Oksana Viktorovna Pouchkina, born 10 May, 1963 in Petrozavodsk, is a television host, politician and Russianpublic figure. She has been a member of the Duma of the Russian Federation since 2016. She was previously a children’s rights activist from Moscow Oblast, and author, host and presenter of the show “Regard de femme” between 1999 and 2013.
Biography
Oksana Viktorovna Pushkina was born on May 10, 1963 in Petrozavodsk. Her mother, Svetlana Andreevna, was a television journalist and her father, Viktor Vasilyevich Pushkin coach of the Russian national athletics team
Television career
In 1979, she obtained a diploma in rhythmic gymnastics and finished in 1980 a school of general education and music. In 1985 she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Leningrad State University. She then worked from 1985 to 1991 at the youth editorial board of Leningrad TV-5. In 1990-1992, she produced the monthly programs Madame Succès1 and the man of results. In 1993, she left for an internship in San Francisco, where she worked as a correspondent and coordinator at ABC. After studying television management and marketing, she returned to Russia in 1997. In September 1997, she presented, in a special edition of the program Regard, her first broadcast after her return to Russia, The return of Irina Rodnina . In December 1997, she was the author of the television project Stories of Women of Oksana Pushkin, presented on the ORT channel. In September 1999, Oksana Pouchkina left this channel. A month later, she joined the NTV, where she presented Oksana Pushkin's Woman's Eye1. ORT launches at the same time the program "Stories of women with Tatiana Pouchkina", whose similar presenter looked like her. Oksana Pushkina presented her weekly program from 27 October, 1999 to 1 February, 2013. In 2006, she participated in the show if Channel one" Stars on the ice " with Aleks Yagudin. In February 2013, she left NTV and returned to Channel One where she hosted the show I demand divorce The show was put on air on weekdays from March to August 2013 then was deleted for unexplained reasons. In 2016, Oksana Pushkina returned to NTV where she hosted the program Mirror for Heroes She described her return to air on the main event of 8 March. This show lasted from 8 March to 7 July 2016.
Defender of Children's rights
On 18 June 2015, Oksana Pushkina was appointed by the Duma of Moscow Oblast, on the proposal of the governor, Andrey Yuryevich Vorobyov, as the delegate for the children’s rights of the Moscow Oblast. In these roles, she helped to create accommodation for children raised in orphanages, or proposed the creation of crisis center welcoming mothers in emergency conditions and for the child victims of domestic violence.
Member of the Duma
She abandoned her work on 29 September 2016 after she was elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. She was a candidate in the 2016 Russian parliamentary elections on the list United Russia in the district of Odintsovo and was elected as a member of Parliament. She is Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Family, Women and Children. Oksana Pouchkina was the only parliamentarian who publicly sided with the journalists who accused Leonid Sloutski, a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Duma, of sexual harassment. She then regretted the legal vacuum on harassment that existed in Russian legislation. and stated "This problem is a reality in our country It must be regulated by legislation and I will do everything in my power in this regard”. Oksana Pushkina has more generally condemned publicly the professional inequalities between women and men in Russia. and defended a bill to fight discrimination against women which has not been included in the agenda of parliament. She was also the author of a draft law on childbirth under X, and another on the obligation for parents to care for children who are HIV-positive, justified by denials of attention in traditionalist families.
Social activities
Oksana Pushkina is a member of the board of the SPID Foundation, which aims to prevent and combat AIDS.
