Business programme
12.05.2023
11:30–13:00

Recognition of the Genocide of the Soviet People: Legal Aspects

Congress Centre, conference hall D3
Sovereign Law in a Changing World
Broadcast
Based on an analysis of a wide array of historical facts, legal acts, and the legal positions of Russian and international researchers, the crimes committed against the peoples of the USSR during World War II in 1941–1945 are regarded as the genocide of the Soviet people, which resulted in the death of tens of millions of people. The fact that Russian courts have confirmed that the Nazi invaders and their accomplices committed war crimes as well as the investigation by the Russian Investigative Committee of criminal cases concerning these crimes should be viewed exclusively in the context of responsibility inevitably being established as one of the central principles of law based on the verdict of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and the subsequent trials of Nazi criminals. At the same time, a number of facts and events related to war crimes concerning the plans and actions of Nazi Germany, its satellites, and their accomplices to exterminate the peoples of the USSR have not yet been given a proper legal assessment based on the Nuremberg principles, including by international legal institutions. The Western world is not ceasing its attempts to distort historical truths, reassess events, and revise the results of World War II, including the mass extermination of Soviet citizens.

Moderator

Aleksandr Savenkov
Director, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences

Panellists

Erna Hayriyan
Chairman, Court of the Eurasian Economic Union
Aleksey Aleksandrov
Chief Researcher, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Igor Butrim
Leading Researcher, Sector of Procedural Law, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nikita Lomagin
Vice-Rector for Government Relations and Public Organizations, European University at St. Petersburg
Sergey Malikov
Deputy Director for Research, Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir Pligin
Co-chair, Association of Lawyers of Russia
Alexander Fedorov
Deputy Chairman, Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
Konstantin Chaika
Deputy Chairman, Court of the Eurasian Economic Union
Egor Yakovlev
Chief Executive Officer, Digital History Foundation

Front row participant

Liliya Savenkova
PhD in Political Science

Broadcast

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.
Erna Hayriyan
Chairman, Court of the Eurasian Economic Union
Aleksey Aleksandrov
Chief Researcher, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Igor Butrim
Leading Researcher, Sector of Procedural Law, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nikita Lomagin
Vice-Rector for Government Relations and Public Organizations, European University at St. Petersburg
Sergey Malikov
Deputy Director for Research, Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir Pligin
Co-chair, Association of Lawyers of Russia
Alexander Fedorov
Deputy Chairman, Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
Konstantin Chaika
Deputy Chairman, Court of the Eurasian Economic Union
1982-1987 – a teacher, director of a secondary school.
1987-2000 – held various positions in the prosecutor's office of the Kamchatka region from trainee, assistant of prosecutor of the Milkovskiy district of the Kamchatka region to the prosecutor of the Kamchatka region.
2000-2006 – Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
State Counselor of Justice, I (First) class.
April, 2006 – appointed Deputy Head; State Secretary - Deputy Head of the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision of Russia.
From November 2008 to February 2012 held the posts of Deputy Head; State Secretary - Deputy Head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation.
Lieutenant-General of the Customs Service.
From 2012 to 2014 – the Judge of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Community.
Since January 1, 2015 – the Judge of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Since January 2021 – Deputy Chairman of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union.
PhD in Juridical sciences. Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.
Egor Yakovlev
Chief Executive Officer, Digital History Foundation
Liliya Savenkova
PhD in Political Science
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