Karinna Akopovna Moskalenko (born , ) is a Russian lawyer .
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Family
Karinna Moskalenko Armenian by nationality [1] Born in the family of a military man Hakob Stepanovich Dadayan (1923-1991). My father served in the missile forces, commanded a division in the Pskov region (where his daughter graduated from high school), then worked in the central apparatus of the Ministry of Defense. Mother - Nina Aleksandrovna Bagdasarova (1923-1998), a doctor.
Spouse - Knyazev Evgeny Mikhailovich (born in 1953).
Daughter - Ilyina Victoria Evgenievna (born in 1975), lawyer.
Son - Knyazev Rodion Evgenievich (born in 1991), student of the RSUH,
Daughter - Knyazeva Anastasia Evgenievna (born in 2005), a student of the school,
Son - Knyazev Grigory Evgenievich (born in 2006), a student at the school.
Karina has a grandson and granddaughter.
Education
She graduated from the Law Faculty of Leningrad State University ( 1976 ), a student of Professor Polina Solomonovna Elkind , who, according to Moskalenko’s memoirs, “gave students an idea of the adversarial process of the trial, the presumption of innocence” and recommended that she graduate from law practice.
In 1994, Karina Moskalenko completed a course in European law at the University of Birmingham ( Great Britain ). Also, internships were held in organizations implementing programs for the protection of human rights (London Center for the Protection of Individual Rights in Europe, University of Essex, Canadian Foundation for Human Rights, Danish Center for Human Rights, etc.).
Advocacy
Since September 1, 1977, he has been an intern (with lawyer Boris Efimovich Zmoyro ), then an attorney at the Moscow City College of Advocates (since 2002 - at the Law Chamber of Moscow). Specialization - criminal procedure, international public law (including international protection of human rights). She participated in the television programs “The Court is Going” (on the TV channel Russia), “Listening to the Case” (on the TV channel TVC ).
In the 1990s, Karina Moskalenko led the complex case of five pilots - residents of Latvia , Russians by nationality - who were accused of participating in the war against India . The pilots were hired by a commercial organization to transport cargo, which turned out to be a weapon intended for one of the armed anti-government groups. As a result, weapons were dropped over the jungle, representatives of the commercial structure disappeared, and the pilots ended up in prison, and they were threatened with the death penalty. Karina Moskalenko became a member of the international humanitarian aid committee, which provided assistance to the accused in this case, represented their interests as a lawyer. In the summer of 2000, 4.5 years after the arrest, the pilots were released.
Human Rights Protection
In 1994, she founded and headed the Center for the Promotion of International Defense , a public human rights organization that unites professional lawyers, which uses international mechanisms for protecting human rights. In 1997, among three Russian human rights defenders, she was invited to Strasbourg at a session of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). In 1999, the Center for Assistance to International Protection was granted the status of the Russian branch of the ICJ. Since 2002, Karina Moskalenko is a long-term expert on the TACIS program of the European Union . Since 2003 - Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists.
In 2000, the UN Human Rights Committee made the first decision on the merits of the human rights violation complaint, which satisfied the requirements of the applicant, whose representative was the Center for Assistance to International Protection .
In 2001, Karina Moskalenko became the first Russian lawyer to speak at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg at the first public hearing of a Russian citizen in this court (Kalashnikov v. Russia case). In this case, the court made several important decisions - that the period of pre-trial detention (4 years) is excessive, that the length of the criminal proceedings is unreasonable, and the conditions of detention in the pre-trial detention center are inhuman and degrading the dignity of a person. Moreover, the lack of sufficient funds to create more decent conditions was not recognized as the basis for rejection of the complaint.
The Times newspaper on June 20, 2007 described the activities of Karina Moskalenko as follows:
She gained an excellent reputation for her victories over the Russian state at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Together with her team from the Center for the Promotion of International Protection, she won 27 cases, and more than 100 applications are currently pending.
Member of the Russian Committee of Advocates for the Protection of Human Rights (1993), the Expert Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation (1999), the Moscow Helsinki Group (1999). She was awarded the Honorary Sign of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation “For the Protection of Human Rights” (1999), the highest legal award “Themis 2000”. Winner of the 2006 International Helsinki Federation Recognition Award (the award says that Karina Moskalenko is one of the most prominent human rights advocates in the world who has assisted many Russian victims in the fight for their rights in court). The author of a number of works devoted to the protection of human rights using international legal mechanisms, including the book “International Protection” (2001).
Khodorkovsky Case
Karinna Moskalenko - one of the lawyers of Mikhail Khodorkovsky , was invited to represent his interests at the international level, in particular, in the European Court of Human Rights. The statement of the members of the Moscow Helsinki Group dated June 9, 2007 cites the facts of persecution of Karinna Moskalenko, undertaken by state bodies during the work on this case:
In particular, this is an attempt to deprive K. Moskalenko of his legal status, which was unsuccessful earlier, and a petition before the European Court of Human Rights to remove her from representing the applicants in the European Court, and tax audits of the Center for Assistance to International Defense in order to demoralize his activities and threats of its closure, which have not been completed so far ... K. Moskalenko has repeatedly been criticized by the Russian authorities and pro-government structures, due to the fact that then her activities aimed at assisting Russian citizens in appealing to international authorities allegedly undermine Russia's prestige in the international arena.
For the first time, the question of Karina Moskalenko’s compliance with her legal status was raised by the Prosecutor General’s Office on September 23, 2005, when Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s lawyers were accused of “conspiring to disrupt the process” (by agreement with their client, they did not appear in the Moscow City Court for appeal) . However, the Ministry of Justice did not find violations in the actions of Moskalenko.
In 2007, the Prosecutor General’s Office initiated a case of depriving Karina Moskalenko of her legal status, believing that the lawyer violates Khodorkovsky’s right to defense. On June 21, 2007, the Council of the Law Chamber of the city of Moscow decided to terminate the disciplinary proceedings against her in this case. The decision of the council is final.
Rewards
- 1999 - Prize of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation “For Human Rights”
- 2000 - Themis Higher Law Prize, Order “For Fidelity to Attorney Duty”
- 2006 - Certificate of Merit of the Presidium of the Moscow City Bar Association
- 2006 - Recognition Award of the International Helsinki Federation
- 2008 - Brennan Prize, University of New Jersey , USA
- 2010 - Title of Honorary Doctor of Law at Southern Methodist University ( USA , Texas. Dallas)
- 2010 - International Human Rights Award named after Louis Trarier.
Poisoning Attempt
In October 2008, mercury was discovered in the car of K. Moskalenko after she complained of a malaise. The police in Strasbourg , where the incident occurred, conducted an investigation. [2]
On October 22 of the same year, the police managed to find the former owner of the car, who showed under oath that, shortly before the sale of the car, Moskalenko accidentally broke a mercury barometer in the cabin. In the week that has elapsed between a message about mercury in Moskalenko’s car and a message from the police about its origin, a number of publicists and newspapers managed to report a version of poisoning on Putin’s order.
Passion for the theater
For nine years, along with work in the bar, she performed at the theater-studio “On Lesnoy”, played roles in plays based on the plays “ Strange Mrs. Savage ” by J. Patrick, “Bells” by G. Mamlin, “Viewpoint” by V. Shukshin , in the vaudeville "To the barrier, my sir," etc.