Lawyers have a big collection today. A chain of events dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the advocacy is being opened. Leading defenders make proposals on how to increase competition and achieve equality of the parties in litigation. Henry Reznik, President of the Moscow Bar Association, expressed his views.
Henry Markovich, honestly, is a lawyer a real defender in a lawsuit or a decorative figure of democratic justice? Has it been possible to achieve equality between the prosecution and the defense, as prescribed by our Constitution?
Henry Resnick: Of course not. It failed because in professional courts, and this is a bad legacy, the judges have the following attitude: not the presumption of innocence, but the presumption of reliability of the materials of the preliminary investigation. And it is extremely difficult to achieve an acquittal in court, because negative facts are not subject to positive proof. It can be proven that a person has committed a crime. But to prove that he did not commit it is possible only in rare cases, when, for example, an impeccable alibi.
That's what a lawyer is for, in order to break the arguments of the prosecution in the judicial investigation, if they are incorrect, and present, as they say, the bare truth.
Henry Resnick: In life, it turns out that the central stage of our legal proceedings is not a trial, but a preliminary investigation. It goes on for many months, an indictment is being constructed with big amount volumes. There is an initial decision of the court to rewrite the indictment. Sometimes, after all, the verdict is almost indistinguishable ... This is not the attitude of the lawless, here we have a bad inheritance. IN Soviet times The Code of Criminal Procedure set the same tasks for operatives, investigators, prosecutors and judges - all of them had to initiate criminal cases, solve crimes, expose the guilty. And this indictment has not disappeared.
Among lawyers, and not only in the legal community, there is an idea to completely cancel the preliminary investigation, give the lawyer more rights and make a real judicial investigation. This design exists in Europe.
Henry Resnick: It's a difficult question. I'm for a trial. But now such drastic changes are hardly possible. For us, it is necessary to overcome the accusatory bias, to expand the jurisdiction of jury trials. It is they who can break the biased approach, which, alas, is characteristic of professional judges, and not only ours. All of us, professionals, have blurry eyes. The process is like a pipeline, and we are constantly in it. It seems to me that the goal should be this: to reach a new quality of the preliminary investigation, to remove from it the disgrace with the fabrication of custom cases and the extortion of evidence.
Jury trials still consider a limited number of cases. Do you have high hopes for them?
Henry Resnick: If we recall the concept of judicial reform, it was assumed that jury trials would consider all cases of crimes in which the sentence was over five years. And the most interesting thing is that the judiciary community initially accepted the jury trial very well. Do you know what the motivation is?
In which case it's not me, it was they who made such a decision? ..
Henry Resnick: Absolutely correct. It may be primitive, but the judges were somehow liberated. The best judges became presidents of the jury. And then his jurisdiction began to narrow. When criminal cases on terrorism were excluded, espionage, treason, and riots were also excluded from this case. And quite recently they removed bribery, that's really quite interesting. It would seem that jury trials will severely punish corrupt officials, because there is social hatred of people from the street.
But there was another picture. Indeed, according to statistics, approximately 20 percent of cases of qualified bribes were justified by the jury ...
Henry Resnick: Do you know why? Because the fabrication of cases, the provocation of a bribe, were revealed. And it turned out that almost all of this was put on stream. The jury has become a bone in the throat of our law enforcement officers. The presumption of innocence really works there and doubts are interpreted in favor of the accused. It suffices to compare convictions and acquittals in professional courts and in jury trials.
I wonder what is the situation with jury verdicts in other countries?
Henry Resnick: There were polls in America on the verdicts passed by the jury, in the same form as in our country. In about 25 percent, professional judges disagreed with the jury in evaluating evidence. But there is a categorical ban on the abolition of sentences if they are decided by a jury.
We are not Anglo-Saxons, we have a slightly different system of law.
Henry Resnick: Here is the situation. And in tsarist Russia When discussing judicial reform, voices were heard that such a system is unacceptable for us. But then they decided that it was very important for Russia to show the absolute trust of the authorities in the people. And separate fact-finding, give that right to jurors. Imagine, now in this format jury trial is popular in Europe, introduced, for example, in Spain. For post-totalitarian states, the classical form of trial by jury is very important.
How do you feel about the idea of extending jury trials to civil cases, and in general, how do you look at the prospects for its development?
Henry Resnick: I look sad. But I think that the absolutely correct provision of the concept of judicial reform should be implemented. In one part of it, we went in the right direction - we introduced a special procedure for considering cases, which already considers 60 percent of cases. This is a trend that is very developed in America and in Western Europe where there is no dispute on the merits of the charges between the parties.
We have a big, but different dispute. They persuade a person: you confess, make a deal with the investigation and get a minimum. The poor fellow agrees and sits down, and then it turns out that he had nothing to do with it at all. But this is a separate issue.
Henry Resnick: This is a separate issue, but we are talking about something else - if there is no dispute on the merits of the charge, then a simplified procedure is possible. If there is a dispute, in such a case, consideration should be given to a jury. The number of such cases, when the innocent plead guilty, is isolated cases. But I'll tell you what you're right about. He is charged with a crime, and, in general, it is proven. And then they say to him: you know, my friend, we will make a deal, but you take on a couple more undisclosed ones ... That's right, statistics are needed.
