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Former TraCCC Centers in Russia
From 1998-2003, TraCCC operated centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg,
and from 1997-2005 it operated a center in Irkutsk. Their websites still
contain reports about the work conducted in those years. These centers
continued to function, demonstrating the sustainability of TraCCC projects
in Russia once US government funding ends. The Moscow center went on
to provide advice to the State Duma on new anti-crime legislation, while
the St. Petersburg center continues to hold summer schools and conduct
other research projects. Their contact details and organizational biographies
(current at the time of conclusion) appear below.
The Moscow Center
The Moscow Center, housed at the prestigious Institute of State
and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, brought together distinguished
scholars from various institutes in Moscow engaged in research, advising
policymakers and drafting laws to combat organized crime, corruption
and terrorism. The Moscow Center 's small and large grants program had
a broad reach. A database of all research conducted under the TraCCC
banner is available online, and the Center continues to take advantage
of its extensive networks to provide the latest scholarly insights to
the Russian legislative process.
Contact Information:
Institute of State and Law
Russian Academy of Sciences
Ulitsa Znamenka, 10
119841 Moscow , Russia
Director: Dr. Viktor V. Luneev
Coordinator: Nina V. Togonidze
Administrator: Natalia A. Zubkova
Telephone: 7-095-291-8792
Fax: 7-095-291-8574
E-mail: vluneev@mail.cnt.ru
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Irkutsk Center
The Irkutsk Center, housed at the Baikal State University of
Economics and Law, conducts research on organized crime and corruption.
Its research has focused on organized crime in Eastern Siberia, attitudes
towards corruption in specialized labor camps for convicted law enforcement
and government officials, the attitudes of citizens towards corruption
in the Irkutsk region, trafficking in human beings and labor exploitation,
the role of violence in resolving business disputes in the raw materials
sector in Irkutsk, and environmental crimes. The Center has also published
an analysis of the problem of illegal trafficking in women and children
in Torgovlya Lyudmi (Academica, 2002), and completed a textbook on the
investigation of financial crimes. The Center has been working with
the anti-trafficking unit in Irkutsk to combat trafficking in the region.
Contact Information:
Baikal University of Economics and Law
Prospekt Zhukova 11-219
664050 Irkutsk-50, Russia
Director: Dr. Anna L. Repetskaya
Coordinator: Dmitry Sinkov
Telephone: +7-3952-351-972
Fax: +7-3952-351-972
E-mail: repetsk@angara.ru
Website: http://irkcenter.isea.ru/
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The St. Petersburg Center
The St. Petersburg Center was located at the Law Faculty of
St. Petersburg University. Its director was Professor Boris Vladimirovich
Volzhenkin, a well-known scholar and former member of the procuracy.
Dean Nikolai Mikhailovich Kropachev took a leading role in the development
and implementation of the Center's Programs.
The Law Faculty has long had a reputation for academic excellence
and is the alma mater of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Not only
does it have a top faculty, it has excellent computer research facilities,
a first-class library, and high-caliber students.
Like the other affiliated centers, it conducted a small research
grant program on issues of transnational crime and corruption. The center
continues to advise northwestern Russian government officials on issues
related to crime and corruption, organizes roundtables and seminars,
and supports the publication of the quarterly journal Juridicheskaya
Praktika.
In addition, the center conducts an annual summer school program
for junior faculty of criminal law and criminology from throughout Russia
. The faculty for this special course consists not only of St. Petersburg
Law Faculty, but also academics from Russian regions and abroad. Topics
for the course have included organized crime and corruption, U.S. law
enforcement approaches to combat organized crime, money laundering,
criminal legal problems of the struggle with corruption in Russia ,
corruption as a criminological problem, psychology and corruption, the
new Ukrainian Criminal Code and the new Russian Criminal Procedures
Code.
Contact Information:
St. Petersburg State University Law School
22nd Line, Vasilievsky Island
Building 7, Office 7
St. Petersburg, Russia 199026
Director: Dr. Boris Volzhenkin
Coordinator: Ekaterina Romanova
Telephone: +7-812-329-2828
Fax: +7-812-321-9953
E-Mail: corruptcenter@jurfak.spb.ru; evr@jurfak.spb.ru
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