The Commission is a coordinating body established to ensure a unified state approach to protecting the rights and interests of minors.
The Commission has the following responsibilities:
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to coordinate the work of federal and regional executive bodies aimed at enforcing the legislation covering prevention of neglect, juvenile delinquency, and protection of minors' rights;
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to develop coordinated approaches to handling priority issues, such as prevention of neglect, juvenile delinquency, and protection of minors' rights.
Composition of the Government Commission on Protecting the
Rights of Minors
Olga Golodets - Deputy Prime Minister (Chairperson of the Commission);
Alexander Gorovoy - First Deputy Minister of the Interior (Deputy Chairman of the Commission);
Igor Remorenko - Deputy Minister of Education and Science (Deputy Chairman of the Commission);
Alu Alkhanov - Deputy Minister of Justice;
Sergei Aristov - State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Transport;
Pavel Astakhov - Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights (external advisor);
Olga Batalina - Deputy Chairperson of the State Duma Committee on Family Affairs, Women, and Children (external advisor);
Alexei Velichko - Deputy Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service;
Sergei Vitelis - Deputy Head of the Department for State Policy on Children’s Rights at the Ministry of Education and Science (Executive Secretary of the Commission);
Alexei Vovchenko - Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Security;
Gennady Gatilov - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Zinaida Dragunkina - Chairperson of the Federation Council’s Committee on -Science, Education, Culture, and Information Policy (external advisor);
Marina Yegorova - President of the National Foundation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (external advisor);
Oleg Zykov - Director of the Institute for a Drug Free Nation at the Civic Chamber (external advisor);
Grigory Ivliyev - State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Culture;
Vladimir Kalanda - First Deputy Head of the Federal Drug Control Service;
Pavel Kolobkov - Deputy Minister of Sport;
Olga Kostina - Head of the Inter-Commission Working Group on Children’s Issues and Family Affairs (external advisor);
Vladimir Lukin - Human Rights Ombudsman (external advisor);
Sergei Malusha - Deputy Head of the Government’s Administrative Department;
Yelena Mizulina - Chairperson of the State Duma Committee on Family Affairs, Women, and Children (external advisor);
Nikolai Pankov - State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Defence;
Valentina Petrenko - Authorized representative of the Federation Council for Cooperation with the Human Rights Ombudsman and the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights (external advisor);
Leonid Romanov - General Director of the Centre for Helping Homeless Children charity at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (external advisor);
Valery Ryazansky - Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy (external advisor);
Lyudmila Tropina - Advisor to the Governor of the Moscow Region;
Alexander Chupriyan - Deputy Minister of Civil Defence, Emergencies, and Disaster Relief;
Tsisana Shamlikashvili - President of the Scientific and Methodological Centre for Mediation and Law, an independent non-profit organisation (external advisor);
Tatyana Yakovleva - Deputy Minister of Healthcare.