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Irina Yarovaya | |
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Ирина Яровая | |
_(cropped).jpg) Yarovaya in 2025 | |
| Deputy Chairman of theState Duma | |
| Assumed office 5 October 2016 | |
| Member of theState Duma forKamchatka | |
| Assumed office 12 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Konstantin Slyshchenko |
| Constituency | Kamchatka-at-large (No. 45) |
| Member of theState Duma (Party List Seat) | |
| In office 24 December 2007 – 12 October 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Irina Anatoleyvna Chernyakhovskaya (1966-10-17)17 October 1966 (age 59) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party | United Russia |
| Other political affiliations | Yabloko(1997–2007) |
Irina Anatolyevna Yarovaya (Russian:Ири́на Анато́льевна Ярова́я; born 17 October 1966) néeChernyakhovskaya is a Russian political figure, aDeputy Chairman of theState Duma fromUnited Russia Party and a member of her party's General Council.
She has authored or co-authored multiple laws, including the toughening of responsibility for violating the rules ofholding rallies,tightening immigration,criminal libel and registration requirements for 'foreign agents' fornon-profit organizations with foreign funding. In 2014, she sponsored a bill prohibiting rehabilitation of Nazism.[1] Another law known as theYarovaya Law required in particular that telecommunications providers record all of their traffic and keep the record for three years (later shortened to six months). The first version of this counter-terrorism bill would have made it a criminal offense to fail reporting suspicious activities potentially linked with terrorism. This bill's language was subsequently watered down by the Duma.[2][3]
Yarovaya is generally considered areactionary, in that she sponsored laws limiting civil freedom in the name ofstate security.[4] She was accused of producing low-quality bills possibly contradicting theConstitution of Russia.[3][5][6]
From 1997 to 2007, she was a member inYabloko Party, and was elected to the Council of People's Deputies ofKamchatka Oblast, where she served as head of the Kamchatka Regional Council, member of her party's Central Bureau and Vice-Chairman of her party.[7]
She was elected to the5th (2007) as well as the6th (2011) and the7th State Duma of the Russian Federation (2016). On 21 December 2011 she became the Head of theParliamentary Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption.[8]
On 27 June 2016 she was included in the election list of the United Russia Party as a frontrunner in the Far East region,[9] which virtually guaranteed her being elected to the7th State Duma in September 2016.
She was sanctioned by theUK government on 11 March 2022 in relation to theRusso-Ukrainian War.[10]