Skr Alexander Bastrykin. Bastrykin Alexander Ivanovich

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation since January 2011 (in October-December 2010 - acting chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation). Previously - First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (since September 2007), Deputy Prosecutor General (October 2006 - September 2007), Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central federal district(June-October 2006), Head of the Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the North-Western Federal District (2001-2006), Director of the North-Western Branch of the Russian Law Academy (1998-2001), Assistant Commander of the North-Western District of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in legal work (1996-1998), rector of the St. Petersburg Law Institute (1992-1996). Doctor of Law, Professor. Colonel General of Justice.

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 from 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 the 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, 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 the 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 reports, 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), 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 a conflicting relationship with another deputy of Chaika, Viktor Grin, who directly supervised 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 carrying out 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 purpose of creating the Investigative Committee was the stated separation of 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, , . It was suggested in the media that the actual removal of investigative functions from the prosecutor’s office was supposed to weaken it 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 of a number of criminal proceedings 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 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 special important matters 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 were involved in the cases of defrauded investors of the Social Initiative partnership, the case of smuggling of mobile phones by the Euroset company and the case of the 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 does not cause anything 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 reason to perceive “the political situation and to doubt the objectivity of the investigation” was given by the criminal cases that emerged against the backdrop of the conflict between the SKP and the State Prosecutor’s Office 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, , , , , .

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 “ Rossiyskaya newspaper", in which he stated that "the facts of genocide against the Ossetian people are fully confirmed." The crimes of the Georgian army, which, according to him, invaded South Ossetia, "pursuing the goal of complete destruction of the Ossetian national group," he compared with "the atrocities of the fascists in the years war." In February 2009, at the final board 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 announced that in the case of the events in South Ossetia, it was officially the deaths of 162 civilians were confirmed, and a total of 5,315 people were recognized as victims. On August 7, the UPC announced the extension of the investigation into the case until February 2010; in the same month, representatives of the committee announced the involvement of the top leadership of Georgia in attempts to destroy the South Ossetian population, and the data on the losses of the Russian army were also clarified, which amounted to 67 people. At the end of August 2009, Bastrykin also stated that at least 200 members of the Ukrainian nationalist organization UNA-UNSO and Ukrainian military personnel participated in the fighting in South Ossetia on the Georgian side.

On August 14, 2009, Bastrykin announced that the UPC intends to control the expenditure of budget funds aimed at preparing the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.

In September 2010, President Medvedev announced the upcoming liquidation of the UPC of the Russian Federation. The head of state announced that the Investigative Committee of Russia (IC RF) would be created on the basis of the Investigative Committee of Russia. In the same month, all employees of the department headed by Bastrykin signed notices of dismissal from December 1, 2010. On September 27, the head of state signed a decree on the creation of an Investigative Committee on the basis of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Russian Federation, subordinate to the president of the country, and introduced into State Duma draft law on the insurance company. On October 4, Medvedev appointed Bastrykin as acting chairman of the new department. In December of the same year, after the bill was agreed upon in both chambers Federal Assembly, the president signed the law creating the Investigative Committee of Russia. As an independent structure, the Investigative Committee began to work on January 15, 2011, on the same day the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation ceased to exist. In the same month, the head of state signed a decree appointing Bastrykin as head of the Investigative Committee.

In April 2012, Bastrykin, by his decree, created a department in the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the investigation of crimes committed by police officers and other law enforcement agencies. Similar departments should have appeared in the investigative departments of the ICR in the federal districts, as well as in the main investigative departments in Moscow, the Moscow region and St. Petersburg. In the press, the creation of these special departments was associated with the scandalous incidents of recent months involving police officers, in particular, with the case of torture in Tatarstan, which received public resonance.

In June 2012, a wide response in the media caused a conflict between Bastrykin and the journalist " Novaya Gazeta"Sergei Sokolov. On June 4, Sokolov published an article about the verdict of one of the defendants in the Tsapkov gang case, a deputy of the Kushchevsky District Council Krasnodar region from "United Russia" to Sergei Tsepovyaz, who was sentenced to a fine of 150 thousand rubles for harboring participants in the massacre in the village of Kushchevskaya and escaped conviction as an accomplice to the crime. Sokolov harshly criticized the actions of the authorities, investigative agencies and Bastrykin personally, characterizing them as “the support of Tsapkov’s business.” On June 13, an open letter to the head of the Investigative Committee appeared from the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, in which he stated that on the evening of June 4, Bastrykin’s guards took Sokolov to a forest near Moscow, where the head of the Investigative Committee allegedly “grossly threatened the life” of the journalist. In his letter, Muratov demanded security guarantees for Sokolov and other journalists of the publication. The next day, Bastrykin apologized to Sokolov for the “emotional breakdown,” after which Novaya Gazeta employees declared the incident settled.

