Co-author of the Russian Constitution Viktor Sheinis dies

At the age of 93, a deputy of the State Duma of the first two convocations and one of the authors of the Russian Constitution, Viktor Sheinis, died. This is stated in message on the website of the Yabloko party.

Sheinis was also a member of the party’s Federal Political Committee. He died today, June 25, Yabloko promised to announce the time and place of farewell later.

Viktor Sheinis was born on February 16, 1931 in Kiev, graduated from Leningrad State University, after which he worked as a history teacher in Leningrad and a graduate student at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, and also worked at the Kirov Plant in Leningrad from 1958 to 1964. For the article “The Truth about Hungary”, which criticized the Soviet invasion, he was expelled from the Komsomol and graduate school, writes Yabloko.

Since 1977, he was a leading researcher and chief researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow, in the early 90s he worked as a deputy of the RSFSR and deputy executive secretary of the Constitutional Commission of the Congress of People’s Deputies of the Russian Federation, as well as deputy chairman of the Commission assumptions under the President of the Russian Federation.

In the State Duma, Sheinis was a member of the Committee on Legislation and Judicial-Legal Reform. He joined Yabloko in 1993, after which he held various positions in the governing bodies of the party.