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Leonid Mikhailovich Roshal (Russian: Леони́д Миха́йлович Роша́ль; born April 27, 1933) is a noted pediatrician from Moscow, Russia, expert for the World Health Organization, and chairman of International Charity Fund to Help Children in Disasters and Wars.

Biography

Roshal was born in the город of Livny, Oryol Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. His mother, Emma, came from a Jewish family in what is today Ukraine. His father, Mikhail, was a fighter jet pilot.

Roshal has been leading the Emergency Surgery & Children's Trauma Department of Moscow's Pediatric Scientific Research Institute since 1981. In 2003, he also took over the Moscow Institute of Emergency Children's Surgery & Traumatology, which is currently treating 60,000 children a year.

Roshal negotiated with Chechen terrorists during the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002. He also served as a negotiator in the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, working for the release of children and trying to convince the hostage-takers to allow the hostages to have food and water. After the events in the Beslan crisis played out, he also served as the advisor to the medical teams that had to treat burn wounds on hundreds of children.

Since 2005 he is a member of the Public Chamber of Russia. He is also a member of the Presidential Commission on Human Rights.

Views

Roshal publicly spoke out against the war in Chechnya and the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In February 2006 he criticized the Mothers of Beslan for "judging the state rather than the terrorists" at a trial of one of the Beslan hostage takers.

Roshal is a supporter of Vladimir Putin and his policies. Since 2013, he has been a member of the central headquarters of the All-Russia People's Front, a right-wing political coalition led by Putin. In 2020, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's wife, Yulia Navalnaya, characterized Roshal as "little more than a stooge" for Putin. On February 25, 2023, the European Union imposed sanctions against Roshal due to his co-chairmanship of the All-Russia People's Front, which provides support for Russia's war against Ukraine, and his personal statements in support of the military action against Ukraine.

Roshal is outspoken anti-gay. In 2013, during press conference answering the question about his views on the Russian gay propaganda law discussed by the Russian parliament back then he said "I'll be short: I hate gays and everything about it".

Awards

• 2018 - Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize for the year 2017

References

1. Международный благотворительный Фонд помощи детям при катастрофах и войнах (in Russian)
2. "Рошаль, Леонид Михайлович - ПЕРСОНА ТАСС".
3. ^ "Berlin Hospital Says Navalny Taken Out Of Coma, Is Responsive". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. September 7, 2020. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
4. "Navalny's Wife Slams Putin-Linked Doctor Over Call For Joint Group To Evaluate Situation". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. September 7, 2020. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
5. "Леонид Рошаль назвал помощника президента Татьяну Голикову "прилипалой"". Деловой Петербург. June 13, 2013. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
6. ""Мой муж – не ваша собственность. Вы не будете иметь отношения к его лечению": Юлия Навальная ответила доктору Рошалю". Настоящее Время. September 6, 2020. Retrieved February 26, 2023. Вы выступаете не как врач, а как голос государства. (You act not as a doctor, but as the voice of the state.)
7. "Council implementing regulation (EU) 2023/429 of 25 February 2023 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine". Official Journal of the European Union. L059I: 289. February 25, 2023. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
8. "Леонид Рошаль признался, что ненавидит геев ('Leonid Roshal admitted that he hates gays')". Metro International. Retrieved 12 August 2019. (in Russian)

External links

• Businessweek "2005 Stars of Europe" Article
• The last witness. What doctor Roshal's insult was to Mothers of Beslan, Novye Izvestia, February 13, 2006. Machine-translated by www.online-translator.com. Last accessed August 5, 2006.

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