Nina Ostanina

Nina Alexandrovna Ostanina (born 26 December 1955) is a Russian Communist politician. She has been a member of the State Duma since 1995.

She was Secretary of the Kemerovo regional Communist party organization.

Career

She was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Kemerovo Oblast in the 1997 Russian gubernatorial elections.

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."

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.

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.