Office: | Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) |
Term Start: | 12 October 2021 |
Term End: | 14 October 2021 |
Successor: | Anatoly Karpov |
Term Start1: | 21 December 2011 |
Term End1: | 4 March 2020 |
Successor1: | Sergey Sokol |
Birth Place: | Saratov, RSFSR, USSR |
Party: | United Russia |
Spouse: | Dmitry Batalin |
Children: | 2 daughters |
Blank1: | Religion |
Education: | RANEPA |
Olga Yurievna Batalina (; 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]
Olga Batalina is married, she and her husband have two daughters.[5]