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Yury Chaika
Юрий Чайка
Chaika in 2017
Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 January 2020
President
Vladimir Putin
Preceded by
Aleksandr Matovnikov
Prosecutor General of Russia
In office 23 June 2006 – 22 January 2020
President
Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Putin
Preceded by
Vladimir Ustinov
Succeeded by
Igor Krasnov
In office 2 April – 29 July 1999 Acting
President
Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by
Yury Skuratov
Succeeded by
Vladimir Ustinov
Minister of Justice
In office 17 August 1999 – 23 June 2006
President
Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin Mikhail Kasyanov Mikhail Fradkov
Preceded by
Pavel Krasheninnikov
Succeeded by
Vladimir Ustinov
Personal details
Born
(1951-05-21) 21 May 1951 (age 72) Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater
Ural State Law University
Occupation
Lawyer
Yury Yakovlevich Chaika (Russian: Юрий Яковлевич Чайка; born 21 May 1951) is a Russian lawyer and statesman who currently serves as the Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District since 2020. He previously served as Prosecutor General of Russia from 2006 to 2020 and Minister of Justice from 1999 to 2006.
He has the federal state civilian service ranks of State Councillor of Justitia of the Russian Federation[1] and 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation,[2] and also the prosecutor's rank of Active State Councillor of Justitia.[3]
^О присвоении классного чина Чайке Ю.Я. (Decree 1133) (in Russian). President of Russia. 31 August 1999.
^О присвоении классных чинов государственной гражданской службы Российской Федерации федеральным государственным гражданским служащим Администрации Президента Российской Федерации (Decree 163) (in Russian). President of Russia. 5 March 2020.
^О присвоении классного чина Чайке Ю.Я. (Decree 1091) (in Russian). President of Russia. 3 October 2006.
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New York. She has also been an informant in active communication with YuryChaika, the Russian prosecutor general, since 2013. Starting in 2014, she had...
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issued an order asking the General Attorney of the Federation of Russia YuryChaika to verify the compliance of Uralkali with the legislation governing planning...
arrested. On 22 January 2020, Putin appointed former Prosecutor General YuryChaika to the post of plenipotentiary in the North Caucasus Federal District...
approve Igor Krasnov as the Prosecutor General of Russia, replacing Yuri Chaika. He has the rank of Lieutenant General of Justice and the highest class...
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apparently unrelated charges. 27 December: Prosecutor General of Russia YuryChaika accused Leonid Nevzlin, a former Vice President of Yukos, exiled in Israel...
2004) Yury Zubakov (28 May 2004 – 3 June 2011) Nikolai Spassky (28 May 2004 – 24 June 2006) Vladimir Nazarov (9 August 2006 – 17 October 2016) Yury Baluyevsky...
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Prosecutor's Office, now subordinated to Russia's Prosecutor General YuryChaika. On 25 March, Chaika appointed Poklonskaya as acting Prosecutor of the Republic...
deputy Prosecutor General Yury Buiryukov resigned. On September 13, 2006, the Prosecutor General's Office under YuryChaika announced that it had attained...
by 300 special forces officers on August 24, 2007. Prosecutor General YuryChaika accused him of banditry and organizing a gang. He was also accused of...
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