Recognition at the highest level

The awards were presented both in the traditional nominations - "For Honor and Dignity", "Business Reputation", "Triumph", and in the new ones - "Law and Muse" and "Golden Pen", established in 2019. The ceremony was accompanied by classical jazz compositions performed by the Oleg Lundstrem State Chamber Orchestra of Jazz Music conducted by Boris Frumkin.

The ceremony was opened by the President of the RF FPA, Deputy Chairman of the Rewarding Committee Yuri Pilipenko, First Vice-President of the RF FPA, Chairman of the Rewarding Committee Yevgeny Semenyako and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Russian Lawyers Association Vladimir Gruzdev.

In the "Golden Pen" nomination, the Prize was awarded to a lawyer of the Moscow Bar Association, a member of the Public Council under the Russian Ministry of Justice, editor-in-chief of the ZAKONIA ESMI, Ph.D. Ruben Markarian. The prize was awarded to him for the joint radio project of the ESMI "ZAKONIYA" and Radio Moscow "De Jure", the video project of the Federal Law Office of the Russian Federation "Our Mark", the section "We have the right" of the program "MORNING" of NTV.

Laureate in the "Law and Muses" nomination - Dmitry Taraborin, vice-president of the Chamber of Advocates of the Samara Region. The prize was awarded to him for the project "Taraborshchina", which includes more than 20 video interviews.

“We know Dmitry as a strong, tough lawyer,” said Yuri Pilipenko, presenting him with the award. - The fact that he was elected vice-president of the chamber suggests that he enjoys well-deserved authority. But if you review the interview, you will see that he is a talented person, not only as a lawyer. ”

The laureates of the Award in the Business Reputation nomination are:

- lawyer of the Presidential Administration of the Kamchatka Territory Ksenia Burnaikina;

- Attorney at Law of the Presidential Administration of Moscow, Chairman of the Board of the Moscow City State Academy "Vlasova and Partners", Ph.D. Olga Vlasova;

- Boris Zolotukhin, member of the Council of the Presidential Administration of the Belgorod Region, lawyer of the Oktyabrskaya Central Law Office of the city of Belgorod, Belgorod Regional Bar Association;

- Member of the Council of the Presidential Administration of the Tver Region, Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Tver Regional Bar Association Alexey Ivanov;

- lawyer of the Moscow City Presidential Administration, Deputy Director of Law Office No. 36 "SanktaLex" of the Moscow City Bar Association Olga Istomina;

- President of the Presidential Administration of the Kirov Region, Chairman of the Kirov Regional Bar Association Marina Kopyrina;

- lawyer of the Presidium of the Tyumen Region, Chairman of the Presidium of the West Siberian Bar Association Anastasia Yarkovskaya.

The awards were presented to the laureates in the Business Reputation nomination by Elena Borisenko, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Gazprombank, and Evgeny Pisarevsky, Ombudsman for Consumer Rights of Financial Services in the Spheres of Insurance, Microfinance, Credit Cooperation and Credit Institutions of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.

In the category "Triumph" the Prize was awarded to:

- Law Office LOYS;

- Ivanovo regional collegium of advocates;

- Law Office KIAP;

- Moscow Law Office "Protsenko and Partners";

- Oryol Regional Bar Association;

- St. Petersburg Law Office "Legal Office of Gessen";

- Sverdlovsk Regional Guild of Lawyers.

The Triumph statuette was presented to them by the co-chairman of the Russian Lawyers' Association Vladimir Pligin and the first vice-rector of the Moscow State Law University. O.E. Kutafina (Moscow State Law Academy) Elena Gracheva.

The laureates of the Prize in the highest nomination - "For Honor and Dignity" - were:

- Attorney at the Moscow City Bar Association, Managing Partner of JSB Reznik, Gagarin & Partners, Administration of Moscow, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation Nikolai Gagarin;

- lawyer of the Moscow Regional Bar Association Yuri Ivanov;

- President of the Baltic Bar Association named after A.A. Sobchak Yuri Novolodsky.

