Nina Alexandrovna Ostanina (Russian: Нина Александровна Останина; born 26 December 1955) is a Russian Communist politician. She has been a member of the State Duma since 1995.

She was Secretary of the Kemerovo regional Communist party organization.[1]

Career

She was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Kemerovo Oblast in the 1997 Russian gubernatorial elections.[2]

She unsuccessfully contested Rubtsovsk constituency at the 2016 Russian legislative election.

In July 2022, she co-sponsored a bill that would ban "the denial of family values" and the promotion of "non-traditional sexual orientations." In an interview, she further stated that "a traditional family is a union of a man and woman, it’s children, it’s a multi-generational family."[3][4]

Sanctions

She was one of the 324 members of the State Duma sanctioned by the United States Treasury in March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5]

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [6]

Notes

  1. ^ renumbered to 92 in 2003

References

  1. ^ "Nina Ostanina thanks you – Communist Party of the Russian Federation". Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Предвыборная ситуация в Кемерове" (in Russian). kommersant.ru. 17 October 1997. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  3. ^ "'The president likes the topic' Russian lawmakers develop competing bills in race to amend 'gay propaganda' law, sources tell Meduza".
  4. ^ "As the Ukraine war rages, Russia doubles down on anti-LGBT laws".
  5. ^ "U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russia's Defense-Industrial Base, the Russian Duma and Its Members, and Sberbank CEO". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  6. ^ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Ostanina
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