Pavel Astakhov has been holding the position of Commissioner for the Protection of Children's Rights under the Russian President for more than six years. The biography, personal life of this famous lawyer has always aroused the interest of many. He is considered one of the best Russian lawyers, proving this by successfully defending the interests of various popular people in our country from the world of culture, politics or business.
Pavel Astakhov: biography. Family and children, photo
Very often, Astakhov is criticized because of the fact that his family - spouses with children - live outside of Russia and that he has luxury real estate abroad. Since 2013, his family members have been living in Monaco, where they moved from France. They had to leave Nice after the French authorities banned Astakhov from entering the country, after he supported the law named after Dima Yakovlev and providing for prohibition of the procedure for the adoption of orphaned children from Russia by foreign citizens.
Married Astakhov since 1987. From his wife Svetlana, he has received full support for many years as a producer of his various television projects. In addition, she is the head of the department responsible for communication withpublic organized by Pavel Astakhov Bar Association.
Of the three sons of Astakhov (Anton, Artem and Arseny), the first two - the eldest - chose their father's profession and chose his government apparatus as their place of work. The youngest was born in Nice, born in 2009. He lives abroad with his mother.
Pavel Astakhov: biography. Parents
It cannot be said that the future talented lawyer from an early age stood out among his peers with something special.
Pavel Astakhov, whose biography begins on September 8, 1966 in an unremarkable Moscow family, spent his childhood in Zelenograd.
Father's place of work is a printing establishment, where he held an ordinary bureaucratic position. Mother was engaged in teaching activities.
Pavel's grandfather was a well-known employee of the Cheka, who worked side by side with V. Menzhinsky, an active participant in the repressive actions of the thirties of the last century.
According to Pavel Astakhov himself, his biography developed just like that, that is, it is closely connected with law enforcement structures, under the influence and influence of his grandfather.
The future lawyer studied at the Zelenograd school 609, he got good grades.
After graduating from 10 classes, he was drafted into the army and sent to the Finnish border to serve in the border troops of the State Security Committee of the Soviet Union.
Start in employment
After demobilization from military service, Pavel Astakhov, whose biography continued to take shape in the law enforcement systemstructures, applied for admission to the faculty studying law at the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR.
After graduating from this educational institution, he left for Spain, where he began to practice law, a little later he joined the Moscow Bar Association.
Since 2000, Astakhov studied in the USA at the Master's program (University of Pittsburgh) with a degree in Advocacy.
From the very beginning of his career as a lawyer, he gained notoriety, taking part in high-profile lawsuits involving well-known public figures.
The situation with the "Vlastelina" financial pyramid was rather actively discussed in the press. Many show business stars, politicians and influential businessmen have contributed significant funds to it. Pavel Astakhov acted as a lawyer for the founder of Vlastelina. The biography, the personal life of this scammer were very interesting to the seventeen thousand clients deceived by her. The court sentenced her to seven years in prison, but Astakhov secured her parole.
Star Clients
With the help of Astakhov, Vladimir Gusinsky, the head of Media-Most, who was charged with stealing state property in the amount of ten million dollars, escaped criminal punishment.
Among Astakhov's clients one could meet the former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, show stars Lada Dens, Philip Kirkorov, Irina Ponarovskaya, Bari Alibasov, Kristina Orbakaite, ex-ministerculture of Mikhail Shvydkoy.
Attorney for Foreign Citizens
In 2000, Astakhov was approached by state security officials with a request to act as a defender of the American E. Pope, who was charged with espionage activities.
The trial of foreign entrepreneur Edmond Pope took place forty years after the trial of the famous American pilot Powers, who was also involved in espionage, so he was closely followed by the Western press. Foreign journalists have repeatedly expressed the idea that the lawyer does not apply enough efforts to achieve an acquittal for his client.
It is noteworthy that Astakhov prepared his final speech at this trial in poetic form. This is unique in lawsuits, but the decision of the court was not affected, and the American spy was sentenced to twenty years.
Features of the trial of E. Pope
In his testimony, the American said that in the course of his entrepreneurial activity in the nineties he bought various technologies from Russian scientists, but they were not state secrets.
Scientists at that time lived extremely hard financially, so they were always looking for an opportunity to earn extra money somewhere.
According to Pope, among his partners were only large respected scientists who did not need to take risks selling secret technologies.
AfterAfter the announcement of the twenty-year sentence, the Astakhovs invited Pope to fully admit his guilt, which would allow him to apply to the Russian president for clemency. It all happened. As a result, Edmond Pope was pardoned and he flew home to Pittsburgh.
Soon, Astakhov and his whole family went to the same American city, where he lived for about a year and received a diploma from the university of this city.
Participation in various projects
The frequent appearance on television screens brings great popularity to a person. Pavel Astakhov also took advantage of this. His biography became much richer after he became a TV presenter in programs on judicial topics.
In the "Hour of Judgment" he acted as a "magistrate", in "Three Corners of Pavel Astakhov" - as a presenter.
Since 2009, he has implemented his own TV projects.
Besides television, Astakhov does literary and teaching work. He wrote the novel "Raider", published legal and educational books, conducted legal columns in "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", "Itogi", "Autopilot", "Medved".
He held several master classes in some Moscow humanitarian universities, where he revealed to students the professional secrets of advocacy.
Participation in politics
Astakhov began to participate in the political life of the country in 2007, when he became the head of the All-Russianmovement "For Putin". To this he was prompted by the desire to improve the legal state and public life.
Soon he was introduced to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation and the coordinating council of United Russia supporters.
In 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Astakhov was appointed Commissioner for Children's Rights of the Russian Federation. Later, after the expiration of the mandate period (in three years), the extension of powers in this position was carried out by the next Russian president, V. V. Putin.
At the end of 2011, he was awarded the highest class rank of the civil service - First Class State Councilor of the Russian Federation.
Work as Commissioner for Children's Rights
For the period of fulfillment of the functions of the Commissioner for Children's Rights, the practice of law had to be abandoned. When this position is called, one person immediately appears in everyone's thoughts - this is Pavel Astakhov. Nationality, religion, worldview of children did not matter to him, he treats all the little citizens of our vast country with love and takes all measures to protect their rights.
The work in this direction they carried out is simply colossal. In the first six months of his tenure alone, he inspected over a thousand orphanages in all corners of Russia. A huge number of proposals have been submitted to improve the situation in hospitals, schools, mother and child homes, sports camps, boarding schools, children'scolonies.
Pavel Alekseevich became the initiator of a large-scale reform in the legislative framework regulating the procedure for the adoption of minor Russians by foreigners. Under his special control are the fate of our children, taken out of the country.
Juvenile delinquency
Juvenile delinquency is a very serious problem in our country. Pavel Astakhov is doing a lot of work to correct this situation. Biography, the family of teens who commit crimes is most often extremely dysfunctional.
The Ombudsman has to make every incident related to the violation of the rights of adolescents in Russia or abroad, where there are also many of our underage compatriots, widely publicized, brought to a global scale. The course of action to investigate crimes where violations the rights and interests of the child, he often controls personally.
Pavel Astakhov's wife
The Ombudsman's wife Svetlana is firmly convinced that her husband has achieved such dizzying success not without her help.
All the undertakings of her second half always found a response from her, she often suggested the right way to solve the problem. The husband knows that they can always get the necessary support from Svetlana.
The wife of Pavel Astakhov, whose biography includes getting a good higher education in three directions at once, works in the lawyer "Collegium" created by her husband as a producer and director of the press center. An excellent addition to her education is her specialization in a foreign language- English.
Svetlana has good experience as a TV show producer: "Hour of Judgment", "Three Corners", "The Astakhov Case" - that is, programs created by her husband.
Sons
The first son, named Anton, was born in 1988. After Oxford College, he graduated from the New York School of Economics.
The second son, born in 1993, was named Artem.
The youngest, still quite small (born in 2009), is named Arseniy. According to the New York Times, Svetlana gave birth to him in a private clinic in French Nice.
The Astakhovs chose this particular clinic due to its prestige and the well-known high level of quality of services provided. In particular, the child of the famous actress Angelina Jolie was born here.
Arseniy was baptized two months after his birth. For this procedure, the Astakhovs chose Cannes, the Orthodox Church of Archmagister Michael.
Pavel Astakhov deserved a very strong affection from all his sons. A biography, in which family and children are a very significant part, indicates that he used every free minute to communicate with children, carefully monitored their education and upbringing.
The two older sons are already leading independent lives, getting further and further away from the family, although both work together with their father in the structure he created.
