Natalia Poklonskaya

Natalia Vladimirovna Poklonskaya (born 18 March 1980) is a Ukrainian-born Russian lawyer and civil servant, serving as advisor to the Prosecutor General of Russia since 14 June 2022.

She previously served as deputy director of Rossotrudnichestvo, Ambassador to Cape Verde,, a deputy to the Seventh State Duma, and Prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea. She has also served Ukraine's civil service as a prosecutor from 2002 to March 2014, working in various Prosecutor's Offices or as an assistant district attorney. She has a Master's degree in International Relations, as well as the formal title of State Counselor of Justice, 3rd Class in the Russia's civil service system.

Poklonskaya became known as a prosecutor of organized crime cases: Alexei Yukhnenko, Andrei Laptev, the organized crime group Bashmaki, Seilem, Imdat, the case of the murder of Andrei Nechepurenko, an accident in Dnepropetrovsk, as well as other high-profile criminal cases while working in the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Poklonskaya resigned as Prosecutor Republic of Crimea 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.

Besides her law and diplomatic career, Poklonskaya is also known for her viral 2014 press conference as Prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea amid the Russian annexation of Crimea, which led to many fan-created anime-style moe images of her being created. In 2014, Poklonskaya was among the most searched-for celebrities on the internet in both Russia and Ukraine. She was the year's 7th most searched-for person in Russia and the 8th in Ukraine, and the 2nd most searched-for female in Ukraine and the 4th in Russia. She was described as a sex symbol. Poklonskaya responded in 2016 that she views her beauty as an asset.