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Vyacheslav Lebedev
Вячеслав Лебедев
Lebedev in 2019
Chief Justice of the Russian Federation
Assumed office
16 December 1991
Preceded byYevgeny Smolentsev
Personal details
Born (1943-08-14) 14 August 1943 (age 80)
Elista, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Alma materMoscow State University
AwardsHonored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Judge of the highest qualification class
Military service
Allegiance Soviet Union
 Russia
RankDoctor of Law, Professor

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedev (Russian: Вячеслав Михайлович Лебедев; born 14 August 1943) is a Russian lawyer and jurist who has been serving as the Chief Justice of the Russian Federation since 1991.[1]

Early life and education

Lebedev was born on 14 August 1943 in Elista and attended the Lomonosov Moscow State University, which he graduated in 1968, He is a Tibetan Buddhist.

Career

Rise in the Communist Party

Lebedev began work in 1969 as a human resources functionary of a department of the Ministry of Industrial Construction of the USSR. In 1970, he was elected as a Judge of the People’s District Court for Leningradskiy District in Moscow, and in 1977 he was appointed president of the People’s District Court for Zheleznodorozhniy District in Moscow. He became deputy president of Moscow City Court in 1984, assuming the position of the court’s president in 1986.

Honours

References

  1. ^ "The Chief Justice". Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.