The Bodies of the Association
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The General Assembly
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The General Council
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The President
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The Commission on Organizational Issues
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The Commission for the Protection of the Rights and Employment of Advocates
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The Commission on Scientific, Expert and Information Activities
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The Qualification Commission
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The Audit Commission
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Secretary
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Treasurer
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Working groups
Members of the General Council of the Association
President of the Association
Karinna Moskalenko
Ms. Moskalenko graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Leningrad State University in 1976.
Since September 1, 1977 - first as an intern, then as an advocate of the Moscow City Bar Association (since 2002 - Moscow City Bar Association).
Specialization - criminal procedure, public international law (including international protection of human rights).
In 1994, she completed a course in European law at the University of Birmingham (UK). Interned in leading international organizations implementing human rights protection programs.
In December 1994, she founded and headed the Center for Assistance to International Protection, a public human rights organization uniting professional lawyers using international human rights protection mechanisms.
In 1997, in Strasbourg, she first participated in a session of the world organization - the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ, headquartered in Geneva), where she subsequently served as a member of the Executive Committee, Commissioner (3 terms since 2003), and is currently an Honorary Member of the ICJ. Since 1999, the Center for Assistance to International Protection has had the status of the Russian branch of the ICJ.
In 2000, she achieved victory in the first Russian cases before the UN Human Rights Committee.
On September 18, 2001, she became the first Russian lawyer to appear before the European Court of Human Rights at the first public hearing of a Russian citizen's case (Kalashnikov v. Russia). Since then, she has made several public appearances before the ECtHR, including the Grand Chamber, and has successfully handled over a hundred cases before the ECtHR, including the cases of Valentin Moiseyev, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Garry Kasparov, Olga Kudeshkina, Konstantin Markin, Timur Idalov, Zoya Svetova, the case of Mazepa and Others (on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya), and the case of Finogenov and Others (in defense of the victims of Nord-Ost).
She is a member of the Russian Committee of Lawyers in Defense of Human Rights (since 1993), a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group (since 1999). She was a member of the Expert Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation (from 1999 to 2006).
From 2002 to 2006 she was an expert of the European Union's TACIS program.
In 2006, she founded the Center for International Protection in Strasbourg and became the first president of the Center, which has won hundreds of cases in the European Court of Human Rights.
Awarded Russian and international awards: the Human Rights Award of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation (1999), the highest Russian legal award “Themida” (2000), the Order of the First Class “For Fidelity to the Lawyer's Duty” (2000), the Recognition Award of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (2006), the Brennan Award (2008), the European Ludovic Trarier Award for Lawyers (2010) and other awards.
She is the author of a number of scientific and practical works on the protection of human rights using international legal mechanisms.
In 2010, she was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of Laws (SMU, USA).
From 2021 to 2024, she chaired a group of experts under the UN High Commissioner.
In April 2024, she was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as Head of the Group of Independent Experts on Belarus (GIE Belarus).
Members of the General Council
Andrey Ragulin
Advocate (since 2005), Doctor of Law (since 2015), Associate Professor (since 2009).
Since 2003, practicing as a lawyer and then as an advocate, provides legal assistance in criminal and civil cases, cases of administrative offenses.
Since 2010, she has been the head of the center for research on the Problems of organization and activities of the Advocacy profession of the Eurasian Research Institute of Problems of Law.
Since 2012, he has been the editor-in-chief of the international scientific and practical legal journal "Eurasian Advocacy".
As a teacher of higher education, he collaborated with the Eastern Economic and Legal Humanitarian Academy (2003 - present, senior lecturer, associate professor, head of department, professor), Bashkir State University (2009-2013, associate professor), Bashkir Academy of Public Administration and Management (2012-2014, associate professor), Russian Academy of Advocacy and Notaries (2015-2021, vice-rector and professor), Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (2018-2021, professor), East Kazakhstan State University (2020, visiting professor).
From 2009 to 2021, he collaborated with the Guild of Russian Lawyers as a member, deputy chairman, and then chairman of the Scientific Advisory and Expert Council and the Commission for the Protection of the Rights of Lawyers and vice president.
