Born in 1963 Graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of History and Law.
Graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of History and Law. A Komsomol activist in MGPI.
After graduation he served in the Armed Forces, artillery.
Since 1989 - Director of the Institute of Human Rights and Democracy - a nonprofit research organization.
He graduated from the graduate school of the Diplomatic Academy of Russia, Chair of International Law.
Was a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party (People's Conscience Party) Michael Astafieva.
Studied in Switzerland, Canada, France.
Participant and organizer of several international conferences, vice president of a permanent UNESCO conference on education in human rights.
In 1994 he was elected a corresponding member of the International Academy of Informatization, member of the Union of Jurists, the International Law Association.
In 1991 he was elected to the Frunze District Council of People's Deputies.
In December 1993, at the constituent congress elected chairman of the Party of Beer Lovers.
May 11 1994
Dmitry Shestakov was charged the Ministry of Justice comments relating to the design of protocols of regional organizations PLP. It was proposed to finalize the necessary documents for registration of the party, after which the ministry is ready to revisit the issue of legal recognition of PLP.
The question was raised about the possibility of changing the name of the party on more politically traditional. Earlier, representatives of the Ministry of Justice in private conversations has repeatedly made clear that the bias in their offices to the Beer Lovers Party due to its title and the unconventional advertising campaign.
September 1, 1995
Shestakov was registered as a candidate for deputy State Duma 6-th convocation of Leningrad constituency Moscow. On the same day, unknown abducted from his car all dokumenty.Po version of the press center party "contending parties were present conspiracy, fearing the growing popularity of the PLP."
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Dossier on Shestakova DY