In past centuries, eminent lawyers were famous for their eloquence. And now oratory need a protector?
Henry Resnick: Not a lawless person, not a sadist, not a fanatic is sitting in the judge's chair. Initially, he was determined to solve the case objectively. But we, the defense side, need to make more efforts so that he hears us. I talk about this to lawyers all the time. I can say that there were cases when my speeches in court changed the course of the process.
Is it eloquence or a good knowledge of the law that helps you win cases?
Henry Resnick: It determines the moral position of the defender in the case, its rationale and the ability to convince the court that the evidence presented confirms the position of the defense. But there are cases in which there are subtleties and nuances, where it is necessary to analyze the circumstances, to involve the precedents of the European Court, the clarifications of the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court. And in order to be listened to, you should not chew, and in order not to chew, you need to prepare.
In high-profile cases, it is sometimes still unknown what the person is accused of, and the lawyer is already speaking loudly on camera about his innocence. How do you feel about such cases?
Henry Resnick: We wince. It's not professional. This is permissible when the prosecution is the first to go to the press, declares that guilt has been proven and begins to draw a negative image of the accused. The lawyer must, of course, answer to this. In general, defense is a response to accusations. Here everything is decided by professionalism and a certain taste.
Lawyers are now increasingly involved in discussions, some have become regulars in various television shows. This is fine?
Henry Resnick: Here it is necessary to share. The legal profession as a professional community should in no case be politicized. It is a professional legal institution of civil society. Of course, a lawyer has the right to freedom of opinion, he can join political parties. But by doing this you narrow your professional space. How to protect a representative of another party, with different views? I believe that an individual lawyer should not be politicized either.
There has long been a saying: a good lawyer is not one who knows the laws well, but who knows the judge well. Corruption again?
Henry Resnick: I once said: as long as judges take bribes, lawyers will wear them. There was and is corruption in the courts of general jurisdiction, but it is greatly exaggerated. The preliminary investigation is more corrupt. We call such lawyers "collectors", they are a disgrace to the community, but, unfortunately, they still exist.
Are you fighting them?
Henry Resnick: And how to lead it? At one time I was a researcher at the Institute of the Prosecutor's Office, we studied bribery. Only 3 percent of bribes become known, and 97 are latent. I always say to the heads of the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, prosecutors, investigators: look at your archives for abandoned and dismissed cases. And you will see, for some reason, in all these cases there is one or two lawyers. Why do they receive appeals from persons under investigation of such and such an investigator? So, from the very beginning, an investigator or interrogator says to a person: I can help you if you take this particular lawyer. And relationships are built through it. We don't have access to these cases. Unfortunately, they don't hear me.
I can't remember a case where you didn't take your colleague under protection when claims arise. Are they sinless or corporate solidarity?
Henry Resnick: I can say responsibly: the principle of mutual responsibility and "we do not hand over our own" in the Moscow Bar Association has never acted and does not work. If we find out that the client was deceived, the lawyer took the money, but did nothing, or fooled the principal, or entered into an agreement with the initial lack of any possibility of success, we resolutely get rid of such people. Over the past year, the qualification commissions considered about 200 cases and about half were recognized as justified.
And punished?
Henry Resnick: Depending on the severity of the violation, we impose one of three penalties: a remark, a warning about non-compliance with the status, and termination of the status.
Terminating the status, you excommunicate a person from the profession and deprive him of a piece of bread.
Henry Resnick: This must be understood. But here another question arises. We are terminating the status, but the current shameful situation with the provision of legal assistance in the country is not regulated at all. In civil cases, assistance can be provided by anyone. And those whom we expel are established as entrepreneurs and continue to fool people's heads without any threat of being held accountable. This is a huge problem. But we still hope that the idea of uniting the legal community on the principles of advocacy will be implemented.
The Corporation is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the advocacy. Actions go under the motto: "Coercion to justice". Whom and how do the lawyers intend to force?
Henry Resnick: Who came up with it, I don’t know, but the judicial reform was carried out by the will of the liberator Tsar Alexander II. The decree stated the decision "to create a right, speedy, merciful court, to establish the independence of the judiciary and respect for the law, without which the people's well-being is impossible." Given the resistance of the time regarding jury trials and the bar, the reform was a kind of enforcement of fair justice.
What events are planned as part of the anniversary program?
Henry Resnick: A press conference will be held on Monday, a reception will be held on Tuesday, and flowers will be laid on Wednesday at the monument to Alexander II near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Then the events will move to St. Petersburg, where in 1864 there was a capital and the Judicial Charter was adopted. True, the 150th anniversary of the Judicial Reform with all its institutions is being celebrated, but it turns out that only we are celebrating. This leads to certain thoughts.