In July 2012, famous blogger and oppositionist Alexei Navalny accused Bastrykin of being a “foreign agent.” Back in 2008, State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein published an article in Moskovsky Komsomolets, in which he claimed that Bastrykin and his wife had owned the Czech real estate company LAW Bohemia since 2000. Bastrykin then called this information a “blatant lie,” and, according to Navalny’s assumptions, “covering his tracks,” he sold his stake in the company. In 2012, a blogger published information according to which Bastrykin conducted transactions with LAW Bohemia allegedly using forged powers of attorney and may have sold it without paying taxes. It also became known that in 2007-2009 Bastrykin had a residence permit in the Czech Republic, which was confirmed by the Czech authorities, but Bastrykin continued to insist that he only had a long-term visa.

According to published data on Bastrykin’s property and income, his income for 2009 amounted to almost 6.3 million rubles.

Bastrykin has the rank of Colonel General of Justice, he is an honorary worker of Justice, the Russian Academy social sciences and the Baltic Pedagogical Academy, was a full member of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement, which was liquidated at the end of 2008. He is the author of a number of 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.”

According to information as of 2012, Bastrykin is married. His first wife was classmate Natalya Kuznetsova, who took her husband’s surname. His second wife was called in the press Olga Alexandrova, director of the North-Western branch of the Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice (she already left this post in 2012). According to income information for 2011, Bastrykin had a daughter and a son (perhaps only minor children were taken into account - editor's note). In 2012, Bastrykin himself stated that he has four children.

Materials used

Maria Zheleznova, Anastasia Kornya, Polina Khimshiashvili. For which Navalny demands Bastrykin be fired. - Vedomosti.ru, 27.07.2012

Olga Tropkina. Alexander Bastrykin: “If they find even €1 of profit from me, I will resign.” - News, 27.07.2012

About real foreign agents. - Blog of Alexei Navalny (navalny.livejournal.com), 26.07.2012

Ruska opozice vini sefa vysetrovatelu Bastrykina, ze je cizi agent. Kvuli jeho dlouhodobemu pobytu v CR. - Cesky rozhlas, 26.07.2012

The staff of Novaya Gazeta is satisfied with the apology of the head of the Investigative Committee. - RIA Novosti, 14.06.2012

Bastrykin apologized to Novaya Gazeta and Sergei Sokolov. The conflict is over. - New newspaper, 14.06.2012

Dmitry Muratov. To the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Colonel General of Justice A.I. Bastrykin - about unfinished business. - New newspaper, 13.06.2012. - № 64

Sergey Sokolov. 10 thousand and a little rubles for one life is the state price list. - New newspaper, 04.06.2012. - № 61

Alexey Usov. The Kushchevskaya court assessed the cover-up of murders at 150 thousand rubles. - New region, 01.06.2012

The Investigative Committee has created a unit that will specialize in the investigation of crimes committed by law enforcement officers. - Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, 18.04.2012

Nikolay Sergeev, Grigory Tumanov, Natalya Romashkova. The security forces will be checked separately. - Kommersant-Online, 18.04.2012

Roldugin Oleg. Family business detective Bastrykin. - Companion, 24.05.2011. - № 19

Medvedev signed a decree appointing Bastrykin as head of the Investigative Committee. - RIA Novosti, 21.01.2011

An independent Investigative Committee begins work in Russia. - NEWSru.com, 15.01.2011

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation. Issues of the activities of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, 01/14/2011. - No. 38

Medvedev signed the law creating the Investigative Committee. - Kommersant-Online, 29.12.2010

Maria Mikhailova. Chief investigator. - Volzhskaya commune, 11.11.2010

Medvedev assigned the duties of chairman of the Investigative Committee to Alexander Bastrykin. - ITAR-TASS, 04.10.2010

Oleg Rubnikovich. The Devil's Dozen by Alexander Bastrykin. - Kommersant, 28.09.2010. - №179 (4479)

Dmitry Medvedev fulfilled the long-time dream of Alexander Bastrykin. - Newspaper (GZT.Ru), 28.09.2010

All employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation were announced to be fired. - IA Rosbalt, 27.09.2010

Victor Paukov. Bastrykin flew away from Chaika. - News time, 24.09.2010

Information on the property status and income of the management staff of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. - Official website of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, 06.05.2010

Anatoly Karavaev. Full accounting. - News time, 25.08.2009. - №153

The UPC will control the expenditure of Olympic funds. - Kommersant-online, 14.08.2009

The Investigative Committee has extended the investigation into the events of August 2008 in South Ossetia. - Caucasian Knot, 07.08.2009

The case materials on the events in South Ossetia indicate that the invasion was planned by the top leadership of Georgia. - ITAR-TASS, 07.08.2009

General of Justice of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin heads the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Doctor of Law, Professor. Member of several Russian academies and the Writers' Union of Russia. Recognized with state and public awards.

Childhood and youth

The origin of Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin contributed to the advancement in career ladder in the Soviet Union: neither nobles nor repressed relatives were listed in the profile of the future lawyer. Father Ivan Ilyich Bastrykin came from the Kuban Cossacks, from the age of nineteen he served in the navy, and was awarded medals for his exploits during the Great Patriotic War.

Antonov's mother Evgenia Antonovna was born in the city of Luga near Leningrad into a large peasant family, the head of which died at the front in the First World War. world war. During the siege of Leningrad, she worked at a defense plant and defended the city, and was awarded combat medals. After the war, the elder Bastrykin couple settled in Pskov, where their son Alexander was born on August 27, 1953.

In 1958, the family moved to Leningrad, where Sasha received his education. School No. 27 on Vasilievsky Island helped the boy deeply study the Russian language, literature and history, thanks to which he entered Leningrad State University without any problems, despite the competition of 40 people per place. He studied in the same group with Alexander Bastrykin at the Faculty of Law, and his friendship with him contributed to the successful career of a Russian official.

Studying did not take up all the student’s strength: the future lawyer danced classical dances, played volleyball, studied at a theater studio and a school for young journalists, and played guitar at the VIA of his faculty. After graduating from university in 1975, the young lawyer went to work in his specialty and served for three years as a criminal investigation investigator. At the same time, he joined the Party (at that time the only communist one in the country).

Career

In 1979 he entered graduate school at Leningrad State University and in 1980 defended his thesis and began teaching. In parallel with teaching at his native university, he built political career, successively rising from the secretary of the Komsomol cell of the Leningrad State University (1980) to the secretary of the Leningrad regional committee of the Komsomol (1983-1985), was a deputy of the district council. He led the issues of youth education, culture, agitation and propaganda.

In 1987 he defended his doctoral dissertation in the field of interaction between international and Soviet law. In 1988, he headed the Institute for Advanced Training of Investigative Workers at the USSR Prosecutor's Office in Leningrad, and heads the department of investigative tactics. At the same time, he is engaged in party work.

In 1991, the CPSU ceased to exist, and Alexander Bastrykin adapted to the changed conditions. The knowledge of a lawyer remains in demand even after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1992-1995 he headed the St. Petersburg Law Institute, teaching jurisprudence also in other educational institutions cities.

In 1996, the teaching work was supplemented by the leadership of the legal department of the North-Western District of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Ten years later, Bastrykin first took the position of head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Central Federal District, and then - deputy Prosecutor General RF.

In 2007, his responsibilities were supplemented by the newly created position of First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. IN new organization, whose task was to investigate crimes, 18 thousand employees of the prosecutor's office transferred. In 2009, Bastrykin was wounded during operational work at the site of the Nevsky Express explosion.

On January 15, 2011, Alexander Bastrykin was appointed Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, whose duties he has performed since October 2010, when the Investigative Committee became a structure not subordinate to the prosecutor's office and. In his new position, Bastrykin personally meets monthly in Moscow and the regions with citizens who have made appointments in advance.

Practice has shown that the personal participation of the Colonel General of Justice (the rank was received simultaneously with the position) in the investigation speeds up the progress of the case. In addition to his immediate responsibilities, while holding the post of Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin takes care of the education of a young generation of investigators: at his suggestion, cadet corps and classes of the Investigative Committee were opened.