The highest award of the Russian legal profession - the badge “For Honor and Dignity”, was presented to them by Irina Rukavishnikova, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Grigory Ivliev, Head of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, and Alexei Shaposhnikov, Chairman of the Moscow City Duma.

“They proved that a lawyer is a very worthy, very important and very necessary profession,” said Irina Rukavishnikova, congratulating the holders of the highest lawyer's award.

“We are proud that in Moscow, the Moscow region and St. Petersburg there are lawyers who have done a lot for the country, they have retained the right, they have preserved their honor and dignity,” concluded Grigory Ivliev.

And the president of the RF FPA, Yuri Pilipenko, who took the stage, added that he took his first steps as a lawyer under the leadership of Yuri Ivanov.

At the end of the ceremony, all laureates of the Prize entered their names into the Book of Honor of the Russian Bar.

reference

Markaryan Ruben Valerievich

Advocate since 1997, member of the Presidential Administration of Moscow, member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, editor-in-chief of ESMI "ZAKONIYA", Ph.D. Author of the cycle of historical and conspiracy novels "Key phrase" (First edition - 2016, published by "OGI-press", second edition - 2020, published by "Yauza") and "Dirk von Schirach" (2021, ed. "Yauza"). He is the author of the script and presenter of a number of television and radio projects popularizing advocacy, contributing to overcoming legal nihilism in society. Project manager, editor and reviewer of the journalistic investigations direction of the ESMI "ZAKONIYA". Editor, author of a number of scripts and performer of the role of a lawyer in the popular TV projects of NTV "Jury Trial" and "Final Verdict".

Dmitry Taraborin

Vice President of the PA of the Samara Region, author and host of the video project "Taraborshchina", the releases of which in 2019–2020. were published on the advgazeta.ru website in the "Interview" section.

The first issue of the "Taraborshina" project was released in October 2019. The goal of the project is to demonstrate to a wide range of colleagues how diverse, multifaceted and original law firm, of which they are members, to present to their attention the personal experience and knowledge of both the masters of the old school and those who are who represents current success.

Burnaikina Ksenia Vitalievna

Attorney at the Presidential Administration of the Kamchatka Territory, K.V. Burnaikina Law Office Legal experience - 18 years. Since 2019 - Member of the Board of the Presidential Administration of the Kamchatka Territory. In 2014-2016 represented the interests of the victims in the high-profile case of the death of babies in the maternity hospitals of Kamchatka. The amount of compensation for non-pecuniary damage recovered by the courts from medical institutions in the claims submitted by the lawyer K.V. Burnaikina, is a total of about 8,500,000 rubles. In 2016, she was awarded an honorary diploma by the Federal Property Agency of the Russian Federation. Awarded with the honorary badges of the Presidential Administration of the Kamchatka Territory "For an acquittal" in 2018, 2019, 2020. In 2020, she was awarded a letter of gratitude from the Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the Kamchatka Territory for effective, conscientious activity, loyalty to the traditions of the legal profession and advocacy.

Vlasova Olga Igorevna

Lawyer of the Presidential Administration of Moscow, Chairman of the Board of the Moscow City State Academy "Vlasova & Partners", Ph.D.

She began her legal practice in 1999 at the Inter-Republican Collegium of Lawyers. In 2010, together with the lawyer of the Moscow City Presidential Administration Lyudmila Anatolyevna Kosmovskaya, she founded the Moscow City Bar Association “Vlasova and Partners” (AA MGKA “ViP”). Deals with issues of corporate and business law. From 1999 to the present, he has successfully represented the interests of citizens and legal entities in courts of general jurisdiction, arbitration and arbitration courts. Since 2010 - a member of the Federal Union of Lawyers of Russia. Author of publications on civil law. Currently, he is actively involved in issues related to the legal regulation of housing and communal services, capital repairs of apartment buildings, common property of apartment buildings, public control, including in the field of housing and communal services, local government, the creation and operation of territorial public self-government (TOS), resolution of urban conflicts, etc.

