For more than six years, Pavel Astakhov has been the Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of the Child under the Russian President. The biography, personal life of this famous lawyer has always been of interest to many. He is considered one of the best Russian lawyers, having proved this by successfully defending in the courts the interests of various people popular 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 residence of his family - his wife with children - outside of Russia and his elite 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 ban on entry into the country of Astakhov by the French authorities, after he supported the law, named after Dima Yakovlev and prohibiting the procedure for the adoption of orphaned children from Russia by foreign citizens.
Married Astakhov since 1987. From his wife Svetlana, he receives full support for many years as a producer of his various television projects. In addition, she is the head of the department responsible for public relations organized by the 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 elected his government apparatus as the place of work. The birthplace of the youngest is Nice, the year of birth is 2009. He lives with his mother abroad.
Pavel Astakhov: biography. Parents
This is not to say that the future talented lawyer from an early age stood out as something special among his peers.
Pavel Astakhov, whose biography begins on September 8, 1966 in an unremarkable Moscow family, spent his childhood in Zelenograd.
His father's place of work is a printing institution, where he held the usual official position. Mother was engaged in pedagogical activities.
Pavel’s grandfather was a well-known Cheka employee who worked side by side with V. Menzhinsky, an active participant in the repressive actions of the 1930s.
According to Pavel Astakhov himself, his biography has developed that way, that is, is closely connected with law enforcement agencies, under the influence and influence of his grandfather.
The future lawyer studied at Zelenograd 609th school, he got good marks.
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 of work
After demobilization from military service, Pavel Astakhov, whose biography continued to take shape in the system of law enforcement structures, submitted documents 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 engage in legal activities, and later entered the Moscow Bar Association.
Since 2000, Astakhov studied in the United States for a master's degree (University of Pittsburgh) with a degree in Law.
From the very beginning of his advocacy, he gained fame by taking part in the sensational lawsuits in which people known to the general public passed.
The press was quite actively discussing the situation with the financial pyramid "Lord". Many stars of show business, politicians and influential businessmen have contributed significant funds to it. The lawyer of the founder of The Lord was Pavel Astakhov. The biography, the personal life of this scammer was very interesting to seventeen thousand clients deceived by her. The court sentenced her to seven years in prison, but Astakhov got her parole for her.
Star customers
With the help of Astakhov, Vladimir Gusinsky, the head of the Media Bridge, escaped criminal punishment, who was charged with theft of state property in the amount of ten million dollars.
Among Astakhov's clients, one could meet former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, show stars Lada Dens, Philip Kirkorov, Irina Ponarovskaya, Bari Alibasov, Kristina Orbakaite, ex-Minister of Culture Mikhail Shvydky.
Lawyer protection of foreign citizens
In 2000, state security officials asked Astakhov to act as an advocate for the American E. Pope, who was charged with espionage.
The trial of the foreign businessman 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 watched by the Western press.
Foreign journalists have repeatedly expressed the idea that the lawyer is not making enough efforts to reach an acquittal for his client.
It is noteworthy that Astakhov prepared his final speech on this process in verse form. This is unique to trials, but this had no effect on the court decision, and the American spy was sentenced to twenty years.
Features of the process of E. Pope
In his testimony, the American said that he actually bought various technologies from Russian scientists in the course of his entrepreneurial activity in the nineties, but they were not state secrets.
Scientists at that time lived extremely financially, so they always looked for an opportunity to earn extra money somewhere.
According to Pope, among his partners there were only major respected scientists who did not make sense to take risks by selling secret technologies.
After the twenty-year sentence was announced, Astakhov suggested Pope fully admit his guilt, which would allow him to appeal to the Russian president for pardon. That is exactly what 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 crust of a university graduate from this city.
Participation in various projects
Of great popularity to a person is the frequent appearance on television screens. Seized this and Pavel Astakhov. His biography became much richer after he became a TV presenter in judicial programs.
In the “Hour of Judgment” he acted as the “justice of the peace”, in the “Three Corners of Pavel Astakhov” - as the host.
Since 2009, he has implemented his own television projects.
In addition to television, Astakhov conducts literary and teaching work. He wrote the novel "Raider", published legal and educational books, conducted legal headings in "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", "Itogi", "Autopilot", "Medvedev".
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 since 2007, when he became the head of the all-Russian movement “For Putin”. This was prompted by a 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 supporters of United Russia.
In 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Astakhov was appointed Commissioner for Children's Rights of the Russian Federation. In the future, after the expiration of the mandate (three years later), the extension of powers in this post was carried out by the next Russian president - V.V. Putin.
At the end of 2011, he was awarded the highest class rank of civil service - the current state adviser to the Russian Federation of the first class.
Commissioner for the Rights of the Child
For the period of fulfilling the functions of the Commissioner for Children's Rights, the practice of law had to be abandoned. When they call this position, everyone immediately thinks of one person - this is Pavel Astakhov. Nationality, religion, worldview of children did not matter for him, he treats all the small citizens of our vast country with love and makes every effort to protect their rights.
The work in this direction he carried out is simply colossal. In the first half 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, and children's colonies.
Pavel Alekseevich initiated a large-scale reform in the legislative framework governing the procedure for the adoption of young Russians by foreigners. Under his special control are the fate of our children, taken out of the country.
Juvenile delinquency
A very serious problem in our country is juvenile delinquency. A lot of work to correct this situation is carried out by Pavel Astakhov. Biography, a family of teenage offenders are most often extremely dysfunctional.
The Ombudsman has to make every incident involving violation of the rights of adolescents in Russia or abroad, where there are also many of our minor compatriots, publicized, brought to a global scale.
He often monitors the course of action to investigate crimes where the rights and interests of the child are violated.
Wife of Pavel Astakhov
The wife of the Ombudsman Svetlana has a firm belief that her husband achieved such a dizzying success not without her help.
All the undertakings of her second half always resonated with her, she often suggested the right way to solve the problem. The husband knows that he can always receive the necessary support from Svetlana.
Pavel Astakhov’s wife, whose biography includes getting a good higher education in three areas at once, works in the producer and director of the press center created by the spouse of the Bar Association. An excellent addition to her education is her specialization in a foreign language - English.
Svetlana has a good experience working as a producer of television shows: “Hour of the Court”, “Three Angles”, “Astakhov’s Cases” - that is, programs created by her husband.
