Russia Has a New Human Rights Commissioner: Yana Lantratova. Here Are 12 Facts About Her (You’ll Be Surprised)

Russia has a new human rights commissioner — Yana Lantratova. Here are 12 facts about her (you’ll be surprised)

1. Lantratova began her career as an aide to Vitaly Milonov, and in 2021 was elected to the Duma from A Just Russia.

2. In the new post, she replaced Tatyana Moskalkova, who had held the position for 10 years.

3. Lantratova has spoken out in favor of banning video games with “LGBT and violence propaganda.”

4. She promoted a ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses and the “ideology” of quadrobers.

5. She advocated removing social studies from the school curriculum because the subject studies “Western concepts.”

6. She proposed restricting the admission of migrants’ children to kindergartens and schools.

7. She wrote denunciations against the Peace to All foundation, which helps anti-war priests.

8. She was one of the authors of the bill on new restrictions for Russians convicted in absentia under political charges...

9. ...and a co-author of the initiative allowing the Prosecutor General’s Office to strip media outlets of their licenses for “fakes” about the Russian Armed Forces.

10. After the start of the full-scale war, she began traveling to occupied territories where, among other things, she discussed with young people protection from “destructive content” on the internet.

11. In 2024, the SBU charged Lantratova in absentia with deporting children from occupied territories. According to the security service, together with the wife of A Just Russia leader Sergey Mironov, she forcibly removed two underage residents of a local baby home to Russia.

12. Lantratova is under sanctions from Ukraine, the EU, the US, and six other countries.

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Yana Lantratova / Photo: Wikimedia Commons