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The Supreme Court elected Vsevolod Knyazev as the chairman of the court. 98 out of 169 judges voted for his candidacy at the plenum.
The newly elected head of the court will take office on December 1 for a period of 4 years.
Knyazev worked as a secretary of the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court. Previously, he was the chairman of the Nikolaev District Administrative Court. In addition, he has a lawyer's certificate..
The election of the head of the court was held by secret ballot. Oleg Tkachuk, a judge of the Civil Court of Cassation, who was previously the head of the Council of Judges (received 7 votes), and Vladimir Pogrebnyak, a judge of the Economic Court of Cassation (49 votes), also claimed this position..
Earlier, the head of the Supreme Court Valentina Danishevskaya announced that she was resigning.. This was reported by the "