Become a partner
26.06.2024
12:15–13:45
A Lawyer’s Word: Law Visualization 2.0
Congress Centre, conference hall D1
Broadcast
Law and art are two worlds that are seemingly far apart from one another, however, there is a unique interdisciplinary space in the area where they overlap. Cinema and theatre represent a mirror in which society sees a reflection of its values, stereotypes, vices, and, last but not least, legal norms. We see artistic images form social behavioural models. Heroes of the stage and screen often define public consciousness, the concept of good and evil, morality, and justice. Truly popular works create rules and replace law in some cases. How can we choose between beautiful fiction and ‘legal truth’? What needs to be done so as not to create a funhouse mirror that distorts social relations? What is a lawyer willing to tolerate and turn a blind eye to in a work of art, and what is considered unacceptable? Is it appropriate for lawyers to be involved in the creation of plays and film scripts? Can we improve the legal literacy of society through art?
Moderator
Vadim Vinogradov
Dean of the Faculty of Law, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Speakers
Elena Avakyan
Vice President, The Russian Federal Bar Association
Maria Doroshenko
General Director, LegalPics
Nikita Kobelev
Head Director, National Drama Theater of Russia (Alexandrinsky Theater)
Devin Lin
Progamme Director, School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong; Attorney-at-Law, Guangdong Zxongxi Law Firm (Zaxus LLP) (online)
Edita Tibilova
Head of the Project Office “Education in the Film Industry”, Moscow Department of Culture
Alexander Tsypkin
Writer, Scriptwriter
Boris Chernyshov
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (online)
Front row participant
Boris Grumbkov
General Director, Publishing House St. Petersburg Vedomosti
Broadcast
Vadim Vinogradov
Dean of the Faculty of Law, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Doctor of Law, Professor, Dean of the HSE Faculty of Law, Member of the Civiс Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Author of more than 120 scientific, educational and methodical works on constitutional, digital, administrative, municipal law and legislative process.
In June 2020, V.A. Vinogradov became the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Since December 2021, Vadim Aleksandrovich has been a member of the HSE Supervisory Board.
V.A. Vinogradov is a member of the expert advisory council under the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, the expert council of the State Duma Committee on Ownership, Land and Property Relations, the Council for the Improvement of Arbitration under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
Since 2014, he has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NGO "Center for Assistance to Lawmaking". In 2020, he became a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and was appointed as the head of the working group on legislation in the field of Internet technologies and digitalization.
Graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Author of more than 120 scientific, educational and methodical works on constitutional, digital, administrative, municipal law and legislative process.
In June 2020, V.A. Vinogradov became the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Since December 2021, Vadim Aleksandrovich has been a member of the HSE Supervisory Board.
V.A. Vinogradov is a member of the expert advisory council under the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, the expert council of the State Duma Committee on Ownership, Land and Property Relations, the Council for the Improvement of Arbitration under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
Since 2014, he has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NGO "Center for Assistance to Lawmaking". In 2020, he became a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and was appointed as the head of the working group on legislation in the field of Internet technologies and digitalization.
Elena Avakyan
Vice President, The Russian Federal Bar Association
Elena Avakyan is the Executive Director of the Non-Profit Partnership for Advancement of Corporate Law.
Since 2019, Elena has been a member of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers Council. Since 2018, she served on the Expert Council on Legislative Support for the Development of the Securities Market and Derivative Financial Instruments under the Committee of the State Duma for Financial Markets.
From 2006 to 2014, Elena served as the head of Control and Analytic Directorate at the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation. She was one of the ideologists of the e-justice project in Russia and one of its managers.
In 2004–2005, Elena was the chairwoman of the board of the National Association of Securities Market Participants. In 1999–2004, she was the head of Legal Control Service and vice president of Renaissance-Capital. Before that, she worked as a general counsel of the board of the St Petersburg Stock Exchange.
