After the Duma elections, Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin will leave his post. The issue was resolved after the initiation of criminal cases against high-ranking employees of the department, RBC sources say
Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin (Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/press service of the President of the Russian Federation/TASS)
Bastrykin's resignation
Alexander Bastrykin will leave the post of chairman of the Investigative Committee, interlocutors close to the leadership of the FSB, the central office of the Investigative Committee, and three close to the Investigative Committee told RBC presidential administration source. The resignation will take place shortly after the elections on September 18, although RBC's interlocutors do not give exact dates. “I’m hearing this for the first time,” presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told RBC, answering a question about whether Bastrykin’s resignation is really being discussed now. TFR representative Vladimir Markin (whose imminent departure became known on Wednesday) refused to talk with RBC.
In July, Bastrykin’s department found itself at the center of a scandal in connection with a criminal case against high-ranking employees of the Investigative Committee. in an especially large amount (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) were presented to the head of the Department of Interdepartmental Cooperation and Internal Security (UMISB) of the ICR Mikhail Maksimenko, his deputy Alexander Lamonov and Deputy Head of the Main Investigation Department for Moscow Denis Nikandrov. According to FSB investigators, they tried to people of the criminal authority Zakhary Kalashov, nicknamed Shakro Molodoy. The operatives assigned a key role in the case to Maksimenko, who, in law enforcement, was one of the most influential employees of the Investigative Committee and a friend of Bastrykin, RBC sources in the Investigative Committee and the FSB say. Markin then expressed gratitude to the FSB officers for the detention.
The issue of Bastrykin’s career was resolved after the arrests of his subordinates, says an RBC interlocutor close to the leadership of the FSB, but all personnel decisions were left for the period after the Duma elections. At the same time, Peskov told reporters that “hypothetical discussions [about the possible resignation of the chairman of the Investigative Committee] against the background investigative actions absolutely unacceptable."
Dissatisfaction with Bastrykin “has been matured for a long time,” explains the FSB source. According to him, the chairman of the Investigative Committee often attracted undue attention to himself. In April of this year, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee published in the magazine "Kommersant" -Power” in which hejustified the tightening anti-extremist legislation and reasoned that Russia’s problems are related to the hybrid war that the United States is waging against it. In the summer of 2012, he became the deputy editor-in-chief of " Novaya Gazeta» Sergei Sokolov. In the same year, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexey Navalny, Bastrykin received a residence permit in the Czech Republic and real estate in this country. And at the end of 2015 it became known that the Spanish prosecutor’s office was with members of the Tambov criminal group.
In 2015, President Vladimir Putin expressed dissatisfaction with the work of the head of the Investigative Committee at one of the meetings, sources close to the government and the security department told RBC. His work coordinating the work of Russian and Armenian security forces to investigate the high-profile murder of an Armenian family by a Russian soldier was considered clumsy, one source.
The Investigative Committee is objectively in crisis, and the head of the Investigative Committee has relied on unprofessional personnel, says an RBC interlocutor close to the presidential administration. The level of investigation in the Investigative Committee has been dropping all the time, says lawyer Ruslan Koblev. According to him, the lack of prosecutorial control had a negative impact on the quality of the investigation. “Investigations have become opaque and have come down to investigators stuffing cases with formal evidence, because they know that in the end the courts will still hand down guilty verdicts,” says the lawyer.
Bastrykin fulfilled his function by creating the Investigative Committee, but in the process of this work, he first seriously damaged relations with the Prosecutor General’s Office, and later the effectively working relationship with the FSB was disrupted, says political scientist Evgeniy Minchenko. The head of the Investigative Committee lost the hardware war with other law enforcement agencies, states an interlocutor close to the leadership of the Kremlin administration.
New leader
The current deputy chairman of the ICR, Major General of Justice Igor Krasnov, is being considered as a possible new head of the department, say two RBC interlocutors close to the leadership of the ICR and the FSB. Krasnov is known for investigating high-profile cases. Since 2009, he has been leading the case of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova in the center of Moscow. As a result, nationalists Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis, involved in the activities of the “Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists” (BORN), were detained and convicted. Krasnov led the investigation into the murder of Boris Nemtsov for two months, after which he was replaced at the head of the investigative team by Nikolai Tutevich . In May 2015, Krasnov joined the Investigative Committee, which included the best employees of the department.
Earlier, RBC's interlocutors said that the current governor of St. Petersburg, Georgy Poltavchenko, was being considered to replace Bastrykin. According to them, the decision to change the head of the Northern capital was discussed in security circles that he could head the joint Investigative Committee. Theoretically, this option is being considered now, says an interlocutor close to the Kremlin. But there is still doubt that Poltavchenko will be able to actively engage in operational management SK work.
If Bastrykin really leaves his place, then he could probably be replaced by a person not from the Investigative Committee, but from the prosecutor’s office or the FSB, lawyer Koblev suggests.
Before the boss
On Wednesday it became known that its official representative Vladimir Markin was leaving the Investigative Committee. This information was confirmed by an RBC source close to the presidential administration with reference to a source and TASS. Markin himself refused to comment on the information about his resignation.
RBC's FSB interlocutor explained that Markin's fate was supposed to be decided after the elections, but the latest scandals surrounding the department's press secretary "filled the cup of patience." Markin leaves his post amid accusations of plagiarism. At the beginning of September, the major general presented the book “The Most Loud Crimes of the 21st Century in Russia,” after which journalists from Novaya Gazeta and Kommersant stated that Markin used the texts of their publications without the permission of the editors and indication of sources. Later publishing house
, which stated that the book Markina was published without reference to excerpts from media materials due to a technical error. On Wednesday, September 14, Markin’s meeting with readers was supposed to take place at the Moscow bookstore, but it was canceled for reasons beyond the store’s control, according to a message published on the website.Markin had a difficult relationship with most of the TFR investigators, say three RBC interlocutors close to the department. According to one of them, the representative of the Investigative Committee was often not warned about impending searches or other operational activities. For example, Mikhail Khodorkovsky at the end of December 2015 came as a surprise to Markin.
A TASS source said that Markin “is changing his field of activity because he received another offer where he can solve no less large-scale and responsible tasks.” Interfax, citing an interlocutor in the fuel and energy complex, reported that Markin could take the position of deputy general director of RusHydro for public relations and government agencies. A source close to the government confirmed to RBC that this option is possible. “We started discussing it recently, literally yesterday, but no decision has been made yet,” he said. The head of the RusHydro press service told RBC that he does not have such information.
9 years of investigation
Bastrykin is a graduate of the Leningrad Faculty of Law state university. At the university, he was the head of the group where Vladimir Putin studied. Later he worked in the internal affairs bodies, defended his dissertation and was secretary of the Leningrad city committee of the Komsomol. In the late 1980s - the first half of the 1990s, he headed first the Leningrad Institute for the Improvement of Investigative Workers at the USSR Prosecutor's Office, and then the St. Petersburg Law Institute. In the 2000s he worked as head of the Department of the Ministry of Justice for the Northwestern federal district, in 2006 he was appointed Deputy Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. In 2007, Bastrykin headed the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office, on the basis of which the Investigative Committee of Russia was formed in 2011.
Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin – Chairman of the Investigative Committee Russian Federation, General of Justice, legal scholar, Doctor of Law.Childhood
Alexander Bastrykin was born on August 27, 1953 in Pskov. The ordinary working-class family into which the future head of the Investigative Committee was born, nevertheless had a heroic history.Alexander Bastrykin’s father fought on the fronts of the Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars, and was awarded the medals “For Military Merit,” “For Defense of the Soviet Arctic,” and “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”
During the siege of Leningrad, my mother worked at a defense plant, and in 1943 she went to the front, where she became an anti-aircraft gunner, went through the battle route from Leningrad to Konigsberg, participated in difficult battles, for which she was nominated for military awards.
The Bastrykins lived in Pskov until 1958, and then moved to Leningrad. In the Northern capital, Sasha went to school with in-depth study of humanities and not only managed to study very well. His range of interests was very wide: classical dance, volleyball, playing the guitar, visiting a theater studio and a school for young journalists at the youth newspaper “Smena”.
Education
In 1970, Alexander Bastrykin became a student at Leningrad State University. It is worth noting that the competition for the Faculty of Law was 40 people per place, and Alexander entered on a general basis. 
At Leningrad State University he became the head of the group. His classmate was Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The young people became friends.
In 1975, the future head of the Investigative Committee received a diploma and assignment to the police, but two years later he returned to his native university as a graduate student.
In 1980, Bastrykin successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on the investigation of criminal cases involving foreign citizens.
Career
Alexander Bastrykin’s career began in the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he worked as an assigned investigator and criminal investigation inspector. In the police, the future head of the Investigative Committee joined the CPSU and remained a member of the party until it was completely banned, i.e. until 1991. 
After defending his Ph.D. thesis, Bastrykin taught at the department of criminal procedure and criminology at his native university. At the same time, he made a successful career in the Komsomol organization, going from secretary of the Komsomol committee of Leningrad University to secretary of the Leningrad regional committee of the Komsomol. Like most successful Komsomol functionaries, Bastrykin’s activities continued in the party: from 1986 to 1988. he was in charge of ideological work in the party committee of Leningrad State University.
It is noteworthy that information about the direct participation of Alexander Bastrykin in the expulsion of Boris Grebenshchikov from the ranks of the Komsomol became public knowledge, although Grebenshchikov himself did not confirm this.
In 1987, Alexander Bastrykin became a Doctor of Science, and in 1988 he received the position of director of the Institute for Advanced Training of Investigative Workers at the USSR Prosecutor's Office in Leningrad, which he held until 1991.
From 1992 to 1995, Bastrykin was the rector and professor of the St. Petersburg Law Institute, and in 1995 he headed the department of transport law at the University of Water Communications.
In 1996 - 1998, the chief investigator of the Russian Federation was deputy commander of the North-Western District for legal work, and then headed the North-Western branch of the Russian Legal Academy.
In 2001, Bastrykin moved to work at the Ministry of Justice, and in 2006 - to the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where, as a deputy prosecutor general, he oversaw compliance with the legality of the preliminary investigation. The position of Prosecutor General at that moment was held by Yuri Chaika and, thus, was Bastrykin’s immediate superior.
In 2007, an Investigative Committee was created within the prosecutor's office. The order to transfer 18 thousand employees from the prosecutor's office to the Investigative Committee was signed personally by Bastrykin, as the acting head of the committee. A new structure, independent and controlled by the President of the Russian Federation, was entrusted with the direct investigation of crimes.
Bastrykin was appointed Chairman of the Investigative Committee as an independent structure on January 15, 2011. It must be said that the head of the Investigative Committee held personal receptions with citizens every month.
Earlier, in 2008, the Anti-Corruption Council under the President of the Russian Federation was created, which included Alexander Bastrykin.
