Nikolay Alexandrovich Vinnichenko (in , b. April 10, 1965 in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

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, Soviet Union

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) is a Russia

Russia

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n lawyer and politician.

From April 9, 2003, till September 12, 2004, he was the Chief Prosecutor of Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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. From October 21, 2004 he had been the Chief Bailiff, Director of the Federal Bailiffs Service of Russia.

On December 8, 2008, Vinnichenko was appointed to be the Russian Presidential Envoy to the Urals Federal District

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.