On May 13, the Russian State Duma will elect a new commissioner for human rights in the country. This was announced by the Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on the Development of Civil Society, Issues of Public and Religious Associations Vladimir Shamanov, TASS wrote.
The current ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova, who served two terms, according to the law, can no longer hold this post.
Three candidates for the position were submitted to the State Duma. From France, the A Just Russia party in the State Duma nominated a former official of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation – Chairman of the Committee for the Development of Civil Society, Issues of Public and Religious Associations, Yana Lantratova. Her candidacy was supported by the United Russia faction.
Lantratova was born in 1988 in Leningrad, into a military family. She has a legal education. As TASS writes, in 2006-2007 she worked on television, and later joined the Young Guard of United Russia. In 2011, she headed the working group of the Popular Front (ONF) to “identify and suppress crimes against children.” A year later, she initiated the creation of the public organization “Union of Volunteers of Russia”, and later took the post of chairman of the council there.
In 2012, she joined the Presidential Human Rights Council of the HRC. There she came up with various initiatives. In particular, in 2015, she proposed creating a commission to “assess the safety of toys,” writes RBC. “What can a child learn from playing with a monster doll or a corpse doll?” – she was indignant.
Until 2020, Lantratova worked in the presidential administration and government of the Russian Federation, and since 2021 – a deputy of the State Duma of the VIII convocation. In the State Duma, in particular, she proposed banning video games with “LGBT propaganda and violence,” as well as advertising of imported toys on TV, TASS wrote.
After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the deputy began traveling to the occupied territories. In the Donetsk region, she met with young people and visited kindergartens, A Just Russia reported.
In 2022, Lantratova helped the head of her party, Sergei Mironov, and his wife Inna Varlamova, illegally remove two children, 10-month-old Margarita Prokopenko and two-year-old Ilya Vashchenko, from the occupied Kherson region, the BBC Russian Service told.
Russian propagandist Nikita Mikhalkov helped Lantratova become the main candidate for the post of human rights ombudsman, according to Meduza’s interlocutor close to the AP and a source in the State Duma.
Lantratova twice organized creative meetings between the director and fans in the Chelyabinsk region, which she represents in parliament. The deputy also attends rehearsals of the propagandist’s plays and often quotes him in his posts on social networks. And in response, he mentions her work in his interviews, the media writes.
