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Russian jurist and politician

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Yury Chaika Юрий Чайка Chaika in 2023 Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District Incumbent Assumed office 22 January 2020 President Vladimir Putin Preceded by Aleksandr Matovnikov Prosecutor-General of Russia In office 23 June 2006 – 22 January 2020 President Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Putin Preceded by Vladimir Ustinov Succeeded by Igor Krasnov In office 2 April – 29 July 1999 Acting President Boris Yeltsin Preceded by Yury Skuratov Succeeded by Vladimir Ustinov Minister of Justice In office 17 August 1999 – 23 June 2006 President Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Mikhail Kasyanov Mikhail Fradkov Preceded by Pavel Krasheninnikov Succeeded by Vladimir Ustinov Personal details Born (1951-05-21) 21 May 1951 (age 75) Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Alma mater Ural State Law University Occupation Lawyer

**Yury Yakovlevich Chaika** ([Russian](/source/Russian_language): Юрий Яковлевич Чайка; born 21 May 1951) is a Russian lawyer and statesman who currently serves as the Presidential Envoy to the [North Caucasian Federal District](/source/North_Caucasian_Federal_District) since 2020. He previously served as [Prosecutor-General of Russia](/source/Prosecutor-General_of_Russia) from 2006 to 2020 and [Minister of Justice](/source/Ministry_of_Justice_of_Russia) from 1999 to 2006.

He has the federal state civilian service ranks of State Councillor of Justice of the Russian Federation[1] and [1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation](/source/1st_class_Active_State_Councillor_of_the_Russian_Federation),[2] and also the prosecutor's rank of Active State Councillor of Justitia.[3]

## Career

In 1995, he became first deputy Russian prosecutor general. He was appointed by then Prosecutor-General [Yury Skuratov](/source/Yury_Skuratov), his former classmate from [Sverdlovsk Law Institute](/source/Ural_State_Law_University).[4] Following Skuratov's suspension, Chaika served as acting prosecutor general for a brief spell between April and August 1999. From August 1999 to June 2006, he served as [justice minister](/source/Ministry_of_Justice_(Russia)).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

On 23 June 2006, Chaika became Russian Prosecutor-General, effectively swapping jobs with his predecessor [Vladimir Ustinov](/source/Vladimir_Ustinov) who took up the post of justice minister.[5]

A "Crown prosecutor" (likely a reference to Chaika) was mentioned in an email chain released on 11 July 2017 by the son of then Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, Don Jr, in regards to the Russian government and their alleged attempts to provide damaging information during the U.S. Presidential election of 2016. The email thread resulted in the [Trump campaign–Russian meeting](/source/Trump_campaign%E2%80%93Russian_meeting) of June 2016.[6][7]

On 20 January 2020, he resigned in connection with the transition to another job. The resignation request is expected to be considered by the Federation Council on 22 January.[8]

On 22 January 2020 he was appointed Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to North Caucasus Federal District.[9]

## Notable cases

On 14 June 2006, the Prosecutor-General's Office reported that it had reopened the ["Three Whales" corruption investigation](/source/Three_Whales_Corruption_Scandal), a case in which nineteen high-ranking [FSB](/source/FSB_(Russia)) (Federal Security Service) officers were allegedly involved in furniture smuggling cases, as well as illegally importing consumer goods from [China](/source/China). The mass media revealed that the officials dismissed around that time had worked in the Moscow and federal offices of the [FSB](/source/Federal_Security_Service),[note 1] the [Prosecutor-General](/source/Prosecutor-General_of_Russia)'s Office,[note 2] the Moscow Regional Prosecutor's Office, the Federal Customs Service and the [Presidential Executive Office](/source/Russian_presidential_administration). Deputy heads of the FSB Internal Security Department also figured in the report authored by [Viktor Cherkesov](/source/Viktor_Cherkesov). The purge occurred while FSB head [Nikolai Patrushev](/source/Nikolai_Patrushev) was on vacation.[10][11][12][13][14]

On 27 December 2006, he accused [Leonid Nevzlin](/source/Leonid_Nevzlin), a former vice president of [Yukos](/source/Yukos), exiled in [Israel](/source/Israel) and wanted by the Russian authorities for a long time, of involvement in [Alexander Litvinenko](/source/Alexander_Litvinenko) [poisoning](/source/Alexander_Litvinenko_poisoning), a charge dismissed by the latter as a nonsense.[15]

On 16 January 2007, Chaika announced that the [Tambov Gang](/source/Tambov_Gang) had recently forcefully taken over 13 large enterprises in [Saint Petersburg](/source/Saint_Petersburg) and was subject to an investigation.[16][17] The leader of the gang, [Vladimir Kumarin](/source/Vladimir_Kumarin), was arrested on 24 August 2007. His associate and member of [Putin's cooperative "Ozero"](/source/Ozero) [Vladimir Smirnov](/source/Vladimir_Smirnov_(businessman)) was dismissed from his position of [Tekhsnabexport](/source/Tekhsnabexport) director.[18]

