The new Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation could be the State Duma deputy from the Just Russia party and head of the Civil Society Development Committee, Yana Lantratova, He writes Vedomosti newspaper, citing three sources in the State Duma and one interlocutor close to the administration of the President of the Russian Federation. About the same RBC I mentioned Three sources close to AP.
Lantratova will replace Tatyana Moskalkova as Ombudsman. Her second five-year term in the position ends in April. Ombudsmen are appointed by the State Duma. Under the law, no one person may hold this position for more than two consecutive terms.
An Interfax source from the Duma said that the position of Human Rights Commissioner will remain with the representative of Just Russia. Moskalkova was also a member of this party’s faction.
Lantratova herself declined to comment.
Yana Lantratova is from Saint Petersburg and is 37 years old. She began her political career in the Young Guard of United Russia, was an assistant to MP Vitaly Milonov, served in the Human Rights Council, headed the Union of Volunteers of Russia, and was elected to the State Duma in 2021. According to Meduza, Lantratov 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.
Lantratova actively promotes the conservative agenda: among other things, she proposed banning “gay propaganda” in video games, four-door games, free education for foreign children, and also co-authored a bill on new restrictions on Russians convicted in absentia on political charges.
In May 2024, the Security Service of Ukraine The accused in absentia Yana Lantratov in deporting children from Ukrainian regions. According to the intelligence service, 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.