The most high-profile cases of Alexander Bastrykin
In February 2008, regional prosecutor Evgeny Grigoriev was killed in Saratov. Alexander Bastrykin personally headed the investigation, which was completed within three weeks. The case was solved. 
In 2008, the investigative team of the Investigative Committee conducted an investigation into the so-called five-day war - Georgia’s armed aggression against South Ossetia. The work of the group, which resulted in 500 volumes of the criminal case, was headed by Alexander Bastrykin. The case was transferred to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
In 2009, the head of the Investigative Committee sharply criticized Russia’s migration policy, leading to an increase in crime among migrants, and a high level of corruption in the Federal Migration Service. It is worth noting that extradition issues were under the jurisdiction of the prosecutor’s office, and not the Investigative Committee.
In 2010, a mass murder occurred in the village of Kushchevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, which received a huge public outcry. The investigation was headed by Alexander Bastrykin.
In 2014, the head of the Investigative Committee initiated criminal prosecution of Ukrainian officials accused of war crimes and genocide against the civilian population of southeastern Ukraine.
Injured while performing
On November 27, 2009, the Nevsky Express high-speed train was blown up, as a result of which 28 people were killed and 132 passengers were injured. Alexander Bastrykin personally went to the scene of the terrorist attack. While he was at the scene, another explosive device went off. The head of the Investigative Committee received a concussion and a moderate injury. 
Books by Bastrykin
Despite his enormous busyness and successful career, Alexander Bastrykin always found time for scientific work and writing books. 
In three books by Professor Bastrykin: “Shadows disappear in Smolny. The Murder of Kirov”, “The Ideal Crime of the Century or the Collapse of a Criminal Case”, “The Murder of Kirov. New version old crime,” the author put forward his own version of the events that occurred in Leningrad in 1934.
Bastrykin’s most famous book “Dactyloscopy. Hand Signs" was published in 2004. It was with this publication that a scandal was associated: the writer was accused of plagiarism.
Experts discovered fragments borrowed from Jurgen Thorwald’s book “The Century of Forensic Science.” It is worth noting that Bastrykin reflected the above-mentioned work in the list of references used, so he refuted the accusations, calling them false. Later, Bastrykin’s “Dactyloscopy” was translated into French, and the professor himself was admitted to the Writers' Union in 2016. 
In one of his interviews, the General of Justice said that he published some books at his own expense.
Scandals related to Alexander Bastrykin
In 2012, Alexey Navalny accused the chairman of the insurance company that Bastrykin owns real estate in the Czech Republic, is a co-owner of the company LAW Bohemia and has a residence permit in the Czech Republic.Alexey Navalny about Bastrykin
Bastrykin admitted only that he had a visa and an apartment in Prague with an area of 46 sq.m. The head of the Investigative Committee said that the property worth $68 thousand was purchased by him in installments before the start of his civil service. Bastrykin sold his share in LAW Bohemia.
Personal life of Alexander Bastrykin
Alexander Bastrykin is married. His wife, Olga Ivanovna Bastrykina, works as vice-rector of the Russian Law Academy. The son of the head of the Investigative Committee, Evgeniy, born in 1986, is the chief specialist of the office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the North-West. 
Head of the Investigative Committee now
Bastrykin combines work in the Investigative Committee with writing books, actively uses social networks, maintains a VKontakte account, where he writes about the events of the Investigative Committee, cultural life and famous people. The professor willingly gives lectures to law students.There is information that Bastrykin writes poetry and publishes them on the website “Stihi.ru”, posing as the Polish poet Stanislav Strunevsky. The main theme of the poetry of the chief investigator of Russia is the activities of liberal politicians, presented by Bastrykin in an ironic manner.
Again Navalny sat down for a day / And our poor minds / Known bitterness and sadness / After all, he is our symbol! Ours is steel!
First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office, in office since September 2007. From October 2006 to September 2007, he served as Deputy Prosecutor General. In June-October 2006, he was the head of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District. In 2001-2006, he headed the department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the Northwestern Federal District. He was the director of the North-Western branch of the Russian Legal Academy and the rector of the St. Petersburg Law Institute. Doctor of Law, Professor.
Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin was born on August 27, 1953 in Pskov. In 1975, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University (LSU). Bastrykin was the head of the group in which Vladimir Putin, who served as President of the Russian Federation in 2000-2008, studied. He was actively involved in social work and joined the CPSU (he remained a member of the party until it was banned in August 1991). After graduating from university, he was assigned to the internal affairs bodies, where he worked until 1979 (according to other sources, until 1977) as a criminal investigation inspector and investigator.
In 1977-1980, Bastrykin studied at the graduate school of the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University. In 1980, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences on the topic “Problems of investigating criminal cases involving foreign citizens.” From the same year he began to engage in teaching, Komsomol and party work. Bastrykin was a teacher, senior lecturer at the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Leningrad State University. From 1980 to 1985, he was secretary of the Leningrad State University Komsomol committee and secretary of the Leningrad city committee of the Komsomol. The media noted that at the same time, Valentina Matvienko, who was elected governor of St. Petersburg in October 2003, worked in the Leningrad bodies of the Komsomol.
In 1986, Bastrykin became deputy secretary of the Leningrad State University party committee. In 1987, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Problems of interaction between norms of domestic and international law in the field of criminal proceedings."
Since 1988, Bastrykin headed the Leningrad Institute for the Improvement of Investigative Workers at the USSR Prosecutor's Office. In 1992-1996, he served as rector of the St. Petersburg Law Institute and received the academic title of professor. According to some sources, Bastrykin also headed the department of transport law at the St. Petersburg State University of Water Communications.
