Natalia Narochnitskaya

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Natalya Alekseevna Narotchnitskaya (Russian: Наталия Алексеевна Нарочницкая) (born - December 23, 1948) is a prominent Russian female nationalist politician, historian and diplomat.

Between 1982 and 1989 Natalia Narochnitskaya worked in a Soviet diplomatic mission with the United Nations in New York.

In the 1990s Natalia Narochnitskaya was a member of several minor nationalistic political parties in Russia. She gained some publicity as an advocate of the greater political role of the Russian Orthodox Church and her support of the Russian military actions in Chechnya in 1994-1996. Narochnitskaya was also an outspoken opponent of NATO intervention in former Yugoslavia.

She was finally elected to parliament as a member of the Rodina block in 2003.

Natalia Narochnitskaya was vice chairman of the international affairs committee in the State Duma. Natalia Narochnitskaya has confidence that indispensable conditions of successful foreign policy of Russia in modern world are renewal and in-depth study of of traditional foundations of Russian diplomacy. She was not reelected in 2008. In January 2008, Narochnitskaya was appointed director of the Paris office of the Russian Institute for Democracy and Cooperation^[1].

She is an author of several works dedicated to Russian history, anti-Globalism as well as international, political and spiritual affairs. She maintains relations with scientific centers in Western Europe opposed to globalization, supranational mechanisms and loss of national sovereignty. She gained significant authority in Yugoslavia, where she has been awarded for her scientific and public work.