ЖУРНАЛ «ЗАКОН» № 5 МАЙ 2017 ИНТЕРВЬЮ НОМЕРА THE FORUM INITIALLY AIMED TO PROMOTE LAW MODERNISATION AMID GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS ФОРУМ ИЗНАЧАЛЬНО ИМЕЛ СВОЕЙ ЦЕЛЬЮ ПРОДВИЖЕНИЕ ИДЕЙ МОДЕРНИЗАЦИИ ПРАВА В УСЛОВИЯХ ГЛОБАЛЬНЫХ ИЗМЕНЕНИЙ The Minister was born on 9 June 1968 in Leningrad. <...> After serving in the Soviet armed forces from 1986 to 1988, he graduated from Saint Petersburg State University in 1992 and joined the prosecutor’s office as assistant prosecutor for the Vyborgsky district of Saint Petersburg. <...> From October 1992 to February 2005, he held the positions of: investigator for the prosecutor’s office of Vyborgsky district in Saint Petersburg, prosecutor for the department of monitoring the implementation of laws on federal security of the prosecutor’s office of Saint Petersburg, deputy prosecutor for the Moskovsky district of Saint Petersburg, and prosecutor for the Moskovsky district of Saint Petersburg, first deputy prosecutor for the city of Saint Petersburg, prosecutor for the Republic of Bashkortostan. <...> Konovalov was appointed Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation by Presidential Decree No. <...> In addition, he holds the highest rank of Full State Counselor of Justice and holds a PhD in Law. <...> He is the recipient of several state awards including the Award of Honour. <...> После службы в Вооруженных силах СССР (с 1986 по 1988 г.) и окончания СПбГУ в 1992 г. поступил на работу в органы прокуратуры на должность помощника прокурора Выборгского района г. Санкт-Петербурга. <...> С октября 1992 по февраль 2005 г. замещал должности следователя прокуратуры Выборгского района г. Санкт-Петербурга, прокурора отдела по надзору за исполнением законов о федеральной безопасности прокуратуры г. Санкт-Петербурга, заместителя прокурора, прокурора Московского района г. Санкт-Петербурга <...>