Anatoly Kucherena, lawyer, member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation:
Your word, attorney at law
“One of the reasons for the disastrous state of our legal proceedings is that the persons who are in business are mostly people of very dubious morality, who do not have any legal information, either theoretical or practical.” This conclusion was made by the State Council during the judicial reform of 1864, initiated by Emperor Alexander II. And he recognized the need to create an advocacy, without which "it will be impossible to conduct a competition in civil and judicial debates in criminal proceedings in order to reveal the truth and present a full defense before the court."
Thus, a fundamentally new advocacy was born, which was represented by two categories: the highest - by sworn attorneys and the lowest - by private attorneys. According to the famous lawyer A.F. Koni, in the new court, with the participation of sworn attorneys, law became "such a force to which the rich and powerful of this world must yield, unless they had the same right on their side." Here it is, the ideal of a fair trial.
Has there been an independent advocacy in the new, today's Russia? In my opinion, it took place. And this is, perhaps, one of the few institutions that actually effectively opposes arbitrariness and lawlessness. It has always been the case that individual officials are trying to tidy up a lawyer. The only question is whether the lawyer himself is able to resist these attempts. I dare say: if a lawyer is guided only by the law, the conscience and the interests of his client, he will not be "broken" by any criminal world, nor some self-serving law enforcement officers, nor civil servants, even of the highest rank.
Of course, as a well-known literary hero said, "man is mortal, and, moreover, suddenly mortal": a lawyer can be destroyed as a kind of biological unit, and such cases, to our common misfortune, take place. But he cannot be made a submissive executor of someone else's evil will. If a lawyer's rights to defense in criminal cases are violated, this is a serious call for the entire legal community. Such persons must be held accountable.
The practice of law is a special culture, and like any culture it is strong and fruitful in its reliance on tradition and continuity. Any "breaks" in this continuity, similar to what happened in our country during the years of the totalitarian dictatorship, are disastrous for this culture. Fortunately, it is never too late to return to the roots and "try on" those moral and professional criteria that were established in the legal environment after the greatest of all the reforms of Alexander II - the judicial one.
Gasan Mirzoev, rector Russian Academy advocacy and notaries, doctor legal sciences, Professor:
Do not promise controversial success
According to the opinion established in society, lawyers should be divided into two informal categories. The first is the so-called solvers, that is, lawyers who often have a weak vocational training and a poorly developed sense of justice, but, having a wide range of connections, they know with whom and for what money they can solve their clients' problems. The second category consists of lawyers who can qualitatively prepare the necessary procedural documents, accept Active participation in court hearings and investigative actions, but they are not always able to justify the high expectations of the principal, that is, to win the case with absolute success.
It is no secret that corruption lives in the law enforcement sphere. Providing legal assistance to their clients, other lawyers enter into not only narrowly professional relations with certain officials, but also into shadow - corrupt ones. How to resist it? The Law on the Bar forbids the secret cooperation of a lawyer with the bodies carrying out operational-search activities. And the Lawyer's Code of Professional Ethics proclaims that the law and morality in the profession of a defender are higher than the will of the principal, and none of his wishes, requests or instructions can be executed if they lead to non-compliance with the law. The code formulates the main requirements and prohibitions in the activities of a lawyer. A lawyer is not entitled to promise a client a positive result if it cannot be achieved only by conscientious performance of his duties. He should not impose his help on persons and make them his trustees, using personal connections with employees of the judiciary and law enforcement agencies, promising to resolve the case in other unworthy ways. For non-compliance with the requirements of the law and the Code of Professional Ethics, a lawyer must be held accountable up to and including deprivation of the status of a lawyer. In this way, our legal community gets rid of unscrupulous and unworthy colleagues.
Former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who was summoned by the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for questioning as a witness in a criminal case on embezzlement of funds from the Bank of Moscow, applied for legal assistance to the President of the Moscow Chamber of Lawyers Henry Reznik, Kommersant newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Henry Reznik - President of the Moscow Chamber of Lawyers, has been advocating since 1985. Defended in criminal trials: Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Khudaiberdyev, journalists Vadim Poegli and Andrey Babitsky, publicist Valeria Novodvorskaya. Represented Russian President Boris Yeltsin in civil proceedings, prominent politicians and entrepreneurs: Anatoly Chubais, Yegor Gaidar, Vladimir Gusinsky and Boris Berezovsky, as well as musicians: Nikolai Petrov, Leonid Chizhik, Yuri Temirkanov and many others.
In 1997, Reznik represented the interests of Russian President Boris Yeltsin in a civil case. Yeltsin was sued by his former assistant, the head of the security service, Korzhakov. Korzhakov sought to cancel the presidential order to dismiss him from the armed forces for "slanderous statements" about the family of Boris Yeltsin and "disclosure of confidential information entrusted to him in his service."
On November 5, 1999, the charges against Berezovsky were dropped and the criminal case against him was dropped.
In the early 2000s, Henry Resnick. Vladimir Gusinsky was arrested on charges of fraud on June 13, 2000. The criminal case and the arrest of Gusinsky were connected with the activities of the state enterprise " Russian video", thanks to whose leadership, according to the prosecutor's office, Gusinsky took possession of Channel 11 of St. Petersburg TV. On June 16, Gusinsky was released on bail. At the end of the same month, all charges against him were dropped, after which he flew out with his family to Spain.
