The State Duma appointed Yana Lantratova as Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation.
She replaces Tatiana Moskalkova in this position, whose second five-year term as Ombudsman ended in April. By law, the Commissioner may not hold this position for more than two terms.
37-year-old Yana Lantratova comes from the Young Guard of United Russia. She has served as a State Duma deputy for the Just Russia party since 2021.
According to Meduza, Lantratova has the support of the head of the Domestic Policy Department of the Russian Presidential Administration, Andrei Yarin, who is close to the security forces. She became the main candidate for the post of human rights ombudsman with the support of director Nikita Mikhalkov, according to Meduza’s interlocutor close to the presidential administration and a source in the State Duma.
In Ukraine, Lantratova is accused of deporting children from Ukrainian regions. According to the Security Service of Ukraine, during the occupation of Kherson, Lantratova, together with the just wife of the President of Russia, Sergei Mironov, Inna Varlamova, forcibly took two young schoolchildren from the local orphanage to Russia. As the media wrote, Mironov and Varlamova adopted a one-year-old girl kidnapped in Kherson and changed her name.