 - Order "For merit to the Fatherland of II degree"
- 2013 - Order of Alexander Nevsky
- 2013 - Order "For Merit" (Ingushetia)
- 2014 - Order of Honor
- 2016 - Order of Friendship (Armenia)