At various times, Elena served as a financial market legislation expert for the FAS of Russia and Ministry of Finance, corporate governance expert for the Ministry of Economic Development, expert for the State Duma Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets and Council of the Federation Committee on Financial Markets and Money Circulation as well as an expert of the Property Committee of the RF State Duma, an assistant to the Committee chairperson and assistant to a deputy of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State-Building. Since 2011, she is a member of the working group on multi-purpose centers. She took part in the drafting of a concept of new civil legislation.
Elena is a member of all working groups at the Skolkovo competence centres in each of the focus areas of the Digital Economy national programme; she leads a small working group on the concept of an ‘electronic document’ within the Skolkovo working groups.
Since 2019, Elena has been a member of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers Council. Since 2018, she served on the Expert Council on Legislative Support for the Development of the Securities Market and Derivative Financial Instruments under the Committee of the State Duma for Financial Markets.
From 2006 to 2014, Elena served as the head of Control and Analytic Directorate at the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation. She was one of the ideologists of the e-justice project in Russia and one of its managers.
In 2004–2005, Elena was the chairwoman of the board of the National Association of Securities Market Participants. In 1999–2004, she was the head of Legal Control Service and vice president of Renaissance-Capital. Before that, she worked as a general counsel of the board of the St Petersburg Stock Exchange.
At various times, Elena served as a financial market legislation expert for the FAS of Russia and Ministry of Finance, corporate governance expert for the Ministry of Economic Development, expert for the State Duma Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets and Council of the Federation Committee on Financial Markets and Money Circulation as well as an expert of the Property Committee of the RF State Duma, an assistant to the Committee chairperson and assistant to a deputy of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State-Building. Since 2011, she is a member of the working group on multi-purpose centers. She took part in the drafting of a concept of new civil legislation.
Elena is a member of all working groups at the Skolkovo competence centres in each of the focus areas of the Digital Economy national programme; she leads a small working group on the concept of an ‘electronic document’ within the Skolkovo working groups.
Maria Doroshenko
General Director, LegalPics
Nikita Kobelev
Head Director, National Drama Theater of Russia (Alexandrinsky Theater)
Devin Lin
Progamme Director, School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong; Attorney-at-Law, Guangdong Zxongxi Law Firm (Zaxus LLP)
Edita Tibilova
Head of the Project Office “Education in the Film Industry”, Moscow Department of Culture
Alexander Tsypkin
Writer, Scriptwriter
Alexander Tsypkin is the literary discovery of 2015. From Facebook to the bestsellers.
When you see in Alexander Tsypkin’s book the subtitle ‘A sex situational comedy’ you should take it with a grain of salt. For there are indeed sex situations (rather entertaining and diverse, one should add) in the book. One-night stands and brothels, misalliances and domestic violence, sexting went wrong and almost tragical denouements. But if you leave aside the backdrop and circumstances (which is not a simple task - Tsypkin has a true journo’s grasp of detail, great sense of humour and ear for words), it turns out that all these stories are about eternal issues: devotion and honour, strong women and magnanimous men, and even, literally, about undying love.’
Natalia Kochetkova, Lenta.ru
Born in 1975 to a family of several generations of doctors, he graduated from the School of International Relations of the St.Petersburg State University. An expert in strategic PR, he has worked with major Russian companies. A frequent speaker at major professional fora and conferences, for several years he worked as the PR director of North-Western Megafon. In 2014 he moved to Moscow to get engaged in projects in the field of information politics in corporate conflicts. He has won many professional awards including the Proba-IPRA Golden World Awards.
An opinion journalist, he has also interviewed more than a hundred politicians, cultural, scientific and sport’s figures such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Lev Dodin, Alexander Ovechkin, Ornella Mutti, Diana Vishneva, Konstantin Khabensky et al. He has authored and anchored several TV programmes as well as lectured at the St.Petersburg State University. He is actively involved in the workings of the Children of BELA charity foundation and the Foundation for prevention of cancer.
In July 2015 the AST publishing house brings out the first book of Alexander Tsypkin’s - a collection of satirical stories ‘Long live die-hard women’ that in the span of a month becomes a bestseller, climbing to the first position in the Russian prose list in the ‘Moscow’ book retailer chain. According to the AST publishing house survey, it was the best sold comic book in Russia in 2015. Actually, the book is just a collection of the author’s posts from social networks where breaking all media rules, he posted long-reads, but surprisingly they became a hit.
In October 2015 the author presented his book in Waterstones, a major London bookshop, and gave a lecture in a students’ club in Oxford.
In December 2017 AST published Tsypkin's new book 'The House of Goodbyes' which momentarily became number 1 on the 'Top 10 Best-selling books' list of the 'Moscow' book retailer chain.
Alexander's stories have been read by some of Russia's leading actors, including Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Konstantin Khabenskiy, and Anna Mikhalkova. His project 'UnprincYpled Readings', which he launched in 2015, has quickly gained popularity and sold-out shows took place in top Moscow theaters. Alexander and Konstantin Khabenskiy have traveled to over 10 countries with their programme named after Tsypkin's first book ‘Long live die-hard women’.
Many times have Alexander Tsypkin’s stories being read on stage, including such occasions as the ‘Night of the Arts 2015’and a book festival in the Red Square.
‘Radio Russia’ featured an audio version of a number of his stories performed by the leading St.Petersburg thespians - a ‘Nika’, ‘Golden Mask’ and ‘Golden Sofit’ laureate Sergei Dreiden and an Honoured Artist of Russia, a laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and the State Prize of Russia Pavel Semak.
January 2016 saw a literature reading of Tsypkin’s stories for the Russian community in Singapore, put together with informational support from the Russian Embassy in Singapore.
That very January Alexander took part in a ‘Russian literature’ festival in Paris that brought together a number of prominent Russian writers including Andrei Bitov, Victor Yerofeev, Alexander Snegirev, Vladimir Fedorovsky et al. It was in the framework of the festival that stories of the author from St.Petesrburg were first heard in a foreign language.
In February 2016 came out the video-version of a semi-staged reading of the ‘Tomato juice’ story performed by Danila Kozlovsky, a leading Russian stage and screen actor familiar to an international audience for the blockbuster ‘Twilight’. During one week the video garnered 1 million hits on Facebook and has now over 5 million views.
An audio-book released that month and voiced by Danila Kozlovsky, Pavel Derevianko and many other film actors and TV anchors as well as the author himself became a bestseller in Russia in just two weeks.
In March 2016 a French translation of ‘Long live die-hard women’ was presented in Paris.
Recently, Alexander co-wrote a short film that is part of a feature 'About Love. Adult edition' by Anna Melikyan, which premiered this fall. Tsypkin has also, along with Ksenia Rappoport, directed a short film 'Goodbye, my lover!' that sold for the record 10 million rubles at the charity auction 'Action'.
Quotes from reviews:
‘His stories are gulped in one go and just stay there. Today, when long and big-scale works have but lost all chances of being read, short-story masters who perfect the most complicated form of literature have got a unique opportunity to influence the readers and change their inner world...Brilliantly written, sad and funny, with their words these stories bring us back the meanings, and with the meanings, we regain emotions and caring about people’.
The founder and director of the Multimedia Art Museum Olga Sviblova
Alexander Tsypkin’s book presents a wonderful chance to understand today’s Russia from within. It comprises a multitude of diverse stories, amazing, juicy and always kind. One can trace this young author’s lineage to de La Fontaine’s fables, Balzac’s ‘Human comedy’ and the wit of Sacha Guitry who, too, was born in St.Petersburg. This one is a very contemporary and very Russian book that reminds us that Russians can and love laughing, first of all, at themselves.
