Tetiana Mykolaivna Montyan is a pro-Russian propagandist, blogger, and lawyer.
Place of Birth, Education
She was born on August 29, 1972 in Kerch, Crimea.
In 1989, she entered the Lomonosov Moscow State University at the Faculty of Law.
Career
In 2001, she became the lawyer of the leader of the “Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People’s Self-Defense” Andriy Shkil in the case of “March 9”.
In 2004, she acted as a representative of the candidate for the post of President of Ukraine Oleksandr Rzhavskyi, who won 0.03% of the votes according to the results of the elections.
In 2010, she received the status of an expert of the European Commission on housing and communal services.
In 2020, she openly praised life in the territories temporarily occupied by Russia and announced the alleged revival of the Soviet Union of the 1950s.
In 2021, she left for the Russian Federation (RF), visited the occupied Ukrainian territories and participated in the creation of propaganda materials.
In 2022, the Russian side involved her in a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, where she spread Russian propaganda narratives, calling Ukraine a “colony of the collective West” and accusing it of “killing civilians in Donbas.”
In addition, she actively spoke on Russian TV channels and used her own YouTube and Telegram channels to spread disinformation about the situation in Ukraine.
Political Activities
In 2012, she participated in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada as an independent candidate without party affiliation, but could not win a deputy mandate.
In 2014, she again tried to get into parliament, this time from the Joint Action party. She was nominated in Kyiv, in constituency No. 212, but again did not receive the necessary support of voters. During the election campaign, she called for physical violence against Euromaidan participants, calling them traitors.
In 2015, she was nominated by the political party “Joint Action” in the elections for the mayor of Kyiv, but did not win the support of voters.
Criminal cases
In 2023, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) charged Montyan with suspicion under a number of articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (CCU), in particular, of committing actions aimed at violently overthrowing the constitutional order, encroaching on the territorial integrity of the state, collaborative activities, as well as justifying the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
Sanctions
It was sanctioned by the National Security and Defense Council in the fall of 2024. After that, she was deprived of the right to practice law in Ukraine.