Boris A. Zolotukhin

Member of the Council of the Presidential Administration of the Belgorod Region, lawyer of the October Central Law Office of the city of Belgorod, Belgorod Regional Bar Association.

He took the oath of lawyer on July 2, 2003. He has two higher educations - pedagogical (teacher of history, social science and English) and legal. He specializes in criminal defense. Having practical experience in criminal proceedings, he immediately began to successfully apply it in the protection of clients, often seeking acquittals against his clients, including several times a year. Not guilty verdicts with his participation were passed in various categories of cases, including those related to drug trafficking, with the recognition of provocation in the actions of law enforcement officials.

For the conscientious protection of the rights of citizens, he was awarded four times with honorary certificates of the APBO, in 2009 he was awarded an honorary diploma of the Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the Belgorod region, in 2014 the regional branch of the AYUR was recognized as the best lawyer of Belogorye in the nomination "Legal protection of citizens", in 2020 he was awarded the FPA RF medal "For the merits of the rights and freedoms of citizens" 1 degree.

Alexey Ivanov

Member of the Council of the Presidium of the Tver Region, Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Tver Regional Bar Association, Vice President of the Federal Union of Lawyers of Russia.

Since 2006, he has been practicing law at the Tver Regional Bar Association, and is the head of Branch No. 18 in Tver. In 2019, he was elected Vice-President of the Federal Union of Lawyers of Russia, in this capacity he participated in the preparation of a review of violations of the professional rights of lawyers and proposals for the legislative introduction of criminal liability for obstruction of legal advocacy.

In the same year he was elected the head of the group of authorized representatives for the protection of the professional rights of lawyers, a member of the commission for the protection of the rights of lawyers. He takes an active part in the protection of professional rights, has repeatedly acted as a representative of the Bar Chamber in courts, during investigative and procedural actions in relation to lawyers.

In 2020, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Tver Regional Bar Association, in 2021 at a conference of the Presidium of the Tver Region he was elected a member of the Council. Awarded the medal of the FPA RF "For merits in the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens" II degree, a certificate of honor and gratitude of the FPA RF.

Istomina Olga Vladimirovna

Lawyer of the Moscow City Presidential Administration, Deputy Director of Law Office No. 36 "SanktaLex" of the Moscow City Bar Association. Experience as a lawyer - 30 years, lawyer since 1991.

Born in Moscow, graduated from the Law Faculty of the Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. She began her career as the chief legal adviser of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, took part in the work on the draft Federal Law "On Education in the Russian Federation".

Together with lawyers of the Law Firm No. 36 "SanctaLex" has successfully carried out hundreds of civil, arbitration and criminal cases, appealed to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in defense of the rights and interests of citizens, as well as to the European Court of Human Rights in the framework of criminal cases. The results of the work on the cases were repeatedly covered by the media. She was awarded the Order of the FPA RF "For Fidelity to the Duty of Lawyers", the FPA RF Medal "For Merits in the Protection of the Rights and Freedoms of Citizens" I degree, the medal of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, the F.N. Plevako, a certificate of honor of the FPA of the Russian Federation, a certificate of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation "For contribution to strengthening the rule of law and protection of constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens", a medal of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Prince Daniel of Moscow, etc.

Kopyrina Marina Nikolaevna

President of the Presidential Administration of the Kirov Region, Chairman of the Kirov Regional Bar Association. Experience as a lawyer - 35 years.

From 2006 to 2008, from 2017 to 2021 she was a member of the Council of the FPA RF.

In July 1985 she was admitted to the Kirov regional collegium of advocates, where she has been carrying out advocacy to the present day. She has established herself as a highly professional, extremely principled and persistent lawyer. For thirty-five years of practice, she has conducted more than 12,000 cases, provided legal assistance to more than 500 organizations.

