Piskarev Vasily

Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia political party.

Date and place of birth: November 8, 1963, Shilovka, Kursk region. Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia political party. Co-chairman of the commission of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for consideration of federal budget expenditures aimed at ensuring national defense, national security and law enforcement, member of the commission of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on parliamentary ethics, chairman of the State Duma committee on security and anti-corruption.

Since 2016 - Member of the State Duma from the United Russia party. 2012-2016 - First Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. 2011-2012 - Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. 2011 - Acting Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. 2008-2011 - Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. 2008 - Head of the Main Directorate of Procedural Control of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. 2007-2008 - Head of the Department for Control over Investigative Bodies of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

2006-2007 - Head of the Department for Supervision of Operational-Investigative and Procedural Activities of the Federal Drug Control Service and the Ministry of Justice of Russia of the Department for Supervision of Procedural and Operational-Investigative Activities of the Federal Drug Control Service, FCS and the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. 2006 - Acting Head of the Branch of the Specialized State Institution under the Government of the Russian Federation “Russian Federal Property Fund” in St. Petersburg, Leningrad Region. 2005-2006 - Head of the North-West Interregional Branch of the Russian Federal Property Fund. 2005 - First Deputy Head of the North-West Interregional Branch of the Russian Federal Property Fund.

2001-2005 - Deputy Prosecutor of the Leningrad Region. 1995-2001 - Vsevolozhsk city prosecutor of the Leningrad region. 1993-1995 - Head of the Department for Supervision over the Execution of Laws on Federal Security and Interethnic Relations of the Prosecutor's Office of the Leningrad Region. 1993 - Senior Assistant to the Prosecutor of the Leningrad Region for Supervision over the Execution of Laws on Federal Security and Interethnic Relations. 1989-1993 - Deputy Vsevolozhsk City Prosecutor of the Leningrad Region. 1987-1989 - Senior Investigator of the Vsevolozhsk City Prosecutor's Office of the Leningrad Region. 1985 - Investigator of the Prosecutor's Office of the Nyukse District of the Vologda Region.

In 1984, he graduated from the Rudenko Law Institute.

Piskarev is the head of the State Duma Commission to investigate the facts of interference by foreign states in the internal affairs of Russia and the author of legislative initiatives aimed at combating civil society and non-systemic opposition. He initiated and introduced a bill banning the participation of Russian citizens and legal entities in the activities of undesirable organizations outside Russia. At the moment, 49 foreign and international organizations are on the list of undesirable organizations.. Ex-coordinators of the Open Russia movement Yana Antonova, Maxim Vernikov and Anastasia Shevchenko were convicted For cooperation with an “undesirable organization.” The defendant in the criminal case under Article 284 (carrying out activities of an undesirable organization) is an opposition politician and former executive director of Open Russia, Andrei Pivovarov, who was detained on May 31, 2021 at Pulkovo airport while trying to leave Russia.

Piskarev is a co-author of a bill prohibiting members and sponsors of organizations recognized as “extremist” from running for parliament. Thus, citizens of the Russian Federation may be deprived of the constitutionally guaranteed right to be elected on the basis of ties with organizations whose activities are considered extremist for political reasons. Other co-authors of the bill, MPs Alshevskikh, Kurbanov, Savelyev, Chepa, and Shkhagoshev are also included in Putin's List.