Oleg Mikhailovich SVIRIDENKO

Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation

En tant que vice-ministre de la justice de la Fédération de Russie, Oleg Sviridenko supervise directement le département de la législation et de l’application des lois dans la sphère des organisations non commerciales ainsi que le département de la protection des intérêts nationaux contre l’influence extérieure, qui sont chargés de faire appliquer la législation sur les "agents de l’étranger", y compris le pouvoir de décider des inscriptions sur la liste des "agents de l’étranger". La législation sur les "agents de l’étranger" a été au cœur d’une vague de lois répressives qui répriment la société civile indépendante, les médias et les personnes dissidentes, violant ainsi leur liberté d’opinion et d’expression. Par suite, des centaines d’ONG et de personnes, de nombreuses personnalités de la société civile russe et des opposants politiques au Kremlin, dont Vladimir Kara-Murza, ont été inscrits sur la liste des "agents de l’étranger" relevant directement de la responsabilité de M. Sviridenko, au sein du ministère de la justice de la Fédération de Russie. Par conséquent, M. Sviridenko est responsable de graves violations des droits de l’homme en Russie, y compris de violations de la liberté d’opinion et d’expression.

From 2014 to 2020 - Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. As a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, upheld the verdict against Oleg and Alexei Navalny in the Yves Rocher case, despite the ECtHR ruling that this verdict was unjust. Currently serves as Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation; his responsibilities include, in particular, enforcement of the foreign agent law that requires anyone who receives "support" from outside of Russia or is under "influence" from outside of Russia to register and declare themselves as foreign agents. The law was specifically designed and is being used to constrain independent NGOs and suppress the opposition and free media.

Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation. Manages a state body of the Russian Federation, which supports or implements actions or policies that undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.

As a public servant, Sviridenko must declare his income and real estate holdings. In order to avoid declaring a mansion on the French Riviera worth more than 700 thousand euro, and multiple luxury properties in Russia, he enacted a fraudulent "divorce" scheme so that all of the properties were registered in the name his "former" wife Natalya Poluychik.

Russian lawyer, judge