Tatyana Moskalkova - Russian politician, lawyer. Since April last year, he has been the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation. Repeatedly elected to the federal parliament, has academic degrees.
Ombudsman's Biography
Tatyana Moskalkova was born in Vitebsk in 1955. Her father, Nikolai, was a paratrooper officer, and his mother was a housewife. Father died early enough, in 1965, so the elder brother played a key role in the formation of the personality of our heroine. He treated his sister with care, demonstrating by his own example what a real man should be.
Almost immediately after the death of the head of the family, the Moskalkovs moved from the Byelorussian SSR to Moscow. Tatyana Moskalkova began her working career in the capital in 1972 as an accountant at the Foreign Law College, one of the oldest law firms in the country, which has been working continuously since 1937. She was then 17 years old. Successfully practicing, she soon became a clerk, and then completely switched to work as a consultant at the clemency department.
She worked in the pardon commission until 1984. Starting as secretary, she was promoted. At the same time, she actively participated in Komsomol life, at one time she was the secretary of the local organization.
In 1978, she received a diploma from the All-Union Law Institute, which she graduated in absentia. Since 1984, she oversaw pardon in the Soviet Ministry of the Interior, in particular in the legal service. At this place of work she also built a successful career from a referent to the first deputy head of the legal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
She resigned from the authorities in 2007, after winning the election to the State Duma, with the rank of Major General of the Police.
Career in politics
Tatyana Moskalkova, whose biography was now closely associated with politics, in 2007 became a deputy from the Just Russia party. Even earlier, she attempted to start a political career. But in 1999, she lost to the writer and journalist Anatoly Greshnevikov in the federal parliament elections. At that time, she ran for the party "Apple".
At the deputy work, she paid special attention to control over law enforcement agencies. In 2010, in particular, she criticized the idea of creating a single Investigative Committee. She noted that this will be a powerful repressive tool, while prosecutorial supervision does not work, and the court cannot ensure respect for human rights.
In 2011, she again became a deputy of the State Duma from the Just Russia party. Actively worked in the committees for affairs of the Union of Independent States.
Bills
In total, she worked in the federal parliament for 9 years. During this time, took part in the creation of almost 120 bills. One of the most high-profile decides to count one day of detention in a pre-trial detention center as 1.5 days in a penal colony and 2 in a penal colony.
In 2013, she supported the initiative of the deputies of United Russia, who proposed to prohibit US citizens from adopting children from Russian families and orphanages. She also voted for the law on non-profit organizations with foreign funding. According to human rights activists, this document put on the brink of extinction a large number of charitable foundations that worked in Russia.
Among her unrealized initiatives is the proposal to supplement the Criminal Code with an article on an attempt on morality. The reason for the discussion of this bill was the action of the punk rock band Pussy Riot.
In 2015, at the height of the crisis, she proposed renaming the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission with the conferment of appropriate powers on it. Such initiatives were not supported even by her party members.
Ombudsman
In 2016, significant changes occurred in the leadership of the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation. Ella Pamfilova, who held this post for two years, moved to the post of chairman of the Central Election Commission. Her place was taken by Tatyana Nikolaevna Moskalkova. The Commissioner for Human Rights was elected by the deputies of the State Duma.
Among the candidates were deputy Oleg Smolin from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Sergei Kalashnikov from the Liberal Democratic Party.
As a result of the vote, Tatyana Moskalkova won. The Commissioner for Human Rights won 323 out of 450 possible votes.
At the same time, representatives of public organizations expressed their concerns about its appointment. The reasons were the lack of experience in the human rights sphere, the adoption and development of laws restricting human rights, and the likely conflict of interests with the Ministry of the Interior.
In her keynote address immediately after her appointment, Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights, stated that the topic of human rights activities has been increasingly used by Western politicians and the media for speculation in Russia lately. Therefore, one of his main tasks at this post is the suppression of these attempts.
Among the priorities in her work, the Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova named housing and communal services, medical care, protection of labor and migration rights. However, she stated that she does not recognize the existence of political prisoners in Russia.
The Case of Ildar Dadin
In 2016, Tatyana Moskalkova was often mentioned in the media. According to the oldest Russian human rights organization, the Moscow Helsinki Group, she filed a cassation appeal demanding that the sentence be reviewed by Ildar Dadin. He was the first in Russian history convicted of violating the law on rallies. Dadin was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. The Moscow City Court dismissed the complaint. Soon, information appeared in the media that she never and never spoke in support of Dadin and did not sign any documents.
The interview that Moskalkova Tatyana Nikolaevna, Commissioner for Human Rights, gave to journalist Pavel Kanygin is also well known. At first, she said that Russia did not infringe on the rights of sexual minorities, then she could not recall the names of the most famous Russian human rights organizations, such as the Moscow Helsinki Group and Memorial. And after the question of the situation in the country of political prisoners, she simply dropped the correspondent out of the machine in which the interview was conducted.
Scientific success
Tatyana Nikolaevna Moskalkova was successful not only in politics. Her biography is well known in the scientific world. Especially in the field of jurisprudence and philosophy. She is the author of monographs and articles in scientific journals. He is one of the co-authors of a textbook on the criminal process and the work of law enforcement agencies. She wrote detailed comments on the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Back in the late 90s she defended her thesis on respect for the honor and dignity of the individual in the Soviet criminal process. The defense took place at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Tatyana Moskalkova, whose biography has always been associated with law enforcement agencies, received her doctorate in law in 1997. Her dissertation examined the moral aspects of the criminal process. The preliminary stages of the investigation underwent a particularly thorough investigation.
In parallel, she was deeply engaged in philosophy. At the University of the Ministry of Defense, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the culture of the use of countering evil in the Russian law enforcement system.
Ombudsman's income
Data on the income of Moskalkova has been in the public domain since 2010. At first, they amounted to a little over 2 million rubles. However, in 2014 they grew immediately 9 times.
She owns an apartment in Moscow with an area of almost 100 square meters, as well as two residential buildings and one unfinished. Their total area is about 600 square meters.
In addition, she owns four more land plots in the Moscow region of seven thousand square meters and insignificant ownership shares in non-residential premises.
Personal life
Despite being very busy, Tatyana Moskalkova works as openly as possible. Her reception is available online to anyone.
At the moment she lives alone, her husband passed away a few years ago. She has a daughter and two grandchildren. The brother, who played a large role in her formation as an individual, chose a military path. Retired in the rank of colonel.