The Institute of Forensic Science has been recreated. The chairman holds meetings with young investigators, trying to quickly solve their problems. He was accused by journalists and public figures of plagiarism and connections with crime. Included in the sanctions lists of the USA, Great Britain, Ukraine and Lithuania. According to his subordinates, he is an authoritarian leader, a tough party functionary of the old school.

In 2015, the media quoted Bastrykin’s statement that the investigation had established the participation of a detachment of Ukrainian nationalists UNA-UNSO in the First Chechen war on the side of Ichkeria. In the same year, the general came up with a legislative initiative to abolish the priority of international law over domestic law, proposing to remove the relevant articles from the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

Personal life

Alexander entered into his first marriage in 1981. Bastrykina (nee Kuznetsova) Natalya Nikolaevna studied with him at Leningrad State University at the same faculty. The couple divorced in 1988, maintaining friendly relations. Natalya Bastrykina is a talented businesswoman who owns, in particular, the Oreol publishing house, which publishes books ex-husband Natalia.

Together with his second wife Alexandrova Olga Ivanovna, Alexander Bastrykin raised two children. Olga Alexandrova is her husband’s colleague in the field of legal sciences and heads the All-Russian State University of Justice. Evgeny Bastrykin, the son of a general, is also successfully building a career in public service.

Alexander Bastrykin now

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Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin – Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the 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”, “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War”. Patriotic War 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 high level 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 officials Ukraine, accused of war crimes and genocide against the civilian population of south-eastern Ukraine.

Injured while performing

On November 27, 2009, the branded high-speed train “Nevsky Express” 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, about 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!

In January 2011, there was a reshuffle in the Investigative Committee - Alexander Bastrykin became the new chairman. General of Justice, a real lawyer, he has a huge number of awards and titles. It was all his merits that led to the fact that he now occupies one of the most important posts in the country. This article will describe the most striking moments in the biography of Alexander Bastrykin, as well as his contribution to political, legal and teaching activities.

Biography

Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin was born during the Soviet Union in August 1953 in the city of Pskov. His family did not have noble roots, but belonged to hereditary peasants and Cossacks. His father served in the Navy during World War II, where he received several significant awards for military merit.

The mother also came from an ordinary peasant family, which lost its breadwinner at the front back in 1917. She was born in small town Meadows, near Leningrad. The woman lived most of her life in the cultural capital of Russia. Evgenia Antonovna was awarded several medals for her defense of Leningrad during the war, as well as her work at a defense plant. In general, we can say that his parents were real heroes, by the standards of those times.

Childhood and studies

The future head of the RF Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, studied in Leningrad, where his family moved in 1958. He went to school No. 27, which studied history, literature and the Russian language in depth. Such preparation helped him easily enter the Faculty of Law at the Leningrad State University named after Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. Very soon he became the head of the group, which included the future President Vladimir Putin. Their friendship began back in their student days, and in the future it greatly helped him in his career.

However, in addition to successful studies, Alexander Bastrykin was also engaged in other activities. He was especially fond of sports (classical dancing and volleyball), as well as creativity - he played the guitar and was a member of a theater studio. He completed his training only in 1975, after which he served as an assigned investigator for a couple of years. However, after a few years he decided to return to university.

Start of a career

Judging by his career, we can say that Alexander Bastrykin has always strived for knowledge. That is why he decided to return to graduate school in 1979, and a year later he defended his PhD and began teaching.

Around this time he began to build a political career. Alexander Ivanovich became a member of the Communist Party, which was the only one in the country during Soviet times. This type of activity was also very successful. Bastrykin quickly became secretary of the Leningrad regional committee and deputy of the district council. His main area of ​​activity covered issues of culture and youth activities.

Personal life

There is no special information about the family of Alexander Bastrykin, but there are several well-known facts. He was married twice. His first wife, Natalya Nikolaevna, studied with him at the same faculty. They divorced back in 1988, but maintained close and friendly relations even today.

Now he is married to Olga Ivanovna Alexandrova, who is the rector of the All-Russian University of Justice. Alexander Bastrykin has two children in total. Moreover, one of them is also building government career and is the chief specialist of the office of the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the North-West.

