Public Chamber of Russia
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The Public Chamber is a state institution with 126 members created in 2005 in Russia
to analyze draft legislation and monitor the activities of the parliament, government and other government bodies of Russia
and its Federal Subjects
. It has a role similar to an oversight committee and has consultative powers. A convocation of the chamber is in power for a two-year term.
, President of Russia, on September 13, 2004, following the Beslan school hostage crisis
.
The Public Chamber was organized according to the federal law On the Public Chamber of Russian Federation (Full text in Russian: http://www.rg.ru/2005/04/07/obshestv-palata-dok.html), that had been approved by the State Duma
on March 16, by the Federation Council of Russia
on March 23, had been signed by the President on April 4, had been published on April 7 and had come into force on July 1, 2005.
According to the law, on September 30, 2005, the President selected 42 members of the chamber who were supposed to have distinguished merit for the state and society. In August Putin officially invited Yulia Gorodnicheva (b. December 16, 1985), an undergraduate student of Tula State University
and one of the members of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi
whom Putin had invited to a meeting at his residence in Zavidovo, Tver Oblast
, on June 26, 2005, to become a member of the chamber, but she refused to be selected by the President and on November 15 entered the second part of the chamber. She became a member of the Commission on Social Development. http://www.oprf.ru/rus/members/user/ce6816c3ad1b4870862c6504deb731d4 On November 15, 2005, the second part of the Chamber was organized as the first 42 members had elected 42 more deputies from All-Russia public associations. On December 23, 2005, These 84 members in turn elected 42 representatives of regional and interregional public associations (List of the members of the Public Chamber in Russian: http://www.oprf.ru/rus/members/). To qualify for the procedures, public associations had to be registered as such at least a year before July 1, 2005.
The first session of the chamber was opened on January 22, 2006. The chamber has been headed by Evgeny Velikhov
, Secretary of the Public Chamber. He is a physicist, and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
to analyze draft legislation and monitor the activities of the parliament, government and other government bodies of Russia
Politics of Russia
The politics of Russia take place in a framework of a federal semi-presidential republic. According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is head of state, and of a multi-party system with executive power exercised by the government, headed by the Prime Minister, who is appointed...
and its Federal Subjects
Federal subjects of Russia
Russia is a federation which, since March 1, 2008, consists of 83 federal subjects . In 1993, when the Constitution was adopted, there were 89 federal subjects listed...
. It has a role similar to an oversight committee and has consultative powers. A convocation of the chamber is in power for a two-year term.
Creation of the Chamber
The creation of the chamber was suggested by Vladimir PutinVladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...
, President of Russia, on September 13, 2004, following the Beslan school hostage crisis
Beslan school hostage crisis
The Beslan school hostage crisis of early September 2004 was a three-day hostage-taking of over 1,100 people which ended in the deaths of over 380...
.
The Public Chamber was organized according to the federal law On the Public Chamber of Russian Federation (Full text in Russian: http://www.rg.ru/2005/04/07/obshestv-palata-dok.html), that had been approved by the State Duma
State Duma
The State Duma , common abbreviation: Госду́ма ) in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia , the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia. The Duma headquarters is located in central Moscow, a few steps from Manege Square. Its members are referred to...
on March 16, by the Federation Council of Russia
Federation Council of Russia
Federation Council of Russia ) is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia , according to the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation...
on March 23, had been signed by the President on April 4, had been published on April 7 and had come into force on July 1, 2005.
According to the law, on September 30, 2005, the President selected 42 members of the chamber who were supposed to have distinguished merit for the state and society. In August Putin officially invited Yulia Gorodnicheva (b. December 16, 1985), an undergraduate student of Tula State University
Tula State University
Tula State University is the biggest state university in Central Russia. Since May 2006 its rector is Mikhail Vasilievich Gryazev, professor, doctor of technical sciences. More than 20,000 students, 400 post graduates, more than 600 foreign students from 30 countries study at Tula State University...
and one of the members of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi
Nashi (Ours)
Nashi is Vladimir Putin's political youth movement in Russia, which declares itself to be a democratic, anti-fascist, anti-'oligarchic-capitalist' movement. Its creation was encouraged by senior figures in the Russian Presidential administration, and by late 2007, it grew in size to some 120,000...
whom Putin had invited to a meeting at his residence in Zavidovo, Tver Oblast
Tver Oblast
Tver Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Tver. From 1935 to 1990, it was named Kalinin Oblast after Mikhail Kalinin. Population: Tver Oblast is an area of lakes, such as Seliger and Brosno...
