Vasilina Kulieva

Vasilina Vasilyevna Kuliyeva (née Zakharchenko, , born 20 November 1981) is a Russian politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who has been a member of the State Duma between 2011 and 2012, 2016 and 2021, and again since 2023.

Biography In 2004, she graduated from the N. G. Chernyshevsky Transbaikal Pedagogical University, with a degree in jurisprudence. From 2005 to 2008 she worked in the Chita branch of Spasskie Vorota insurance group as a lawyer, in parallel, she was the deputy coordinator of the Chita regional branch of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. As LDPR candidate for the Governor of Zabaykalsky Krai she took third place with 10% of the vote. In the elections to the 7th State Duma, she ran for the Liberal Democrats in Dauria constituency No. 44, and was elected on 18 September 2016.

From September to November 2023, she served as a deputy of the 4th convocation of the Legislative Assembly of Zabaykalsky Krai, representing the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR). She resigned from her position on 9 November 2023.

On 22 November 2023, she received a mandate as a deputy of the 8th convocation of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, following the departure of Vasily Vlasov from parliament.

On 19 December 2023, she was appointed to the Supreme Council of the LDPR.