Early life Tatyana Moskalkova (née Nosenko) was born in
Vitebsk,
Byelorussian SSR,
Soviet Union. Her father was an airborne officer, and her mother was a housewife. Her father died when Moskalkova was ten years old, after which the family moved to
Moscow. Since 1972, she has worked as a bookkeeper at the
Foreign Legal Collegium, and later as a records manager, senior legal in-house lawyer, and consultant at the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic office for
pardons. In 1978, she graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Institute of Law (now
Kutafin University). However, she did not fully resign from law enforcement but rather suspended her service, remaining on the ministry's personnel roster. Her party colleagues, including party leader
Sergey Mironov, did not support Moskalkova's legislative initiative. Later that year she proposed a draft law on
conscription for females together with a group of deputies. In 2015, she suggested renaming the
Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) to the
All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka) and granting it "corresponding powers to restore order, and ensure the country's tranquility and security".
Commissioner for Human Rights meeting in December 2016 After
Ella Pamfilova's appointment to the office of Chair of the
Central Election Commission, the State Duma was tasked with electing a new
Commissioner for Human Rights. The candidates nominated by the parliamentary factions were Tatyana Moskalkova (put forward by A Just Russia), Deputy
Oleg Smolin (
Communist Party), and Senator Sergey Kalashnikov (
Liberal Democratic Party).
United Russia party, the
Federation Council, and
President Vladimir Putin did not put forward their own candidates. During the vote on 22 April 2016, Moskalkova received 323 votes, Kalashnikov received 140, and Smolin received 97. After being questioned about the existence of political prisoners, Moskalkova cut the conversation short, making Kanygin get out of the car where the interview was being recorded. The report also lacked information on how many of the complaints resulted in the full restoration of the applicants' rights through her efforts. In January 2017, Moskalkova's request to retain Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code, which provides for criminal liability for repeated violations of the rules governing the conduct of rallies, was read out during a session of the
Constitutional Court of Russia. Moskalkova requested that the article be preserved "taking into account the demands of society". The lawyer for
Ildar Dadin (Dadin being the only person convicted under this article at the time) called this statement "a stab in the back to human rights". In the end, the Constitutional Court upheld Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code but limited its application, following which the convicted Dadin was released and fully acquitted. , November 2019 In 2018, Moskalkova supported State Duma deputy
Leonid Slutsky, who was accused of sexually harassing three female journalists. Moskalkova dismissed these accusations as "utterly vile lies".
Putin in June 2022 At Moskalkova's request, the
Supreme Court of Russia overturned the decision to deport
Ali Feruz. Additionally, Moskalkova requested that the case of
Oyub Titiev be transferred from the
Chechen police for investigation by a higher police authority. On 14 June 2018, Moskalkova met with
Ombudsman in Ukraine,
Liudmyla Denisova, in Moscow. On 15 June 2018, she went for a meeting with Russian citizens held in Ukrainian prisons. In 2019, Moskalkova supported the claims brought before the Supreme Court by young women from
Tolyatti. They were challenging orders from the
defence minister and the
national guard director that barred women from
military service under contract in positions such as
sharpshooter,
sniper,
driver,
mechanic, and
tank operator, based on sex. On 1 April 2021,
President Vladimir Putin proposed that the State Duma reappoint Tatyana Moskalkova to the office of Commissioner for Human Rights. In April 2023, Tatyana Moskalkova was expelled from the
European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI) because the Russian NHRI had failed to meet its membership obligations. This marked the first time in the organization's history that a member was expelled. In response, Moskalkova stated that she herself was leaving. == Opinions ==