, on June 26, 2005, to become a member of the chamber, but she refused to be selected by the President and on November 15 entered the second part of the chamber. She became a member of the Commission on Social Development. http://www.oprf.ru/rus/members/user/ce6816c3ad1b4870862c6504deb731d4 On November 15, 2005, the second part of the Chamber was organized as the first 42 members had elected 42 more deputies from All-Russia public associations. On December 23, 2005, These 84 members in turn elected 42 representatives of regional and interregional public associations (List of the members of the Public Chamber in Russian: http://www.oprf.ru/rus/members/). To qualify for the procedures, public associations had to be registered as such at least a year before July 1, 2005.
The first session of the chamber was opened on January 22, 2006. The chamber has been headed by Evgeny Velikhov
Evgeny Velikhov
Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov is a physicist and scientific leader in the Russian Federation. His scientific interests include plasma physics, lasers, controlled nuclear fusion, power engineering and magnetohydrodynamics...
, Secretary of the Public Chamber. He is a physicist, and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
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Selected by the President
- Sergey Abakumov
- Damba Ayusheev
- Mavlit Bazhaev
- Lidia Blokhina
- Galina Bogolyubova
- Leo Bokeria
- Maria Bolshakova
- Leonid BorodinLeonid BorodinLeonid Ivanovich Borodin was a Russian novelist and journalist. Born in Irkutsk, Borodin was a Christian and a Soviet dissident. In the 1960s he belonged to the anti-Communist All-Russian Social-Christian Union...
- Yevgeny Velikhov
- Ravil Gaynutdin
- Vyacheslav Glazychev
- Vladimir Govorov
- Pavel Gusev
- Lyubov Dukhanina
- Elena Yershova
- Alexander Yefimov
- Vladimir Zakharov
- Elena Zelinskaya
- Oleg Zykov
- Tamara Ilyina
- Alina KabaevaAlina KabaevaAlina Maratovna Kabaeva is a Russian Honored Master of Sports, retired rhythmic gymnast, and politician. Since 2007, she has been a State Duma deputy from the United Russia party....
- Alexander KalyaginAlexander KalyaginAlexander Kalyagin is a Soviet/Russian actor and director, member of the Public Chamber of Russia, People's Artist of Russia , Laureate of the State Prizes for his works in the theatre and the cinema...
- metropolitan Kliment (Kapalin)
- Yaroslav Kuzminov
- Anatoly Kucherena
- Berel LazarBerel LazarRabbi Shlomo Dovber Pinchas Lazar, better known as Berel Lazar, is an Orthodox, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi. He is presently Chief Rabbi of Russia, and chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities...
- Alexander Lomakin-Rumyantsev
- Lyudmila Lysenko
- Marina Medvedeva
- Vyacheslav NikonovVyacheslav NikonovVyacheslav Nikonov is a Russian political scientist.He is a grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov, prominent Bolshevik and Soviet foreign minister under Joseph Stalin, and was named after the grandfather. Nikonov graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University in 1978 and has been...
- Alexandra Ochirova
- Irina RodninaIrina RodninaIrina Konstantinovna Rodnina is one of the most successful figure skaters ever and the only pair skater to win 10 successive World Championships and three successive Olympic gold medals . She initially competed with Alexei Ulanov and later teamed up with Alexander Zaitsev...
- Leonid RoshalLeonid RoshalLeonid Mikhailovich Roshal is a noted pediatrician from Moscow, Russia, expert for World Health Organization, chairman of International Charity Fund to Help Children in Disasters and Wars....