Since 2004 M.N. Kopyrina is the Deputy Chairman of the Kirov Regional Branch of the Russian Lawyers Association, responsible for organizing free legal aid on the territory of the Kirov Region. The great contribution of M.N. Kopyrina contributed to the development of the draft laws of the Kirov region "On state support of advocacy and the legal profession in the Kirov region" and "On measures to provide legal aid accessible to the population."

She took an active part in bringing the legislation of the Kirov region on free legal aid in line with the Federal Law "On Free Legal Aid in the Russian Federation".

She was awarded the Order of the FPA RF "For Loyalty to the Duty of Lawyers", certificates of honor of the FPA RF, certificates of the Presidential Administration of the Kirov region. In 2005, she was awarded the F.N. Plevako. For his great contribution to the development of the legal profession of the Kirov region, many years of conscientious work in professional activities in providing legal assistance and increasing the prestige of the legal profession of the Kirov region, effective assistance in the implementation of the tasks facing the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, he has been awarded by the federal government body and government bodies of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation ...

Yarkovskaya Anastasia Petrovna

Lawyer of the Presidium of the Tyumen Region, Chairman of the Presidium of the West Siberian Bar Association. Legal experience - 20 years.

In 2001 she was admitted to the second Tyumen regional collegium of lawyers as an assistant lawyer.

Then she established the NGO "West Siberian Collegium of Advocates", where she is still the head, the number of the collegium is 107 advocates.

From 2005 to 2008 she was a member of the Board of the Presidential Administration of the Tyumen Region. From 2009 to 2010 and from 2012 to the present, a member of the Qualification Commission of the Presidential Administration of the Tyumen Region, where he successfully fulfills the duties assigned to it, following the traditions of the Russian legal profession.

Has conducted more than 3000 civil and criminal cases, including those ordered by the bodies of inquiry, the bodies of preliminary investigation and the court. She has achieved great success in providing legal assistance, including free of charge, and also made a significant contribution to the training of qualified legal personnel for the Bar of the Tyumen Region, has a high business reputation.

LOYS Law Office

LOYS attorneys are generally recognized experts in the field of law and annually occupy leading positions in international and Russian legal ratings (Chambers, Best Lawyers, Legal 500, Kommersant). The bureau specializes in legal expertise in complex corporate disputes, bankruptcy, legal investigations, protection and representation of the interests of victims in criminal cases, including corruption, cases of official and economic crimes.

The law office started its activity in 2008 under the name "Puchkov and Partners". During the rebranding in 2019, it changed its name: the company's slogan "The Law is On Your Side" was transformed into a new name - Law Office LOYS. In the same year, the implementation of a large-scale plan for the development of the branch network began. Currently, the Bureau has 5 branches (in Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk and Krasnodar) and plans to open representative offices in three more major regions of Russia in the next few years, and then enter the international level.

Ivanovo Regional Bar Association

The Ivanovo regional collegium of advocates is the oldest lawyer education in the territory of the Ivanovo region. In 2022, the 100th anniversary of its activity will be celebrated. Currently, there are 30 qualified lawyers in the Ivanovo regional collegium of advocates who are able to provide citizens and organizations with any qualified legal assistance. In the Ivanovo regional collegium of advocates at different times worked three lawyers awarded by the President of the Russian Federation with the high title "Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation": the first ever president of the Ivanovo Region Presidential Administration Yuri Andreevich Drondin, lawyers Zinaida Abramovna Salapina and Lyudmila Nikolaevna Chesnokova. Many lawyers were awarded by the Federal Chamber of Lawyers of the Russian Federation (certificates of honor, medals of the 1st and 2nd degree), certificates of honor of the Governor of the Ivanovo Region and the Ivanovo Regional Duma. The chairman of the board, Yuri Stanislavovich Premilov, was awarded the Order of the FPA RF "For loyalty to the lawyer's duty."

