Nina Ostanina

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.

Nina Ostanina
MP
Нина Останина
Ostanina in 2003
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
Assumed office
12 October 2021
In office
24 December 2007 – 21 December 2011
Member of the State Duma for Kemerovo Oblast
In office
17 January 1996 – 24 December 2007
Preceded byNina Volkova
Succeeded byconstituencies abolished
ConstituencyProkopyevsk (No. 91)[lower-alpha 1]
Personal details
Born (1955-12-26) 26 December 1955
Kolpakovo, Topchikhinsky District, Altai Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyCPRF
SpouseIgor Grigorievich Ostanin
Children
  • Daniil
  • Evgeniy
EducationAltai State University
OccupationTeacher

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
  1. renumbered to 92 in 2003

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