Nikolay Alexandrovich Vinnichenko (in russian: Николай Александрович Винничéнко, born April 10, 1965 in
Kazakhstan
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,
Soviet Union
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) is a Russian lawyer and politician.
Biography
Nikolay Vinnichenko graduated from the
Saint Petersburg State University Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law at Saint Petersburg State University is the oldest law school and one of the biggest research centers in Russia.
History
On 22 January 1724, Peter the Great ordered the establishment of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a ...
with a degree in legal science in 1987.
He started his career as a trainee for the Prosecutor of Saint Petersburg, and became his assistant in 1990. In 1995, he became public prosecutor of Saint Petersburg, and Deputy public prosecutor of the city in 1999. In 2001, he was named Federal inspector in-chief of Saint Petersburg. From April 9, 2003 until September 12, 2004, he was the Chief Prosecutor of
Saint Petersburg
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. From October 21, 2004 he had been the Chief Bailiff, Director of the
Federal Bailiffs Service of Russia
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On December 8, 2008, Vinnichenko was appointed to be the Russian
Presidential Envoy to the
Urals Federal District
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. Since September 6, 2011, he is the Russian
Presidential Envoy to the
Northwestern Federal District
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.
Since 2013, Nikolay Vinnichenko is Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
In the aftermath of the
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash, Nikolay Vinnichenko declared, as Deputy Prosecutor General, that Russia had sent to the Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) the proof that the missile that caused the crash was a Ukrainian one, and that this information had not been taken into consideration by the JIT.
Nikolay Vinnichenko sanctioned the extradition of the belarusian refugee Andrey Kazimirov, who was seeking asylum in Russia after being tortured by the police
for 2 days in the aftermath of the Belarus election protests.
Other roles
* Member of the State Border Commission
Honours and awards
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Order of Honour
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References
Lawyers from Saint Petersburg
1965 births
Medvedev Administration personnel
Living people
1st class Active State Councillors of the Russian Federation
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