1. Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin is a Russian lawyer and official who has served as the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia since 15 January 2011.
12 Facts About Alexander Bastrykin
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Alexander Bastrykin served as the First Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia and Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General's Office from 2007 to 2011.
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Alexander Bastrykin holds the special rank of General of Justice, the academic rank of Professor, and a doctoral degree in law.
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Alexander Bastrykin graduated from the Law Faculty of Leningrad State University in 1975, and was a university classmate of Vladimir Putin.
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In 2007, President Vladimir Putin established the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General's Office, de facto independent from the Prosecutor General's Office, and Bastrykin became its first chairman.
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On November 28,2009, as head of the Investigative Committee at the scene of the 2009 Nevsky Express bombing, Alexander Bastrykin was injured by a second bomb and was hospitalised.
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Alexander Bastrykin is considered to be an intimate advisor of President Putin.
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Alexander Bastrykin holds a doctor of law degree, and has published more than 100 scholarly works in Russia.
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On 26 July 2012 Russian blogger and anticorruption activist Alexey Navalny published documents indicating that Alexander Bastrykin had a residence permit and owned real estate in the Czech Republic.
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In March 2022, Russian journalist Alexander Nevzorov wrote to Bastrykin that Russia's 2022 war censorship laws, which introduced prison sentences of up to 15 years for those who publish "knowingly false information" about the Russian military and its operations, violate the freedom of speech provisions of the Constitution of Russia.
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In 2015, Alexander Bastrykin proposed to amend article 15 of the Constitution of Russia by establishing the priority of national laws over universally recognized principles and norms of international law and international agreements ratified by Russian Federation.
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In 2016, Alexander Bastrykin expressed the need to establish official national ideology and censor the Internet, on the grounds that there is information warfare against Russia launched by USA and its allies.