On May 14, the Russian State Duma appointed deputy Yana Lantratova, who is accused of child abduction in Ukraine, as the Commissioner for Human Rights.
Points of attention
- Yana Lantratova, accused of child abduction in Ukraine, has been appointed as the new Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia by the State Duma.
- Despite facing accusations of kidnapping children from Kherson, Lantratova is known for her controversial legislative initiatives related to adoption and guardianship of children from Russia.
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Lantratova, 37, will succeed Tatyana Moskalkova, who served as ombudsman for two five-year terms.
Like her predecessor, Lantranova is a State Duma deputy from the “A Just Russia” party. She is known, in particular, for writing denunciations demanding that the German fund for helping anti-war Orthodox clergy “Peace to All” be declared an “undesirable” organization and that Vladimir Makanin’s novel “The Prisoner of the Caucasus” be removed from the school curriculum due to its “LGBT themes.”
Lantratova was also the author of several high-profile bills, including a bill banning citizens of "unfriendly countries" from adopting and being guardians of children from Russia, which was never passed.
Lantratova, together with the head of "A Just Russia" Sergei Mironov and his wife Inna Varlamova, traveled to occupied Kherson in 2022, from where they took a 10-month-old Ukrainian girl and changed her data.
In March 2024, the Security Service of Ukraine reported suspicions against Lantratova and Varlamova, who had taken two Ukrainian children from Kherson to Russia.
To learn more about Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children, watch the documentary "Damaged Childhood," created by Ukrainian independent media and video production company Online.UA:
