Alexander Bastrykin
Date of Birth: 27.08.1953
Place of Birth. Education. Born in Pskov (Leningrad Region). In 1975, he graduated from the law faculty of Leningrad State University (LSU) named after A.A. Zhdanov (studied in the same year as Vladimir Putin), later - postgraduate studies at LSU. Doctor of Law (1987, dissertation topic - 'Problems of Interaction between National and International Law Norms in Criminal Law'), Professor.
Career. 1975-1977 - Service in the organs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.
1977-1980 - Aspirant, 1980-1982 - Secretary of the VLKSM Committee of LSU.
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1982-1983 - Secretary of the City Committee of the VLKSM of Leningrad.
1983-1985 - Secretary of the District Committee of the VLKSM in Leningrad.
1985-1986 - Senior Lecturer at the law faculty, 1986-1988 - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of LSU.
1988-1991 - Director of the Institute for Advanced Training of Investigators of the Prosecutor's Office of the USSR, Head of the Department of Investigation Tactics (Leningrad).
1992 - Head of the Department of Law at the Humanitarian University of the Trade Unions (St. Petersburg).
1992-1994 - Rector of the St. Petersburg Law Institute, 1994-1995 - Professor of the St. Petersburg Law Institute.
1995 - Head of the Department of Transport Law, 1995-1996 - Professor at the Department of Transport Law of the St. Petersburg State University of Waterway Communications.
1996-1998 - Assistant to the Commander of the Northwestern Military District of the Internal Troops of the RF for legal issues.
1998-2001 - Director of the Northwestern Branch of the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice of the RF (St. Petersburg).
2001-2005 - Deputy Head of the Federal Department of the Ministry of Justice of the RF in the Northwestern Federal District (St. Petersburg).
2005-2006 - Head of the Main Department of the Ministry of Justice of the RF in the Northwestern Federal District (St. Petersburg).
In June 2006 - Head of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RF in the Central Federal District.
In October 2006 - Deputy Attorney General of the RF, member of the Council under the President of the RF for combating corruption.
By the decision of the Federation Council on June 22, 2007, he was appointed the first Deputy Attorney General of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Investigation Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.
On January 15, 2011, the Investigative Committee of the RF became an independent authority in Russia.
Scientific Activity. Author of over 120 scientific works on state and law problems. He was the Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice of the RF (Northwestern Branch) and Professor at the Department of 'State and Legal Theory'. Full member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Russian Academy of Social Sciences, the Baltic Pedagogical Academy.
Awards. General Colonel of Justice. Honored Lawyer of the RF. Awarded the Order of the Holy Prince Vladimir I Class, the Order 'For Merits to the Fatherland' IV Class.
Entry in Sanction Lists. Russian human rights activists have repeatedly called for Bastrykin to be included in the so-called Magnitsky List and other sanction lists targeting the suppression of opposition forces in Russia and the work of foreign non-governmental organizations across the USA and European countries.
On January 9, 2017, Alexander Bastrykin was included in the Magnitsky List by the USA. On February 21, 2017, the British House of Commons passed a special law similar to the American Magnitsky Sanctions Act that included Bastrykin along with other Russian citizens.
Bastrykin was included in the sanctions list by Ukraine and charged with initiating law enforcement actions against senior officials of Ukraine and Ukrainian military personnel. Included in the sanctions lists of Ukraine in the case of Nadija Sawtschenko, who was convicted by a Russian court. On April 12, 2016, Lithuania announced the inclusion of Bastrykin in the list of individuals banned from entering Lithuania due to the verdict issued by a Russian court against Sawtschenko.
Family. Married, has two children.
August 26, 2022