Yury Chaika Explained

Yury Chaika
Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District
Term Start:22 January 2020
President:Vladimir Putin
Preceded:Aleksandr Matovnikov
Title1:Prosecutor-General of Russia
Term Start1:23 June 2006
Term End1:22 January 2020
President1:Vladimir Putin
Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
Preceded1:Vladimir Ustinov
Successor1:Igor Krasnov
Term Start2:2 April
Term End2:29 July 1999
Acting
President2:Boris Yeltsin
Preceded2:Yury Skuratov
Successor2:Vladimir Ustinov
Title3:Minister of Justice
Term Start3:17 August 1999
Term End3:23 June 2006
President3:Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Primeminister3:Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Kasyanov
Mikhail Fradkov
Preceded3:Pavel Krasheninnikov
Successor3:Vladimir Ustinov
Birth Date:21 May 1951
Birth Place:Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation:Lawyer
Alma Mater:Ural State Law University
Native Name Lang:ru

Yury Yakovlevich Chaika (Russian: Юрий Яковлевич Чайка; born 21 May 1951) is a Russian lawyer and statesman who currently serves as the Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District since 2020. He previously served as Prosecutor-General of Russia from 2006 to 2020 and Minister of Justice from 1999 to 2006.

He has the federal state civilian service ranks of State Councillor of Justice of the Russian Federation[1] and 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation,[2] and also the prosecutor's rank of Active State Councillor of Justitia.[3]

Career

In 1995, he became first deputy Russian prosecutor general. He was appointed by then Prosecutor-General Yury Skuratov, his former classmate from Sverdlovsk Law Institute.[4] Following Skuratov's suspension, Chaika served as acting prosecutor general for a brief spell between April and August 1999. From August 1999 to June 2006, he served as justice minister.

On 23 June 2006, Chaika became Russian Prosecutor-General, effectively swapping jobs with his predecessor Vladimir Ustinov who took up the post of justice minister.[5]

A "Crown prosecutor" (likely a reference to Chaika) was mentioned in an email chain released on 11 July 2017 by the son of then Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, Don Jr, in regards to the Russian government and their alleged attempts to provide damaging information during the U.S. Presidential election of 2016. The email thread resulted in the Trump campaign–Russian meeting of June 2016.[6] [7]

On 20 January 2020, he resigned in connection with the transition to another job. The resignation request is expected to be considered by the Federation Council on 22 January.[8]

On 22 January 2020 he was appointed Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to North Caucasus Federal District.[9]

Notable cases

On 14 June 2006, the Prosecutor-General's Office reported that it had reopened the "Three Whales" corruption investigation, a case in which nineteen high-ranking FSB (Federal Security Service) officers were allegedly involved in furniture smuggling cases, as well as illegally importing consumer goods from China. The mass media revealed that the officials dismissed around that time had worked in the Moscow and federal offices of the FSB, the Prosecutor-General's Office, the Moscow Regional Prosecutor's Office, the Federal Customs Service and the Presidential Executive Office. Deputy heads of the FSB Internal Security Department also figured in the report authored by Viktor Cherkesov. The purge occurred while FSB head Nikolai Patrushev was on vacation.[10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

On 27 December 2006, he accused Leonid Nevzlin, a former vice president of Yukos, exiled in Israel and wanted by the Russian authorities for a long time, of involvement in Alexander Litvinenko poisoning, a charge dismissed by the latter as a nonsense.[15]

On 16 January 2007, Chaika announced that the Tambov Gang had recently forcefully taken over 13 large enterprises in Saint Petersburg and was subject to an investigation.[16] [17] The leader of the gang, Vladimir Kumarin, was arrested on 24 August 2007. His associate and member of Putin's cooperative "Ozero" Vladimir Smirnov was dismissed from his position of Tekhsnabexport director.[18]

On 1 December 2015, Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) published a large investigation on Yuri Chaika, and his family. The Report comes with a 40-minute film Chaika.[19] An English version of the film was published two months later.[20] On 3 February 2016, the group Pussy Riot released a satirical music video titled Chaika, alluding to Navalny's findings.[21]

On March 15, 2017, the Ministry of Justice in Russia filed a claim with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation seeking "to declare the religious organization, the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses, extremist, ban its activity, and liquidate it."[22] Yury Chaika will be heading the prosecution.

Sanctions

In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 6 April 2022 the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury added Chaika to its list of persons sanctioned pursuant to . [23]

In July 2022 the European Union imposed sanctions on Chaika in relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[24]

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [25]

Popular culture

In 2016 Russian punk music group Pussy Riot released the music video "Chaika", sardonically commenting on corruption in the Russian judiciary. The song itself does not directly refer to Chaika, but the music video features women wearing seagull masks or making hand gestures of a seagull in dance (chaika (чайка) is the Russian word for seagull). [26] [27]

