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Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya
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Natalia Poklonskaya
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Incumbent
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Assumed
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Prime Minister
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Sergey Aksyonov
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Personal
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Born
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18 March 1980
Mikhailovka village, Perevalsk Raion, Voroshilovgrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
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Spouse(s)
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Married
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Children
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1 daughter Anastasiya (Russian: Анастасия)
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Alma
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University of Internal Affairs in Yevpatoria
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Profession
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Attorney
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Natalia Vladimirovna Poklonskaya (Russian: Ната́лья
Влади́мировна Покло́нская;
IPA: [nɐˈtalʲjə pɐkˈlonskəjə], Ukrainian: Наталія
Володимирівна Поклонська,
born 18 March 1980) is the Prosecutor
General of the Republic of Crimea,
3rd Class State Counsellor of Justice (2015).
As
an attorney, Poklonskaya rendered public service to Ukraine from 2002 to
February 2014, working in various Prosecutor's Offices or as an assistant
district attorney. During the 2014 Crimean crisis, she resigned from Ukrainian service
and was appointed Prosecutor General of Crimea on 11 March 2014; a press
conference given by Poklonskaya on that day resulted in Poklonskaya becoming an
Internet phenomenon. After Crimea came under Russian control, her appointment
was confirmed by Russian authorities on 25 March 2014, around the same time
Ukrainian judicial authorities declared her a wanted criminal.
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Biography
Early
life and Ukrainian service
Natalia
Poklonskaya was born 18 March 1980 in the village of Mikhailovka, Voroshilovgrad
Oblast (today Luhansk Oblast); later in 1990, her family moved to Yevpatoria
in Crimea. Poklonskaya graduated from the University of Internal Affairs in
Yevpatoria in 2002.
After
her graduation, Poklonskaya worked in the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office,
initially serving as an assistant prosecutor to the Acting Prosecutor of the
Republic of Crimea. She was the assistant attorney of Krasnogvardeisky district
in Crimea from 2002 to 2006, and the assistant attorney of Yevpatoria from 2006
to 2010. Between 2010 and 2011, she was the deputy chief of a surveillance law
enforcement unit of the Prosecutor's Office of Crimea which was responsible for
dealing with organised crime.
In
2011 in Simferopol,
she acted as the state prosecutor in the high profile trial of Ruvim Aronov, a
former deputy of the Supreme Council of Crimea. In the same
year, she was appointed the inter-district environmental prosecutor of
Simferopol. Following that, she was transferred to the Ukrainian Prosecutor
General's Office in Kiev,
where she served as a senior prosecutor.
From
October to December 2012, Poklonskaya worked as head of the prosecutors with the
proceedings of the Court of Appeal of Crimea, and later after December 2012 up
until March 2014 she was a senior attorney of the 2nd division of the General
Directorate of Internal Affairs involved in pre-trial investigation and public
prosecution management supervision with oversight of law enforcement in
criminal proceedings.
On
25 February 2014, Poklonskaya handed in her resignation, in which she stated
that she was "ashamed to live in the country where neo-fascists
freely walk about the streets" (a reference to radical Euromaidan
activists). The resignation was not accepted. Instead, she was given a vacation
and left Kiev for Crimea where her parents lived. In Simferopol, Poklonskaya
offered her help to the Crimean government.
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Prosecutor of Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya, during the
ceremony of taking the oath by prosecutors of the Republic of Crimea in
Simferopol.
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Crimean
and Russian service
While
the Autonomous Republic of Crimea sought
independence from Ukraine, on 11 March, Poklonskaya was appointed Prosecutor of
the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Poklonskaya was appointed to the position by
Sergei Aksyonov after the position had been
reportedly rejected by four others, including the former Vice-Prosecutor of
Crimea, Vyacheslav Pavlov. Her previous criticism of the opposition
protests in Ukraine, and the "anti-constitutional coup" led the
Ukrainian government to launch a criminal case against her and strip her of the
civil service rank of Counsellor of Justice. She was reportedly subject to an
assassination attempt on 17 March, on which she refused to comment.
Immediately
following her appointment as Prosecutor, she was involved in an investigation
into the violent attacks committed against Crimean Berkut
members. On 19 March, Poklonskaya confirmed that investigations were
ongoing into a shooting in Simferopol which killed two while denying reports that the shooter had been detained. She
compared the shooting to the "sniper attacks on Independence Square in Kiev" from
18 to 21 February 2014, and stated her belief that the shooting was meant to
"provoke violence between the military forces" of Ukraine and Crimea.
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Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Yuri
Chaika, hands the Russian Prosecutor’s office ID card to acting Prosecutor of
Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya.
