Biography
Yuri Chaika is a representative of the Russian government, a quarter of a century who held senior positions in the highest echelons of power. His biography is a story about how a lawyer from the province turned into an all-powerful prosecutor's prosecutor of the country and worked for longer than all predecessors in this position.Childhood and youth
The ancestors of the seagull from the Kuban Cossacks, and he was born in Nikolaevsk-on-Amur in May 1951. Father Yakov Mikhailovich and mother Maria Ivanovna were teachers. In order to feed four children from which Yuri is the youngest, the head of the family went to the shipbuilding plant, then he became a secretary of the city.
The same company worked and the Son when he threw his studies at the Faculty of Shipbuilding of the Polytechnic Institute in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. After serving the urgent service in the Pacific Motor Stretch Division, the seagull went to Sverdlovsk, at the Law Institute.
Self-studs remembered him as a confident and purposeful person, immediately allocated priority items. To those in which Yuri did not see the need, and relate, respectively. By the way, the future adviser to the President of Russia Veniamin Yakovlev was taught him the civil law.
Personal life
A personal life of the seagull was arranged in student youth, married in 1974 at the graduate of the Pedagogical Institute Elena. The spouse first worked in kindergarten, then switched to the upbringing of Artem and Igor's sons. Both followed the footsteps of the Father, they received legal education, they are engaged in a very solid business, presented five grandchildren to parents.The heirs of Yuri Yakovlevich live under the closer attention from the public. Ohi repeatedly became the defendants of scandalous "investigations". Alexey Navalnye shot a film out of 5 episodes, in which the "Family Puttina" demonstrated in detail on the example of the seagull, which has connected public administration and entrepreneurial structures.
The Prosecutor General replied that the information given by the oppositionist Lenty and he knows who serves as the customer of publication. If sons and received state contracts, then on honest grounds and at much smaller amounts. Igor worked as an adviser to the Governor of the Moscow Region and without salary.
Publicity, a seagull recognized, - an integral part of his activity, like him or not. However, it does not follow the example of some high-ranking colleagues who have enough time to place photos in "Instagram".
Yuri Yakovlevich's income for 2014 amounted to 8.5 million rubles, and his spouses - 8.28 million rubles. In 2016, the head of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia earned 9.275 million rubles, in 2017 in the declaration figured the figure of 11.7 million rubles. Next year, the official "outer" - only 9.05 million rubles, Elena - 2.76 million rubles.
In the property of Chaika - GAZ-13 rare car, the famous Soviet "Chaika", two cars and an apartment of 203 square meters. m, half of which belongs to his wife. The spouse also recorded a non-residential room in 175 square meters. m.
The prosecutor is an Orthodox man, regularly drives on Saint Athos. Collecting the Order and Medals of the White Guard. In the meeting there is a checker of the 1st Poltava Regiment, in which grandfather served at the beginning of the 20th century.
Career
Career Yuri Yakovlevich started in the district prosecutor's office. They disclosed the details of the rebellion in the Tulun colony, dozens of cases on charges of exceeding the necessary defense are discontinued. Details of those processes are still studied by students of legal universities. From 1979 to 1985, he worked in the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office, from where he passed to the Irkutsk Regional Office.
Here the seagull became famous for becoming the first Russian prosecutor, who sent a criminal case under the article on the article "Banditism". The Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov, drew attention to a colleague from the region and called to Moscow.
In 1999, Skuratov was removed from office due to sex scandal, his first deputy appointed acting, and then by the decree of Boris Yeltsin, the seagull became a full-fledged cabinet owner at the Ministry of Justice. By this department, he led me as part of Mikhail Kasyanov's governments, Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Fradkov, showed himself an energetic, demanding and stringent official, changed criminal legislation, which led to a reduction in the number of prisoners for 200 thousand people.
The seagull created the management of the rights of citizens serving the punishment in places of imprisonment, began to fight extremism and banned the nationalist parties of Alexander Barkashov and Eduard Limonov, introduced a moratorium on the death penalty. The severity of punishment, stated the Minister of Justice, does not affect the crime level. It is more correct to talk about its inevitability.