On April 22, 2001, a new charge was brought against Vladimir Gusinsky, and a warrant for his arrest was issued in connection with this. The head of the Media-Most holding was accused not only under the criminal article "fraud", but also under article 174 part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("laundering" of illegally obtained funds on a large scale).
As part of the investigation, Gusinsky was arrested twice - in Spain and Greece, but the courts of these countries refused to extradite him to Russia.
According to Gusinsky's lawyer Henry Reznik, the investigation itself and the criminal prosecution "has nothing to do with law." He agreed with the main conclusion of the Spanish court that there is no crime in these actions, but there are civil law relations, and therefore "there is no very subject for accusation."
On June 23, 2004, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict in the case of the murder of State Duma deputy Sergei Yushenkov. Thus, the court rejected the cassation appeal of the lawyer.
April 17, 2008 Moscow City Court. Adamov's sentence was changed to a suspended sentence with a three-year probationary period.
In 2009, Henry Reznik at the suit of Joseph Stalin's grandson Yevgeny Dzhugashvili. Yevgeny Dzhugashvili filed a lawsuit against the editorial office of the newspaper after the publication of an article by the author Anatoly Yablokov under the heading "Beria found guilty." Stalin's grandson demanded that the newspaper refute several quotes from an article that mentions Stalin and his guilt, and also pay him 10 million rubles in compensation for damage to honor, dignity and reputation.
The court hearings were held with increased public interest, in the presence of supporters of the Stalinist ideology. Verbal skirmishes between Stalin's supporters and lawyer Reznik repeatedly took place in the court corridors.
On October 13, 2009, the Basmanny Court of Moscow dismissed the claim of Joseph Stalin's grandson Yevgeny Dzhugashvili for the protection of honor and dignity against Novaya Gazeta.
In 2010-2011 Oleg Orlov Reznik. Oleg Orlov was charged with defamation of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov in connection with the murder of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova.
Estemirova, an employee of "Memorial" and the winner of many well-known human rights awards, was abducted on the morning of July 15, 2009 in Grozny. Toward evening, her body was found in Ingushetia. The murder caused a great political and public outcry. The head of the Memorial Center, Oleg Orlov, publicly stated that Kadyrov was personally or indirectly responsible for the death of the human rights activist. A criminal case was initiated against Orlov.
On June 14, 2011, the Magistrate of the Khamovniki District of Moscow slandered the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
), taught piano at the Saratov Conservatory.
sports activities
From childhood, he participated in sports competitions. At the age of 15 he became the champion of the RSFSR in high jump among young men younger age. From the age of 16, he played for the adult national teams of Saratov in volleyball and basketball. In was a member of the national team of the RSFSR in basketball, in - in volleyball at the All-Union Spartakiad of schoolchildren. B - participated in the creation of a volleyball team in Tashkent, then was one of the founders and captain of the Dorozhnik volleyball team (Alma-Ata). He was the champion and record holder of Kazakhstan in high jump. He was a member of the Kazakh team "Dynamo", which successfully performed in the second group of the USSR volleyball championship.
Education
Studied at the Faculty of Law of the Central Asian state university(Tashkent, 1957-1959). He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Kazakh State University (; the diploma work "On legal presumptions" was awarded at the All-Union student competition). He graduated from full-time postgraduate studies at the All-Union Institute for the Study of the Causes and Development of Crime Prevention Measures of the USSR Prosecutor's Office (). PhD in Law (1969; topic of dissertation: "Evaluation of evidence based on inner conviction in the Soviet criminal process"). Assistant professor.
Investigator and scientist
Advocate
Since 1985 - a lawyer of the Moscow City Bar Association (MGKA). He recalled the reasons for engaging in advocacy as follows:
My transition to the bar was connected with the "pogrom" of the Moscow Collegium in 1985. Lawyers were accused of inciting bribes or fraudulently taking a client's money. All new criminal cases were being prepared. This massacre was called "Karataevshchina" after the name of the investigator Vladimir Karataev, who led a specially created investigative group. The leadership of the Moscow Collegium invited me to take part in the defense, as an independent person "from the outside", who at the same time has a name in legal circles.
In civil cases, he represented the interests of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Yegor Gaidar, Anatoly Chubais, Alexander Shokhin, writer Andrey Sinyavsky, cultural and art figures Robert Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Temirkanov, Nikolai Petrov, Leonid Chizhik, journalists Alexander Minkin, Pavel Gusev, Natalya Gevorkyan, Evgeny Kiseleva.
This is how he assessed the significance of the case of journalist Vadim Poegli, who was accused of insulting Defense Minister Pavel Grachev:
The decision in the case of accusing a journalist of insulting the Minister of Defense was of precedent value. The case was recognized as having special public significance and transferred to the category of cases of public prosecution. It was possible to prove the illegality of transferring the case from private to public prosecution. After all, the special social significance of the case is determined by the by no means responsible official position of the person. Insult is a crime against a person, not against a position.
