Career
Chaika began his career as an electrician in a shipyard. After serving in the army, he graduated from Sverdlovsk Institute of Law in 1976 and began work at Irkutsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office where he served as an investigator and a deputy district prosecutor. In 1983 he became head of the investigations at the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office.
From 1984 to 1992 Chaika worked in various positions for the Irkutsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office, the regional Communist Party and the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office.
In 1992 he was appointed Irkutsk Oblast prosecutor.
In 1995 he became first deputy Russian prosecutor general. He was appointed by then Prosecutor General Yury Skuratov, his former classmate from Sverdlosk Institute of Law.
Following Skuratov's suspension, Chaika served as acting prosecutor general for a brief spell between April and August 1999.
From August 1999 to June 2006 he served as justice minister.
On 23 June 2006, Chaika became Russian prosecutor general, effectively swapping jobs with his predecessor Vladimir Ustinov who took up the post of justice minister.
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