Prosecutor-General of Russia
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Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation | |
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Генеральный Прокурор Российской Федерации (Russian) | |
General Prosecutor's Office of Russian Federation | |
Type | Public procurator |
Nominator | President of Russia |
Appointer | Federation Council |
Term length | Five years |
Precursor | Procurator General of the Soviet Union |
Formation | 28 February 1991 |
First holder | Valentin Stepankov |
Unofficial names | Attorney General of Russia |
Website | genproc |
The Prosecutor General of Russia (also
Attorney General of Russia, Russian: Генеральный прокурор Российской Федерации, romanized: Generalʹnyy prokuror Rossiyskoy Federatsii) heads the system of official prosecution in courts and heads the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. The Prosecutor General remains one of the most powerful component of the Russian judicial system.[1]
Mission
The Office of the Prosecutor General is entrusted with:
- prosecution in court on behalf of the State;
- representation of the interests of a citizen or of the State in court in cases determined by law;
- supervision of the observance of laws by bodies that conduct detective and search activity, inquiry and pretrial investigation;
- supervision of the observance of laws in the execution of judicial decisions in criminal cases, and also in the application of other measures of coercion related to the restraint of personal liberty of citizens.
The Prosecutor General leads the
Strategic Missile Forces and Moscow city military prosecutor's office) which in turn have own subordinated military prosecutor's offices (garrison
military prosecutor's offices).
Prosecutors in a broad sense are directly prosecutors (who leads prosecutor's offices), their deputies, senior assistants and junior assistants. All of them are federal government
special ranks (Russian: классные чины) and wear special uniform with shoulder marks. Military prosecutors (in a broad sense) are military personnel, have military ranks of commissioned officers and wear military uniform with shoulder marks
but they are not subordinate to any military authority (excepting higher military prosecutor).
Appointment
The Prosecutor General is nominated to the office by the
Russian Parliament). If the nominee is not approved, then the President must nominate another candidate within 30 days (article 12 of the Federal Law about the Office of the Prosecutor General of Russian Federation[1]
). The term of authority of the Prosecutor General is five years. The resignation of the Prosecutor General before the end of their term should be approved by both the majority of Federation Council of Russia and the President.
Constitutional independence
The Prosecutor General and their office are independent from the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government. The Investigative Committee of Russia, sometimes described as the "Russian FBI", is the main federal investigating authority in Russia, formed in place of the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General in 2011.
List of prosecutors general
Denotes service as acting prosecutors general prior to appointment or after resignation
No. | Portrait | Name (Born-Died) |
Term of office | Ref. | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
1 | Valentin Stepankov (born 1951) | 28 February 1991 | 5 October 1993 | 2 years, 219 days | – | |
2 | 5 October 1993 | 14 March 1994 | 160 days | – | ||
– | Aleksey Ilyushenko (1957–2021) Acting | 26 March 1994 | 8 October 1995 | 1 year, 196 days | – | |
– | Oleg Gaydanov (born 1945) Acting | 8 October 1995 | 24 October 1995 | 16 days | – | |
3 | Yury Skuratov (born 1957) | 24 October 1995 | 2 February 1999 | 3 years, 101 days | – | |
– | Yury Chaika (born 1951) Acting | 2 February 1999 | 6 August 1999 | 185 days | – | |
– | Vladimir Ustinov (born 1953) Acting | 6 August 1999 | 17 May 2000 | 285 days | – | |
4 | Vladimir Ustinov (born 1953) | 17 May 2000 | 2 June 2006 | 6 years, 16 days | – | |
5 | Yury Chaika (born 1951) | 23 June 2006 | 22 January 2020 | 13 years, 213 days | – | |
6 | Igor Krasnov (born 1975) | 22 January 2020 | Incumbent | 4 years, 93 days | [2] |
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Commons:RIA_Novosti/Prosecutors.
- Prosecutor General of the USSR
- Ministry of Justice of the USSR
- List of Justice Ministers of Imperial Russia
- List of Prosecutors General of Russia
- Federal Penitentiary Service
- Crime in Russia
- Prosecution Service of Russia class rate insignia
References
- Terrill, Richard J. (2009). World Criminal Justice Systems: A Survey (7 ed.). ISBN 978-1-59345-612-2.
External links
- Site of The Office of the Prosecutor General
- List of Prosecutors Generals of Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and Russian Federation