Valery Zorkin

Valery Zorkin
Валерий Зорькин
Zorkin in 2023
President of the Constitutional Court of Russia
Assumed office
21 February 2003
PresidentVladimir Putin
Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
Preceded byMarat Baglai
In office
29 October 1991 – 6 October 1993
PresidentBoris Yeltsin
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byNikolay Vitruk (acting)
Vladimir Tumanov
Judge of the Constitutional Court of Russia
Assumed office
29 October 1991
Personal details
Born (1943-02-18) 18 February 1943 (age 81)
Konstantinovka, Primorsky Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1970–1991)
Alma materMoscow State University (Faculty of Law)
Zorkin and Putin, March 2003
Zorkin after swearing Putin into office during his fourth inauguration ceremony, 7 May 2018
Zorkin and Putin in May 2023. Zorkin was showing a map of the 17th century made by the French. He exclaimed, "Why did I bring this? Mr President, there is no Ukraine here."
Zorkin, former President Dmitry Medvedev, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, and Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov at the 2023 Moscow Victory Day Parade

Valery Dmitrievich Zorkin (Russian: Вале́рий Дми́триевич Зо́рькин; born 18 February 1943) is a Russian jurist serving as the 4th and current President of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. He also served as the 1st President of the Constitutional Court in 1991-1993.

As of 2024, Zorkin is the oldest high-ranking officeholder in Russia.[1]

  1. ^ "ТАСС, 23 сентября 2023. Биография председателя Конституционного суда России Валерия Зорькина" (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-06-04.

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