Anna Kritsyna

Anna Kritsyna is an advocate and head of GRATA International's criminal law practice in St. Petersburg. 

In 2019, Anna founded the criminal law practice at GRATA International St. Petersburg. 

Anna represents legal entities and individuals before state, law enforcement and judicial authorities on various matters, particularly in the area of economic offences.

With extensive experience and knowledge of criminal practice in Russia, she has established herself as a high-level expert, successfully representing her clients in a number of high-profile cases in the North-West Federal District.

While working on her clients' cases, Anna not only scrupulously researches legal issues, but also dives deep into the nuances of production, cost estimates, construction specifics and other industry issues, which allows her to exhaustively work out all the subtleties of each project, as well as to calculate the risks and develop an appropriate set of measures.

Prior to obtaining the status of an advocate, since 2012 Anna served in the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation, and since 2013 she has held the following positions: prosecutor of the second zonal department for supervision over criminal procedure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Emergency Situations and Justice, senior prosecutor of the department for supervision over investigation and enquiry of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Department for supervision over criminal procedure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Justice, head of the state statistics department of the legal statistics department in the Office of the Prosecutor's Office of St. Petersburg.

As part of the prosecutor's supervision over the criminal procedure of law enforcement agencies, Anna supervised the enforcement of legality during the preliminary investigation, including during the preliminary investigation and enquiries in criminal cases involving corruption and economic offences, in particular the embezzlement of budget funds and violations of currency legislation; committed with the use of official position, as well as in the sphere of energy, defence industry, execution of state orders, housing and communal services, construction, including shared housing construction.