Deputy Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs
Yelena Afanaseva
Representative of the executive authority of the Orenburg Region
Born: March 27, 1975
Took office:September 26, 2014
Term ends *: September 2030
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Andrei Shevchenko
Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Government and Northern Affairs
Yelena Afanaseva: Election monitoring institutions created by the West have become instruments of electoral neocolonialism
The senator spoke at the international conference on election observation, where she delivered the Federation Council Speaker's address.