Irina Anatoleyvna Yarovaya (russian: Ири́на Анато́льевна Ярова́я; born in

Makiivka Makiivka ( uk, Макіївка, Makíyivka, ; russian: Макеевка, Makeyevka, ), formerly Dmytriivsk, is an industrial city in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Located from the capital Donetsk, the two cities are practically a conurbati ...

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Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

, 17 October 1966) née Chernyakhovskaya is a Russian political figure, a

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of the

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from

United Russia United Russia ( rus, Единая Россия, Yedinaya Rossiya, (j)ɪˈdʲinəjə rɐˈsʲijə) is a Conservatism in Russia, Russian conservative List of political parties in Russia, political party. As the largest party in Russia, it hold ...

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 of holding rallies, tightening immigration,

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and registration requirements for 'foreign agents' for

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with foreign funding. In 2014, she sponsored a bill prohibiting rehabilitation of Nazism. Another law known as the

Yarovaya Law The Yarovaya law (in Russian: Закон Яровой, transliteration: ''Zakon Jarovoy''), also Yarovaya package/bag, is a set of two Russian federal bills, 374-FZ and 375-FZ, passed in 2016. The bills amend previous counter-terrorism laws and ...

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. Yarovaya is generally considered a

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, in that she sponsored laws limiting civil freedom in the name of state security. She was accused of producing low-quality bills possibly contradicting the

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Political biography

From 1997 to 2007, she was a member in

Yabloko The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko (RUDP Yabloko) (russian: Росси́йская объединённая демократи́ческая па́ртия «Я́блоко», Rossíyskaya obyedinyónnaya demokratícheskaya pártiya "Y ...

Party, and was elected to the Council of People's Deputies of

Kamchatka Oblast Kamchatka Oblast (russian: Камча́тская о́бласть, ''Kamchatskaya oblast'') was, until being incorporated into Kamchatka Krai on July 1, 2007, a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). To the north, it bordered Magadan Oblas ...

, where she served as head of the Kamchatka Regional Council, member of her party's Central Bureau and Vice-Chairman of her party. She was elected to the 5th (2007) as well as the 6th (2011) and the

7th State Duma of the Russian Federation 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, s ...

(2016). On 21 December 2011 she became the Head of the

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Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption. On 27 June 2016 she was included in the election list of the United Russia Party as a frontrunner in the Far East region, which virtually guaranteed her being elected to the

7th State Duma The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 7th convocation (russian: Государственная Дума Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации седьмого созы� ...

in September 2016.

References

External links

Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption of the State Duma
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