In 1996-1998, Bastrykin was an assistant to the commander of the North-Western District of the Internal Troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for legal work. In 1998, he was appointed director of the North-Western branch of the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. In July 2001, he became head of the department of the Ministry of Justice for the Northwestern Federal District (NWFD), and in June 2006 - head of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District (CFD).
On October 6, 2006, Bastrykin was appointed Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, overseeing the investigation of criminal cases. According to media reports, Bastrykin was in conflict with another deputy of Chaika, Viktor Grin, who was directly in charge of the investigation. In May 2007, President Putin signed a law that provided for the creation of an Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office. The head of this structure should be the First Deputy Prosecutor General, but he should be appointed by the Federation Council on the proposal of the president and, thus, actually became independent from the prosecutor's office. In particular, he had independence in pursuing personnel policy. On June 22, 2007, the Federation Council approved Bastrykin’s candidacy for the post of chairman of the Investigative Committee. About three months after this, while the apparatus of the new structure was being formed, organizational and legal issues were being resolved, Bastrykin was the acting head of the committee.
According to some observers, Bastrykin was guided by the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Igor Sechin, who allegedly intended to take revenge after the resignation of his protégé Vladimir Ustinov from the post of Prosecutor General in the summer of 2006 and his appointment to the less influential position of head of the Ministry of Justice.
The stated purpose of creating the Investigative Committee was to separate the investigation itself, which Bastrykin’s committee was supposed to deal with, and supervision of the investigation and representation of the prosecution in court, which, like issues of extradition, remained with the prosecutor’s office. The media suggested that the actual selection of investigative functions from the prosecutor’s office was supposed to weaken its political influence, which increased sharply after the start of the “YUKOS case” in 2003 and was once again demonstrated in 2006-2007 during the “customs case” and the initiation a number of criminal trials against regional and city leaders.
After his confirmation as acting head of the Investigative Committee, Bastrykin made several statements to the media, talking about the investigation of the most high-profile criminal cases. Thus, regarding the solution to the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in October 2006, he said that of the six initial versions, a significant part has already disappeared and now the remaining ones are being worked out. Bastrykin also commented on the progress of the investigation into the death of ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was close to businessman Boris Berezovsky, who died in November 2006 in London as a result of poisoning with the radioactive substance polonium-210. Bastrykin said that Russian investigators work closely with their British colleagues, although they allegedly do not receive the proper return from them. According to him, the British side is working on only one version of what happened, according to which the killer is Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi. The Russian side would like to work out several other versions. According to media reports, Bastrykin also stated that Litvinenko was most likely poisoned by Berezovsky himself.
On August 13, 2007, in the Novgorod region, the Nevsky Express fast train, traveling along the Moscow-St. Petersburg route, derailed. As a result, 60 people were injured, more than two dozen of them were hospitalized. Bastrykin led a group of investigators and criminologists who went to the scene. According to preliminary data, the cause of the accident was an explosion on the tracks of a homemade bomb. Based on the incident, the prosecutor's office opened a criminal case under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("terrorism"). Bastrykin announced the completion of the investigation into the Nevsky Express bombing case at the end of February 2009. Natives of Ingushetia Salanbek Dzakhkiev and Maksharip Khidriev were brought forward as defendants in this case. However, they were involved in the case “only as accomplices of the organizer and perpetrator of the terrorist attack, who, according to the investigation, was a certain Pavel Kosolapov, who was wanted for organizing a series of terrorist attacks in 2003-2005. At the same time, the details of the investigation, as noted by the publication Vremya Novostey” , remained unknown.
On September 7, 2007, Bastrykin officially assumed the position of Chairman of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. On the same day, he signed an order to transfer more than 18 thousand employees from the prosecutor's office to the committee. There was also a transfer of 60 thousand criminal cases across the country to the investigative units of the new department. Bastrykin told reporters that the Investigative Committee will not compete with the prosecutor’s office, since they have different areas of activity. On September 19, Bastrykin was relieved of his post as Deputy Prosecutor General and became First Deputy Prosecutor General, which, according to the law, corresponded to the position of head of the Investigative Committee.
At the same time, the staff of Bastrykin’s department did not include a number of investigators who were involved in high-profile criminal cases in the recent past. Thus, the following were not included in the Investigative Committee: senior investigator for especially important cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office Salavat Karimov, who led the investigation of two criminal cases against businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky; Head of the Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Prosecutor General's Office Sergei Ivanov, who led the investigation team into the Politkovskaya murder case; the deputy head of this department, Andrei Mayorov, who oversaw the investigation into Litvinenko’s poisoning. In addition, the committee did not include investigators who dealt with the cases of defrauded investors of the Social Initiative partnership, the case of smuggling mobile phones the Euroset company and the case of raider seizure of several enterprises in St. Petersburg in 2006-2007. All suspended investigators were given work in the central office of the Prosecutor General's Office. An anonymous source in Chaika’s department told reporters that “such a decision causes nothing but bewilderment,” and added that the prosecutor’s office’s own security service, which has been in place for a year, officially does not have any complaints against these employees.
