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Vladimir Pligin
Vladimir Nikolayevich Pligin (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Плигин; born 19 May 1960), is a Russian politician, businessman, and lawyer, who had been a member of parliament, a deputy of the State Duma of the fourth, fifth and sixth convocations from the United Russia party.
He had been the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building of the State Duma of the IV-VI convocations.
He is an honored lawyer of Russia as of 2011.
He is also one of the authors of the Legal Encyclopedia in 2001.
Vladimir Pligin was born on 19 May 1960 in the village of Ignatovo, Vologda Oblast. After graduating from school, he came to Leningrad and entered the law faculty of the Leningrad State University (LSU) named after. A. A. Zhdanova. In his student years, he met Dmitry Kozak and Yury Volkov, who studied with him at the same faculty. He graduated from the university in 1982, with a diploma with honors. He defended his thesis under Anatoly Sobchak. He entered the graduate school of Leningrad State University, which he did not finish, since working on his Ph.D. thesis seemed to him a "boring task".
In the early 1990s, Pligin and Boguslavsky created the law firm Yust LLP, according to Pligin, “the most successful and serious legal business in Russia.[citation needed]
In 1996, Pligin received the status of a lawyer in the Moscow Regional Bar Association. Pligin was engaged in criminal trials, the defendants of which were well-known politicians. Particularly, representatives of Yust defended the former head of the KGB of the USSR Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former chairman of the legislative assembly of St. Petersburg Yuri Kravtsov, businessman Boris Berezovsky, and Sobchak. He participated in the process between the Aeroflot airline and the Swiss company Andava, in which Berezovsky was the main shareholder.
On 7 December 2003, Pligin was elected to the State Duma, becoming a member of the United Russia faction, and was the chairman of the State Duma Committee on constitutional legislation and state building. On 2 December 2007, he was re-elected as member of the State Duma of the fifth convocation as part of the federal list of candidates put forward by the All-Russian political party United Russia, and became chairman of the same committee.
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Vladimir Pligin
Vladimir Nikolayevich Pligin (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Плигин; born 19 May 1960), is a Russian politician, businessman, and lawyer, who had been a member of parliament, a deputy of the State Duma of the fourth, fifth and sixth convocations from the United Russia party.
He had been the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building of the State Duma of the IV-VI convocations.
He is an honored lawyer of Russia as of 2011.
He is also one of the authors of the Legal Encyclopedia in 2001.
Vladimir Pligin was born on 19 May 1960 in the village of Ignatovo, Vologda Oblast. After graduating from school, he came to Leningrad and entered the law faculty of the Leningrad State University (LSU) named after. A. A. Zhdanova. In his student years, he met Dmitry Kozak and Yury Volkov, who studied with him at the same faculty. He graduated from the university in 1982, with a diploma with honors. He defended his thesis under Anatoly Sobchak. He entered the graduate school of Leningrad State University, which he did not finish, since working on his Ph.D. thesis seemed to him a "boring task".
In the early 1990s, Pligin and Boguslavsky created the law firm Yust LLP, according to Pligin, “the most successful and serious legal business in Russia.[citation needed]
In 1996, Pligin received the status of a lawyer in the Moscow Regional Bar Association. Pligin was engaged in criminal trials, the defendants of which were well-known politicians. Particularly, representatives of Yust defended the former head of the KGB of the USSR Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former chairman of the legislative assembly of St. Petersburg Yuri Kravtsov, businessman Boris Berezovsky, and Sobchak. He participated in the process between the Aeroflot airline and the Swiss company Andava, in which Berezovsky was the main shareholder.
On 7 December 2003, Pligin was elected to the State Duma, becoming a member of the United Russia faction, and was the chairman of the State Duma Committee on constitutional legislation and state building. On 2 December 2007, he was re-elected as member of the State Duma of the fifth convocation as part of the federal list of candidates put forward by the All-Russian political party United Russia, and became chairman of the same committee.
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