Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika

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Yuri Chaika (2017)

Yuri Jakowlewitsch Tschaika , Russian Юрий Яковлевич Чайка (born May 21, 1951 in Nikolajewsk am Amur ) is a Russian lawyer and politician. He was the Russian Attorney General from 2006 to 2020 . Since 2020 he has been the representative of the President in the North Caucasus Federal District .

Life

Juri Tschaika is the son of Jakow Michailowitsch and Maria Ivanovna Tschaika. His father was of Jewish origin and his mother was Russian .

Yuri Chaika is married and has two grown sons, Artyom and Igor Chaika. Both are accused of having acquired an extensive corporate empire through corruption and the support of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office. The opposition activist and politician Alexei Anatoljewitsch Navalny accused Yuri Chaika in 2015 of connections to organized crime. Nadeschda Tolokonnikowa ( Pussy Riot ) launched a protest clip against the corruption of the Chaika clan in February 2016.

Legal career

In 1976 he graduated from the Law School in Sverdlovsk , worked as a prosecutor in Irkutsk and became 1st Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia.

In 1994 there was a scandal when he advised in the newspaper to buy shares in the company Hoper-Invest , and the company went bankrupt .

As early as April to August 1999 he was briefly attorney general, but then took over the office of Minister of Justice in the same year . From June 23, 2006, he was again attorney general. In the course of the constitutional reform by Putin in January 2020 and the resignation of the entire government, Chaika resigned on January 20, 2020 and was transferred to the post of Plenipotentiary of the President of the North Caucasus Federal District on January 22, 2020.

Yuri Chaika is a member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation .

Orders and awards

  • Order of Merit for the Fatherland III. Grades (awarded on January 11, 2001) - for the great merit with regard to the consolidation of legality and the legal order
  • Order of Merit for the Fatherland IV degree (awarded on May 21, 2006) - for the great merit with regard to the consolidation of the law and the legal order
  • Order of Honor of the Russian Federation (May 19, 2001)
  • Medal "50. Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 " (1995)
  • Georgi Zhukov Memorial Medal (1994)
  • Anniversary Medal "300 Years of the Russian Fleet" (1996)
  • Jubilee Medal "850 Years of Moscow" (1997)
  • Medal of Honor "Honored Jurist of the Russian Federation"

Web links

Commons : Juri Tschaika  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna Jikhareva: The Empire of the Seagulls. WOZ, December 24, 2015, accessed February 28, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Navalnyj, Alekseij: Tschaika (2015) , documentation (Russian)
  3. ^ Klaus-Helge Donath: New protest clip from Pussy Riot. Taz, February 4, 2016, accessed February 28, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Chaika, Yuri Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Чайка, Юрий Яковлевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Nikolayevsk on the Amur