37 Facts About Natalia Poklonskaya

Natalia Poklonskaya has served as the adviser to the Prosecutor General of Russia since 14 June 2022.

Natalia Poklonskaya resigned as Prosecutor General in 2016 after her election as a Deputy of the State Duma of Russia, where she served as deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Natalia Poklonskaya did not stand for re-election in 2021, and was that year appointed Russian Ambassador to Cape Verde.

From February to June 2022, Natalia Poklonskaya served as deputy head of Rossotrudnichestvo.

Natalia Poklonskaya was born 18 March 1980 in the village of Mikhailovka, in the Voroshilovgrad Oblast of what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; later in 1990, her family moved to Yevpatoria in Crimea.

Natalia Poklonskaya's parents are both retired, living in Crimea, and both her grandfathers died during the Second World War, with only her grandmother surviving the German occupation.

Natalia Poklonskaya chose the profession of law enforcement officer in memory of her uncle, who died at the hands of bandits.

Natalia Poklonskaya graduated from the University of Internal Affairs in Yevpatoria in 2002.

Natalia Poklonskaya was the assistant attorney of Krasnogvardeisky district in Crimea from 2002 to 2006, and the assistant attorney of Yevpatoria from 2006 to 2010.

Subsequently, the unidentified substance was removed from the body; after the poisoning, Natalia Poklonskaya filed a report, telling the manager that she would no longer be able to work on this matter.

From October to December 2012, Natalia Poklonskaya worked as head of the prosecution with the proceedings of the Court of Appeal of Crimea.

On 25 February 2014, Natalia Poklonskaya handed in her resignation, but she was instead given a vacation and left Kyiv for Crimea where her parents lived.

On 11 March 2014, amid the Russian occupation of Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya was appointed Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

On 19 March 2014, Natalia Poklonskaya confirmed that investigations were ongoing into a shooting in Simferopol which killed two while denying reports that the shooter had been detained.

Also in November 2014, Natalia Poklonskaya was rated as the sixteenth out of the hundred most promising politicians in Russia by the Institute for Social-Economic and Political Studies.

In March 2015, Natalia Poklonskaya was appointed as the head of the Japanese-Russian Friendship Society.

In May 2015, Natalia Poklonskaya accused local activist Alexander Kostenko of making Nazi gestures during the Maidan protests, and that they were judging "not just [Kostenko], but the very idea of fascism and Nazism, which are trying to raise their head ".

Natalia Poklonskaya resigned as Prosecutor General on 27 September 2016 due to her election as MP in the State Duma during the 2016 legislative election.

In 2015, Natalia Poklonskaya announced that she would be running as an MP in the State Duma for the United Russia party.

In office, Natalia Poklonskaya became notable for her defense of early 20th century Tsar Nicholas II.

Natalia Poklonskaya defended the Tsar and called on local prosecutors to determine whether the film was religiously insensitive, which caused a public outcry among politicians and cultural figures.

In 2018, Natalia Poklonskaya was the only United Russia MP to vote against a government bill to raise the retirement age; her amendments were rejected when voting in the chamber.

Natalia Poklonskaya did not stand for re-election during the 2021 legislative election.

On 13 October 2021, Natalia Poklonskaya was appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Cabo Verde.

Natalia Poklonskaya was unable to take up that position, and was instead on 2 February 2022 appointed to be the deputy chief of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation after completing a master's degree in international relations.

In 2014, Natalia Poklonskaya was among the most searched-for celebrities on the internet in both Russia and Ukraine.

Natalia Poklonskaya said that since March 2014 she has not been a citizen of Ukraine.

In March 2024, after the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, Natalia Poklonskaya advocated the return of the death penalty.

Natalia Poklonskaya is deeply religious, and is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

In February 2017, Natalia Poklonskaya led a campaign to block the release of the film Matilda for its allegedly blasphemous portrayal of the affair between Tsar Nicholas II and the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya.

Natalia Poklonskaya was accused of being the head of an unofficial "Orthodox Taliban" by Deutsche Welle.

Natalia Poklonskaya has argued that Nicholas II's abdication in 1917 was legally null and void.

Later that month Natalia Poklonskaya criticized the Z military symbol as used by the Russian invasion force.

From 1 January to 31 December 2016, Natalia Poklonskaya's income, according to the declaration published on the website of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, amounted to 2.6 million rubles; for 2017, income increased noticeably and amounted to more than 4.5 million rubles; for 2018, income amounted to 4,736,578.30 rubles.

In February 2019, Natalia Poklonskaya published an autobiographical book Crimean Spring: Before and After in the Prospekt publishing house.

In 2018, during an official visit to the Lugansk People's Republic, Natalia Poklonskaya starred in a small cameo role in the feature film Opolchenochka.

Natalia Poklonskaya was sanctioned by the United Kingdom on 5 May 2014 in relation to "actively implementing" Russia's annexation of Crimea.