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Born May 11, 1938 in Leningrad, in a family of musicians. Father - Reznik Mark Izrailevich (1905-1969), worked as the rector of the Saratov Conservatory, head of the culture department of the Saratov regional committee of the CPSU, director music school Zavodskoy district of Saratov. Mother - Rafalovich Mirra Grigorievna (born in 1910), taught piano at the Saratov Conservatory. Wife - Lvova Larisa Yulianovna, worked as a lawyer. Son - oh Lvov Andrey Genrievich (born in 1967), Orthodox priest. Grandchildren: Savva, Varvara, Seraphim, Ekaterina, Sophia.
Parents instilled in Henry a love for classical music - now he is a frequenter of concerts at the Moscow Conservatory and the P.I. Tchaikovsky, he has a rich music library of classics and jazz. But Henry Reznik did not follow in the footsteps of his parents, he did not become a musician, despite his natural inclinations - in particular, absolute pitch. G.M. himself Reznik believes that at first the war interfered: he remembers well the bombing of Saratov, where the family moved just before the start of the Great Patriotic War in connection with the appointment of his father as rector of the Saratov Conservatory, trips with his mother with concert teams to combat units. After the war ... “I asked my mother why they didn’t teach me music,” recalls G.M. Reznik. - Mom answered that I was restless, it was difficult to seat me at the instrument, and the situation was not conducive to learning - in two rooms of the communal apartment where I spent my childhood, until the end of the 1940s, there were several more people evacuated from Leningrad and Ukraine , - grandmother, aunt, brother and sister of the father with two children.
And then, as Henry Reznik himself puts it, he was “visited” by jumping ability, which determined him for a long time. life path. From the age of 11 G.M. Reznik began regular exercise. At the age of 15, he is already the champion of the Russian Federation in junior high jump. From the age of 16, he has been playing for the adult national teams of Saratov in volleyball and basketball. In 1955, Reznik performed at the All-Union Spartakiad of schoolchildren for the basketball team of the RSFSR, and in 1956 for volleyball.
At the same time, there is an interest in journalism. But Reznik fails to enter the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University after graduating from school in 1956. He is one point short of entrance exams and spends a year at the Institute of Physical Education, where he took exams in parallel for insurance. Volleyball career also does not develop in accordance with ambitious plans. Reznik is taken to the team of MAI masters, but there he ends up in a deep reserve, he is practically not allowed to the site. Reznik himself admits: “I was offended, I thought that they were overwriting me, because I jumped high and hit the ball hard, but in fact the “old men” were stronger (and the “old men” were 22-23 years old).
In 1957, Reznik and several of his ambitious peers, stuck on the benches in the capital's teams, decide to leave Moscow and create their own team in one of the Union republics. The choice fell on Tashkent. But the combination of sports and study as a journalist again fails. At the Central Asian State University, the specialization of a journalist exists only for people of local, Uzbek nationality, and Reznik decides to enter the Faculty of Law. “I thought that if I really have a literary gift, I will write like that,” Reznik recalls. The volleyball team created in Tashkent fails to solve the task - to become one of the finalists at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in 1959. Henry is invited to Alma-Ata. Here he stands at the origins of the creation of the Alma-Ata "Dorozhnik": Reznik is the captain of the team, which later, without him, will become the champion Soviet Union. Henry also becomes the champion and record holder of Kazakhstan in high jump. "At some competitions, I even competed with the great Valery Brumel - we stormed the same height, 2 meters. The difference was small - he started from this height, and I finished on it," Reznik jokingly recalls.
Faculty of Law of the Kazakh State University G.M. Reznik graduated in 1962. By this time, he was already seriously interested in jurisprudence, his thesis "On legal presumptions" was noted at the all-Union student competition, he received a recommendation for admission to graduate school.
But the sport does not let go - after all, he is only 24 years old, his jumping ability has not yet fallen, the university volleyball team, of which he is the captain, is playing better and better. And Reznik puts off his return to Russia by taking a job in the investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan. The new minister, a big fan of volleyball, accepts his condition - to enroll university graduates - volleyball players in the staff of the ministry. The volleyball team of the Kazakh "Dynamo" thunders all over the country, losing only to teammates-Muscovites, and takes prizes in the 2nd group of the USSR championship, and Reznik successfully combines sports with the work of an investigator. He assesses this period of his life as a great success: “After all, I was enrolled immediately in the Republican Investigation Department. The most experienced qualified investigators worked there, who had worked for many years in the field - in cities and regions. I ended up “on top” only thanks to volleyball - no experience in investigative work at all! But this, paradoxically, was luck. Unlike other graduates who were assigned to lower investigative departments and stewed "in their own juice" for a long time, I found myself next to the aces of the investigation and could study every day With special gratitude I remember the highest professionals Viktor Kopeliovich and Yuri Maltsev, who became my teachers. For 4 years, Henry Reznik went from an ordinary investigator to an investigator for especially important cases, investigating more than one major criminal case.
