Prosecutor General of Russia

Prosecuter General of the Russian Federation Генеральный Прокурор Российской Федерации
Incumbent Yury Chaika since 23 June 2006
Appointer	nomination
Term length	Five years,
Inaugural holder	Valentin Stepankov
Formation	28 February 1991
Website	(Russian) http://www.genproc.gov.ru

The Prosecutor General of Russia (also Attorney General of Russia, Russian: Генеральный Прокурор Российской Федерации) heads the system of official prosecution in courts known and heads the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation (Генеральная прокуратура Российской Федерации). The Prosecutor General remains the most powerful component of the Russian judicial system.^[1]

Mission

The Office of the Prosecutor General is entrusted with:

1. prosecution in court on behalf of the State;
2. representation of the interests of a citizen or of the State in court in cases determined by law;
3. supervision of the observance of laws by bodies that conduct detective and search activity, inquiry and pretrial investigation;
4. supervision of the observance of laws in the execution of judicial decisions in criminal cases, and also in the application of other measures of coercion related to the restraint of personal liberty of citizens.

Appointment

The Prosecutor General is nominated to the office by the President of Russia and appointed by the majority of Federation Council of Russia (the Upper House of the Russian Parliament). If the nomination falls the President must nominate another candidate within the 30 days (article 12 of the Federal Law about the Office of the Prosecutor General of Russian Federation). The term of authority of the Prosecutor General is five years. The resignation of the Prosecutor General before the end of his term should be approved by both the majority of Federation Council of Russia and the President.

Constitutional Independence

The Prosecutor General and his office are independent from the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government. The Investigative Committee of Russia, sometimes described as the "Russian FBI", is the main federal investigating authority in Russia, formed in place of the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General in 2011.

List of Attorneys General

  Denotes service as acting Attorneys General prior to appointment or after resignation

#	Picture	Name	State of Residence	Term of Office		President(s) served under
1		Valentin Stepankov	Moscow	28 February 1991	5 October 1993	Boris Yeltsin
2		Aleksey Kazannik	Moscow	5 October 1993	14 March 1994	Boris Yeltsin
3		Aleksey Ilyushenko	Moscow	26 March 1994	24 October 1995	Boris Yeltsin
4		Yury Skuratov	Moscow	24 October 1995	2 February 1999	Boris Yeltsin
5		Vladimir Ustinov	Moscow	17 May 2000	2 June 2006	Vladimir Putin
6		Yury Chaika	Moscow	23 June 2006	Incumbent	Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev

Offices similar to Prosecutor General of Russia have existed in the Soviet Union (Prosecutor General of the USSR) and in the Russian Empire since January 12, 1722 (General Prosecutor of the Senate, Генерал-Прокурор Сената).

References

1. Terrill 2009, p. 433.

• Terrill, Richard J. (2009). World Criminal Justice Systems: A Survey (7 ed.). Elsevier. ISBN 978-1-59345-612-2.

See also

• Prosecutor General of the USSR
• Ministry of Justice of the USSR
• List of Justice Ministers of Imperial Russia
• List of Prosecutors General of Russia
• Federal Penitentiary Service
• Crime in Russia
• Prosecution Service of Russia class rate insignia

External links

• Site of The Office of the Prosecutor General
• List of Prosecutors Generals of Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and Russian Federation