Awards

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Decree. 1133. 31 August 1999. President of Russia. О присвоении классного чина Чайке Ю.Я.. ru.
  2. Decree. 163. 5 March 2020. President of Russia. О присвоении классных чинов государственной гражданской службы Российской Федерации федеральным государственным гражданским служащим Администрации Президента Российской Федерации. ru.
  3. Decree. 1091. 3 October 2006. President of Russia. О присвоении классного чина Чайке Ю.Я.. ru.
  4. Gridneva, Marina (20 June 2006). "Что в прошлом у будущего генпрокурора". Moskovskiy Komsomolets.
  5. Web site: Official biography on Prosecutor General's website (in Russian) . 2009-10-19 . 2021-07-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210718111349/http://genproc.gov.ru/genprokuror/biography/ . dead .
  6. News: Jo . Becker . Jo Becker . Adam . Goldman . Adam Goldman . Matt . Apuzzo . Matt Apuzzo . Russian Dirt on Clinton? 'I Love It,' Donald Trump Jr. Said . New York Times . 11 July 2017 .
  7. News: Julia . Ioffe . Julia Ioffe . What the Heck Is a Russian 'Crown Prosecutor'? . . 11 July 2017 .
  8. https://ria.ru/20200120/1563628958.html Генпрокурор Юрий Чайка покинул свой пост
  9. http://en.kremlin.ru/acts/news/62630/ Yury Chaika appointed Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to North Caucasus Federal District
  10. Web site: Property Fund's Confistated Goods Dealer Fired - Kommersant Moscow . 18 October 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120206203947/http://www.kommersant.com/p706081/r_500/Property_Fund_s_Confistated_Goods_Dealer_Fired/ . 6 February 2012 .
  11. Web site: Mass Dismissals at the FSB - Kommersant Moscow . 4 November 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110512001828/http://www.kommersant.com/p704751/r_1/Mass_Dismissals_at_the_FSB/ . 12 May 2011 .
  12. News: Прокуроры ЮКОСа остались без работы [Prosecutors of YUKOS are left without work] ]. . Ekaterina . Zapodinskaya . 20 September 2006 .
  13. Web site: Уволенные указом Путина генералы ФСБ продолжают работать [The FSB generals dismissed by Putin's decree continue to work] ]. Грани.Ру . 13 November 2006 .
  14. News: Russia: Corruption Scandal Could Shake Kremlin . Victor . Yasmann . Radio Free Europe . 26 September 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930043850/http://rfe.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/09/33cc2719-2ad5-4a45-a326-72828b9baf64.html . 30 September 2007 .
  15. News: Oil billionaire named in Litvinenko inquiry . Duncan . Gardham . 28 December 2006 . .
  16. Web site: Тамбовская группировка захватила в Петербурге 13 предприятий . spbland.ru . 16 January 2007.
  17. Web site: Генпрокурор: арестованы 27 членов тамбовской ОПГ . https://web.archive.org/web/20070118102218/http://www.gazeta.ru/news/social/2007/01/16/n_1024654.shtml . 18 January 2007 .
  18. Web site: Что произошло с убийством Политковской . . 1 September 2007 .
  19. Web site: Russia's mafia state Alexey Navalny's group publishes startling revelations linking the Attorney General's son to the mob . Meduza . 4 December 2015 . en-US .
  20. Web site: Chaika. An investigative documentary . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/3eO8ZHfV4fk . 2021-12-19 . live. Anti-Corruption Foundation . . 26 January 2016 . Alexei . Navalny . Alexei Navalny .
  21. News: Pussy Riot is back in high heels to tackle corruption . . 4 February 2016 .
  22. Web site: Russia's Ministry of Justice Moves to Ban Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia . 16 March 2017 .
  23. [Office of Foreign Assets Control]
  24. Web site: COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/1270 of 21 July 2022 . 8 February 2022.
  25. Web site: CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK . 16 April 2023.
  26. http://www.dw.com/en/pussy-riot-is-back-in-high-heels-to-tackle-corruption/a-19026433 Pussy Riot is back in high heels to tackle corruption
  27. https://www.dw.com/en/pussy-riot-is-back-in-high-heels-to-tackle-corruption/a-19026433 Pussy Riot is back in high heels to tackle corruption
  28. Web site: Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 19.05.2001 г. № 554 . 2024-07-31 . kremlin.ru.
  29. Web site: ЧАЙКА Юрий Яковлевич . 2024-07-31 . rah.ru.
  30. Web site: Указ Президента РФ от 11 января 2011 г. N 32 «О награждении орденом "За заслуги перед Отечеством" III степени Чайки Ю.Я.» Портал о наградах . 2024-07-31 . onagradah.ru.
  31. Web site: Распоряжение Президента Российской Федерации от 19.05.2011 г. № 324-рп . 2024-07-31 . Президент России . ru.
  32. Web site: 2011-02-17 . Эдуард Кокойты наградил Юрия Чайку Орденом почета . 2024-07-31 . Государственное информационное агентство "Рес" . ru.
  33. Web site: Յ. Յ. Չայկային Պատվո շքանշանով պարգևատրելու մասին .
  34. Web site: Указ Президента Республики Армения от 9 марта 2016 года № УП-222-А . https://web.archive.org/web/20210305121503/https://www.president.am/ru/decrees/item/2614/ . 2021-03-05.
  35. Web site: 2018-01-23 . Состоялась встреча Генерального прокурора Российской Федерации Юрия Чайки и Президента Республики Южная Осетия Анатолия Бибилова . 2024-07-31 . web.archive.org.
  36. Web site: Делегация под руководством Генерального прокурора Азербайджанской Республики находится с визитом в России .
  37. Web site: Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 18.05.2021 № 293 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации» . https://web.archive.org/web/20210518132044/http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001202105180036 . 2021-05-18.
  38. Web site: 2016-07-03 . Первая планка второго ряда на форме — орден Александра Невского . 2024-07-31 . web.archive.org.
  39. Web site: Первая планка на форме — орден «За заслуги перед Отечеством» II степени . https://web.archive.org/web/20160703111304/https://static.life.ru/posts/2016/06/420008/gr/north/5a2dd415f2b8ffca3273642251484065__1920x.jpg . 2016-07-03.
  40. Web site: Чайка Юрий Яковлевич - Генеральная прокуратура Российской Федерации . 2024-07-31 . epp.genproc.gov.ru.

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