Subsequently, the media noted that contradictions arose between the UPC and the Prosecutor General’s Office in connection with the division of functions, property and funds allocated for their maintenance, since “the interpretation of the legislation made it possible to consider the UPC a practically independent body, both in procedural and administrative terms ". They also wrote in the press about the existence of a personal conflict between Bastrykin and Chaika, which was accompanied by “not only polemics in absentia and throwing incriminating evidence into the media, but also a scandal” surrounding the ex-chief of the Main Investigation Department (GSU) of the SKP Dmitry Dovgiy, who actually accused Bastrykin “of fabrication of a number of criminal cases" (in April 2008, Bastrykin signed an order to relieve Dovgy from office and dismissal, and in August 2008, Dovgy was arrested on suspicion of attempting to receive a bribe on an especially large scale and exceeding official authority). It was noted that the criminal cases against the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Sergei Storchak and the head of the operational support department of the State Drug Control Service Alexander Bulbov provided a reason to perceive “the political situation and to doubt the objectivity of the investigation.”
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation confirmed the supremacy of the Prosecutor General's Office over the SKP only in early March 2009. Having analyzed the norms regulating the activities of the UPC and the Prosecutor General’s Office, the court recognized that the orders of the Prosecutor General “are binding on representatives of the UPC, including the head of this department himself.” The Supreme Court also determined that the Prosecutor General has the right to overturn the decision of his first deputy. Thus, as the media noted, the court resolved “the dilemma of which of the... leaders (Bastrykin or Chaika - editor’s note) is more important.”
At the beginning of August 2008, the situation in the area of the South Ossetian city of Tskhinvali, the zone of presence of Russian and Georgian peacekeepers, worsened. On August 8, 2008, Georgian troops entered the territory of South Ossetia, and the capital of the unrecognized republic, the city of Tskhinvali, was subjected to heavy artillery shelling. On August 9, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced the start of an operation “to force peace in the zone of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict.” After a trip to Vladikavkaz, Prime Minister Putin called what was happening in South Ossetia a genocide of the Ossetian people and proposed documenting the crimes committed against the civilian population. Then Medvedev decided to entrust Bastrykin with coordinating the work of collecting documentary evidence of crimes by the Georgian side in South Ossetia, which “will become the basis for future criminal prosecution of persons who committed crimes.”
After this, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Russian Federation Prosecutor's Office for North Ossetia, the subject of the federation closest to the scene of the incident, opened a criminal case in connection with Georgia's attack on South Ossetia on charges of premeditated murder of two or more persons in a generally dangerous manner (Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) . Kommersant also reported that the military prosecutor's office had previously opened a criminal case in connection with the murder of Russian peacekeepers on the territory of South Ossetia. The publication wrote that investigators began work in refugee camps: they interviewed victims, witnesses, and relatives of the victims (according to unofficial data, their number as of August 12, 2008 was more than 2 thousand people). A few days later, the Investigative Committee recognized what happened in South Ossetia as genocide, on the basis of which it opened a single criminal case. At the same time, Bastrykin stated that evidence on the fact of genocide was being collected “both for domestic Russian investigation and for possible transfer to international authorities.”
At the end of August, after the end of the conflict, which was called the “five-day war” in the press, Bastrykin gave an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, in which he stated that “the facts of genocide against the Ossetian people are fully confirmed.” He compared the crimes of the Georgian army, which, according to him, invaded South Ossetia, “pursuing the goal of complete destruction of the Ossetian national group,” with “the atrocities of the fascists during the war.” In February 2009, at the final board meeting at the Prosecutor General's Office, Bastrykin announced the completion of the investigation. He noted that the fact of Georgia's genocide against the Ossetian people was "fully confirmed." On July 3, 2009, Bastrykin reported that in the case of the events in South Ossetia, the deaths of 162 civilians were officially confirmed, and a total of 5,315 people were recognized as victims.
Bastrykin has the rank of State Counselor of Justice of the first class, is an honorary worker of justice, a full member of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law and Order, the Russian Academy of Social Sciences and the Baltic Pedagogical Academy. He is the author of a series scientific works on criminal law topics and the theory of state and law, as well as a series of journalistic articles. Bastrykin has state and public awards, including medals of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation "For Diligence" I and II degrees. On September 1, 2008, President Medvedev awarded Bastrykin the Order of Merit for the Fatherland “for great services in strengthening law and order, many years of fruitful activity.”
Bastrykin is married and has two children.
Full name: Bastrykin Alexander Ivanovich
Date of birth: 08/27/1953, Pskov, RSFSR, USSR
Position held: Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
Biography:
Born on August 27, 1953 in Pskov into a family of workers. Father, Ivan Ilyich (1920-1993) is a native of the Krasnodar Territory, from a family of hereditary Kuban Cossacks. In the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army since 1939, he was drafted into the navy by Komsomol recruitment. He began his service in Kronstadt. Member of the Soviet-Finnish (1939-1940) and Great Patriotic War, naval officer. During the Great Patriotic War, he initially fought as part of coastal units, and then on torpedo boats of the Northern Fleet. He had military awards. So, by order No.: 5/n dated May 25, 1945 to 1 div. Air defense COMOR SF squad leader, radiometrist of the 356th separate battalion VNOS SF senior Red Navy man Bastrykin I. I. was awarded the medal “For Military Merit”. In 1942, at the front, he joined the CPSU (b). He was also awarded the medals “For the Defense of the Soviet Arctic” and “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.” In 1985 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. Bastrykin’s grandfather, Ilya Kallistratovich, was shot in 1942 by the Nazi occupiers in the courtyard of his own house, in the village of Novo-Mikhailovskaya, Krasnodar Territory, as the father of a Komsomol and Red Navy member who fought on the fronts of the struggle against the Nazi invaders. Mother, Evgenia Antonovna Antonova, was born in the city of Luga, Leningrad region, in a large peasant family. Her father died in the First World War, and my brother - on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Since 1926 she lived in Leningrad, worked as a hired help - as a nanny and housekeeper. Then she served in the Soviet merchant fleet on foreign ships. In 1941, on one of the sea vessels. She took part in the so-called “Tallinn Transition” - the transition of warships of the Baltic Fleet from Tallinn to Leningrad. Survived the siege of Leningrad. She worked as a machine operator in a besieged city at a defense enterprise. Since 1943, she fought in the combat units of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet and was an anti-aircraft gunner. She took part in the hardest battles for Königsberg. He has military awards: “For the defense of Leningrad”, “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.” and other awards. In 1987 she was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. Since 1958, Bastrykin has lived with his parents in Leningrad.Education and career
In 1970, Bastrykin graduated from 27 high school Vasileostrovsky district of Leningrad with in-depth study of the Russian language, literature and history. In 1975 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University (LSU). He studied in the same group with V.V. Putin and served as the head of this group. Subsequently, Bastrykin entered Putin’s closest circle of associates, where he received the informal nickname “Starosta.”
