Anastasia Rybachenko (Russian: Анастасия Александровна Рыбаченко) (born 11 September 1991) is a former Russian politician currently working in business consulting. Rybachenko previously served as a member of the Political Council, the head of the Youth Committee and a spokesperson with the Moscow branch of the "Solidarnost" movement from March 2008 to June 2012.

Anastasia Rybachenko
Born
Anastasia Aleksandrovna Rybachenko

(1991-09-11) 11 September 1991 (age 32)
NationalityRussian
Alma materState Academic University for the Humanities, Tallinn University of Technology (BA), Freie Universität Berlin (MA)
Websitefacebook.com/AnaRybachenko

Education

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Rybachenko studied political science at the State Academic University for the Humanities in Moscow. In 2012, she transferred to Tallinn University of Technology and graduated with a major in international relations in 2014.[1][2] She earned her master's degree in regional studies from Freie Universität Berlin in 2016. She wrote her master's thesis about the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the role of its field operations in conflict prevention and crisis management.[3]

Rybachenko speaks Russian, English, French, German and Chinese.

Politics

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In December 2008, Rybachenko joined Solidarnost, a newly founded democratic political movement.

In 2009, Rybachenko supported Sergei Davidis, member of the Political Council of Solidarnost, during his run for the 2009 Moscow City Duma election. She worked as a member of his political campaign staff.[4]

In 2010, Rybachenko was elected to the Political Council of Solidarnost's Moscow branch,[5] and became its youngest member aged 18 years old. In 2011, she was re-elected.[6]

In December 2010, Rybachenko traveled to Minsk to observe the 2010 Belarusian presidential election. After the demonstrations that followed the election, Rybachenko initiated a campaign in Moscow to support the Russian citizens arrested in Belarus. Activists of Solidarnost maintained media campaign and collected signatures in front of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[7][8][9] The campaigners advocated for the release of two Russian citizens arrested in Belarus, Ivan Gaponov and Artyom Breus. Later activists also called for the release of a Belarusian citizen Fedor Mirzayanov, in order to, as activists maintained, represent interests of his father, a citizen of Russia.[10] Gaponov and Breus were released. In the case of Mirzayanov, the Russian embassy in Minsk observed the trial,[11][12] but Mirzayanov was nevertheless sentenced to three years in prison.

In March 2011, Rybachenko became the head of the Youth Committee of Solidarnost's Moscow branch.[13] She organized lectures of politicians and other public figures at Moscow universities (Yulia Latynina, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Valery Panyushkin and Mikhail Delyagin).

In March 2012, Rybachenko became the head of the press office of Solidarnost's Moscow branch.[14] She recruited and trained volunteers for the press office, managed relations with the media representatives, in particular for the campaign of Solidarnost to support Yevgeny Urlashov in the mayoral election in the large Russian city of Yaroslavl.[15][16][17]

Rybachenko took part in the major Russian protests that started in 2011 following the Russian legislative election and continued into 2012.

In June 2012, Rybachenko moved abroad for her studies at Tallinn University of Technology. She then stopped her political activities in Russia.

Сareer

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From 2018 to 2019, Rybachenko worked at the office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in the Netherlands.[18]

In 2019, she worked at OSCE headquarters in Vienna.[19]

Since 2020, Rybachenko has worked as project management specialist in business and government organizations in different countries of Europe.[20][21]

References

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  1. ^ "ECONOMY Bachelor of Science >> International relations". ttu.ee. Archived from the original on 31 October 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  2. ^ LÕPETAJAD suvi 2014.
  3. ^ "Anastasia Rybachenko: OSCE Field Operations After The Ukraine Crisis: In Search of A New Strategy?". academia.edu. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Biografija kandidata Rybachenko A.A." Archived from the original on 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  5. ^ "Члены Политсовета МГО ОДД Солидарность, избранные в марте 2010г". rusolidarnost-msk.ru. Archived from the original on 26 May 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ "Члены Политсовета МГО ОДД "Солидарность", избранные 14 мая 2011г". rusolidarnost-msk.ru. Archived from the original on 2 February 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ^ "Pikety v podderžku Fedora Mirzajanova v Moskve" (in Russian). Spring96.org. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  8. ^ ""Solidarity" movement campaign to support political prisoners in Belarus". Deutsch-Belarussischen Gesellschaft. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  9. ^ "Russian Solidarnost demands to release Gaponov and Breus". spring96. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
  10. ^ """Solidarnost'" trebuet u Lavrova zastupit'sja za figuranta po "delu 19 dekabrja"" (in Russian). UDF.by. Archived from the original on 13 July 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  11. ^ "Delom arestovannogo v Belarusi Fedora Mirzajanova zainteresovalsja rossijskij MID" (in Russian). kapital.by. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  12. ^ "Na sude nad Fedorom Mirzajanovym budut prisutstvovat' rossijskie nabljudateli" (in Russian). nv-online.info. Archived from the original on 2017-07-29. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  13. ^ "Комиссии и комитеты МГО ОДД "Солидарность">Молодежный комитет". rusolidarnost-msk.ru. Archived from the original on 22 February 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  14. ^ "Пресс-служба московской СОЛИДАРНОСТИ". rusolidarnost-msk.ru. Archived from the original on 22 February 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  15. ^ "Pro-Putin party suffers new setback in polls". expatica.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  16. ^ "Jaroslavl: Pobeda Urlashova - pobeda solidarnosti". rusolidarnost.ru. Archived from the original on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2012.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  17. ^ "На выборах в Ярославле десятую часть московских наблюдателей составят активисты "СОЛИДАРНОСТИ" – Солидарность" (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  18. ^ HCNM at 25: Personal Reflections of the High Commissioners. Printed in the Netherlands. 2018. ISBN 978-90-75989-33-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  19. ^ "OSCE-wide Conference on Combating the Threat of Illicit Drugs and the Diversion of Chemical Precursors". www.osce.org. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  20. ^ "Anastasia Rybachenko LinkedIn".
  21. ^ "Project Management Institute | PMI | PMI".