In 1966, Reznik entered full-time graduate school at the All-Union Institute for the Study of the Causes and Development of Crime Prevention Measures of the USSR Prosecutor's Office, 3 years later he graduated from it with a Ph.D. thesis, and remained a researcher at the same institute. In the mid-1960s - early 1970s, the All-Union Institute of the USSR Prosecutor's Office was rightfully considered the center of scientific thought in the field of criminal law disciplines. Outstanding scientists worked there - Igor Ivanovich Kirnets, Vladimir Nikolaevich Kudryavtsev, Boris Sergeevich Nikiforov, Ilya Davydovich Perlov, Alexei Adolfovich Gertsenzon, Vera Isaakovna Kaminskaya, Alexei Alexandrovich Eisman, Alexander Ruvimovich Ratinov, Genrikh Mikhailovich Minkovsky, Inga Borisovna Mikhailovskaya, Alexander Maksimovich Yakovlev. By the way, the institute was famous not only for its scientific seminars, but also for its famous "skits". G.M. Reznik worked there until 1987. During this period, he prepared the monograph "Inner Conviction in the Evaluation of Evidence" (1977), wrote books "The Right to Defense" (1976); "When responsibility comes" (1979); "The constitutional right to protection" (1980), dozens of articles, chapters and sections of scientific courses, comments and teaching aids, conducted a number of criminological studies of crime.
From 1982 to 1985, Reznik headed the research laboratory of the All-Union Institute for the Improvement of Justice Workers (now the Law Academy of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation), where he conducted research on the state of justice in the country and the legal attitudes of judges. During these years, he published articles on issues of criminal procedure, criminal law and criminology.
Of the numerous scientific papers G.M. Reznik, according to the estimates of legal scholars and practitioners and the citation index, most often stand out: "The identity of the offender: legal and criminological content" (1981); " Public opinion as a factor in planning the fight against crime "(1982); "On the definition of the concept of crime" (1986); "Contradictions of modern urbanization and crime" (1985); "Lawyer: the prestige of the profession" (1987). Two last works published in the central scientific journal"Soviet State and Law" (now "State and Law") were marked as the best articles of the year.
The work of researcher G.M. Reznik combined with teaching. He lectured and conducted classes on special courses he created on criminology, criminal law and criminal procedure in such educational institutions, as the Institute for the Improvement of Investigators, the Institute for Advanced Training of Prosecutors, the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, Law Academy and others.
In 1985, Reznik became a lawyer at the Moscow City Bar Association, in 1989-91 he headed the Research Institute of Advocacy. Over the years of law practice, G.M. Reznik participated in many major trials. He defended in criminal cases the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan N. Khudaiberdiev, the prosecutor of the Ochamchira district of Abkhazia V. Gurjua, the head of the security service of the President of the USSR, General Yu. Plekhanov (in the case of the State Emergency Committee). His trustees were politician and publicist V. Novodvorskaya, pacifist-refusenik A. Pronozin, journalists V. Poegli, A. Babitsky, O. Kitova, environmentalists A. Nikitin and G. Pasko, writer V. Sorokin, well-known entrepreneurs V. Ryashentsev ( case of the concern "ANT"), V. Gusinsky, B. Berezovsky. In civil cases, he represented the interests of the President of Russia B. Yeltsin, prominent politicians and statesmen E. Gaidar, A. Chubais, A. Shokhin, writer A. Sinyavsky, cultural and art figures R. Rozhdestvensky, Yu. Temirkanov, N. Petrov, L. Chizhik. Becoming a lawyer, G.M. Reznik continues scientific and pedagogical activity. Currently, he heads the Department of Advocacy at the Law University at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Special place in professional activity jurist Reznik is engaged in journalism. In 1987, Reznik's articles "Time to Dispel the Myths" and "From Myths to Truth" were published in the Moskovskaya Pravda newspaper, devoted to the need for a radical restructuring of our legal system. Since then, sharp analytical articles and Reznik's interviews have been regularly published in leading periodicals.
G.M. Reznik is President of the Moscow Chamber of Advocates, Vice President of the Federal Union of Lawyers of Russia, Vice President of the International Union (Commonwealth) of Lawyers, Director of the Research Institute of Advocacy. Member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, member of the Presidium of the Russian Jewish Congress, member of the Presidium of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, member of the Council for the Improvement of Justice under the President of Russia. Honored Lawyer of Russia, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor; was awarded the gold medal named after F.N. Plevako (1998) for high professional skills and contribution to the development of the Russian legal profession, the Badge of Honor "Public Recognition" (2000) for active human rights activities and contribution to the development of an independent legal profession.
He is fond of sports, music, theater, poetry.
Lives in Moscow.
