Nina Ostanina Explained

Honorific Suffix:MP
Office:Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
Term Start:12 October 2021
Term Start1:24 December 2007
Term End1:21 December 2011
Office2:Member of the State Duma for Kemerovo Oblast
Term Start2:17 January 1996
Term End2:24 December 2007
Successor2:constituencies abolished
Constituency2:Prokopyevsk (No. 91)
Birth Date:26 December 1955
Birth Place:Kolpakovo, Topchikhinsky District, Altai Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Party:CPRF
Spouse:Igor Grigorievich Ostanin
Blank1:Religion
Education:Altai State University
Occupation:Teacher

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 and References

  1. Web site: Nina Ostanina thanks you – Communist Party of the Russian Federation. 2022-01-22. en-US.
  2. Web site: Предвыборная ситуация в Кемерове. October 17, 1997. kommersant.ru. ru. February 1, 2023.
  3. Web site: 'The president likes the topic' Russian lawmakers develop competing bills in race to amend 'gay propaganda' law, sources tell Meduza .
  4. Web site: As the Ukraine war rages, Russia doubles down on anti-LGBT laws .
  5. Web site: U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russia's Defense-Industrial Base, the Russian Duma and Its Members, and Sberbank CEO . 2022-04-10 . U.S. Department of the Treasury . en.
  6. Web site: CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK . 16 April 2023.