- Sergey Ryakhovsky
- Eduard Sagalaev
- Aydan Salakhova
- Maria Slobodskaya
- Valery TishkovValery TishkovValery Tishkov is an ethnologist.Born in Sverdlovsk, Tishkov attended Moscow State University, where he received a B.A. in 1964. He earned an M.A. in 1969 from Moscow Pedagogical University, and a Ph.D. degree in 1978 from the USSR Academy of Sciences...
- Valery Fadeev
- Vladimir Fedosov
- Alexey Chadaev
- Mikhail Shmakov
- Alexander Shokhin
Representatives of All-Russia public associations
- Alexander Afonichev
- Alexander Baranov
- Sergei Borisov
- Valery Ganichev
- Elmira Glubokovskaya
- Yulia Gorodnicheva
- Vladislav Grib
- Alexander Zharkov
- Gennady Zaytsev
- Alexander Ignatenko
- Kamilzhan Kalandarov
- Anatoly KarpovAnatoly KarpovAnatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov. He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once...
- Sergey Katyrin
- Roza Klementyeva
- Alexey Kozyrev
- Sergey Kushnarev
- Dmitry Lipskerov
- bishop Longin (Korchagin)
- Galina Malanicheva
- Sergey MarkovSergey Alexandrovich MarkovSergei Alexandrovich Markov is a Russian political scientist, journalist, social activist. Doctor of Political Science, assistant professor of Public Policy department of Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, professor of Faculty of Political Science of Moscow State Institute of...
- Andranik Migranyan
- Gasan Mirzoev
- Viktor Mishin
- Vladimir PotaninVladimir PotaninVladimir Olegovich Potanin is a Russian businessman and oligarch. His partner has been for many years Mikhail Prokhorov...
- Andrey Przhezdomsky
- Elena Proklova
- Alla PugachevaAlla PugachevaAlla Borisovna Pugacheva or Pugachova , born 15 April 1949), is а Soviet and Russian musical performer. Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day...
- Sergey Puzin
- Genri Reznik
- Oleg Rozhnov
- Anatoly Savchenko
- Nikolay Svanidze
- Elena Semerikova
- Anatoly Starodubets
- Pavel Sulyandziga
- Boris Titov
- Girigory Tomchin
- Mikhail FridmanMikhail FridmanMikhail Maratovich Fridman is a Jewish Russian businessman. Mr. Fridman graduated from Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in 1986. In 1988 Fridman started his career in trading and financial services before founding Alfa Group Consortium in 1989...
- Igor Chestin
- Sergey Shabanov
- Karen ShakhnazarovKaren ShakhnazarovKaren Georgievich Shakhnazarov is a Soviet and Russian-Armenian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He became the Director General of the Mosfilm studios in 1998.Shakhnazarov is the son of a prominent politician of Armenian descent, Georgy Shakhnazarov....
- Alexander Shkolnik
Representatives of regional and interregional public assiociations
- Sergey Abramov
- Alexander Adamsky
- Tatyana Alexeeva
- Fazu Alieva
- Vladimir Belozerov
- Vladimir Bondarenko
- Nadezhda Vavilina
- Valeri Vasiliev
- Leonid Guselnikov
- Nikolay Derzhavin
- Elena Dyakova
- Viktor Zabolotsky
- Alexander Zarubin
- Valentina Kirillina
- Konstantin Kuzminykh
- Sergey Lazurenko
- Lidia Lebedeva
- Georgy Mayer
- Anatoly Makeev
- Iskhak Mashbash
- Vladimir Melnikov
- Sergey Minko
- Kirill Mireysky
- Vladimir Moshkov
- Oleg Neterebsky
- Yury Novikov
- Natalya Ondar
- David Pashaev
- Nikolay Peterov
- Amirkhan Samirkhanov
- Valentina Sokolova
- Khusayn Soltagereev
- Alexander Titov
- Yury Tototto
- Oleg Tretyakov
- Roza Tufetulova
- bishop Feofan (Ashurkov)
- Konstantin Frolov
- Zurab TsereteliZurab TsereteliZurab Konstantines dze Tsereteli is a Georgian-Russian painter, sculptor and architect who holds the office of President of the Russian Academy of Arts.- Life :...
- Mikhail Sholokhov
- Svetlana Yaroslavova