On 1 December 2015, [Alexei Navalny](/source/Alexei_Navalny)'s [Anti-Corruption Foundation](/source/Anti-corruption_Foundation) (FBK) published a large investigation on Yuri Chaika, and his family. The Report comes with a 40-minute film *[Chaika](/source/Chaika_(film))*.[19] An English version of the film was published two months later.[20] On 3 February 2016, the group [Pussy Riot](/source/Pussy_Riot) released a satirical music video titled *Chaika*, alluding to Navalny's findings.[21]

On March 15, 2017, the Ministry of Justice in Russia filed a claim with the [Supreme Court of the Russian Federation](/source/Supreme_Court_of_Russia) seeking "to declare the religious organization, the Administrative Center of [Jehovah’s Witnesses](/source/Jehovah's_Witnesses), extremist, ban its activity, and liquidate it."[22] Yury Chaika will be heading the prosecution.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Sanctions

In response to the [2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine](/source/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine), on 6 April 2022 the [Office of Foreign Assets Control](/source/Office_of_Foreign_Assets_Control) of the [United States Department of the Treasury](/source/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury) added Chaika to its list of persons sanctioned pursuant to [Executive Order](/source/Executive_order_(United_States)) [14024](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14024).[23]

In July 2022 the European Union imposed sanctions on Chaika in relation to the [2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine](/source/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine).[24]

He was sanctioned by the [UK](/source/UK) government in 2022 in relation to the [Russo-Ukrainian War](/source/Russo-Ukrainian_War).[25]

## Popular culture

In 2016 Russian punk music group *[Pussy Riot](/source/Pussy_Riot)* released the music video "Chaika", sardonically commenting on corruption in the Russian judiciary. The song itself does not directly refer to Chaika, but the music video features women wearing [seagull](/source/Seagull) masks or making hand gestures of a seagull in dance ([chaika (чайка)](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B0#Russian) is the Russian word for seagull).[26][27]

## Awards

- [Order of Honour](/source/Order_of_Honour_(Russia)) — *for great contribution to strengthening the rule of law and many years of conscientious work* (2001)[28]

- [Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"](/source/Order_%22For_Merit_to_the_Fatherland%22) IV class — *for services to the state in strengthening law and order* (2006)*[29]*

- [Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"](/source/Order_%22For_Merit_to_the_Fatherland%22) III class — *for great services to the state in strengthening law and order* (2011)[30]

- [Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour](/source/Russian_Federation_Presidential_Certificate_of_Honour) — *for services in strengthening the rule of law, protection of the rights and legitimate interests of citizens* (2011)[31]

- Order of Honour (South Ossetia, 2011)[32]

- Order of Honour — *for significant contribution to Armenian-Russian cooperation in the field of justice* (Armenia, 2013)[33]

- Order of Friendship — *for significant contribution to the deepening of cooperation between the law enforcement bodies of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation, strengthening and development of Armenian-Russian friendly ties* (Armenia, 2016)[34]

- Order of Friendship (South Ossetia, 2017)[35]

- Medal “100th anniversary of the Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan (1918-2018)” (Azerbaijan, 2019)[36]

- [Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"](/source/Order_%22For_Merit_to_the_Fatherland%22) I class — *for great contribution to ensuring the activities of the President of the Russian Federation and many years of conscientious work*[37]

- [Order of Alexander Nevsky](/source/Order_of_Alexander_Nevsky)[38]

- [Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"](/source/Order_%22For_Merit_to_the_Fatherland%22) II class[39]

- [Honoured Lawyer of Russia](/source/Honoured_Lawyer_of_Russia)[40]

- [Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"](/source/Medal_%22In_Commemoration_of_the_850th_Anniversary_of_Moscow%22)[29]

- [Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy"](/source/Jubilee_Medal_%22300_Years_of_the_Russian_Navy%22)[29]

- [Medal of Zhukov](/source/Medal_of_Zhukov)[29]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Colonel General [Sergei Shishin](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sergei_Shishin&action=edit&redlink=1), former head of the Internal Security Directorate of FSB and current head of the FSB Activities Support Directorate, Colonel General [Vladimir Anisimov](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vladimir_Anisimov&action=edit&redlink=1), former head of the Internal Security Directorate of FSB, Lieutenant General [Alexander Kupryazhkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Kupryazhkin&action=edit&redlink=1), current head of the Internal Security Directorate.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Prosecutors [Dmitry Shokhin](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dmitry_Shokhin&action=edit&redlink=1) and [Kamil Kashaev](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kamil_Kashaev&action=edit&redlink=1) who had prosecuted [YUKOS](/source/YUKOS), head of the department for Investigations of High Importance Cases [Vladimir Lyseiko](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vladimir_Lyseiko&action=edit&redlink=1), oversight directorates heads [Alexander Kizlyk](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Kizlyk&action=edit&redlink=1) and [Vladimir Titov](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vladimir_Titov_(prosecutor)&action=edit&redlink=1).