In 2006, by decision of the Council of Federation, Yuri Chaika returned to the General Prosecutor's Office. Achievements during this time have a lot of law enforcement officers. Personnel rotation was carried out, which made it possible to make the transparent activities of the prosecutor's office, as well as to expand the understanding of the plans implemented in the country. Created, and then allocated to a separate department the investigative committee, which was headed by the former rector of the University Alexander Bastrykin.
Experts noted that there was a tense relationship between yesterday's colleagues. Both structures tried to gain control of legal principles of affairs, demanded expansion of authority. The General Prosecutor said that employees of the Investigative Committee illegally opened thousands of criminal cases, within the framework of which the courts requested the courts to arrest the defendants.
The seagull demanded for the department, which heads, the right to authorize the arrests. According to Yuri Yakovlevich, investigators - "Working tool in the hands of the prosecutor." According to an official, such a situation must be changed, as it threatens serious consequences for the law enforcement system in the future.
"When a citizen's constitutional rights are affected, such actions should authorize the prosecutor. Around the world, the prosecutor performs one of two functions: investigates the criminal case or leads the investigation. In Russia, unfortunately, there is neither that nor other functions, "the seagull said.
He also noted that the operational-search activities (control purchases and operational experiments) must be carried out only with the permission of the prosecutor's office. Execute affairs in relation to judges, investigators, lawyers are also EE Predrogative. By the way, in 2014 the prosecutor's office returned the authority of the controller for the activities of the SC.
Under Yuri Yakovlevich, work was activated on the return of criminals and suspects who escaped abroad. If 10-15 people were subjected to extradition in the early 2000s, then in 2018 - already 195. Listening to the arguments of Russian law enforcement officers, even those countries with which the relevant agreements were not concluded were issued.
In addition, now the prosecutor's office has the right to collect the money kidnapped by the state, without waiting for the results of the investigation. Among such resonant stories - the return of the package of shares of Bashneft, the cases of the head of the Moscow region district of Alexander Shestun and Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko.
Under personal control, the seagull kept the issues of payments to state employees, pensions and benefits, complaints of the health care system and the facts of violation of labor legislation. A separate topic is the luxury sphere. On the presentation of the prosecutor's office, thousands of officials are brought to justice for the negligence attitude towards citizens' appeals. Documents, art objects that have scientific and historical value are returned to the country from illegal possession.
The Attorney General considered proven murderer of Boris Nemtsov's murderer, despite the fact that there is an opposite point of view in society. Speaking about the former Economic Minister Alexei Ulyukayev, he immediately advised those who lack wages of the civil servant, to go into business.
"Dead grip", wrote the press, Yuri Yakovlevich clung to Dmitry Strashnov. The guardian of the order was outraged, on what basis director of "Post of Russia" appointed a salary of 10 million rubles. per month, when the average industry did not reach 20 thousand rubles. Alas, justice did not succeed in this matter.
As a way to maintain Russian agricultural producers, the Government regarded the initiative of the Prosecutor General's Office to inspect compliance with laws and agreements that concern the ban on the import of vegetables and fruits. Companies were checked for the implementation of the Import-Operation Plan, as well as the effective direction of federal resources.
In order to solve problems in business relationships and prosecutors, an interdepartmental working group and special management was created. Entrepreneurs could send complaints about the personal email address Yuri Yakovlevich. Not without pride, he talked about how many people were rescued from unfair criminal prosecution.
Yuri Seagull now
The news that Yuri Seagull was removed from office, if not sensational, then unexpected for those who believed in the inviolability of the official position of the official. Although what is surprised: after the resignation of the Government of the Prosecutor General, such fate awaits automatically.
In January 2020, the president suggested a former head of the supervisory authority the post of the Plenipotentiary Representative in the North Caucasus Federal District.
According to friends, the seagull knew about the coming change. Experts believe that Vladimir Putin settled the goal of rejuvenation of the management pool. And the appointment to the place of Yuri Yakovlevich Deputy Bastrykina - a signal that the administration wants to stop confrontation between the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office.