In his youth, Bastrykin studied classical dance for eight years at the People's Ballet Theater of the Palace of Culture named after the First Five-Year Plan. Along with this, he was fond of volleyball and played guitar in the student vocal and instrumental ensemble of the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University. He attended theater classes at the Leningrad Cinema House and the school for young journalists at the Leningrad youth newspaper Smena.
In 1975-1978 he served in the internal affairs bodies of Leningrad as a criminal investigation inspector and investigator.
While working as a police officer, he joined the ranks of the CPSU. He did not leave the party until its activities ceased in 1991.
In 1979-1980 - graduate student at the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University in the department of criminal procedure and criminology. In graduate school he began teaching in academic discipline"criminal procedure - forensics". He also taught at other universities in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), and later in Moscow.
In 1980, he defended his candidate’s dissertation at the Academic Council of the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University on the topic: “ Problems of criminal cases involving foreign citizens" In 1987, he defended his doctoral dissertation there. Interaction of domestic and international law in the field of Soviet criminal proceedings».
In 1980-1988 - lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University in the department of criminal procedure and criminology. He combined teaching activities at the university with socio-political work.
In 1980-1982 - secretary of the Komsomol committee of Leningrad State University, member of the party committee of Leningrad State University.
In 1982-1983 - Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the Komsomol. According to Rimma Akhmirova, Bastrykin, as secretary of the city committee of the Komsomol in April 1980, personally expelled Boris Grebenshchikov from the Komsomol for his “politically illiterate” performance in March 1980 at the Tbilisi rock festival “Spring Rhythms”. However, on April 21, 2016, during a meeting between Bastrykin and Grebenshchikov, B. B. Grebenshchikov denied this information, saying that Bastrykin did not expel him from the Komsomol.
In 1983-1985 - Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Komsomol. Oversaw the work of the departments of agitation and propaganda, culture, military-patriotic education of youth, the Leningrad city Komsomol operational detachment, issues of interaction with Komsomol organizations of the Leningrad Military District, Leningrad Naval Base, internal and border troops, law enforcement agencies Leningrad and Leningrad region. He was a people's deputy of the Dzerzhinsky District Council of People's Deputies of Leningrad and the Lomonosov Council of People's Deputies of the Leningrad Region.
In 1986-1988 - Deputy Secretary of the CPSU Party Committee of Leningrad State University for ideological work.
In 1988-1991 - director of the Institute for Advanced Training of Investigative Workers at the USSR Prosecutor's Office in Leningrad, head of the department of investigative tactics.
October 1991 - January 1992 - temporarily not working.
1992 - Head of the Department of Law at the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions.
1992-1995 - rector and professor of the St. Petersburg Law Institute.
In 1995 - head of the department and professor of the department of transport law of the St. Petersburg State University of Water Communications, St. Petersburg. In 1996-1998 - assistant to the commander of the district troops for legal work - head of the legal department of the North-Western district of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia . At the same time, he taught at the St. Petersburg Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the St. Petersburg School of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. In 1998-2001 - Director of the North-Western Branch of the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Academic Council, Head of the Department of Theory of State and Law .In 2001-2006, he headed the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the Northwestern Federal District, continuing his teaching work at the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. From June 12 to October 6, 2006 - Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Central Federal District district. On October 6, 2006, at the 183rd meeting of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Bastrykin was confirmed as Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. As Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, he oversaw issues of compliance with the law in the preliminary investigation bodies. On June 22, 2007, at the 206th meeting of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, a resolution was adopted on the procedure for appointing the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. At the same meeting, Bastrykin was confirmed as the First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. On September 7, 2007, Bastrykin took up his duties in his new position. He was not relieved from the post of First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. From October 4, 2010, he acted, and from January 15, 2011, he was appointed Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Member of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for counteraction (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated July 28, 2012 ., 1060); member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Cossack Affairs (Order of the President of the Russian Federation of July 31, 2012, 352-pr); member of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 26, 2013 No. 579). In 2013, according to the publication Slon.ru, the Investigative Committee of Russia, along with other law enforcement agencies, became a political entity autonomous from the presidential administration.
