Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatiana Moskalkova: biography, activities and interesting facts

Tatiana Moskalkova is a Russian politician and lawyer. Since April of last year, he has been the post of human rights ombudsman in the Russian Federation. Repeatedly elected to the federal parliament, has academic degrees.

Biography of the Ombudsman

Tatiana Moskalkova was born in Vitebsk in 1955. Her father Nicholas was a regular paratrooper officer, his mother a housewife. My father died early enough in 1965, so the elder brother played a key role in the formation of the personality of our heroine. He took care of his sister, with his own example, demonstrating how 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. Tatiana Moskalkova began her working career in the capital in 1972 as the accountant of the Foreign Law College, one of the oldest law offices in the country, which has been working continuously since 1937. She was then 17 years old. Successfully engaged in practice, soon became a clerk, and then went to work as a consultant at the pardon department.

In the commission of pardon worked until 1984. Starting with the position of secretary, received a promotion. At the same time she actively participated in the Komsomol life, at one time was the secretary of the local organization.

In 1978 she received the diploma of the All-Union Law Institute, which she graduated in absentia. Since 1984, she oversaw pardons 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 the 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 State Duma elections, in the rank of Major-General of the Police.

Career in politics

Tatyana Moskalkova, whose biography was closely associated with politics, in 2007 became a deputy from the party "Fair Russia". Even earlier, she attempted to start a political career. But in 1999 she lost to writer and journalist Anatoly Greshnevikov at the elections to the federal parliament. At that time, she ran from the party "Apple".

At the deputy work paid special attention to the control of law enforcement agencies. In particular, in 2010 she criticized the idea of creating a single Investigation Committee. She noted that this would be a powerful repressive tool, while the prosecutor's supervision does not work, and the court can not ensure the observance of human rights.

In 2011, she became a deputy of the State Duma from the party "Fair Russia". Actively worked in committees on the affairs of the Union of Independent States.

Bills

I worked in the federal parliament for 9 years. During this time, took part in the creation of almost 120 bills. One of the loudest decrees decides one day of detention in the detention center to be counted as 1.5 days in a general-regime colony and 2 - in a colony-settlement.

In 2013, I supported the initiative of the deputies of United Russia, which proposed to prohibit US citizens from adopting children from Russian families and orphanages. Also voted for the law on non-profit organizations with foreign funding. According to human rights activists, this document has placed on the verge of extinction a large number of charitable foundations working in Russia.

Among her unrealized initiatives is a proposal to supplement the Criminal Code with an article about an attempt on morality. The reason for discussing this bill was the action of the punk rock band Pussy Riot.

In 2015, at the height of the crisis, she suggested renaming the MVD to the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission with the award of appropriate powers to it. Such initiatives were not supported even by her party members.

At the post of ombudsman

2016 in the leadership of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation there have been significant changes. Ella Pamfilova, who held this post for two years, moved to the post of chairman of the Central Election Commission. Its place was taken by Moskalkova Tatyana Nikolaevna. The Ombudsman for Human Rights was elected by the deputies of the State Duma.

Among the candidates were Oleg Smolin from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Sergey Kalashnikov from the Liberal Democratic Party.

Tatyana Moskalkova won the voting. The Ombudsman collected 323 votes out of 450 possible.

At the same time, representatives of public organizations expressed their fears about its appointment. The reasons for this were the lack of experience in the human rights field, the adoption and development of laws restricting human rights, a possible conflict of interest with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In her keynote speech immediately after her appointment, Tatyana Moskalkova, the human rights ombudsman, said that the topic of human rights activities has recently been increasingly used by Western politicians and the media for speculation in Russia. Therefore, one of his main tasks in this post sees the suppression of these attempts.

Among the priorities in her work, Ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova called the housing and communal services, medical services, protection of labor and migration rights. At the same time, she stated that she did not recognize the existence of political prisoners in Russia.

The case of Ildar Dadin

In 2016 Tatiana 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 a review of the verdict against Ildar Dadin. He became the first convict in the history of Russia for violating the law on holding rallies. Dudin was sentenced to two and a half years of real prison term. The Moscow City Court rejected the complaint. Soon, the media reported that she never appeared in support of Dadin and did not sign any documents.

Also well-known is the interview that Tatyana Moskalkova, the human rights commissioner, gave to journalist Pavel Kanygin. At first she stated that in Russia the rights of sexual minorities were not infringed, 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, political prisoners simply landed a correspondent from the car in which the interview was conducted.

Scientific advances

Not only in politics has achieved success Tatyana Moskalkova. 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 the textbook on the criminal process and the work of law enforcement agencies. She wrote detailed comments on the Constitution of the Russian Federation and on the Code of Criminal Procedure.

In the late 90's she defended her thesis on the honor and dignity of the person in the Soviet criminal trial. The defense was held at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The degree of Doctor of Juridical Sciences Tatiana Moskalkova, whose biography has always been associated with law enforcement agencies, was in 1997. Her thesis examined the moral aspects of the criminal process. The preliminary stages of the investigation were subjected to a particularly thorough investigation.

In parallel, she deeply engaged in philosophy. At the University of the Ministry of Defense, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the culture of the application of counteraction to evil in the Russian law enforcement system.

Incomes of the Ombudsman

Data on the income of Moskalkova in the open access are from 2010. At first they amounted to little more than 2 million rubles. However, in 2014, they grew 9 times at once.

In her property is 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 in seven thousand square meters and insignificant shares of property in non-residential premises.

Personal life

Despite the great employment, Tatiana Moskalkova is working as openly as possible. The reception desk is available online for anyone.

At the moment she lives alone, her husband passed away several years ago. She has a daughter and two grandchildren. The brother who played a big role in her becoming as a person, chose the military path. He retired to the rank of colonel.

Awards and titles

Tatiana Moskalkova has a number of awards and honorary titles. In particular, she was awarded the Order of Honor, for her special task in the North Caucasus in 2005 she was awarded a personal pistol Makarov.

During her career she received several diplomas of honor from the State Duma and the Federation Council. The Russian Orthodox Church awarded Moskal'kov with the Order of St. Princess Olga.