Olga Batalina Explained

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]

Family

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

Awards

Notes and References

  1. News: Kozlowska . Hanna . Female lawmakers in Russia helped pushed through a bill that will decriminalize domestic violence . 17 May 2022 . Quartz . en.
  2. News: Russian lawmakers vote to decriminalize some forms of domestic violence . 17 May 2022 . Los Angeles Times . 27 January 2017.
  3. Web site: Баталина, Ольга Юрьевна . Batalina, Olga Yurevna . . Информационное агентство России ТАСС . 16 June 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231108081440/https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/batalina-olga-yurevna . 2023-11-08 . ru.
  4. Web site: 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 . . 16 June 2024 . http://web.archive.org/web/20230929173412/http://duma.gov.ru/news/47930/ . 2023-09-29 . . ru . 2020-03-03.
  5. Web site: Ольга Баталина биография. Биография Ольга Баталина. Личная жизнь Ольга Баталина. - Свободная Пресса . 2024-06-19 . svpressa.ru . ru.