When you achieve something in one area you automatically start wondering whether you should try yourself in another. And that’s what happened with me. I’ve been interested in the subject of youth for a long time: first, in connection with sport; and then I became interested in youth policy as a whole – both in Russia and internationally.
//  Constituency Work
12 September
PRIMARIES – 2011

This year, as part of its election campaign, the United Russia party and the People’s Front decided to hold preliminary intra-party votes to choose candidates for election to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. I think this is an important initiative that will help the party and the People’s...
//  Nota Bene
Sport filled my whole life for many long years. It was my work, my joy, my hobby, my family, my friends, all my emotions and feelings, the air that I breathed and the element in which I lived.
//  A bit of theory
8 November
Excess Weight

I once got a letter from the mother of a capable little girl who was totally put out by the fact that her child (she was overweight) had been recommended to eat more vegetables and fruit. “Do you really have to restrict the child’s diet right from the start?” she asked me in amazement. Well, what...

Dear Friends,

I’m happy to welcome everybody who wants to know who I am and what I do; everybody who believes that changes can happen for all people; everybody who is curious and not indifferent!

Find a guide to the rooms of my virtual home at the bottom of this page. Every room contains my thoughts, my doubts, and my biggest joys and concerns. And you are welcome to leave your comments.

I’m sure we will be good friends. I’ll try to answer all of your questions and give thought to every interesting idea.

Alina

// Ask Alina a question
News
Alina Organizes Forum of Youth Journalists’ School Graduates
A meeting of graduates of the Young Journalists’ School from the past three years was held in St.Petersburg from 24th to 26th November...
Alina Pays Working Visit to Nizhnekamsk
On 7th November, State Duma deputy Alina Kabaeva paid a regular working visit to Nizhnekamsk...
Alina Acts as Moderator at Meeting between Education Minister and Students
Alina Kabaeva, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Youth Affairs Committee...
Alina Kabaeva has presented certificates to graduates of the third Young Journalists’ School
The second YJS workshop, which was held in St.Petersburg from 27th to 29th October, involved young journalists from 50 regions of Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine...
Alina Speaks at Press Conference on Launch of Educational Website on Financial Literacy for Young People
Media
“Only the People can Judge Me”
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma’s Youth Affairs Committee Alina Kabaeva in an interview with ER.RU.
Alina fills Rossiya
The magnificent “Alina” sports festival was held on 20th May, on the eve of Child Protection Day, in the Rossiya concert hall in Luzhniki. This year the festival had a much wider geographical reach.
Top Level Journalism
Young Journalists’ School workshops have been held in Moscow under the patronage of Alina Kabaeva’s charity foundation. One hundred people from various regions of Russia, as well as Ukraine and Kazakhstan, came together to learn from leading experts in the fields of journalism, sociology and Russian philology.
ALINA: A Tournament Open to All
The famous gymnast and people’s deputy organizes a festival for young sportsmen
Our Young People have Excellent Prospects!
Her name has been added forever to the roll-call of Russia’s heroes. Olympic champion, twice outright world champion, five times outright European champion, merited master of sport in rhythmic gymnastics...
And this is my own personal corner. This is where all the entries about me will be, so you can find out about my life in my own words. I’ll tell you about important events and about my family, and share my impressions of films, concerts, books, animals…of everything that I care about, everything that surprises or moves me.

I’m no hypocrite, but I don’t like it when my life is exposed to view like goods in a shop window. I’m convinced that everyone needs their own private space, something they can call their own. So here’s my “Private Life” – a space that’s mine and mine alone.

I hope you’ll understand.
//  My impressions
20 September
Air Crash near Yaroslavl

On 7th September, during a plenary session of the State Duma, the people’s deputies were informed of the loss of the ice hockey team from the Lokomotiv club in Yaroslavl. The guys were flying to their first match of the season. My heart was simply bursting with pain and my inability to change what...
//  Advice
//  Personal
//  My teachers
Public Council is essential to ensure that fine plans become more than just words.

On February 15, 2008 I was elected Chairman of the Council - a great honour and responsibility for me.

I want to invite everyone to take part in this excellent project, so that it really is a truly "public" council.
//  Civil Society
28 September
State Club: NGO Application Competition 2011

This year, for the second time, I took part with great interest in the competition panel that selects applications for government NGO grants for the State Club foundation. The foundation received a total of just under 800 applications from all the federal districts of our huge country. Virtually...
//  Education
//  NMG’s Public Council
//  Sports centre in Tskhinval

This section is about how the idea of building a sports centre came about and how the project is progressing
//  Hotline
//  Rural Libraries
//  Computer classrooms
//  "Alina" festival
//  Young Journalist School

My charity foundation has already existed for several years. At first it focused mainly on sport, but then I realized I couldn’t restrict myself to just one area of activity. So today the foundation is active in several fields.

Each of the foundation’s projects and specific activity is a matter of prime importance for me. In this section I will write about what the foundation does, which projects it is running today and what we have managed to achieve.