Karinna Akopovna Moskalenko was born on 9 February 1954.
In 1976, she graduated from the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University. In 1994, she took a course in European Law at the University of Birmingham (UK). Trained in leading organisations implementing human rights protection programmes.
Since 1 September 1977. - Trainee lawyer, then a lawyer of the Moscow City Bar Association (since 2002 - Moscow City Bar Association). Specialisation - criminal procedure, public international law (including international protection of human rights).
In 1994, K.A. Moskalenko founded and headed the Centre for Assistance to International Protection, a public human rights organisation uniting professional lawyers, which uses international mechanisms for the protection of human rights.
In 1997, she was one of three Russian human rights defenders invited to Strasbourg to attend a session of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). In 1999, the Centre for the Promotion of International Protection was granted the status of the Russian branch of the ICJ.
Since 2002, K.A. Moskalenko has been an expert of the TACIS programme of the European Union. Since 2003 - Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists.
In 2000, the UN Human Rights Committee adopted the first decision on the merits of a human rights complaint, which satisfied the claims of the applicant, whose interests were represented by the Centre for Assistance to International Protection.
On 18 September 2000, K.A. Moskalenko became the first Russian lawyer to appear before the European Court of Human Rights at the first public hearing of a Russian citizen's case (Kalashnikov v. Russia).
Member of the Russian Committee of Lawyers in Defence of Human Rights (1993), the Expert Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation (1999), and the Moscow Helsinki Group (1999).
Awarded the Human Rights Award of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation "For Human Rights" (1999), the highest legal award "Themis", the Order of First Class "For Fidelity to the Lawyer's Duty" (2000), the Recognition Award of the International Helsinki Federation (2006), the Brennan Award (2008), the Ludovic Trarieux European Human Rights Award (2010) and other awards.
Author of several works on the protection of human rights through international legal mechanisms, including the book "International Defence" (2001, 2007 - reissue).
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