Alyona Igorevna Arshinova (russian: Алёна Игоревна Аршинова; born 3 March 1985 in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

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) also known by typo name Alena Arshinova is a Russian politician, model and sociologist. She is a deputy of the

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Biography

Alyona Arsinova was born in 1985 in Dresden since her father, a member of the

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, was stationed there. Arshinova holds dual citizenship of

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and

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. From 2002 to 2007 she studied

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at the state university of

, the T.G. Shevchenko University in Tiraspol. Alena Arshinova

Arshinova led the political youth organization

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(Russian: ''Proriv'') which defends the independence of Transnistria with close ties to Russia, and opposes union with

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. She has written articles for the Transnistrian

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«Lenta PMR». In December 2005 Arshinova was interviewed by the German news magazine

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. In 2009 she was a fellow of the John Smith Memorial Trust programme for

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and good governance. In 2007, Alyona Arshinova moved to

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for postgraduate work in sociology at

Lomonosov University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. Her dissertation is titled "Youth Extremism in Russia".Putins schöne, junge Garde – Ablösung für die Abnicker-Apparatschiks
("Putin's beautiful young guard – Replacement of the Nod-through apparatchiks"), Spiegel Online, 3 October 2011 (German). Retrieved on 7 Oct 2011. She has become involved in Russian politics. On 22 December 2010, Arshinova was elected as co-chairman of the co-ordinating council of the

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("Molodaya Gvardia"), the youth wing of Russia's ruling party. For the

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, she contested a seat in the State Duma. She is one of the members of the

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the United States Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the

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Faces of the new Europe: Alena Arshinova

Portrait & Interview (in Russian)

Transnistria's Breakthrough
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