Héléna Perroud,
Former adviser to the president of France Jacques Chirac, director of the French Institute in St.Petersburg and Cultural attache of the French Embassy in Russia
‘Alexander Tsypkin’s stories amaze with their staggering nakedness of a masterfully depicted world of a St.Petesrburg slacker. It seems that never before in the history of Russian prose has anyone spoken with such humor and freedom on major serious topics that are very exciting for us today’.
Artistic director of the ‘Stanislavsky electric theatre’ Boris Yukhananov
‘For me, Alexander Tsypkin is the Leningrad’s Isaac Babel’
Pyotr Semak, an Honoured Artist of Russia, actor of ‘MDT - Theatre of Europe
‘One thing is obvious - Tsypkin combines in his short novellas brilliant humor and deep emotions in a remarkable manner, at the same time he is delicate even when he is writing on seemingly taboo subjects. Some sentences from Tsypkin’s stories are so rich, flashy and self-sufficient that they may easily have a life of their own’.
The Russian newspaper
‘Tsypkin’s stories have that thing that I value most in literature and gastronomy - the stuffing. Inside laughter, there’s always sadness, in every drama, there is a smile.
Alexander Malenkov, Editor-in-Chief of Maxim Russian Edition.
‘Life writes bang-up plots. The author outstripped me and millions of other people by turning these plots into short stories’.
Polina Sokhranova, Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan Russia
‘Life in Alexander Tsypkin’s stories is light and nonchalant. Sometimes its lightness is unbearable. Still, in every short story, there is lust for the harmony lost, for the quiet caressing of humanity. And we understand that, no matter how comic they look, people in his texts are not just pictures, not mere pawns. They must be cared for and loved.’
When you see in Alexander Tsypkin’s book the subtitle ‘A sex situational comedy’ you should take it with a grain of salt. For there are indeed sex situations (rather entertaining and diverse, one should add) in the book. One-night stands and brothels, misalliances and domestic violence, sexting went wrong and almost tragical denouements. But if you leave aside the backdrop and circumstances (which is not a simple task - Tsypkin has a true journo’s grasp of detail, great sense of humour and ear for words), it turns out that all these stories are about eternal issues: devotion and honour, strong women and magnanimous men, and even, literally, about undying love.’
Natalia Kochetkova, Lenta.ru
Born in 1975 to a family of several generations of doctors, he graduated from the School of International Relations of the St.Petersburg State University. An expert in strategic PR, he has worked with major Russian companies. A frequent speaker at major professional fora and conferences, for several years he worked as the PR director of North-Western Megafon. In 2014 he moved to Moscow to get engaged in projects in the field of information politics in corporate conflicts. He has won many professional awards including the Proba-IPRA Golden World Awards.
An opinion journalist, he has also interviewed more than a hundred politicians, cultural, scientific and sport’s figures such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Lev Dodin, Alexander Ovechkin, Ornella Mutti, Diana Vishneva, Konstantin Khabensky et al. He has authored and anchored several TV programmes as well as lectured at the St.Petersburg State University. He is actively involved in the workings of the Children of BELA charity foundation and the Foundation for prevention of cancer.
In July 2015 the AST publishing house brings out the first book of Alexander Tsypkin’s - a collection of satirical stories ‘Long live die-hard women’ that in the span of a month becomes a bestseller, climbing to the first position in the Russian prose list in the ‘Moscow’ book retailer chain. According to the AST publishing house survey, it was the best sold comic book in Russia in 2015. Actually, the book is just a collection of the author’s posts from social networks where breaking all media rules, he posted long-reads, but surprisingly they became a hit.
In October 2015 the author presented his book in Waterstones, a major London bookshop, and gave a lecture in a students’ club in Oxford.
In December 2017 AST published Tsypkin's new book 'The House of Goodbyes' which momentarily became number 1 on the 'Top 10 Best-selling books' list of the 'Moscow' book retailer chain.
