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Aleksandr Konovalov (judge)
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Konovalov (, born 9 June 1968) is a Russian lawyer and statesman serving as the judge of the Constitutional Court of Russia since 2025. From May 2008 to January 2020, he served as Minister of Justice. He has the federal state civilian service ranks of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation and Active State Councillor of Justitia of the Russian Federation. Early life and education Konovalov was born 9 June 1968 in Leningrad. From 1986 to 1988, he completed compulsory military service in the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. In 1992, he graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University Faculty of Law. While working at the prosecutor's office, he pursued extramural studies at the Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University, where he received a degree in Eastern Orthodox theology. In 1999, he defended his Candidate of Sciences thesis titled "Possession and Possessory Protection in Civil Law" at Saint Petersburg State University. In 2019, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Judges Of The Constitutional Court Of Russia
The Constitutional Court of Russia is one of two Supreme court, highest courts in Judiciary of Russia, court system of the Russian Federation. It is composed of eleven Judges of the Constitutional Court (), with one of them being the 'President of the Constitutional Court of Russia, President of the Court' () and one being Deputy President of the Court (). The exact number of the Judges of the Constitutional Court is determined by article 125 of the Constitution of Russia. By article 9 of the Organic law, Federal Constitutional Law "On the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation", the Federation Council (Russia), Federation Council shall consider the question of the appointment of the Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in no event later than fourteen days after the receipt of the submission of the President of the Russian Federation. Proposals regarding candidates for offices of Judges of the Constitutional Court may be introduced to the President b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the Saint Petersburg metropolitan area, metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the List of European cities by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in Europe, the List of cities and towns around the Baltic Sea, most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's List of northernmost items#Cities and settlements, northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of the Russian Empire, and a Ports of the Baltic Sea, historically strategic port, it is governed as a Federal cities of Russia, federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candidate Of Sciences
A Candidate of Sciences is a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD-equivalent academic research degree in all the post-Soviet countries with the exception of Ukraine, and until the 1990s it was also awarded in Central and Eastern European countries. It is officially classified by UNESCO as International Standard Classification of Education, ISCED level 8, "doctoral or equivalent". In those countries conferring the Candidate of Sciences degrees, a more advanced degree, Doctor of Sciences, is usually conferred as a higher doctorate. The Candidate of Sciences degree may be recognized as a Doctor of Philosophy#USSR, Russian Federation and former Soviet Republics, Doctor of Philosophy, usually in natural sciences, by scientific institutions in other countries. Overview The degree was introduced in the USSR on 13 January 1934 by a decision of the Government of the Soviet Union, Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, all previous degrees, ranks and titles having been abolished imme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Orthodox Theology
Eastern Orthodox theology is the theology particular to the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is characterized by monotheistic Trinitarianism, belief in the Incarnation of the divine Logos or only-begotten Son of God, cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by a sacred Tradition, a Catholic ecclesiology, a theology of the person, and a principally recapitulative and therapeutic soteriology. Holy Tradition Ecclesiology The Eastern Orthodox Church considers itself to be the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles. The Eastern Orthodox Church asserts to have been very careful in preserving these traditions. Eastern Orthodox Christians regard the Christian Bible as a collection of inspired texts that sprang out of this tradition, not the other way around; and the choices made in the compilation of the New Testament as having come from comparison with already firmly established faith. The Bible has come to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 university where tutors would teach students in theology, jurisprudence, medicine and philosophy. For this purpose Peter invited teachers from Germany. However, from the middle of 18th century the university had been suffering financial difficulties. That was until 1819, when Alexander I reinstated it. From the very beginning the Faculty of Philosophy and Law was leading: 13 of 24 first students studied there. The university perceived the liberal ideas of 1860s and became a mainstay of free thought, science and art. The Faculty of Law became the biggest at Saint Petersburg University by the end of 19th century (1335 of 2675 students studied there in 1894). The university's and faculty's advancement was stopped by the Revolution of 1905, Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armed Forces Of The Soviet Union
The Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In May 1992, Russian President Boris Yeltsin issued decrees forming the Russian Armed Forces, which subsumed much of the Soviet Armed Forces. Multiple sections of the former Soviet Armed Forces in the other, smaller Soviet republics gradually came under those republics' control. According to the all-union military service law of September 1925, the Soviet Armed Forces consisted of the Red Army, the Air Forces, the Navy, the State Political Directorate (OGPU), and the convoy guards. The OGPU was later made independent and amalgamated with the NKVD in 1934, and thus its Internal troop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