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Crimea,
which in the meantime had come under Russian
control and become a federal subject of Russia, saw the creation of its new
Prosecutor's Office, now subordinated to Russia's Prosecutor General Yury
Chaika. On 25 March, Chaika appointed Poklonskaya as acting Prosecutor of
the Republic of Crimea for this new office. Around the same time, Poklonskaya
was listed as a wanted criminal on the website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal
Affairs, due to alleged involvement in conspiracy to overthrow
constitutional order or seize state power. The Federation Council of Russia declared
the charges against Poklonskaya a "bluff". On 27 March, Russian
Prosecutor General Yury Chaika granted Poklonskaya the rank of Senior
Counsellor of Justice. On 4 April 2014, Poklonskaya gave the approval for the
Russian FSB to begin an operation to arrest
Yevgeniy Pomelov, the assistant attorney of Yalta, as part of a
larger bribery case.
On
11 April, the Prosecutor General of Russia personally presented Poklonskaya
with her official papers as a Russian legal officer. On 2 May, Russian
president Vladimir Putin appointed Poklonskaya Chief
Prosecutor of Crimea. On 4 May, Poklonskaya accused the Crimean
Tatars' self-governmental body (the Mejlis) of extremist activity,
warning that the Mejlis could be dissolved and outlawed across Russia.
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Prosecutor of Crimea Natalia Poklonskaya during the
celebration of Victory Day in Simferopol.
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On
12 May 2014, the European Union added Poklonskaya to its sanctions
list. This barred her from entering EU countries and any of her assets there,
if existent, were to be frozen. Canada imposed similar sanctions on Poklonskaya
a month later, followed by Japan on 4 August. Australia followed soon after,
sanctioning the Russian prosecutor on 2 September. On 19 December, the United
States introduced its individual sanctions against several Ukrainian separatists
and Russians, of which Poklonskaya was the only woman.
In
June, Poklonskaya was appointed as a judge to "guarantee impartiality in
the selection of winners" for Russia's Five Stars singing competition,
which would select Russia's entrant for the Intervision Song Contest. In September,
Poklonskaya declared that those who did not recognize the annexation of Crimea
by Russia, as well as those who incited ethnic strife, would be deported.
Poklonskaya survived two bomb assassination attempts in August and November. Also in
November 2014, Poklonskaya was rated as the sixteenth out of the hundred most
promising politicians in Russia by the Institute for Social-Economic and
Political Studies.
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Natalia Poklonskaya & Vladimir Putin
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In
March 2015, Poklonskaya was appointed as the head of the Japanese-Russian
Friendship Society. On 11 June 2015, Russian president Vladimir Putin granted
Poklonskaya the rank of 3rd Class State Counsellor of Justice which corresponds
with the military rank of Major General.
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Natalia Poklonskaya
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Political
career
In
2015 Natalia announced that she would be running as an MP in the Duma for the United
Russia party. Throughout Russia she is recognised as a potential candidate
for the presidential elections in 2018. She is listed at number 16 on Forbes'
list of most promising politicians.
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Samples of user-generated artwork depicting different
impressions of Poklonskaya
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Internet
popularity
After
a video of Poklonskaya at a press
conference on 11 March 2014 was uploaded to YouTube, her
attractiveness and youth went viral among Japanese and Chinese internet users
and also became the focus of attention of Internet communities such as Reddit and Vkontakte, which was reported by international
news outlets. Within a month, the press conference was viewed over 1.7 million
times. Many fan-created anime-style moe
images of her uploaded to the Internet also attracted international media
attention. A music video by Enjoykin based on Poklonskaya's press conferences
and interviews has had 20 million views on YouTube.
In
2014, Poklonskaya was among the most searched-for celebrities on the Internet
in both Russia and Ukraine. According to Google, she was
the year's 7th most searched-for person in Russia and the 8th in Ukraine,
and according to Yandex
— the 2nd most searched-for female in Ukraine and the 4th in Russia. She was
described as a sex symbol by The New York Observer and Augsburger Allgemeine.
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Prosecutor of Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya, during the
ceremony of taking the oath by prosecutors of the Republic of Crimea in
Simferopol.
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Personal
life and family
Poklonskaya
is divorced and has one daughter. Her 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.
Poklonskaya stated in March 2014 that she intends to apply for Russian
citizenship.
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Natalia Poklonskaya
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INTERNET
SOURCE: https://www.rt.com/news/prosecutor-natalia-poklonskaya-crimea-101/
'She annexes your heart': Reasons why Crimea
prosecutor Poklonskaya not to be messed with
Published
time: 29 Mar, 2014 14:48Edited time: 30 Mar, 2014 19:30
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Prosecutor of Crimea Natalia Poklonskaya in her office in
Simferopol.
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The
newly-created Japanese anime icon who is wanted by Ukrainian national security
service, Crimea's chief prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya, says her attractive
looks have never hampered her judicial practice and are, well, deceitful.
Poklonskaya
took the job, which many of her male colleagues feared to accept, just days
before Crimea’s referendum on independence from Ukraine, stunning the world not
only with her courage, but her beauty as well.
“In the 12 years I’ve spent working in Prosecutor General’s office, I’ve been dealing with organized crime and put many criminals in prison,” Poklonskaya said. “My looks have never been an obstacle – I hope they deceive my enemies.”