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Vladimir Sologub 21.01.2007 08:07:37
As you once jumped with Brumel, I lived with you in the same room at the Sport Hotel in Alma-Ata in 1962. Thank you for your help in entering the institute, for your kind attitude when you called me to the KGB in 1965. I live in St. Petersburg, still work. The youngest son gave a computer a month ago,
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Vladimir Sologub 21.01.2007 08:30:20
I did not have time to depart, as they had already delivered. He told his wife how they lived in Alma-Ata. Ski jumper only, multiple champion of Kazakhstan, etc. Sologub. Sorry for the messy message.
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Date of Birth: 11.05.1938
Citizenship: Russia
Born May 11, 1938 in Leningrad, in a family of musicians. Father - Reznik Mark Izrailevich (1905-1969), worked as the rector of the Saratov Conservatory, head of the culture department of the Saratov regional committee of the CPSU, director of the music school of the Zavodskoy district of Saratov. Mother - Rafalovich Mirra Grigorievna (born in 1910), taught piano at the Saratov Conservatory. Wife - Lvova Larisa Yulianovna, worked as a lawyer. Son - oh Andrey Genrievich Lvov (born in 1967), Orthodox priest. Grandchildren: Savva, Varvara, Seraphim, Ekaterina, Sophia.
Parents instilled in Henry a love for classical music - now he is a frequenter of concerts at the Moscow Conservatory and the P.I. Tchaikovsky, he has a rich music library of classics and jazz. But Henry Reznik did not follow in the footsteps of his parents, he did not become a musician, despite his natural inclinations - in particular, absolute pitch. G.M. himself Reznik believes that at first the war interfered: he remembers well the bombing of Saratov, where the family moved just before the start of the Great Patriotic War in connection with the appointment of his father as rector of the Saratov Conservatory, trips with his mother with concert teams to combat units. After the war ... “I asked my mother why they didn’t teach me music,” recalls G.M. Reznik. - Mom answered that I was restless, it was difficult to seat me at the instrument, and the situation was not conducive to learning - in two rooms of the communal apartment where I spent my childhood, until the end of the 1940s, there were several more people evacuated from Leningrad and Ukraine , - grandmother, aunt, brother and sister of the father with two children.
And then, as Henry Reznik himself puts it, he was “visited” by jumping ability, which determined his life path for a long time. From the age of 11 G.M. Reznik began regular exercise. At the age of 15, he is already the champion of the Russian Federation in junior high jump. From the age of 16, he has been playing for the adult national teams of Saratov in volleyball and basketball. In 1955, Reznik performed at the All-Union Spartakiad of schoolchildren for the basketball team of the RSFSR, and in 1956 for volleyball.
At the same time, there is an interest in journalism. But Reznik fails to enter the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University after graduating from school in 1956. He lacks one point in the entrance exams and spends a year at the Institute of Physical Education, where he took exams in parallel for insurance. Volleyball career also does not develop in accordance with ambitious plans. Reznik is taken to the team of MAI masters, but there he ends up in a deep reserve, he is practically not allowed to the site. Reznik himself admits: “I was offended, I thought that they were overwriting me, because I jumped high and hit the ball hard, but in fact the “old men” were stronger (and the “old men” were 22-23 years old).
In 1957, Reznik and several of his ambitious peers, stuck on the benches in the capital's teams, decide to leave Moscow and create their own team in one of the Union republics. The choice fell on Tashkent. But the combination of sports and study as a journalist again fails. At the Central Asian State University, the specialization of a journalist exists only for people of local, Uzbek nationality, and Reznik decides to enter the Faculty of Law. “I thought that if I really have a literary gift, I will write like that,” Reznik recalls. The volleyball team created in Tashkent fails to solve the task - to become one of the finalists at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in 1959. Henry is invited to Alma-Ata. Here he stands at the origins of the creation of the Alma-Ata "Dorozhnik": Reznik is the captain of the team, which later, without him, will become the champion of the Soviet Union. Henry also becomes the champion and record holder of Kazakhstan in high jump. "At some competitions, I even competed with the great Valery Brumel - we stormed the same height, 2 meters. The difference was small - he started from this height, and I finished on it," Reznik jokingly recalls.
Faculty of Law of the Kazakh State University G.M. Reznik graduated in 1962. By this time, he was already seriously interested in jurisprudence, his thesis "On legal presumptions" was noted at the all-Union student competition, he received a recommendation for admission to graduate school.
But the sport does not let go - after all, he is only 24 years old, his jumping ability has not yet fallen, the university volleyball team, of which he is the captain, is playing better and better. And Reznik puts off his return to Russia by taking a job in the investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan. The new minister, a big fan of volleyball, accepts his condition - to enroll university graduates - volleyball players in the staff of the ministry. The volleyball team of the Kazakh "Dynamo" thunders all over the country, losing only to teammates-Muscovites, and takes prizes in the 2nd group of the USSR championship, and Reznik successfully combines sports with the work of an investigator. He assesses this period of his life as a great success: “After all, I was enrolled immediately in the Republican Investigation Department. The most experienced qualified investigators worked there, who had worked for many years in the field - in cities and regions. I ended up “on top” only thanks to volleyball - no experience in investigative work at all! But this, paradoxically, was luck. Unlike other graduates who were assigned to lower investigative departments and stewed "in their own juice" for a long time, I found myself next to the aces of the investigation and could study every day With special gratitude I remember the highest professionals Viktor Kopeliovich and Yuri Maltsev, who became my teachers. For 4 years, Henry Reznik went from an ordinary investigator to an investigator for especially important cases, investigating more than one major criminal case.
