Name

Valentina Ivanova Matviyenko

Year of birth

1949

Additional Information

Places of birth:

Ukraine

Justifications:

Speaker of the Federation Council. On 1 March 2014, publicly supported, in the Federation Council, the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.

On 22 February 2022, Matviyenko supported, in the Federation Council, the ratification of the government decisions of the “Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the Luhansk People’s Republic”.

On 22 February 2022, Matviyenko supported, in the Federation Council, the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.

On 4 October 2022, Matviyenko supported, in the Federation Council, the legislation to annex the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine.