[1] Andrey Klishas is the plenipotentiary of the Federation Council in the Constitutional Court of Russia and the General Prosecutor's office, judge of the World Canine Organization, and head of the department of theory of state and law of the Law Institute of People's Friendship University of Russia.

In December 2011, he ran for the State Duma by United Russia party list, but he didn't win a seat.

In March 2012, Klishas was elected to the Norilsk City Council of Deputies from United Russia party.

On 19 March 2012, he was appointed Senator from Krasnoyarsk Krai by Governor Lev Kuznetsov.

[citation needed] In February 2022, around the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he said that "Now time has come to put a padlock on the embassies, and continue contact through binoculars and gunsights".