Context: Head of The Investigative Committee of Russia. Responsible for the Kremlin’s sustained campaign of persecution of civil society. Graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1975 and was a university classmate of Vladimir Putin. Head of the federal state body responsible for the criminal prosecution of citizens of the Russian Federation who oppose the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the current political regime in the Russia. head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, participated in efforts to conceal the legal liability for the detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky