Tatiana Anatolyevna Sakharova (; 16 June 1973 – 4 June 2025) was a Russian politician serving as a

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from

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from 7 October 2021 until her death on 4 June 2025.

Biography

Tatiana Sakharova was born on 16 June 1973 in

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; ; ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capita ...

. In 1995, she graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics. From 1996 to 2012, she worked as Head of the Legal Entities Service Sector at the Murmansk branch of Sberbank. From 2015 to 2021, she was the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Deputies in Severomorsk. In December 2019, Sakharova was appointed Head of the regional branch of the

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party. On 7 October 2021, she became the

from the Murmansk Oblast Duma. Tatiana Sakharova was under personal sanctions introduced by the

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, the

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, for ratifying the decisions of the " Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the Donetsk People's Republic and between the Russian Federation and the Luhansk People's Republic" and providing political and economic support for Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territories. Sakharova died on 4 June 2025 at the age of 51 following a long illness.Умерла сенатор от Мурманской области Татьяна Сахарова

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