Scientific, pedagogical and social activities
Gave lectures in educational institutions and scientific institutions of France, Germany, Great Britain, Czech Republic, China, Cuba, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Belarus. Author of more than 150 scientific, educational, educational, methodological and popular science works on criminal procedure, criminology, criminal and international law, theory of state and rights, a number of them have been translated into English, French and German.Professor of the All-Russian University of Justice (RPA) of the Ministry of Justice of Russia, Moscow State Law University named after. O. E. Kutafina (MSAL). Member of the dissertation council at St. Petersburg State University. Full member of the Petrine Academy of Sciences and Arts, Russian Academy of Social Sciences, Baltic Pedagogical Academy. Member of the Academic Council of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the Union of Writers of Russia. First Vice-President of the All-Russian public organization“Outstanding commanders and naval commanders of the Fatherland”; Honorary Chairman of the National Association “Union of Veterans of Investigation”; member of the Board of Trustees of the Academic Maly Theater; member of the Board of Trustees of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; honorary member of the Presidium of the World Russian People's Council; Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on issues of providing assistance to orphans and children without parental care and the Coordination Council on issues of assistance to children of Ukraine.
Entrepreneurial activity
On March 1, 2000, together with his wife Olga Alexandrova, he founded the company “LAW Bohemia” in the Czech Republic, in the city of Kladno; on July 22, 2008, he transferred the company to Oksana Prokopova.Activities as head of the Russian Investigative Committee
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (initially under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation) was formed in record time - three and a half months after the adoption of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin on its formation. In 2008, Bastrykin personally headed the prosecutor Saratov region. The carefully prepared order was disclosed in an extremely short time - within three weeks. In August 2008, he personally headed the work of the investigative group of the Investigative Committee consisting of 250 investigators on the territory of South Ossetia to investigate the facts of Georgia’s armed aggression against South Ossetia. The result was more than 500 volumes of the criminal case transferred by Russia to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. On May 22, 2009, Bastrykin made sharp statements at an interdepartmental meeting on combating crime among migrants and improving migration, in particular, he drew attention to the increased level of illegal migration to Russia, to high level corruption in the “Federal Migration Service”, noted that guest workers are moving to an illegal position, uniting in groups, creating gangs. Bastrykin also noted the distortion of data in reports on illegal immigration, calling them “bravura reports heard in high offices.” November 29, 2009 year, while Bastrykin was working as the head of the investigative team at the site of the Nevsky Express high-speed train explosion, a second explosive device was detonated in the immediate vicinity of him and the members of the group. As a result of the explosion, Bastrykin received a concussion and a moderate injury. In 2010, he led a mass mass in the village of Kushchevskaya, Krasnodar Territory. He led the activities of the investigative team of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to investigate the criminal activities of Barsukov-Kumarin, who was sentenced on August 18, 2016 to 23 years in prison. In 2014 initiated criminal prosecution of senior officials of the Ministry of Defense and Internal Affairs of Ukraine, as well as military personnel of the Ukrainian army for committing serious crimes against the civilian population of South-East Ukraine. These individuals have been charged with committing war crimes and genocide, they have been put on the international wanted list. He introduced monthly personal receptions of citizens with the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow and other regions of Russia, and opened reception offices of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the regions. On the initiative of Bastrykin in 2016 the Council of Heads of Investigative Bodies of the Investigative Committee of Russia was formed to discuss current problems in the activities of the territorial divisions of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, as well as the Council of Young Investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to discuss and solve pressing problems in their activities. He initiated the creation of the Cadet Corps of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation named after Alexander Nevsky in Moscow, and also cadet classes in various regions of the country. On his initiative, the Moscow and St. Petersburg Academy of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation were created and are successfully functioning. On September 1, 2017, the second one is expected to open in St. Petersburg cadet corps Investigative Committee of Russia.Bastrykin implemented by his decision the re-establishment of the Institute of Forensic Science within the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation as a research base for the development of applied research in the field of criminology. In July 2017, Bastrykin decided to create a Forensic Center in the Investigative Committee. September 8, 2015 in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta Bastrykin stated that the investigation conducted by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation established that the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk in 1994-1995, as part of a detachment of Ukrainian nationalists UNA-UNSO, took part in the First Chechen War on the side of Ichkeria and was involved in the murders and torture of Russian soldiers during the storming of Grozny, and also that “Yatsenyuk, along with other active participants in the UNA-UNSO, was awarded Dzhokhar Dudayev’s highest award “Honor of the Nation” in December 1995 for the destruction of Russian military personnel.” In 2017, Yatsenyuk was put on the international wanted list.
Legislative initiatives
On February 26, 2015, at the board of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Bastrykin proposed eliminating from the Constitution of the Russian Federation the provisions on the unconditional priority of generally recognized principles and norms of international law over the domestic law of the Russian Federation. At the same time, he referred to the experience of many foreign countries where more flexible legal mechanisms for protecting domestic legal sovereignty are in place. In an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta on April 28, 2015, Bastrykin proposed, firstly, to exclude from the Constitution of the Russian Federation the provisions according to which international law constitutes an integral part of the legal system of the Russian Federation. Secondly, to give the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation not only the right, but also the direct responsibility to verify the constitutional provisions of international law that claim to be a regulator of intrastate relations. Thirdly, to supplement the Russian criminal procedural legislation with norms regulating the grounds and procedure for carrying out procedural actions in the production of crimes of an international nature. Fourth, to initiate the issue of creating an international tribunal to investigate international crimes committed in the southeast of Ukraine.Criticism
Allegations of breaking the law
According to Fontanka.ru, on August 15, 2004, in St. Petersburg, Bastrykin, who held the post of head of the Federal Directorate of the Ministry of Justice of Russia for the Northwestern Federal District, while with two young children in the courtyard of his own house, on the playground, threatened a man walking there with a dog. Deputy Prosecutor of the Admiralteysky District of St. Petersburg Gladkov did not see any signs of an offense in Bastrykin’s actions.In December 2009, State Duma deputy Boris Reznik, in an article in the Izvestia newspaper, accused the head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Khabarovsk Territory, State Counselor of Justice 3rd class Gennady Fateev, who, according to Reznik, had long been in the service and maintenance of thieves in law. After an internal audit carried out on Bastrykin’s orders, Fateev was fired in October 2010 by Bastrykin’s order with the wording “for violating the oath.” Bastrykin’s name is also mentioned in a number of media publications, authored by journalists Khinshtein, Albats and Baranov, about the connections of employees of the RF IC with the criminal world.