In 2016–2019, he headed the working group of the All-Russian Civil Forum and organized the development, summarization and discussion of proposals to improve the regulatory framework for advocacy and the legal profession, as well as criminal and criminal procedure legislation.
Since 2019 – Member of the Board of the Interregional Public Organization of Advocates and Lawyers “Initiative 2018”.
Author of more than two hundred scientific and educational-methodical works on the problems of criminal law and procedure, organization and activities of advocacy and advocacy. Administrator of a number of groups and communities, author of publications on current legal topics in social networks.
He was awarded letters of gratitude, certificates of honor from educational institutions, bar associations, the Silver Medal named after F.N. Plevako (2014), medals "For Merits in Education and Science" (2017), and the badge of distinction "For Contribution to the Development of Advocacy" (2019).
Vadim Prokhorov
Graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University.
Mr. Prokhorov has been an advocate since 1999.
He has participated as defense counsel and representative in numerous trials, including in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, as well as in the European Court of Human Rights.
He has defended human rights activists, opposition politicians and anti-corruption fighters, including Vladimir Bukovsky, Boris Nemtsov, Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Currently, he continues to work actively as a human rights lawyer defending Russian political prisoners, including representation of their interests before state authorities and international bodies in European countries, the US and the UN.
Since July 2023 - Director of Strategy at the Center for International Protection (Strasbourg).
Larisa Move
A hereditary lawyer, daughter of advocate Abram Lvovich Move, author of "Behind the Scenes of Defense", who was a leading specialist in supervisory review cases.
In 1980 she graduated from the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Advocate since March 1, 1981.
Specialization - criminal law and criminal procedure.
She is a veteran of the Moscow Bar.
For 25 years headed the Moscow Bar Association “MOVE”.
She was awarded the Order “For Fidelity to the Lawyer's Duty”, the Diploma of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers, the Honorary Diploma of the Moscow Bar Association “For Active Work in the Commission of the Council of the Moscow Bar Association for the Protection of Lawyers' Rights”, and has been repeatedly awarded as an expert of the Center for Public Procedures “Business Against Corruption”.
Leonid Krikun
Advocate of the International Bar Association “St. Petersburg” of the St. Petersburg Bar Association.
In 2002 graduated from the Faculty of Economics of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and MBA program of Hogeschool Inholland Diemen, in 2010 graduated from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University.
He provides qualified legal assistance in economic disputes, criminal prosecution, improper conditions of detention, deportation and extradition, is a consultant for Russland hinter gittern e.V. (Deutschland) and Centre de la Protection Internationale (France).
More than 15 years of work experience in the legal specialty, more than 10 years as an advocate.
Since 2016 he has been a member of the Human Rights Council of St. Petersburg, since 2020 a member of the PRAVKLUB of Russian human rights defenders, since 2022 a member of the “Bilateral Contact Group Ukraine - Russia on humanitarian issues”, a co-founder of the All-Russian Public Movement “For Human Rights” and the Social and Political Movement “European Petersburg”.
He has been awarded certificates of honor, commendations and diplomas of the Administration of St. Petersburg, the Notary Chamber of St. Petersburg and the Bar Association of St. Petersburg, including. “For high achievements in carrying out professional activities” (2014, 2019, 2021), ‘For contribution to the protection of human and civil rights and freedoms’ (2018), ‘For high professionalism and protection of professional rights of lawyers’ (2020, 2021), ‘For success in human rights activities, representation in the ECHR and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation’ (2017, 2019, 2021, 2022), etc.
The scheme of the Association structure
Bar associations should foster democratic standards and should also enforce them internally. There must be clear governance and leadership structures in place, and voting and other procedures must be published and open to the scrutiny of the association’s membership. In other words, the requirements of democracy should be observed within bar associations and should be applied in their external activities.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Monica Pinto. The seventy-first session. Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms. A/HRC/71/348, 22 August 2016.
