Henri Markovich Reznik, also Genri Reznik (russian: Ге́нри Ма́ркович Ре́зник; born 11 May 1938, in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) is a prominent

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, former

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and

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. He chaired the presidium of the Moscow City Bar Association. Reznik was teaching

Kutafin Moscow State Law University , motto_lang = , mottoeng = Not for school but for life. , established = , closed = , type = Public , parent = , affiliation = , endowment = , budget = , officer_in_charge = , ...

since 2009. He left in 2017 after the University installed a plaque memorializing

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Биография

Постановление Европейского суда по правам человека по делу «Резник против России» (№ 4977/05)
1938 births Living people Soviet Jews Russian Jews Lawyers from Moscow Moscow Helsinki Group Russian human rights activists Members of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation Soviet lawyers Al-Farabi Kazakh National University alumni {{Russia-law-bio-stub