1. Maria Yegorovna Gaidar is a Ukrainian politician.
20 Facts About Maria Gaidar
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Maria Gaidar founded the Social Assistance and Population Support Foundation, "Social Request".
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Maria Gaidar has served as Advisor to the Chairman of the Odesa regional state administration in social protection and health, the Deputy head of administration of Odesa region on social issues and Deputy of the Odesa regional council and external adviser to the President of Ukraine.
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Maria Gaidar was born in Moscow to a prominent political and literary Russian family.
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Maria Gaidar is the daughter of former Russian Prime Minister, Yegor Gaidar.
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Maria Gaidar is step-daughter of the daughter of writer Arkady Strugatsky.
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Maria Gaidar's parents divorced in 1985, when she was three years old.
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In 2005, Maria Gaidar became founder and coordinator of the pro-democracy social youth movement "Democratic Alternative".
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Maria Gaidar was one of the leaders of The Other Russia organization and, following in her father's footsteps, the Union of Right Forces party.
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In February 2009, Maria Gaidar became an advisor to the new governor of Kirov Oblast, Nikita Belykh, and on 23 July she was confirmed as a deputy governor in Kirov Oblast.
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In June 2011, Maria Gaidar announced that she would resign as adviser due to her admission to Harvard University.
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On 16 July 2015, Maria Gaidar founded the Social Assistance and Population Support Foundation, "Social Request", a non-profit organization.
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On 17 July 2015, Maria Gaidar accepted an offer from Mikheil Saakashvili and became a vice-governor of Odesa Oblast in Ukraine.
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Maria Gaidar has indicated she would be willing to serve on Saakashvili's team as an adviser or volunteer.
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Sotsialny Zapros itself stated that Maria Gaidar had already stepped down as the organization's head the previous week and that the NGO had voluntarily and formally already refused all government grants.
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Maria Gaidar resigned as deputy governor after a new law barring a regional lawmaker being simultaneously a civil servant took effect on 1 May 2016.
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Maria Gaidar resigned her seat in Odesa Oblast's legislature on 10 June 2018, the assembly unannounced on June 12 that it had relieved Maria Gaidar of her duties as a lawmaker at her request.
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On 5 April 2017 Maria Gaidar was appointed an adviser of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
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Maria Gaidar is fluent in English, German, Spanish and her native Russian.
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In 2014 she and her daughter moved to Israel because she was afraid that she would lose custody of the child if a criminal investigation into Maria Gaidar were to be launched in Russia.