During her first press conference on the new position, the 34-year-old blonde didn’t hesitate to denounce the coup-imposed government in Kiev.
“The constitution says that the only power in Ukraine – and I repeat – the only power in Ukraine is its people,” she said at the time.
The video with her speech garnered hundreds of thousands of views on the internet in just a few days, with Poklonskaya’s big blue eyes and infant-like looks turning her into a Japanese anime art sensation.
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Natalia Poklonskaya in Japanese Anime.
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Yulia
Tymoshenko versus Natalia Poklonskaya.
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Poklonskaya’s
fans from all over the world call her “Prosecutie”
and even invented a name for themselves – “Nataliaites.”
Natalia wasn’t even aware of her online popularity until the journalist from Russian NTV channel showed her the fan art.
“Oh, my god! I didn’t know about that,” she laughed. “No, I want to be perceived
as a prosecutor. And I’ll achieve this through my work."
But Kiev – where she’s spent most of her career – is not amused. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s website has her in the wanted section, accusing Natalia of organizing a coup.
“I’m not afraid to tell the truth. I’m not a criminal,” Poklonskaya said an interview with RT. “I’m not promoting Nazism, like some among the new authorities in Kiev. If they want to launch a criminal case against me, I’m not afraid of that.”
Natalia says she’s not upset that the Ukrainian authorities have declared the all the ranks and achievements, which she earned through years of hard work, illegal.
“The main thing is that this new stage in life begins from square one in a dignified and great state like Russia,” she told NTV.
Poklonskaya
still hasn’t received her Russian passport, but plans to do as soon as there’ll
be a break in her tight schedule.
The Republic of Crimea has withdrawn from Ukraine and was officially accepted into the Russian Federation on March 21. The military coup in Kiev led to the Crimean peninsula – home to an ethnic Russian majority – holding a referendum, in which 96 percent of Crimean voters decided to cut ties with Kiev and rejoin Russia.
Blonde
Bombshell: Crimea prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya internet sensation &
'wanted' in Kiev
Published on Mar 29, 2014
The
newly-created Japanese anime icon who is wanted by Ukrainian national security
service, Crimea's chief prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya, says her attractive
looks have never hampered her judicial practice and are, well, deceitful - READ
MORE http://on.rt.com/paeld9
Bomb
attacks foiled at Crimea 'prosecutie' office
Published time: 19 Dec, 2014 14:16Edited time: 19 Dec, 2014 15:05
Two
attempted terrorist attacks on the Crimean Prosecutor’s Office have recently
been prevented by members of the local People’s Guard. So-called ‘prosecutie'
Natalia Poklonskaya has also had previous threats.
Two
members of the guard prevented a couple of terrorist attacks that could have
led to multiple casualties at Poklonskaya’s office, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
newspaper reported Friday.
“Several months ago, our guys found a bag with
explosives at... the Crimean Prosecutor’s Office and in November it was an
envelope with a blasting agent, sent via mail and addressed to the prosecutor,” Sergey Turchanenko, the commander of
the People’s Militia told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
READ MORE: 'Prosecutie' Poklonskaya hits right note in Crimean
palace (VIDEO)
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Natalia Poklonskaya at a Press Conference (11 March 2014)
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“Thanks to the brave attitude toward their duty
of the self-defense forces' that serve at the Prosecutor’s Office, we managed to
secure it from negative consequences,” Poklonskaya
told Tass news agency.
She
praised the guards, saying it was “a
good job.”
Poklonskaya
refused to provide the media with further details, saying: "This
information is undisclosed. A criminal case has been opened. I have no right to
reveal details concerning this incident.”
Rossiyskaya
Gazeta newspaper obtained a copy of Poklonskaya’s letter to Crimea’s leader,
Sergey Aksenov. It reveals that on August 18, a checkered shopping bag filled
with explosives was found near the prosecutor’s office at night. The casualty
radius of the improvised explosive device was reportedly 350 meters.
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Natalia Poklonskaya
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Aksenov
confirmed this information, saying: “Such attempts did occur, do and will probably do in future.”
Turchanenko
said that the People’s Guard, alongside the police, frequently find packages
that replicate explosive devices. Such an accident happened in December at the
Council of Ministers building, he said.
“It turned out to be a cobblestone inside, but
it could have been something different,” he said.
The
33-year-old Crimean prosecutor has survived several assassination attempts
during her 12 years of service.
She
was severely beaten up when she jailed one of the leaders of ‘The Shoes’ gang, which
was accused of plotting assassinations.
An
internet sensation, Poklonskaya earned fame earlier this year after a video
from a press conference went viral. Her Japanese and Russian fans even dubbed
her ‘Prosecutie’
and ‘Nyash-Myash’.
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Русский: Прокурор Крыма старший советник
юстиции Наталья Владимировна Поклонская
English: Natalia Poklonskaya, Prosecutor
General of the Republic of Crimea from 2014 onwards, at the expanded board
meeting of the office of the Prosecutor General of Russia on 24 March 2015.
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LINKS:
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