Irina Alexandrovna Pankina (; born March 8, 1986, Mayachny,

Kumertau Kumertau (; , ''Kümertaw'') is a town in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located from Ufa and from Sterlitamak. Population: Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with ...

) is a Russian politician and a deputy of the

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Biography

In 2007 Irina graduated from

Bashkir State University Bashkir State University (; ) (now Ufa University of Science and Technology) was located in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. Founded in 1909, it was a classical university of Russia. On July 8, 2022, the Ufa University of Science and Technology ...

. She has a PhD in law. In 2007 she started working as a legal adviser at the

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branch in Ufa. From 2009 to 2010, she was the leading specialist at the Plenipotentiary Representation of the Republic of Bashkortostan of the President of the Russian Federation. In 2011 she started working in the apparatus of the

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. Since September 2021 she has served as deputy of the

. From October 2021 Irina Pankina is the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation. She is a member of the Association of Lawyers of Russia. From 2021 she is a chairman of the department in Bashkortostan.

Sanctions

She was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the

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. She is one of the members of the

the United States Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

References

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