KIAP Law Office (Korelsky, Ischuk, Astafiev & Partners)

KIAP Law Office specializes in providing legal assistance to corporate and private clients on Russian and foreign legislation, as well as representing companies in relations with state legislative, executive and judicial authorities. AB KIAP is a two-time finalist of the Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence in the Best Law Firm of the Year in Russia nomination, the leader of the Pravo-300 Sympathy Rating in 2017 and the Law Firm of the Year in Russia in litigation according to Best Lawyers 2020 and 2022 ... For the fourth year in a row, KIAP's jurisprudence is presented in the first group of the international rating Chambers Europe.

AB KIAP is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), International Trademark Association (INTA), Russian Arbitration Association (RAA), Association of European Trademark Owners MARQUES, Association of Independent Law Firms LawExchange International (LEI) and the only representative member from Russia in The Harmonie Group. KIAP lawyers have been members of the International Bar Association (IBA) for many years in a row, and in 2016 KIAP partner Anna Grishchenkova was elected as the new regional representative from Russia to the IBA Judicial Committee.

Moscow Law Office "Protsenko & Partners"

MAB "Protsenko & Partners" provides assistance to large and medium-sized businesses, as well as private clients. The Bureau was registered on May 29, 2017 by fellow lawyers who had worked side by side for many years and practiced law in the Bar Association. Today, the firm provides legal assistance to private corporate business, focusing on areas of law in which it achieves the best results for its clients from year to year. A distinctive feature of the team is their long-term legal practice, which they have learned to combine with a business approach and clear methodology.

The lawyers of the bureau do a lot of educational work - they have more than 200 publications in the media on topical legal issues, participate in conferences, hold seminars for entrepreneurs at the invitation of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Small Business of Moscow", regularly hold their own webinars and business breakfasts on legal issues.

Oryol Regional Bar Association

The Collegium is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2022, carefully preserves and enhances the best traditions of the Russian legal profession, and is confidently developing. Currently, the collegium has 13 branches, 25 offices (including the Center for Legal Protection in the Sphere of Economics and Business), which employs 182 lawyers. In addition, the collegium employs 18 full-time employees, of which 11 are assistants and trainees. The Bar is the largest universal legal institution in the region. The Bar's lawyers have repeatedly achieved professional victories when considering cases in the European Court of Human Rights, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

St. Petersburg Law Office "Legal office of Gessen"

Founded in 2000 by St. Petersburg lawyer Andrey Petrovich Tyndik. For more than twenty years of experience, the Bureau has become one of the leaders in the field of legal protection of business, recognized in the professional community, and is well known for the high standard of quality in providing legal assistance.

In the practice of the Law Office, there are high-profile public trials and a large number of successfully resolved cases that have formed its successful reputation.

The team of the firm consists of 13 lawyers, whose high qualifications have been marked by various legal ratings: Legal 500, Chambers, Pravo.Ru 300, Kommersant. The main guideline in the work of the Firm's lawyers is the ethics of the classical Russian advocacy of the 19th - early 20th centuries. combined with an accurate understanding of modern legal reality.

The clients of the Law Office are the largest Russian private and state-owned companies, including: Russian Museum, PJSC Kirovsky Zavod, Shipbuilding Company Almaz, ROSAVTODOR, OJSC Gazprom Gazoraspredelenie, Terminal Sea Fish Port, MC CREDO, Orimi Trade , JSC "ALADUSHKIN Group", PJSC CB "VOSTOCHNY" and many others.

Sverdlovsk Regional Guild of Lawyers

It is the second largest lawyer education in the Sverdlovsk region, uniting more than 260 lawyers. The history of the Sverdlovsk Regional Guild of Lawyers began with the Yekaterinburg Law Office, founded in 1999 under the leadership of Vladimir Petrovich Primakov, and the Primakov & Partners Law Office, established in 2001. After the entry into force of the Federal Law “On Advocacy and the Bar in the Russian Federation ”in December 2002, lawyers of both organizations decided to unite into a single collegium of lawyers, which was named“ Sverdlovsk Regional Guild of Lawyers ”. The SOGA Bar Association is a member of the Guild of Russian Lawyers and is represented in its governing bodies. The Chairman of the Presidium of the SC "SOGA" Andrey Yuryevich Kayurin is the vice-president of the GRA, in October 2020 he was elected the chairman of the Public Council under the Department for ensuring the activities of justices of the peace of the Sverdlovsk region.

