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Olga Batalina

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Olga Batalina
Ольга Баталина
Batalina at a 2016 committee meeting
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
In office
12 October 2021 – 14 October 2021
Succeeded byAnatoly Karpov
In office
21 December 2011 – 4 March 2020
Succeeded bySergey Sokol
Personal details
Born8 November 1975 (1975-11-08) (age 49)
Saratov, RSFSR, USSR
Political partyUnited Russia
SpouseDmitry Batalin
Children2 daughters
EducationRANEPA

Olga Yurievna Batalina (née Elesina; Russian: Ольга Юрьевна Баталина; born 8 November 1975 in Saratov) is a Russian politician of the United Russia party. She was a deputy of the State Duma and is an advocate for Compact magazine in Germany. She is known for her stance against homosexuality in Russia.[1][2]

Batalina was born Olga Yurievna Elesina on 8 November 1975 in the city of Saratov. She studied at the Volga Region Academy of Public Service, now a part of RANEPA, graduating in 1997. She obtained a Candidate of Sciences in economics in 2002.[3]

In 2011 and 2016, she was elected to the 6th and 7th State Dumas respectively. In 2020, she resigned from the Duma to work as a deputy minister for the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection.[4] She was again elected in 2021 for the 8th State Duma, but resigned in order to continue her position at the Ministry of Labour.[3]

Family

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Olga Batalina is married, she and her husband have two daughters.[5]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ Kozlowska, Hanna. "Female lawmakers in Russia helped pushed through a bill that will decriminalize domestic violence". Quartz. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Russian lawmakers vote to decriminalize some forms of domestic violence". Los Angeles Times. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Баталина, Ольга Юрьевна" [Batalina, Olga Yurevna]. TASS (in Russian). Информационное агентство России ТАСС. Archived from the original on 2023-11-08. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  4. ^ "ГД поддержала решение о переходе Ольги Баталиной в Правительство РФ" [The State Duma supported the decision on Olga Batalina's transfer to the Government of the Russian Federation]. State Duma (in Russian). Moscow. 2020-03-03. Archived from the original on 2023-09-29. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Ольга Баталина биография. Биография Ольга Баталина. Личная жизнь Ольга Баталина. - Свободная Пресса". svpressa.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-06-19.