Putin Appoints USLU Graduates as Deputy Prosecutors General

Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Sergey Bazhutov and Sergey Tabelsky as deputy prosecutors general of the Russian Federation.

Both new deputies are graduates of Ural State Law University (USLU). According to the procedure, the president submitted these candidates after consultations with the Federation Council, and the senators supported them.

Biographies of the appointees

Sergey Bazhutov was born in 1966 in Kazakhstan. In 1991 he graduated from the law institute in Sverdlovsk. His career in the prosecutor«s office includes work in Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin Oblast and Kamchatka Krai. Bazhutov also headed the prosecutor»s offices of Novgorod Oblast and the Komi Republic. Since 2020, he has headed the main criminal-judicial department of the Prosecutor General«s Office.

Sergey Tabelsky was born in 1967 in Orenburg Oblast. He graduated from the same Sverdlovsk law institute in 1993. Starting his career as a trainee in the prosecutor«s office of his home region, he eventually became deputy regional prosecutor. From 2013 to 2017, Tabelsky held the post of prosecutor of Kaliningrad Oblast, and then, until his current appointment, he was prosecutor of Krasnodar Krai.

Earlier in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Tatyana Titova was appointed children«s rights commissioner; she previously worked as an associate professor in the international law department of USLU.