Native Name Lang: | ru |
Office: | Deputy of the 8th State Duma |
Term Start: | 19 September 2021 |
Birth Date: | 1 March 1990 |
Birth Place: | Zarinsk, Altai Krai, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, USSR |
Alma Mater: | Altai State Technical University |
Yuliya Drozhzhina (Russian: Юлия Николаевна Дрожжина; born 1 March 1990, Zarinsk, Altai Krai) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 8th State Duma.[1]
From 2014 to 2016, Drozhzhina was the head of the organizational department of the Russian National Youth Organization "Russian Students' Teams". In 2016, she was appointed head of the Moscow branch of the organization. In 2018, she coordinated volunteers during the Vladimir Putin's presidential campaign.[1]
Since 2021, she has served as a deputy of the 8th State Duma from the Moscow constituency. She ran with the United Russia. Initially, Yulia Drozhzhina did not make it to the party lists. However, three people before her rejected their mandates, and she received the place on 7 October.[2] [3] Drozhzhina became the last registered deputy of the 8th State Duma.[4]
She is one of the members of the State Duma the United States Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5]
Sanctioned by Canada under the Special Economic Measures Act (S.C. 1992, c. 17) in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine for Grave Breach of International Peace and Security.[6] and by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [7]