Alexander's stories have been read by some of Russia's leading actors, including Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Konstantin Khabenskiy, and Anna Mikhalkova. His project 'UnprincYpled Readings', which he launched in 2015, has quickly gained popularity and sold-out shows took place in top Moscow theaters. Alexander and Konstantin Khabenskiy have traveled to over 10 countries with their programme named after Tsypkin's first book ‘Long live die-hard women’.
Many times have Alexander Tsypkin’s stories being read on stage, including such occasions as the ‘Night of the Arts 2015’and a book festival in the Red Square.
‘Radio Russia’ featured an audio version of a number of his stories performed by the leading St.Petersburg thespians - a ‘Nika’, ‘Golden Mask’ and ‘Golden Sofit’ laureate Sergei Dreiden and an Honoured Artist of Russia, a laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and the State Prize of Russia Pavel Semak.
January 2016 saw a literature reading of Tsypkin’s stories for the Russian community in Singapore, put together with informational support from the Russian Embassy in Singapore.
That very January Alexander took part in a ‘Russian literature’ festival in Paris that brought together a number of prominent Russian writers including Andrei Bitov, Victor Yerofeev, Alexander Snegirev, Vladimir Fedorovsky et al. It was in the framework of the festival that stories of the author from St.Petesrburg were first heard in a foreign language.
In February 2016 came out the video-version of a semi-staged reading of the ‘Tomato juice’ story performed by Danila Kozlovsky, a leading Russian stage and screen actor familiar to an international audience for the blockbuster ‘Twilight’. During one week the video garnered 1 million hits on Facebook and has now over 5 million views.
An audio-book released that month and voiced by Danila Kozlovsky, Pavel Derevianko and many other film actors and TV anchors as well as the author himself became a bestseller in Russia in just two weeks.
In March 2016 a French translation of ‘Long live die-hard women’ was presented in Paris.
Recently, Alexander co-wrote a short film that is part of a feature 'About Love. Adult edition' by Anna Melikyan, which premiered this fall. Tsypkin has also, along with Ksenia Rappoport, directed a short film 'Goodbye, my lover!' that sold for the record 10 million rubles at the charity auction 'Action'.
Quotes from reviews:
‘His stories are gulped in one go and just stay there. Today, when long and big-scale works have but lost all chances of being read, short-story masters who perfect the most complicated form of literature have got a unique opportunity to influence the readers and change their inner world...Brilliantly written, sad and funny, with their words these stories bring us back the meanings, and with the meanings, we regain emotions and caring about people’.
The founder and director of the Multimedia Art Museum Olga Sviblova
Alexander Tsypkin’s book presents a wonderful chance to understand today’s Russia from within. It comprises a multitude of diverse stories, amazing, juicy and always kind. One can trace this young author’s lineage to de La Fontaine’s fables, Balzac’s ‘Human comedy’ and the wit of Sacha Guitry who, too, was born in St.Petersburg. This one is a very contemporary and very Russian book that reminds us that Russians can and love laughing, first of all, at themselves.
Héléna Perroud,
Former adviser to the president of France Jacques Chirac, director of the French Institute in St.Petersburg and Cultural attache of the French Embassy in Russia
‘Alexander Tsypkin’s stories amaze with their staggering nakedness of a masterfully depicted world of a St.Petesrburg slacker. It seems that never before in the history of Russian prose has anyone spoken with such humor and freedom on major serious topics that are very exciting for us today’.
Artistic director of the ‘Stanislavsky electric theatre’ Boris Yukhananov
‘For me, Alexander Tsypkin is the Leningrad’s Isaac Babel’
Pyotr Semak, an Honoured Artist of Russia, actor of ‘MDT - Theatre of Europe
‘One thing is obvious - Tsypkin combines in his short novellas brilliant humor and deep emotions in a remarkable manner, at the same time he is delicate even when he is writing on seemingly taboo subjects. Some sentences from Tsypkin’s stories are so rich, flashy and self-sufficient that they may easily have a life of their own’.
