Natalia Poklonskaya is a Russian politician, serving as Deputy of the State Duma of Russia, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs from 5 October 2016. She was the Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea from 11 to 17 March. Poklonskaya was born Ukrainian, later in 1990, her family moved to Yevpatoria in Crimea. She graduated from the University of Internal Affairs in Yevpatoria in 2002. Her parents are both retired, living in Crimea. After her graduation, She 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 organized crime. In 2011 in Simferopol, she acted as the state prosecutor, a former deputy of the Supreme Council of Crimea. In December of the same year, she was assaulted in the stairwell of her home in Yalta. As a result, she suffered partial facial paralysis. The attack is widely believed to have been a revenge of the Bashmaki gang, 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, she worked as head of the prosecutors with the proceedings of the Court of Appeal of Crimea. She was given a vacation and left Kiev for Crimea where her parents lived. In Simferopol, She offered her help to the Crimean government. On 2014, when Crimea was not controlled by Ukraine, she was appointed Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which in the meantime had come under Russian control and become a federal subject of Russia. She was appointed as acting Prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea for this new office. She gave the approval for the Russian FSB to begin an operation to arrest, the assistant attorney of Yalta, as part of a larger bribery case, Russian president Vladimir Putin appointed her Chief Prosecutor of Crime. European Union added her 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 a month later followed by Japan, the United States introduced its individual sanctions against several Ukrainian separatists and Russians, of which she was the only woman. She was appointed as a judge to "guarantee impartiality in the selection of winners" for Russia's Five Stars singing competition. She declared that those who did not recognize the annexation of Crimea by Russia, as well as those who incited ethnic strife, would be deported. She was rated as the sixteenth out of the hundred most promising politicians in Russia by the Institute for Social-Economic and Political Studies. In 2015, she was appointed as the head of the Japanese-Russian Friendship Society Russian president Vladimir Putin granted Poklonskaya the rank of 3rd Class State Counsellor of Justice which corresponds with the military rank of Major General. She was elected as MP in the State Duma during the 2016 Russian legislative election. Prior to her resignation, she was the youngest female general in Russia, at age 36. In 2015, she announced that she would be running as an MP in the State Duma for the United Russia party. She was elected during the 2016 Russian legislative election. Throughout Russia, she was sometimes considered a potential candidate at the early stages of the presidential elections in 2018. Poklonskaya called on U.S. President Donald Trump to visit Crimea so he could "personally testify" that his words at the 2018 G7 summit, saying that Crimea is a part of Russia, were correct. In 2018,She was the only United Russia MP to vote against a government bill to raise the retirement age.

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