• Member of the Presidium of the Leningrad City Council (1991)
• Human Rights Ombudsman of Saint Petersburg (until 2011)
• Member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights (until 2018)
• Member of the Union of Writers of Russia, the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, and the Directors’ Guild of the Russian Federation
• Chairman of the Pardon Commission
• Founder of the first fiber-optic cable television network in Eastern Europe
• Initiator and Head of the first “Public Council of the City” in Russia
• Initiator of the establishment and member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation (2005)
• Co-author (with E. P. Velikhov) of the concept of the “World Public Council” (WPC)
• President of the Global Risk Competence Center (GRCC)
• Author and Producer of the international film festival “Nadezhda” (Hope) — the world’s first festival of films made by incarcerated individuals
• Laureate of numerous international film festivals
• Author of 50 plays, a dozen books, and feature films

Alexey

Kozyrev