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Natalia Vladimirovna Poklonskaya (Russian: Ната́лья Влади́мировна Покло́нская, IPA: [nɐˈtalʲjɐ pɐkˈlonskɐjɐ], born 18 March 1980) is the Prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea.

Biography

Poklonskaya graduated from the Yevpatoria branch of the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. In 2011 in Simferopol she acted as the state prosecutor in the high profile trial of a former deputy of the Supreme Council of Crimea, charged with membership of an armed gang named Bashmaki (lit. "The Boots"). 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 until what happened next.

On February 25, 2014, Poklonskaya handed in a resignation, in which she wrote that she was ashamed to live in the country where "bandits were allowed to walk the street freely" (a reference to radical Euromaidan activists). The resignation was not accepted. Instead, she was given a vacation and left Kiev for Crimea where her parents lived.

She was appointed Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on 11 March 2014. Poklonskaya was appointed to the position by Sergei Aksyonov after the previous prosecutor had remained loyal to the government in Kiev; the position had also been reportedly rejected by four other men before Poklonskaya accepted. She had previously voiced criticism of the opposition protests in Ukraine and described the change of government in Kiev as an "anti-constitutional coup". In response, the Ukrainian government launched a criminal case against her and stripped her of the civil service rank of "counsellor of justice".

Internet popularity

As the idiom goes, 'Beauty saves the world'.

After assuming the office of Prosecutor of Crimea on 11 March 2014, Poklonskaya held a press conference later that day. Poklonskaya soon caught attention on the Internet because of her particular attractiveness. A video clip of the press conference was uploaded by a Japanese poster onto YouTube; in English it was titled 'New Attorney General of Crimea is beautiful', in Japanese the title stated 'Too beautiful'. The clip (which featured no translation) quickly racked up more than 300,000 YouTube views within a day. She went viral in not only Japan, but also China, while receiving coverage from Chinese news outlets like China News Service and Guangming Online. She was noted to have been discussed on Reddit, the Chinese microblog service Weibo and the Russian social network Vkontakte.

Following her press conference, an onslaught of anime-style moe fanart of Poklonskaya was created and uploaded to the internet, most notably on the Japanese artwork-sharing website Pixiv. This was reported by major Russian media outlets like Voice of Russia, Russia Today, and Rossiyskaya Gazeta, as well as international media outlets like BBC News and Bloomberg News.

Following the flood of Poklonskaya fanart, numerous real-life images were discovered on social media sites and also went viral around the world.

References

1. 2014-03-21, О том, что стала героиней аниме, узнала от дочери. Лучше бы люди оценили мою работу, Komsomolskaya Pravda.
2. ^ "Prosecutor of the Republic" (in Russian). Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
3. ^ Bershidsky, Leonid. "Cartoonish Crimean Prosecutor a Hit in Japan". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
4. "Структура Прокуратури АРК". Прокуратура Автономної Республіки Крим. Archived from the original on 2011-10-15.
5. "Natalia Poklonskaya she is the Putins new sexy prosecutor assigned by Russian for Crimea !". National Turk. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
6. ^ "Japan: Crimean attorney general inspires anime fan art". BBC News. Archived from the original on 21 March 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
7. "Прокурор Крыма Наталья Поклонская стала звездой японского интернета" (in Russian). Mail.ru. 2014-03-19. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
8. ^ "Прокурор Крыма нашла обожателей в Японии" (in Russian). Voice of Russia. 2014-03-17. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
9. ^ "New Crimea prosecutor brands EuroMaidan as 'coup'". Voice of Russia. 16 March 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
10. "Beauty of Crimean attorney general to 'save the world". Global Times. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
11. "Crimean prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya's viral video inspires fan art". CBC News. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
12. ^ "Crimea's attorney general Natalia Poklonskaya goes viral in China and Japan". International Business Times. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
13. "克里米亚未婚美女检察长爆红 称"美丽挽救世界"" (in Simplified Chinese). China News Service. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
14. "Newly appointed Crimean Gen.Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya draws Chinese netizens'attention". Guangming Online. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
15. 2014-03-19, Crimea's Attorney General Spawns Anime Fan Art, Kotaku
16. 2014-03-20, ロシア編入・クリミアの検事総長が「美人すぎ」！　ネットユーザー萌えまくり, J-CAST
17. "Японцы признались в любви прокурору Крыма в стиле аниме". Ino TV. 2013-03-19.
18. "Прокурор республики: Возглавить прокуратуру Крыма в эти дни испугались 4 мужчины. А она - согласилась". Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 2014-03-20.
19. "Natalia Poklonskaya becomes Crimea's new attorney general as high heel pictures emerge | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. 2014-03-16. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
20. Kelly, John. "Natalia Poklonskaya: Meet the stunning new Crimean attorney general who is taking social media by storm - Mirror Online". Mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-03-20.

External links

• Natalia Poklonskaya's press conference on 11 March 2014 - by Argumenty Nedeli Crimea on YouTube

• 1980 births
• Living people
• People from Crimea
• Prosecutors
• People of the 2014 Crimean crisis
• Viral videos
• Internet memes