In 1966, Reznik entered full-time graduate school at the All-Union Institute for the Study of the Causes and Development of Crime Prevention Measures of the USSR Prosecutor's Office, 3 years later he graduated from it with a Ph.D. thesis, and remained a researcher at the same institute. In the mid-1960s - early 1970s, the All-Union Institute of the USSR Prosecutor's Office was rightfully considered the center of scientific thought in the field of criminal law disciplines. Outstanding scientists worked there - Igor Ivanovich Kirnets, Vladimir Nikolaevich Kudryavtsev, Boris Sergeevich Nikiforov, Ilya Davydovich Perlov, Alexei Adolfovich Gertsenzon, Vera Isaakovna Kaminskaya, Alexei Alexandrovich Eisman, Alexander Ruvimovich Ratinov, Genrikh Mikhailovich Minkovsky, Inga Borisovna Mikhailovskaya, Alexander Maksimovich Yakovlev. By the way, the institute was famous not only for its scientific seminars, but also for its famous "skits". G.M. Reznik worked there until 1987. During this period, he prepared the monograph "Inner Conviction in the Evaluation of Evidence" (1977), wrote books "The Right to Defense" (1976); "When responsibility comes" (1979); "The constitutional right to protection" (1980), dozens of articles, chapters and sections of scientific courses, comments and methodological manuals, a number of criminological studies of crime have been carried out.
From 1982 to 1985, Reznik headed the research laboratory of the All-Union Institute for the Improvement of Justice Workers (now the Law Academy of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation), where he conducted research on the state of justice in the country and the legal attitudes of judges. During these years, he published articles on issues of criminal procedure, criminal law and criminology.
From the numerous scientific works of G.M. Reznik, according to the estimates of legal scholars and practitioners and the citation index, most often stand out: "The identity of the offender: legal and criminological content" (1981); "Public opinion as a factor in planning the fight against crime" (1982); "On the question of the definition of the concept of crime" (1986); "Contradictions of Modern Urbanization and Crime" (1985); "Lawyer: the prestige of the profession" (1987). The last two works, published in the central scientific journal "Soviet State and Law" (now "State and Law"), were marked as the best articles of the year.
The work of researcher G.M. Reznik combined with teaching. He gave lectures and conducted classes on the special courses he created on criminology, criminal law and criminal procedure in such educational institutions as the Institute for the Improvement of Investigators, the Institute for the Advanced Training of Prosecutors, the Academy of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Law Academy and others.
In 1985, Reznik became a lawyer at the Moscow City Bar Association, in 1989-91 he headed the Research Institute of Advocacy. Over the years of law practice, G.M. Reznik participated in many major trials. He defended in criminal cases the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan N. Khudaiberdiev, the prosecutor of the Ochamchira district of Abkhazia V. Gurjua, the head of the security service of the President of the USSR, General Yu. Plekhanov (in the case of the State Emergency Committee). His trustees were politician and publicist V. Novodvorskaya, pacifist-refusenik A. Pronozin, journalists V. Poegli, A. Babitsky, O. Kitova, environmentalists A. Nikitin and G. Pasko, writer V. Sorokin, well-known entrepreneurs V. Ryashentsev ( case of the concern "ANT"), V. Gusinsky, B. Berezovsky. In civil cases, he represented the interests of the President of Russia B. Yeltsin, prominent politicians and statesmen E. Gaidar, A. Chubais, A. Shokhin, writer A. Sinyavsky, cultural and art figures R. Rozhdestvensky, Yu. Temirkanov, N. Petrov, L Chizhik. Becoming a lawyer, G.M. Reznik continues his scientific and pedagogical activity. Currently, he heads the Department of Advocacy at the Law University at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Publicism occupies a special place in the professional activity of the jurist Reznik. In 1987, Reznik's articles "Time to Dispel the Myths" and "From Myths to Truth" were published in the Moskovskaya Pravda newspaper, devoted to the need for a radical restructuring of our legal system. Since then, sharp analytical articles and Reznik's interviews have been regularly published in leading periodicals.
G.M. Reznik is President of the Moscow Chamber of Advocates, Vice President of the Federal Union of Lawyers of Russia, Vice President of the International Union (Commonwealth) of Lawyers, Director of the Research Institute of Advocacy. Member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, member of the Presidium of the Russian Jewish Congress, member of the Presidium of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, member of the Council for the Improvement of Justice under the President of Russia. Honored Lawyer of Russia, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor; was awarded the gold medal named after F.N. Plevako (1998) for high professional skills and contribution to the development of the Russian legal profession, the Badge of Honor "Public Recognition" (2000) for active human rights work and contribution to the development of an independent legal profession.
He is fond of sports, music, theater, poetry.
