Pavel Astakhov

Quick Facts

Full Name	Pavel Astakhov
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Sep 8, 1966(1966-09-08)
Age	58
Birthplace	Moscow
Country	Russia
Horoscope	Virgo

Pavel Astakhov Biography

Pavel Astakhov is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 8, 1966 in Moscow, Russia. Edmond Pope was only the second American in the last 40 years to face trial for spying in Moscow. In the first case, Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the U-2 spy plane, which was destroyed in 1960 was swapped with a jailed Soviet intelligence agent Rudolf Abel.

Astakhov completed his law degree from the faculty at the Dzerzhinsky KGB School in Moscow in 1991. In 2002, he earned the title of Master of Laws from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In 2006, Astakhov was awarded the title of Doctor of Laws in Russia. The first step was to use the community Dissernet followed by it was the Russian State Library tested his doctoral dissertation for plagiarism. They found that only 0.68 percent of the text was his own work, the remainder being copied in other publications.

In 2000-2001 Pavel Astakhov helped Russian media tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky to escape two fraud charges.

In December 2000, Astakhov surprised the court hearing the case by delivering his closing arguments in verse. He read out a 12-page lyric he had composed in iambic pentameters, urging the court to acquit Pope. The court was not impressed by Astakhov’s poetry skills and Pope received a 20-year jail sentence; he was later pardoned by Vladimir Putin and was flown back to US.

Astakhov began his legal career in the year 1991. In 1994, he became an associate of the Moscow Bar and set up his own law firm. It was renamed in 2003 , as “Pavel Astakhov Lawyers Board”. Astakhov was a lawyer for the most famous Russian public figures, such as Moscow the Mayor Yury Luzhkov, a descendant of the Romanov Dynasty, numerous Russian pop stars, and others.

Pavel Astakhov Net Worth

Pavel Astakhov is one of the richest Politician from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pavel Astakhov 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Pavel Alekseyevich Astakhov (Russian: Pavel Alekseevich Astakhov ) (born on September 8, 1966, in Moscow) is a Russian politician, lawyer with a celebrity and television host.

As an ombudsman, Astakhov was attempting to increase awareness of the needs of Russian children who were adopted through foreign homes. According to the official Russian statistics 19 adoptive Russian children have died due to violence or neglect, up to 1991. Some of the critics of Astakhov claimed that his attention was too focused to abuse cases following international adoptions, but not enough attention to cases of child abuse in Russia in general, where around thousands of children died every year due to domestic abuse of children. President Medvedev stated to Astakhov during December of 2011 that “I think that we cannot make any distinction here between cases abroad and cases at home. These are all crimes, serious crimes.”

On 13 June 2000, Gusinsky was arrested on charges of stealing property worth more than $10 million from the state-owned “Russian Video” company, but three days later, after a petition by Astakhov, Gusinsky was released on bail. Later, Astakhov and another prominent lawyer, Henri Reznik, managed to halt the criminal case against Gusinsky, who flew to Spain. Another case was opened on 17 September, alleging the embezzlement of $300 million from Gazprom, and on 17 November prosecutors reopened the first case. Gusinsky was arrested in Spain on an international arrest warrant on 12 December. On 22 December he was released on bail of 1 billion pesetas ($5.5 million).

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Later Astakhov made a 180-degree turn in his political affiliation and became one of the most prominent supporters of the top leadership of Russia. In November 2007 he founded and headed the national movement Za Putina (For Putin). At the founding conference, Astakhov described the aim of the new movement as follows: “Don’t we choose a master in the house? Well, here we are proposing to find a master for the country.”

Facts & Trivia

Pavel Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Pavel Astakhov celebrates birthday on September 8 of every year.

On 30 December 2009 President Medvedev appointed Astakhov as Children’s Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation, a post often referred to as children’s ombudsman. At the time of his appointment, Astakhov was one of Russia’s leading private lawyers, but he did not have a child welfare background. His predecessor and the first holder of the office, Alexei Golovan, had resigned unexpectedly on 26 December, just months after his appointment. (Golovan remained involved in child rights issues and was in 2012 involved in the development of legislation to protect the rights of children in orphanages.)