Business programme
30.06.2022
14:30–16:00

Legal Sovereignty as a Guarantee of National Security

Congress Centre, conference hall B2
Law in International Relations
Broadcast
Russia’s legal system is key to its statehood, founded as it is on traditional values and long-established concepts and principles. And in the face of global challenges and sanctions, the legal field has been tasked with identifying the answers to today’s difficult questions. A country’s sovereignty is not only based on political and economic principles, but legal ones as well. How can legal sovereignty help guarantee national security? What threats require action now? How will legal systems look in the near future?

Moderator

Vladimir Gruzdev
Chairman of the Board, Association of Lawyers of Russia

Panellists

Erna Hayriyan
Chairman, Court of the Eurasian Economic Union
Andrey Klishas
Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Alexander Konovalov
Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation
Aleksandr Savenkov
Director, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences
Sergey Stepashin
Chairman, Association of Lawyers of Russia; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Territorial Development Fund
Irina Yarovaya
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (online)

Broadcast

Vladimir Gruzdev
Chairman of the Board, Association of Lawyers of Russia
Gruzdev Vladimir Sergeyevich – Chairman of the Executive Board of the Association of lawyers of Russia (ALRF).
Born February 6, 1967 in Bolshevo, Moscow region.
Education:
1984: graduated from the Moscow Suvorov military school.
1991: graduated from the Krasnoznamenny Military institute.
2000: graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Law Faculty).
2003: defended his PhD thesis.
Foreign languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English.
Career:
1991-1993 served in the Foreign Intelligence Service of the RF.
1993: founded the trading company “The Seventh Continent”, where he held management positions.
2001: was elected as a deputy of the Moscow city Duma.
2003: was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the fourth convocation.
2007: was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth convocation.
2011-2016: governor of the Tula region.
2009-2016: member of the Presidium of the ALRF.
Since 2016: Chairman of the Executive Board of the ALRF.
Awards:
- Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd Class;
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 3rd Class and 4th Class;
- Russian Federation Presidential and Governmental Certificates of Honour;
- Gratitudes of the President and the Government of the RF;
- Medal “For Battle Merit”;
- Honourary Title “Soldier-internationalist”;
- Honourary badges of the State Duma and the Federation Council.
Erna Hayriyan
Chairman, Court of the Eurasian Economic Union
Andrey Klishas
Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Alexander Konovalov
Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation
Born on June 9, 1968, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg).
1992: graduated from St Petersburg State University with a degree in Law (1992). PhD in Law. Senior Counsellor of Justice; 1986-1988: served in the Soviet Armed Forces; 1992: assistant prosecutor of the Vyborgsky District of St Petersburg; 1992-1994: investigator at the Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Vyborgsky District of St Petersburg; 1994-1997: prosecutor in charge of supervision of compliance with security legislation of the St Petersburg Office of the Public Prosecutor; 1997-1998: Deputy Prosecutor of the Moskovsky District of St Petersburg; 1998-2001: Prosecutor of the Moskovsky District of St Petersburg; 2001-2005: Deputy Prosecutor of St Petersburg; 2005: Prosecutor of Bashkortostan; November 2005: the President's Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Volga Federal District; May 12, 2008: appointed Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation; May 21, 2012: Reappointed Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation by a presidential decree.
Member of the Russian Security Council.
Aleksandr Savenkov
Director, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences
Director of the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences; Fellow Correspondent of Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Russian statesman, and legal scholar.
Professional background:
Since 1985, served in a Military Prosecutor’s Office, since 1994 in the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office. He headed Military Prosecutor’s offices of the Siberian and Moscow military command regions. In 2002 he was appointed First Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor.
On 10 June 2002, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation appointed Mr Savenkov Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation – Chief Military Prosecutor.
2006–2008 First Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.
2009–2013 Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for the Vladimir Region.
In 2014, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation – Head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In 2017, he took leadership of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Merits, awards, achievements:
He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Motherland 3rd and 4th degrees, Order of Alexander Nevsky and Order of Honour. He is a recipient of more than 50 medals and departmental awards of Russia and foreign countries. He was honoured with Recognition Certificates by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Sergey Stepashin
Chairman, Association of Lawyers of Russia; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Territorial Development Fund
Irina Yarovaya
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Born 17 October 1966. Has a degree in Law, as well as in Public and Municipal Administration.
1988: joined Public Prosecutor’s Office in Kamchatka Territory, where she held positions of the Deputy City Prosecutor of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and the Head of Investigation Department in Kamchatka Territory.
Since 1997: won single-member district election to the Council of People’s Deputies of Kamchatka Territory twice.
2007 and 2011: elected Deputy of the State Duma (Member of the United Russia Party). First female Chairperson of State Duma Security and Anti-Corruption Committee in the history of Russia’s parliaments.
2016: headed the regional group №1 of the Federal list of Candidates for Deputy of the 4th State Duma from the United Russia Party (Kamchatka Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Amur Region, Magadan Region, Jewish Autonomous Region, Chukotka Autonomous District).
In 2016 elected Deputy Chairperson of the State Duma.
According to expert polls, she is one of Duma’s five most efficient Deputies. Authored over 200 legislative acts.
Most memorable acts for the Far East include: ban on drift fishing, ban on multiple border crossing by fishing vessels, compulsory registration of fishing facilities in the region where fishing is held, simplified call at the Far-Eastern ports for international cruise lines.
Head of the Central Control Commission of the United Russia Party.
Member of the Russian Language Arts Society, headed by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Rus.