Leonid Roshal

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.

[2] Roshal has been leading the Emergency Surgery & Children's Trauma Department of Moscow's Pediatric Scientific Research Institute since 1981.

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.

[5][6] Since 2013, he has been a member of the central headquarters of the All-Russia People's Front,[7] 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"[5] for Putin.