1. Pavel Alekseyevich Astakhov is a Russian politician, lawyer and television personality.
21 Facts About Pavel Astakhov
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Pavel Astakhov has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Pavel Astakhov graduated from the law faculty of the Dzerzhinsky KGB School in Moscow in 1991.
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In 2006 Pavel Astakhov received a Doctor of Laws in Russia.
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Pavel Astakhov speaks English, Swedish, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and French as well as Russian.
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The first case which gave prominence to Pavel Astakhov was that of Edmond Pope.
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Pavel Astakhov read out a 12-page lyric he had composed in iambic pentameters, urging the court to acquit Pope.
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On 13 June 2000, Gusinsky was arrested on charges of stealing property worth more than $10 million from the state-owned "Russian Video" company, but three days later, after a petition by Pavel Astakhov, Gusinsky was released on bail.
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Pavel Astakhov spent the following year in Pittsburgh completing a Master's in Law.
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In December 2003, Pavel Astakhov sent a letter to the US Embassy in Moscow, advising President George W Bush and Ambassador Alexander Vershbow that he would like to represent the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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In 2003 Pavel Astakhov became the host of Chas Suda which aired on the REN TV channel.
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Unlike Judge Judy in the US, both parties in these trials are played by actors, with Pavel Astakhov acting as judge.
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Pavel Astakhov is a prolific author, writing about his experiences in the Moscow legal system, as well as producing a series of novels featuring lawyer protagonists.
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Pavel Astakhov spoke of a "total disregard for human rights" and claimed that the prosecutors "blindly execute the wishes of the authorities".
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Later Pavel Astakhov made a 180-degree turn in his political affiliation and became one of the most prominent supporters of the top leadership of Russia.
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On November 21,2022, one of the sons, Anton Pavel Astakhov, was sentenced by the Frunzensky District Court of the city of Saratov to 3.5 years in a general regime colony under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
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At the time of his appointment, Pavel Astakhov was one of Russia's leading private lawyers, but he did not have a child welfare background.
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Some of Pavel Astakhov's critics alleged that he paid too much attention to the abuse cases after international adoptions and not enough to child abuse cases in Russia itself, where some 2,000 children were killed every year as a result of domestic child abuse.
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Pavel Astakhov was deeply involved in the preparation of the Russian-US treaty on adoption, signed by the US Secretary of State and the Foreign Minister of Russia on 13 July 2011.
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Pavel Astakhov used this case to call for more restrictions on international adoptions in Russia.
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In 2015, Pavel Astakhov defended the marriage of a 47-year-old police chief to 17-year-old Luiza "Kheda" Goilabiyeva in Chechnya.