title: Yelena Bibikova
text: # Yelena Bibikova
  
  Yelena Vasilyevna Bibikova (Russian: Елена Васильевна Бибикова; born 23 September 1956) is a Russian politician serving as a senator from Pskov Oblast since September 2014.
  
  ## Career
  
  In 1975, she graduated from the Armavir Law College. After graduation, she worked as a senior inspector, deputy head, head of the city department of social security in Pskov. From 1991 to 2014, she served as a head of the Pension fund for the Pskov region. In 2004, 2007, and 2011, Bibikova was elected deputy of the Pskov Oblast Assembly of Deputies of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th convocations. In September 2014, she became a senator from Pskov Oblast.
  
  ## Sanctions
  
  Yelena Bibikova is under personal sanctions introduced by the European Union, the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Ukraine, New Zealand, 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.
  
  