Gagarin Nikolay Alekseevich

Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, one of the most experienced lawyers of the Moscow City Bar Association for Economic Affairs.

Born in 1950 in Moscow, in 1982 graduated with honors from the law faculty of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Since September 1, 1982 - a trainee lawyer at the Moscow City Bar Association, since March 1, 1983 - a lawyer at the Moscow City State Academy, since April 23, 1993 - a managing partner of JSB Reznik, Gagarin and Partners of the Moscow City Administration.

From April 9, 2005 to April 5, 2007, he was a member of the Council of the FPA RF. By the decision of the Council of the Presidential Administration of Moscow No. 202 dated November 26, 2020, the name of Nikolai Alekseevich Gagarin was entered into the Book of Honor of the Moscow Bar.

A universal specialist in the field of criminal defense, representation in arbitration, legal consulting, in the field of economics and management. Provides legal advice to various Russian and foreign commercial organizations. Represented the interests of the first President of the USSR M.S. Gorbachev, members of the Government of the Russian Federation and a number of the country's largest enterprises, in particular the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant.

Ivanov Yuri Pavlovich

Born on July 15, 1944 in Batumi in the family of a submarine officer.

From 1965 to 1970 he studied at the Faculty of Law of the Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, after which he worked at the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation.

In 1972 he was admitted to the internship of the Moscow Regional Bar Association, and upon completion of the internship - a member of the IOCA. From that time until his retirement in May 2021, he worked in legal consultations in the cities of Kashira, Stupino, Vidnoe, Domodedovo.

1970-1980 was repeatedly invited to provide defense in criminal cases in the republics of the USSR in the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Baltic States. He received public recognition after successful results in the so-called Uzbek case.

In 1991, in the GKChP case, he defended the chairman of the KGB of the USSR V.A. Kryuchkov, and in 1993-1994. in the case of the October 1993 events - Vice-President of the Russian Federation A.V. Rutskoi. At the same time, from 1992 to 1994, in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, he was a lawyer for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the case of banning the CPSU and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Three times he was elected a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (of the first, second and fourth convocations). All three terms of the deputy have been actively working in the field of legislation on the legal profession, closely cooperating with the leadership of the Russian legal profession. In his career, both in the legal profession and in the Duma, he did a lot of training and advanced training of lawyers, while repeatedly traveling to various regions of Russia.

Novolodsky Yuri Mikhailovich

Born on March 28, 1951 in the city of Ulan-Ude. In July 1971 he entered the full-time department of the law faculty of the A.A. Leningrad State University. Zhdanov. After graduating with honors from the university, in 1976 he was assigned to the Leningrad Regional Bar Association. In March 1977 he began independent advocacy.

In 1982 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Bar Association and headed the methodological work of the Bar. In 1987 he was one of the initiators of the creation of the Union of Lawyers of the USSR, and in 1991 - one of the founders of the Russian Committee of Lawyers in Defense of Human Rights.

The forty-year journey of Yu.M. Novolodsky in the legal profession has been marked by many successes. It is difficult to overestimate his active protective and educational activities. As a result of his professional activity, dozens of acquittals, including those on charges of especially grave crimes, were found. About 50 books of methodological orientation have been published, which are in demand today by many lawyers in Russia and neighboring countries. In 2017, the Yuri Novolodsky School of Criminal Defense was opened to train practical lawyer skills in the field of criminal defense, and hundreds of lawyers from St. Petersburg, the Leningrad Region and other regions of the country have attended its classes by now.

Source: FPA RF