On June 13, 2012, Dmitry Muratov claimed that Bastrykin threatened Novaya Gazeta journalist Sergei Sokolov in connection with the publication of an article about the verdict of Sergei Tsepovyaz, whom the Kushchevskaya court sentenced to a fine for destroying evidence of 12 people. Sokolov wrote that the heads of law enforcement agencies, including Bastrykin personally, protected the Tsapkov gang. Muratov and Sokolov claimed that Bastrykin, outraged by such an accusation, threatened the life of the journalist. On June 14, 2012, in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper, Bastrykin denied the accusations against him. A few days later, during a meeting with the chief editors of Russian media, Bastrykin again confirmed that he had indeed met with Sokolov at a meeting in Nalchik, but denied threatening the journalist. The conflict ended with the reconciliation of the parties.
On July 5, 2012, at the joint board of the Investigative Committee of Russia in St. Petersburg, Bastrykin, without mincing words, reprimanded the head of the Investigative Committee of the Kirov Region for the unjustified termination of the case of Kirovles against. After this, the investigation, which was terminated on April 10, 2012 for lack of evidence of a crime, was resumed and on March 19, 2013 transferred to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, and then to the court, which sentenced Navalny to five years in prison (suspended) for fraud, and also for 3.5 years (suspended) in the Yves Rocher case.
In the same year, the Investigative Committee opened another case against his brother Oleg. The criminal prosecution was the general director of the Russian branch of Yves Rocher, Bruno Leproux, who accused the brothers of fraud and money laundering in the amount of 55 million rubles. As a result, Oleg Navalny was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, but received a suspended sentence.
In 2012, a protest resulted in the arrests of 400 people and the initiation of 30 criminal cases for incitement to mass unrest and the use of violence against government officials. Most of the accused received actual criminal sentences. Bastrykin, that under the stage for speakers at the rally “there were tents and tires, as was the case on the Maidan.”
In 2014, Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev were sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for organizing mass riots. According to Radio Liberty, the evidence base on the part of the Investigative Committee was formed on the basis documentary film NTV channel "Anatomy of Protest 2".
In 2017, Alexander Bastrykin was added to the “Magnitsky list” in the United States and to a similar sanctions list in the UK. Bastrykin is also on the Ukrainian “Savchenko” list for his involvement in the arrest of Nadezhda Savchenko in 2013.
Bastrykin Alexander Ivanovich(born August 27, 1953, Pskov, RSFSR, USSR) - Soviet and Russian lawyer, legal scholar, public and statesman. Doctor of Law, Professor. Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation. Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, State Counselor of Justice 1st class, General of Justice of the Russian Federation (since February 20, 2016).
In 1975, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University (LSU), studied in the same group with Vladimir Putin and served as the head of this group. Subsequently, Bastrykin entered Putin’s closest circle of associates, where he received the informal nickname “Starosta.”
In 1992-1995 - rector and professor of the St. Petersburg Law Institute.
In 1995 - head of the department and professor of the department of transport law at the St. Petersburg State University of Water Communications.
In 1996-1998 - assistant to the commander of the district troops for legal work - head of the legal department of the North-Western district of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. At the same time, he taught at the St. Petersburg Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the St. Petersburg School of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
In 1998-2001 - Director of the North-Western Branch of the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Academic Council, Head of the Department of Theory of State and Law of the Academy.
In 2001-2006, he headed the main department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the North-Western Federal District, continuing his teaching work at the Russian Legal Academy.
From June 12 to October 6, 2006 - Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Central Federal District.
On October 6, 2006, at a meeting of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Bastrykin was confirmed as Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
On June 22, 2007, at a meeting of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Bastrykin was approved as First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. From October 4, 2010, he served as acting chairman, and from January 15, 2011, he was appointed chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
In 2007, Bastrykin was publicly accused by the Ukrainian scientist, teacher of the Tauride National University Vladimir Chisnikov of the fact that in his work “Fingerprinting. Hand Signs" contains borrowings from the book "The Century of Forensics" by the German writer Jurgen Thorwald without indication in the list of used literature.
On January 9, 2017, the United States added Alexander Bastrykin to the Magnitsky list. On February 21, 2017, the UK House of Commons adopted a special law - an analogue of the American sanctions Magnitsky Law, which, along with other Russian citizens, included Bastrykin. The authorities of Ukraine included Bastrykin on the sanctions list for initiating criminal cases against high-ranking officials of Ukraine and military personnel of the Ukrainian army.
Alexander Bastrykin is married for the second time to Olga Alexandrova (candidate of legal sciences, associate professor, rector of the All-Russian University of Justice (RPA) of the Russian Ministry of Justice). Married couple has two children.