First ranks

In 1987, Alexander Bastrykin’s first title was Doctor of Law in the field of international and Soviet law. His career was just beginning to blossom. Alexander Ivanovich was appointed head of the Institute for Advanced Training of Investigators, which existed on the basis of the Prosecutor's Office in Leningrad. At the same time, he also headed the department of investigative tactics and developed his political activities.

Collapse of the country

In this direction, the career of Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin developed until the collapse of the USSR. However, the changes only affected political activity, since a law degree in the new state has not depreciated. Alexander Ivanovich continued to teach at the St. Petersburg Law Institute, although at the same time he lectured at several other educational institutions.

New round

By 1996, a new direction appeared in the activities of Alexander Bastrykin. He began to head the legal department of the Northwestern District of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This continued until 2001, when he decided to go to work for the Ministry of Justice. From that time on, his career rapidly began to go uphill.

In 2006, he was appointed to the post of Deputy Prosecutor General of the country, and then a year later a new position was created specifically for him - First Deputy. After some time, she was renamed the Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

New position

In his new post, Alexander Bastrykin’s main task was to coordinate the department that was directly involved in the investigation of criminal crimes. A large number of current prosecutors transferred to it - about 18 thousand, which immediately indicated the weight of the new position. This body began to be considered uncontrollable General Prosecutor's Office and her boss Yuri Chaika.

In fact, the establishment of a new department significantly helped speed up the resolution of cases, because Bastrykin meets with citizens who have made appointments every month. In addition, along with the position, he received a new rank of Colonel General of Justice.

The most high-profile cases

During his career, Bastrykin participated in a number of high-profile cases that left their mark on the history of the country. In February 2008, in just three weeks, he solved the murder of regional prosecutor Evgeny Grigoriev in Saratov. In addition, he also led an investigation into the incident, which was called the Five-Day War. During these events, a military conflict occurred between Georgia and South Ossetia. This case took up about 500 volumes and was considered at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Another striking example of his activities is the investigation of the massacre in the village of Kushchevskaya in Krasnodar region, which shook the public. In general, we can say that he took on many high-profile cases. Once during the investigation, he was injured in 2009 - it was a case of the bombing of a company train as a result of a terrorist attack.

Bastrykin's innovations

Since 2011, Alexander Bastrykin has introduced several innovations, which are aimed primarily at training new investigators. He proposed opening classes of the Investigative Committee and cadet corps, and also recreated the Institute of Forensic Science. It was directly noted that as a leader he is very strict and authoritarian. But at the same time, he is able to quickly solve problems that arise for young investigators.

He was repeatedly accused of plagiarism, since he wrote several books, and even of connections with crime, but they could not prove anything. Currently it is on the sanctions lists of several countries, including Ukraine, Lithuania, the USA, and the UK.

Books by Bastrykin

As mentioned earlier, Alexander Bastrykin, along with teaching and investigative activities, is actively involved in writing books and scientific activities. In total, he wrote more than 150 scientific papers in the legal field, which affects criminology, criminal procedure, as well as the theory of state and law.

Let's look at his most famous works.

1. Perhaps the most famous book is "Fingerprinting. Hand signs." It came out in 2004. The author was immediately accused of plagiarism, because the work contained excerpts from Torvald’s book “The Century of Forensic Science.” However, Bastrykin’s charges were dropped, since this work was included in the list of used literature. The book itself was translated into French.
2. In addition, three more books deserve special attention, namely: “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. A New Version of an Old Crime”. These works do not so much follow the historical version of events as they speak about the author’s own theory about the events in Leningrad in 1934.

Conclusion

One cannot diminish the contribution of Alexander Bastrykin both to scientific legal activities and to teaching and conducting investigations. Even though there are periodic rumors now that he will soon leave his post, he constantly appears in public. He has an active account on the Internet, where Alexander Ivanovich describes the events that took place in the Investigative Committee, as well as cultural events that are interesting to him.

Despite his busy schedule, he also gives interesting lectures to law students. In general, he can safely be called a person who voices the official position of the head of state and government on issues related to criminal offenses affecting Russian citizens. All this makes him one of the most approachable people among senior management government officials because he often meets with ordinary people.

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 particular large size(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 considerations [about possible resignation Chairman of the Investigative Committee] against the backdrop of investigative actions are 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 met Sergei Sokolov, deputy editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta. 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 interlocutor at the FSB explained that Markin's fate should have been 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 difficult relationships with the majority of ICR 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 Faculty of Law of Leningrad 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, and 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.