27 Facts About Valentina Pivnenko

Valentina Nikolayevna Pivnenko is a Russian United Russia politician and states person.

Valentina Pivnenko has served in the Russian State Duma as a representative for the Karelia constituency since December 1999, firstly as an independent candidate before joining United Russia in 2000.

Valentina Pivnenko served two terms in the Russian Federation Council as a senator for the Republic of Karelia from 1996 to 2000.

On 14 June 1947, Valentina Pivnenko was born in Petrozavodsk, then part of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Valentina Pivnenko was the daughter of Second World War soldier Nikolai Mikhailovich Vasiliev, who died half a year before Pivnenko was born.

In 1971, Valentina Pivnenko was employed as a technician and engineer at Petrozavodsk and Prionezhskiy chemical forestry enterprises.

Valentina Pivnenko was promoted to lead the labour and wages department of the Petrozavodsk timber industry enterprise in 1975.

Valentina Pivnenko was appointed secretary of the Karelian Oblast Committee of Trade Union Workers, a role she maintained until 1984.

Valentina Pivnenko was elected the trade union's chair and served as such from April 1992 to June 1994 as well as leading its department of wages and work production between 1984 and 1992.

Valentina Pivnenko graduated in absentia from the Moscow Academy of Labour and Social Relations with an economic science degree in 1994.

In both April 1994 and April 1998, Valentina Pivnenko was elected to the House of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia as a representative of the Prionezhsky constituency in the first and second convocations.

Valentina Pivnenko was appointed the House of Representatives' President on the 17th of the following month and she was re-elected to the position in May 1998.

Valentina Pivnenko was appointed to the Russian Federation Council as a senator of the Republic of Karelia in January 1996 and remained there until March 1997 when her term as a Karelian deputy had concluded.

Valentina Pivnenko was deputy chair of the Committee on Budget, Tax Policy, Financial, Currency and Customs Regulation and Banking and led an interim commission to investigate Russia's government and the Central Bank of Russia on restricting state short-term liabilities, devaluing the ruble's exchange rate, introducing a ban on foreign exchange transactions of a capital nature.

Valentina Pivnenko won 30.46 per cent of the popular vote and she was elected to represent the Karelia constituency in the State Duma from 19 December 1999 onwards.

Valentina Pivnenko was head of the Committee on the Problems of the North and the Far East and was one of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin's confidantes.

Valentina Pivnenko was appointed chair of the North of Russia inter-factional group in October 2000 and she led the Karelian regional branch of the People's Party of the Russian Federation from 2001 to 2003.

Valentina Pivnenko was added to United Russia's Baltic-Belomorskaya regional group in September 2003 so she could stand for election to the fourth convocation of the State Duma at the 2003 Russian legislative election.

Valentina Pivnenko was re-elected to serve the Karelia constituency with 50.43 per cent of the popular vote on 7 December 2003.

Valentina Pivnenko won her fourth re-election to the Karelia constituency this time to the State Duma's fifth convocation during the 2011 Russian legislative election held on 4 December that year.

Valentina Pivnenko became the State Duma's first deputy chair on the Committee on Regional Policy and Problems of the North and the Far East.

Valentina Pivnenko was the first with a 46.91 per cent vote share in United Russia's preliminary internal party voting held in May 2016 for candidates to stand for election to represent the Karelia Republic in the State Duma at the 2016 Russian legislative election that occurred on 18 September 2016.

Valentina Pivnenko won re-election to the State Duma for the sixth time when she was elected with 27.69 per cent of the vote share at the 2021 Russian legislative election on 19 September of that year.

Valentina Pivnenko was appointed Chair of the State Duma Committee for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic on 12 October 2021.

Valentina Pivnenko was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Valentina Pivnenko has been married to the railway worker Rudolf Valentina Pivnenko for more than half a century and the couple have two children.

Valentina Pivnenko is a laureate of the American Biographical Institute's International Woman of the Year Award and has received a gratitude from the Russian Government in 2019.