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The Public Chamber (In Russian: Общественная палата) is a state institution with 126 members created in 2005 in Russia to analyze draft legislation and monitor the activities of the parliament, government and other government bodies of Russia and its Federal Subjects. It has a role similar to an oversight committee and has consultative powers. A convocation of the chamber is in power for a two-year term. The President of Russia (ru: Президент России is the highest position within the Government of Russia. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: ) (born October 7, 1952) is the incumbent President of Russia. ... Sergey Semyonovich Sobyanin Sergey Semyonovich Sobyanin (Russian: ; born July 21, 1958 in the village of Nyaksimvol of Beryozovsky District of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) is the governor of Tyumen Oblast, Russian state and political figure, head of the Administration of the President of Russia. ... The Prime Minister of Russia is the current Head of Government of the Russian Federation. ... Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov (Russian: Михаи́л Ефи́мович Фрадко́в) (born September 1, 1950) is a Russian politician, and the current Prime Minister of Russia. ... Federal Assembly of Russia (Федеральное Собрание) is the name of the parliament of the Russian Federation, according to the Constitution of Russian Federation, 1993. ... The Federation Council of Russia (Совет Федерации, Sovet Federatsii) is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (parliament of the Russian Federation), according to the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with State Duma. ... The Russian judiciary has judicial appeal and judicial review at the level of the Supreme Court. ... Constitutional Court of Russian Federation (Russian: Конституционный Суд Российской Федерации) is a high court which is empowered to rule on whether or not certain laws or presidential decrees are in fact contrary to the Constitution of Russia. ... The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (Russian: ) is the final instance in administrative law, civil law and criminal law cases. ... The Supreme Court of Arbitration of the Russian Federation is the final instance in commercial disputes in Russia. ... Political parties in Russia lists political parties in Russia. ... Politics of Russia Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Russia ... Presidential elections were held in the Russian Federation on March 26, 2000. ... Presidential elections were held in the Russian Federation on March 14, 2004. ... The Russian Presidential election of 2008, scheduled to be held in March 2008, is widely expected to be a three-horse race between the official Kremlin-backed candidate, the candidate of the left-wing nationalist forces and the nominee of the democratic opposition. ... Legislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on December 7, 2003. ... Russia will have Duma elections on December 2, 2007. ... Russia is a federation which consists of 88 subjects (Russian: ; English transliteration: subyekty, sing. ... Russias human rights record remains uneven and has worsened in some areas since the 1990s. ... Regarding the foreign relations of Russia, Russia has taken important steps to become a full partner in the worlds principal political groupings. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The politics of Russia (the Russian Federation) take place in a framework of a federal presidential republic, whereby the President of Russia is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. ... Russia is a federation which consists of 88 subjects (Russian: ; English transliteration: subyekty, sing. ...

Creation of the Chamber

The creation of the chamber was suggested by Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, on September 13, 2004, following the Beslan school hostage crisis.^[1] Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: ) (born October 7, 1952) is the incumbent President of Russia. ... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan Massacre) began when armed Muslim terrorists[1] took more than 1200 school children and adults hostage on September 1, 2004, at School Number One (SNO) in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia. ...

The Public Chamber was organized according to the federal law On the Public Chamber of Russian Federation (Full text in Russian: [1]), that had been approved by the State Duma on March 16, by the Federation Council of Russia on March 23, had been signed by the President on April 4, had been published on April 7 and had come into force on July 1, 2005. Emblem commemorating the 100 year anniversary of Russia Dumas Boris Gryzlov, speaker of the Russian State Duma since December 2003 The State Duma (Russian: Государственная дума (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), common abbreviation: Госдума (Gosduma)) in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (legislature), the upper house being the Federation... March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in leap years). ... The Federation Council of Russia (Совет Федерации, Sovet Federatsii) is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (parliament of the Russian Federation), according to the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation. ... March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in leap years). ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

According to the law, on September 30, 2005, the President selected 42 members of the chamber who were supposed to have distinguished merit for the state and society. In August Putin officially invited Yulia Gorodnicheva (b. December 16, 1985), an undergraduate student of Tula State University and one of the members of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi whom Putin had invited to a meeting at his residence in Zavidovo , Tver Oblast, on June 26, 2005, to become a member of the chamber^[2], but she refused to be selected by the President and on November 15 entered the second part of the chamber. She became a member of the Commission on Social Development. [2] On November 15, 2005, the second part of the Chamber was organized as the first 42 members had elected 42 more deputies from All-Russia public assiociations. On December 23, 2005, These 84 members in turn elected 42 representatives of regional and interregional public assiociations (List of the members of the Public Chamber in Russian: [3]). To qualify for the procedures, public associations had to be registered as such at least a year before July 1, 2005. September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nashi is a Russian anti-fascist youth movement, formed officially by Vasilii Yakemenko (leader of the pro-Putin Walking together youth movement) on 1st March 2005. ... Tver Oblast (Russian: Тверска́я о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The first session of the chamber was opened on January 22, 2006. The chamber has been headed by Yevgeny Velikhov, Secretary of the Public Chamber. He is a physicist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Russian Academy of Sciences: main building Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ...

Members of the First Convocation

Selected by the President

• Sergey Abakumov
• Damba Ayusheev
• Mavlit Bazhaev
• Lidia Blokhina
• Galina Bogolyubova
• Leo Bokeria
• Maria Bolshakova
• Leonid Borodin
• Yevgeny Velikhov
• Ravil Gaynutdin
• Vyacheslav Glazychev
• Vladimir Govorov
• Pavel Gusev
• Lyubov Dukhanina
• Elena Yershova
• Alexander Yefimov
• Vladimir Zakharov
• Elena Zelinskaya
• Oleg Zykov
• Tamara Ilyina
• Alina Kabaeva
• Alexander Kalyagin
• metropolitan Kliment (Kapalin)
• Yaroslav Kuzminov
• Anatoly Kucherena
• Berl Lazar
• Alexander Lomakin-Rumyantsev
• Lyudmila Lysenko
• Marina Medvedeva
• Vyacheslav Nikonov
• Alexandra Ochirova
• Irina Rodnina
• Leonid Roshal
• Sergey Ryakhovsky
• Eduard Sagalaev
• Aydan Salakhova
• Maria Slobodskaya
• Valery Tishkov
• Valery Fadeev
• Vladimir Fedosov
• Alexey Chadaev
• Mikhail Shmakov
• Alexander Shokhin

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Representatives of All-Russia public assiociations

• Alexander Afonichev
• Alexander Baranov
• Sergey Borisov
• Valery Ganichev
• Elmira Glubokovskaya
• Yulia Gorodnicheva
• Vladislav Grib
• Alexander Zharkov
• Gennady Zaytsev
• Alexander Ignatenko
• Kamilzhan Kalandarov
• Anatoly Karpov
• Sergey Katyrin
• Roza Klementyeva
• Alexey Kozyrev
• Sergey Kushnarev
• Dmitry Lipskerov
• bishop Longin (Korchagin)
• Galina Malanicheva
• Sergey Markov
• Andranik Migranyan
• Gasan Mirzoev
• Viktor Mishin
• Vladimir Potanin
• Andrey Przhezdomsky
• Elena Proklova
• Alla Pugacheva
• Sergey Puzin
• Genri Reznik
• Oleg Rozhnov
• Anatoly Savchenko
• Nikolay Svanidze
• Elena Semerikova
• Anatoly Starodubets
• Pavel Sulyandziga
• Boris Titov
• Girigory Tomchin
• Mikhail Fridman
• Igor Chestin
• Sergey Shabanov
• Karen Shakhnazarov
• Alexander Shkolnik

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Representatives of regional and interregional public assiociations

• Sergey Abramov
• Alexander Adamsky
• Tatyana Alexeeva
• Fazu Alieva
• Vladimir Belozerov
• Vladimir Bondarenko
• Nadezhda Vavilina
• Valery Vasilyev
• Leonid Guselnikov
• Nikolay Derzhavin
• Elena Dyakova
• Viktor Zabolotsky
• Alexander Zarubin
• Valentina Kirillina
• Konstantin Kuzminykh
• Sergey Lazurenko
• Lidia Lebedeva
• Georgy Mayer
• Anatoly Makeev
• Iskhak Mashbash
• Vladimir Melnikov
• Sergey Minko
• Kirill Mireysky
• Vladimir Moshkov
• Oleg Neterebsky
• Yury Novikov
• Natalya Ondar
• David Pashaev
• Nikolay Peterov
• Amirkhan Samirkhanov
• Valentina Sokolova
• Khusayn Soltagereev
• Alexander Titov
• Yury Tototto
• Oleg Tretyakov
• Roza Tufetulova
• bishop Feofan (Ashurkov)
• Konstantin Frolov
• Zurab Tsereteli
• Mikhail Sholokhov
• Svetlana Yaroslavova

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References and notes

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External links

• Official site (in Russian)