The chairman of the Moscow Arbitration Court may lose the post

The Higher Qualification Collegium of Judges announced the opening of a vacant position of the chairman of the Arbitration Court of Moscow. This post is now held by Oleg Sviridenko, appointed by the Presidential Decree of April 16, 2005, Kommersant reports . The six -year term of office of the Chairman of the Court, provided for by the Law on Judges, expires on April 16, 2011. Sviridenko will not be reassigned, since he was close to the former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov. According to Vedomosti, a source close to the presidential administration reported about this. According to him, it was no coincidence that the competition was announced 10 days earlier - usually a message about the competition appears 6 months before the expiration of the term of office of the current chairman.

According to Gazeta.ru, Sviridenko was approved by the head of the capital's arbitration simultaneously with Anton Ivanov as the head of the Supreme Arbitration Court. Even the discussion of their candidates for the VKKS was at the same time. Ivanov - a native of Gazprom, a personal friend of Dmitry Medvedev - was reacted in his position in the summer of this year. The press secretary of the Moscow Arbitration Dmitry Tafintsev has not yet knows if Sviridenko has plans to nominate his candidacy for a new term. Now he is on sick leave.

According to the source in the VKKS, not Sviridenko will use Ivanov’s support, but another candidate who can soon be nominated. Between the heads of you and the arbitration of the capital, the conflict, the interlocutor explains. The source in you calls this interpretation of "deserving consideration." According to the interlocutor in the VKKS, Igor Drozdov, a “young St. Petersburg lawyer” who came to the post of head of the apparatus under Ivanovo, could be a possible candidate for Sviridenko. In a similar way, the head of the Arbitration of the Moscow Region at the beginning of the year was another young "St. Petersburg lawyer" invited to you Ivanov - Dmitry Pleshkov. The interlocutor in you considers the probability of appointing Drozdov minimal.

Another interlocutor in you says that they can send someone from Ivanov’s deputy to Moscow. Now there are six of them: Elena Valyavina, Sergey Amosov, Tatyana Andreeva, Vasily Vitryansky, Vladimir Isaichev, Vladimir Slesarev.