Pavel Astakhov
| Pavel Astakhov | |
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| Павел Алексеевич Астахов | |
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| Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation | |
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In office 30 December 2009 – 9 September 2016 |
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| President | Dmitry Medvedev |
| Preceded by | Alexei Golovan |
| Succeeded by | Anna Kuznetsova |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 8, 1966 Moscow, USSR |
| Citizenship |
 Russia
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| Spouse(s) | Svetlana Astakhova |
| Children | Anton, Artem and Arseni (sons) |
| Residence | Moscow, Russia |
| Alma mater | 1. Dzerzhinsky KGB Higher School 2. University of Pittsburgh |
| Occupation | Politician, Lawyer, Television personality |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Website | http://english.rfdeti.ru/ |
Pavel Alekseyevich Astakhov (Russian: Па́вел Алексе́евич Аста́хов) (born 8 September 1966 in Moscow) is a Russian politician, celebrity lawyer and television personality.
On 30 December 2009 Dmitry Medvedev named Astakhov as the Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation (children's ombudsman). He left the job in September 2016.
Astakhov graduated from the law faculty of the Dzerzhinsky KGB School in Moscow in 1991. In 2002 he received a Master of Laws from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In 2006 Astakhov received a Doctor of Laws in Russia. Firstly the community Dissernet, then the Russian State Library tested his doctoral thesis for plagiarism and discovered that only 0.68% of the text was original work, the remainder having been copy-pasted from other sources.
He speaks English, Swedish, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and French as well as Russian.
Astakhov began practising law in 1991. In 1994 he became a member of the Moscow Bar and set up his own law firm, which has been known since 2003 as "Pavel Astakhov Lawyers Board". Astakhov represented some of Russia’s most high-profile public figures, including Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, the descendants of the Romanov dynasty, several Russian pop-stars and others.
The first case which gave prominence to Pavel Astakhov was that of Edmond Pope. On 5 April 2000, Pope, a retired US naval intelligence officer, was arrested in Moscow by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) after making contact with a Russian torpedo scientist. Pope was charged with espionage, seeking plans for the high-speed underwater VA-111 Shkval missile.
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