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## See also

- [Russia portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Russia)
- [Biography portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Biography)
- [Law portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Law)

- [Three Whales Corruption Scandal](/source/Three_Whales_Corruption_Scandal)

## External links

- Media related to [Yuriy Chaika](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Yuriy_Chaika) at Wikimedia Commons

- [Chaika's profile and assets on Russian Asset Tracker](https://cdn.occrp.org/projects/russian-asset-tracker/en/person/14/yury-chaika/)

Legal offices Preceded by Vladimir Ustinov Prosecutor-General of Russia 23 June 2006–22 January 2020 Succeeded by Igor Krasnov Preceded by Yury Skuratov Prosecutor-General of Russia Acting 2 April – 29 July 1999 Succeeded by Vladimir Ustinov Political offices Preceded by Pavel Krasheninnikov Justice Minister of Russia 17 August 1999 – 2 June 2006 Succeeded by Vladimir Ustinov

v t e Prosecutors general of Russia (List) Note: Acting prosecutors general shown in italics Russian Empire Pavel Yaguzhinsky Nikita Trubetskoy Yakov Shakhovsky Alexander Glebov Alexander Vyazemsky Alexander Samoylov Alexey Kurakin Pyotr Lopukhin Alexander Bekleshov Peter Obolyaninov Alexander Bekleshov Soviet Russia Dmitry Kursky Nikolai Janson Nikolai Krylenko Andrey Vyshinsky Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko Faina Nyurina Nikolay Rychkov Ivan Golyakov Mikhail Pankratyev Anatoly Volin Pavel Baranov Alexei Kruglov Vladimir Blinov Boris Kravtsov Sergei Yemelyanov Nikolai Trubin Russian Federation Valentin Stepankov Alexey Kazannik Alexey Ilyushenko Oleg Gaidanov Yury Skuratov Yury Chaika Vladimir Ustinov Yury Chaika Igor Krasnov Aleksandr Gutsan

v t e Ministers of justice of Russia Russian Empire Gavriil Derzhavin Pyotr Lopukhin Ivan Dmitriev Dmitry Troshchinsky Dmitry Lobanov-Rostovsky Alexey Dolgorukov Dmitry Dashkov Dmitry Bludov Viktor Panin Dmitry Zamyatnin Sergey Urusov Konstantin von der Pahlen Dmitry Nabokov Nikolay Manasein Nikolay Muraviev Sergey Manukhin Mikhail Akimov Ivan Shcheglovitov Aleksandr Khvostov Alexander Makarov Nikolay Dobrovolsky Russian Republic Alexander Kerensky Pavel Pereverzev Ivan Yefremov Alexander Zarudny Alexander Demyanov Pavel Malyantovich Soviet Russia Georgy Oppokov Pēteris Stučka Isaac Steinberg Pēteris Stučka Dmitry Kursky Nikolai Janson Nikolai Krylenko Ivan Bulat Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko Yakov Dmitriyev Konstantin Gorshenin Ivan Basavin Fyodor Belayev Anatoly Rubichev Vladimir Boldyrev Alexey Kruglov Vladimir Blinov Alexander Sukharev Vladimir Abolentsev Nikolay Fyodorov Russian Federation Nikolay Fyodorov Yury Kalmykov Valentin Kovalyov Sergei Stepashin Pavel Krasheninnikov Yury Chaika Vladimir Ustinov Aleksandr Konovalov Konstantin Chuychenko

v t e Russian presidential envoys to the federal districts Central Georgy Poltavchenko (2000–11) Oleg Govorun (2011–12) Alexander Beglov (2012–17) Alexey Gordeyev (2017–18) Igor Shchyogolev (2018–present) Northwestern Viktor Cherkesov (2000–03) Valentina Matviyenko (2003) Ilya Klebanov (2003–11) Nikolay Vinnichenko (2011–13) Vladimir Bulavin (2013–16) Nikolay Tsukanov (2016–17) Alexander Beglov (2017–18) Aleksandr Gutsan (2018–25) Igor Rudenya (2025–present) Southern Viktor Kazantsev (2000–04) Vladimir Yakovlev (2004) Dmitry Kozak (2004–07) Grigory Rapota (2007–08) Vladimir Ustinov (2008–present) Volga Sergey Kiriyenko (2000–05) Aleksandr Konovalov (2005–08) Grigory Rapota (2008–11) Mikhail Babich (2011–18) Igor Komarov (2018–present) Ural Pyotr Latyshev (2000–08) Nikolay Vinnichenko (2008–11) Yevgeny Kuyvashev (2011–12) Igor Kholmanskikh (2012–18) Nikolay Tsukanov (2018–20) Vladimir Yakushev (2020–present) Siberian Leonid Drachevsky (2000–04) Anatoly Kvashnin (2004–10) Viktor Tolokonsky (2010–14) Nikolay Rogozhkin (2014–16) Sergey Menyaylo (2016–21) Anatoly Seryshev (2021–present) Far Eastern Konstantin Pulikovsky (2000–05) Kamil Iskhakov (2005–07) Oleg Safonov (2007–09) Viktor Ishayev (2009–13) Yury Trutnev (2013–present) North Caucasian Alexander Khloponin (2010–14) Sergey Melikov (2014–16) Oleg Belaventsev (2016–18) Aleksandr Matovnikov (2018–20) Yury Chaika (2020–present) Crimean Oleg Belaventsev (2014–16)

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