Business programme
11.05.2023
08:30–09:45

Priority of Law

Деловой завтрак

By invitation

Congress Centre, VIP restaurant
Prominent public figures, state officials and representatives of big business will share their expectations for the forthcoming St. Petersburg International Legal Forum and discuss the role and place of law in today's dynamically changing world.

Moderator

Andrey Nazarov
Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan

Front row participants

Viktor Blazheyev
Rector, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Vladimir Gruzdev
Chairman of the Board, Association of Lawyers of Russia
Oleg Leonov
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Business News Media
Vadim Lobov
President, Synergy Corporation; Member of the Commission of the State Council of the Russian Federation in the Direction of "Small and Medium-Sized Businesses"
Andrey Loginov
State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation
Irina Pankina
Deputy, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on State Building and Legislation, State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Pligin
Co-chair, Association of Lawyers of Russia
Aleksandr Savenkov
Director, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences
Andrey Nazarov
Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan
Career:
1998: elected deputy of the City Council of Sibai, Bashkortostan.
1998-2004: headed the Representative Office of the Republic of Bashkortostan in the city of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region.
2001-2006: Chairman of the Board of the Bashkir Trade and Industrial Union
2003: elected Deputy of the State Assembly - Kurultay of the Republic of Bashkortostan
2005: elected Chairman of the Association of Entrepreneurial Organizations of the Republic of Bashkortostan
2006-2007: Head of the Center for Strategic Developments under the President of the Republic of Bashkortostan
2007-2011: Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, member of the State Duma Committee for Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation, Deputy Chairman of the Committee, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee
2010: elected Deputy Chairman of Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia) public organization
2011-2014: Advisor to the President of the Republic of Bashkortostan
2014-present: Co-Chairman of Business Russia
2019-2020: First Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan
2020 – present: Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan.
Academic degrees, ranks and awards:
PhD (Political Science), Merited Economist of the Republic of Bashkortostan
Viktor Blazheyev
Rector, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
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.
Oleg Leonov
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Business News Media
Vadim Lobov
President, Synergy Corporation; Member of the Commission of the State Council of the Russian Federation in the Direction of "Small and Medium-Sized Businesses"
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Andrey Loginov
State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation
Irina Pankina
Deputy, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on State Building and Legislation, State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Pligin
Co-chair, Association of Lawyers of Russia
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.
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