The Russian newspaper
‘Tsypkin’s stories have that thing that I value most in literature and gastronomy - the stuffing. Inside laughter, there’s always sadness, in every drama, there is a smile.
Alexander Malenkov, Editor-in-Chief of Maxim Russian Edition.
‘Life writes bang-up plots. The author outstripped me and millions of other people by turning these plots into short stories’.
Polina Sokhranova, Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan Russia
‘Life in Alexander Tsypkin’s stories is light and nonchalant. Sometimes its lightness is unbearable. Still, in every short story, there is lust for the harmony lost, for the quiet caressing of humanity. And we understand that, no matter how comic they look, people in his texts are not just pictures, not mere pawns. They must be cared for and loved.’
Boris Chernyshov
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Boris Grumbkov
General Director, Publishing House St. Petersburg Vedomosti
Boris Valerievich Grumbkov was born in Leningrad, USSR.
Graduate of the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University.
Since 2014, he has held the position of General Director of JSC Publishing House St. Petersburg Vedomosti.
Member of the Board of the A. F. Koni Foundation for the Support and Development of Historical Heritage.
Since 2015, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University.
Since 2020, he has been a member of the Union of Journalists of Russia.
Lecturer at the Russian Society "Knowledge". Finalist of the all-Russian competition “League of Lecturers” ROZ 2022.
Member of the public council under the Committee for Press and Interaction with the Media of St. Petersburg.
In 2024 he was awarded the Anatoly Koni Medal of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
In 2022, he was awarded the silver medal “For Assistance” by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
In 2023 he was awarded the anniversary medal "300 years of the Prosecutor's Office of Russia".
Rewarded with gratitude from the Director of the FSSP D.V. Aristov for his significant personal contribution to information coverage of the activities of the FSSP of Russia (2023).
Awarded the memorial sign “350 to Peter the Great” from the Governor of St. Petersburg for high achievements in professional and social activities (2023).
Laureate of the “Justice” award from the Russian Lawyers Association (2020) for his great contribution to the legal education of citizens.
Laureate of the St. Petersburg Government Prize in the field of journalism (2019).
Awarded a diploma of honor from the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for many years of fruitful work in the field of printing.
Recipient of certificates and commendations on behalf of the Governor of St. Petersburg for his contribution to the development of the city, the prosecutor's office and other law enforcement agencies for his contribution to legal work and coverage of the activities of law enforcement agencies.
Graduate of the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University.
Since 2014, he has held the position of General Director of JSC Publishing House St. Petersburg Vedomosti.
Member of the Board of the A. F. Koni Foundation for the Support and Development of Historical Heritage.
Since 2015, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University.
Since 2020, he has been a member of the Union of Journalists of Russia.
Lecturer at the Russian Society "Knowledge". Finalist of the all-Russian competition “League of Lecturers” ROZ 2022.
Member of the public council under the Committee for Press and Interaction with the Media of St. Petersburg.
In 2024 he was awarded the Anatoly Koni Medal of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
In 2022, he was awarded the silver medal “For Assistance” by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
In 2023 he was awarded the anniversary medal "300 years of the Prosecutor's Office of Russia".
Rewarded with gratitude from the Director of the FSSP D.V. Aristov for his significant personal contribution to information coverage of the activities of the FSSP of Russia (2023).
Awarded the memorial sign “350 to Peter the Great” from the Governor of St. Petersburg for high achievements in professional and social activities (2023).
Laureate of the “Justice” award from the Russian Lawyers Association (2020) for his great contribution to the legal education of citizens.
Laureate of the St. Petersburg Government Prize in the field of journalism (2019).
Awarded a diploma of honor from the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for many years of fruitful work in the field of printing.
Recipient of certificates and commendations on behalf of the Governor of St. Petersburg for his contribution to the development of the city, the prosecutor's office and other law enforcement agencies for his contribution to legal work and coverage of the activities of law enforcement agencies.