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Rights protection
Helps people understand legal issues and stand up for their rights.
Meet the team
Rights protection and public education
Alexey Vilents
Legal professional and expert, combining the protection of people’s rights, public lectures and practical help for those facing difficult circumstances.
People and law
Protection, knowledge, support
His legal work focuses on individuals and their circumstances. Alexey’s activities include rights protection, public education and helping people forced to seek safety away from home.
Public lectures
Explains legal and civic issues to a wider audience.
Helping refugees
Takes part in helping refugees affected by the Russia–Ukraine war.
Education
Graduated from Moscow State Industrial University in 2002 with a diploma in law.
After leaving school, he enrolled at the Moscow Aviation Technological Institute named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky. He was called up for military service during his third year. After completing his service, he transferred to Moscow State Industrial University.
Professional background
From 2017 to 2021, he served as an arbitrator at the Helsinki International Commercial Arbitration Court.
In Israel, he is recognized by the Tel Aviv–Jaffa District Court as an expert on Russian law, judicial and law enforcement institutions, and the political structure of the Russian Federation.
In 2017, he was elected as an opposition municipal deputy in Moscow’s Cheremushki district. He served as Deputy Chairman of the municipality and on the Urban Planning Commission for Moscow’s South-Western Administrative District. His deputy term ended in 2022.
He chaired the Presidium of the Association of Independent Deputies in Moscow in 2018–2019, remaining a presidium member until 2021. In 2019, he held a leadership role in a Moscow City Duma candidate’s election campaign.
From 2018 to 2020, he was Executive Director of the Moscow branch of the Party of Changes (Civic Initiative).
Experience and work
2019
Free legal assistance
Named in an official Cheryomushki municipal announcement among the specialists providing residents with free legal consultations. The document records practical work with public enquiries and his status as municipal deputy and arbitrator at that time.
Source · Cheryomushki municipal district · 16.04.2019 ↗2018
Public communication
Appointed to the editorial council of the Cheryomushki Municipal Bulletin by a council decision dated 7 March 2018, documenting his involvement in a municipal public-interest publication.
Source · Cheryomushki council · Decision 4/1 ↗2026
Integration and public recognition
Co-author with Igor Kaminnik and Roy Jankelowitz of a study of Russian-speaking repatriates in Israel and competing solidarities. The working paper distinguishes economic integration from public recognition; published in APSA Preprints without peer review.
Source · APSA Preprints · working paper ↗2026
Law, norms and political economy
Co-author with Igor Kaminnik and Dan Fayutkin of Abrahamic Norm and the Architecture of Interest-Based Capitalism, connecting the history of normative systems with financial institutions. A working paper, not peer-reviewed.
Source · APSA Preprints · working paper ↗
