Head of the Department of International Law of the RUDN University, Professor of the Department of International Law, MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Honored lawyer of the Russian Federation.

Chairman of the International Law Commission of the Russian United Nations Association.

Aslan Khuseynovich Abashidze - Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department of International Law of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Professor of the Department of International Law at MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Doctor of Law. Vice-Chairman of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Chairman of the International Law Commission of the Russian Association for the Assistance to the United Nations, Member of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia by law, Member of the Expert Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation.

Aslan Khuseinovich was born on November 18, 1958 in Georgia in the Adjara Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1985 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Law of the Peoples' Friendship University of them. Patrice Lumumba, specializing in International Law with honors, at the same time received a diploma of an interpreter from English into Russian.

From 1988 to the present day he has been working at the Department of International Law at the Peoples' Friendship University of them. Patrice Lumumba (now the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia): first as an assistant (1988 - 1992), then as an assistant professor (1992 - 1997), and since 1997 as a professor. By the decision of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation dated May 4, 2000 (No. 146p), he was awarded the academic title of professor of international law. Since 2001, he has been a professor at the Department of International Law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MGIMO, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Since November 24, 2010 - Acting Head of the Department of International Law of the Law Faculty of the RUDN University, and since May 30, 2011 - Head of the Department of International Law of the RUDN University. In 2016, he was re-elected for a 5-year term.

Practical work of Professor Abashidze as an international lawyer and diplomat is connected with his participation in the work of the UN human rights bodies: from 2001 to 2006. - Assistant Expert of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights prof. V.A. Kartashkin; from March 2008 to December 2009 - a member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (Special Procedure of the UN Human Rights Council), and from 2010 to 2014. - ECOSOC members elected Professor A.Kh. Abashidze is a member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (a UN human rights treaty body). In May 2014, ECOSOC re-elected prof. OH. Abashidze is a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for a period until 2019. During this time, he was twice elected Vice-Chairman of the Committee.

Practical activities of the international lawyer A.Kh. Abashidze is associated with the exercise of powers in various Russian expert bodies. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a member of the Russian Public Council for International Cooperation and Public Diplomacy at the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, a member of the Executive Committee of the Russian International Law Association, a member of the World Association of International Law, a member of the Executive Committee of the Foreign Policy Association, a member of the European Association of International Law, Chairman of the International Law Commission of the Russian Association for the Assistance to the United Nations, a member of the expert council on international law under the Chairmen of the State Duma and the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, a member of the Commission on international legal assessment of events around the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. OH. Abashidze is an academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, is a member of the editorial boards of various legal journals: "International Law - International Law", "Moscow Journal of International Law", "Bulletin of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia" (series: legal sciences), "Russian-Azerbaijani journal of international rights "," Counteracting terrorism. Problems of the XXI century - Counter-Terrorism ", Russian Yearbook of International Law, Observer magazine, Democratization and Human Rights" (Uzbekistan), "Moldavian Journal of International Law and International Relations" (Moldova), "Legal concept" (Volgograd ). In 2014 prof. OH. Abashidze was elected a member of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation by law.