| Office: | Member of the State Duma for Samara Oblast |
| Term Start: | 25 September 2018 |
| Predecessor: | Nadezhda Kolesnikova |
| Constituency: | Samara (No. 158) |
| Office1: | Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) |
| Term Start1: | 24 December 2007 |
| Term End1: | 5 October 2016 |
| Office2: | Member of the State Duma for Nizhny Novgorod Oblast |
| Term Start2: | 29 December 2003 |
| Term End2: | 24 December 2007 |
| Predecessor2: | Nikolay Kosterin |
| Successor2: | constituencies abolished |
| Constituency2: | Semyonov (No.122) |
| Birth Date: | 26 October 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, RSFSR, USSR |
| Party: | United Russia |
| Spouse: |
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| Children: | 2 sons |
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| Occupation: | Journalist |
Alexander Evseevich Khinshtein (Russian: Алекса́ндр Евсе́евич Хинште́йн; born 26 October 1974, Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Russian journalist and politician. He is a deputy from the Samara constituency of the State Duma of the Russian Federal Assembly. He was a member of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th State Dumas. He is currently a member of the 8th State Duma. Deputy Secretary of the General Council of United Russia since 23 November 2019, Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications since 22 January 2020.[1] He is one of the architects of anti-LGBT legislation that bans "promoting LGBT propaganda", saying, "LGBT today is an element of hybrid warfare and in this hybrid warfare we must protect our values, our society and our children," [2]
Khinshtein was born in Russia to a Jewish family. His father Yevsey Abramovich Khinshtein and mother Inna Abramovna Regirer are engineers.[3]
He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.[4]