Lola Voronina (russian: Ло́ла Воро́нина; born 26 November 1983) is a Russian

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, ...

of the

Pirate Party of Russia ) , website pirate-party.ru The Pirate Party of Russia (PPR; russian: Пиратская партия России; ППР; ''Piratskaya partiya Rossii'', ''PPR'') is a political party in Russia based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party (Swe ...

(PPRU),Interview with Lola Voronina
,

Piratenpartei Deutschland The Pirate Party Germany (german: Piratenpartei Deutschland), commonly known as Pirates (), is a political party in Germany founded in September 2006 at c-base. It states general agreement with the Swedish Piratpartiet as a party of the informat ...

, 3 January 2012. and has been beside the Russian born German Grégory Engels of the Pirate Party Germany co-chairperson of

Pirate Parties International Pirate Parties International (PPI) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Formed in 2010, it serves as a worldwide organization for Pirate Parties, currently representing ...

(PPI) since 15 April 2012.Pirate Parties International Board of PPI on http://www.pp-international.net/
Voronina was born in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, in the former

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

. She was also

secretary-general Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived ...

of the PPI, the umbrella organization of the international Pirate Party movement, from 13 March 2011 to 15 April 2012. She lives in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

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