Natalya Kostenko is known as a member of the president's team. It is part of the main headquarters of the All-Russian Popular Front. He is a member of the State Duma of the 7th convocation. A professional journalist by profession and a political observer by vocation, she made a career for herself in just two years, heading the Center for Legal Support of Journalists of the ONF, which fights against violations of freedom of speech. As a parliamentarian, she was remembered for taking action initiatives that were aimed at solving the problems of people and the village. Since she herself comes from the Krasnodar Territory, she actively defends the rights of farmers. Collects appeals from citizens on price regulation, medicine, education, housing and communal services.
Deputy biography
Natalya Kostenko was born in 1980. She was born in the Krasnodar Territory, in the small village of Malotenginskaya, which is located in the Otradnensky district. In 1998 she became a graduate of secondary school No. 18. She began to study at the department of journalism at the Kuban State University. While still a student, she simultaneously began working as a correspondent for the regional newspaper Kuban Today. Graduated in 2004.
Then the first successes came to her, as tojournalist. In 2004 she was awarded the "Debut" prize, awarded by the Union of Journalists of Russia.
Natalya Kostenko's career went up sharply when in 2005 she received an invitation for cooperation from the federal socio-political publication Nezavisimaya Gazeta. She moved from Krasnodar to Moscow.
Working at Nezavisimaya Gazeta
In Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Natalya Kostenko de alt with political issues as a columnist. She oversaw the topic of elections, as well as the activities of various political parties.
A new stage in her journalistic career came in 2008, when she got a job at the Vedomosti newspaper. Here the heroine of our article began working as a parliamentary correspondent, entered the Kremlin pool. She regularly covered the activities and visits of the heads of government and the federal parliament.
Cooperation with ONF
In 2013, Natalia Kostenko was invited to the Moscow Institute, which specialized in socio-economic and political research. Immediately to the position of Deputy Director. In her work, she actively collaborated with the federal coordinating committee, which worked under the All-Russian Popular Front.
She began to be actively involved in the activities of the ONF, already in June they were included in the Central Headquarters. And since October, she began to oversee the activities of five thematic groups at once. And not only the central headquarters, but also regionalcenters for public monitoring. She also led the legislative activities of ONF activists, who were deputies of the State Duma. At the same time, Kostenko Natalia is actively involved in the preparation of various events in which the head of the ONF Vladimir Putin participates.
Free speech
In 2014, she became a member of the center for legal support of journalists at the All-Russian Popular Front. This institute was created as a result of the 1st media forum for regional independent media, which was called "Truth and Justice".
In this position, Kostenko Natalya Vasilievna was noted for several high-profile statements. For example, she claimed that the Center she headed was planning to create a so-called black list of officials. It was planned to include those servants of the people who regularly do not provide the media with the required information. Thus directly breaking the law.
Then Kostenko said that the activists of the Center were making proposals to deputies of the State Duma and employees of the presidential administration so that laws would be adopted that would officially increase fines and other pen alties for civil servants who violate the law "On Mass Media". It is in terms of failure to provide journalists with the required information. All officials who conduct activities that are closed to the people and the public will be blacklisted. This was promised by Kostenko Natalya Vasilievna. The biography of the heroine of our article was now closely connected with both journalism and politics.
Media support
As part of the activities of the ONF, events were organized to support the media at all levels. Thus, in 2015, a webinar was held, in which journalists from 100 independent publications from all over Russia took part. Competent specialists were able to give detailed answers on participation in tenders aimed at covering the activities of government bodies in the media. Moreover, real examples were given of how it is possible to oppose officials who actively use financial leverage to put pressure on the free press.
Natalia Kostenko, whose biography has a section related to the protection of media rights, claimed that certain officials in the regions and at the federal level use the money allocated for the media against journalists. In their hands, they become an element of pressure, with the help of which they push their point of view onto the pages of print and onto the screens of controlled TV channels.
As an example, Kostenko cited cases when a certain publication won a tender, for example, for 100,000 rubles. And because of this, they found themselves in a situation where they were directly forbidden by representatives of the administration to post critical materials, even to make hints in their articles that might not be approved by local officials. If the publication followed the principle and nevertheless issued material critical of the authorities, then officials made attempts to terminate agreements with such editorial offices for far-fetched reasons and not to deal with them in the future. And thiswere not all elements of influence on the free press.
Defending farmers' rights
Kostenko Natalya Vasilievna, whose dossier contains information about her birth in the Krasnodar Territory, throughout her career actively defended the rights of local farmers and entrepreneurs. For example, in 2016 she helped the Krasnodar branch of the ONF stand up for local farmers. They complained about violations in the sphere of land turnover. They also gave concrete examples of cases of raider seizures of land plots and even crops harvested by peasants.
Kostenko noted that in such a situation, the problem of import substitution will never be solved. After all, farmers have to spend too much time and effort to defend their truth in government offices and courtrooms. And they could spend it on cultivating the land and harvesting. The Krasnodar branch of the ONF then came out with demands to immediately restore order in the field of land use.
The result of this action was an official appeal addressed to the head of the RF IC Alexander Bastrykin, which contained a request to pay close attention to the massive complaints of farmers about harassment.
Map of violations of the rights of journalists
In 2016, Kostenko's team presented a map of harassment of journalists in the regions. This happened at a media forum of independent and regional media, the organization of which was initiated by the All-Russian Popular Front. It was called "Truth and Justice".
The heroine of our articlenoted that, at the same time, statistics on violations related to freedom of speech improved. Earlier, representatives of newspapers and TV channels actively complained about the regular violation of their rights and freedoms. At the same media forum, the appeals were mainly related to systemic issues that require intervention at the legislative level. One of the reasons for the decrease in cases of violation of freedom of speech is the active work of various public organizations in this area. Including the All-Russian Popular Front. Largely due to their influence, the problem was brought to the all-Russian level.
Political career
In the spring of 2016, Kostenko made an important decision in her life. She decided to seriously pursue a political career. Therefore, she registered as a participant in the preliminary voting of the United Russia political party. The purpose of the primaries was to select candidates for the State Duma from the Krasnodar Territory.
As she herself admitted, participation in this project was an interesting and rewarding experience. Especially considering the fact that she decided to go to the State Duma. This allowed the candidates to compete among themselves and determine which of them would be the strongest. It is also an opportunity to get a positive experience, draw fresh ideas that can help not only in the upcoming election campaign, but also in future work.
Elections to the State Duma
During the preliminary voting, Kostenko took second place with a little less than 39% of the vote. The victory in the primaries was won by the current chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the region Vladimir Beketov, for whom more than 70% of voters voted.
Despite this, she took part in the voting, as a result of which Natalya Kostenko became a deputy of the State Duma. She passed to the federal parliament from her native region. Now Natalia Kostenko is a people's deputy who seeks to solve the problems of a particular region.
