Honorific Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Member of the State Duma for Saint Petersburg |
Term Start: | 5 October 2016 |
Predecessor: | constituency re-established |
Constituency: | Northeast St. Petersburg (No. 214) |
Office1: | Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) |
Term Start1: | 18 January 2000 |
Term End1: | 5 October 2016 |
Birth Date: | 29 October 1948 |
Birth Place: | Uralsk, West Kazakhstan Oblast Kazakh SSR, USSR |
Children: | Anastasia (born 1984) |
Blank1: | Religion |
Education: | LGITMiK |
Awards: | |
Serviceyears: | 1972-present |
Yelena Grigoryevna Drapeko (Russian: Еле́на Григо́рьевна Драпе́ко; born 29 October 1948) is a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actress.[1] She has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1972. She is also a member of the State Duma since 2000.
On 29 November 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she claimed that Ukraine as a separate country doesn't exist, that Ukraine is Russian, that the Ukrainian people would benefit from a Russian takeover, and that it was surprising that the Western countries were assisting Ukraine against the Russian attack. [2]
In December 2022 the EU sanctioned Yelena Drapeko in relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3]