Yelizaveta Petrovna Rossovskaya

The Honourable Yelizaveta Petrovna Dubnikova Елизавета Петровна Дубникова MP
Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 August 2016
Prime Minister	Nadezhda Vyrubova
Preceded by	Andrey Suprunov
Minister for Culture, Media and Sport
In office 11 June 2015 – 16 August 2016
Preceded by	Nikolay Bolkonsky
Succeeded by	Andrey Suprunov
Deputy Chair of the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee
In office 28 May 2010 – 16 June 2015
Preceded by	Lev Ovsianikov
Succeeded by	Yulia Prokhorova
Member of the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee
In office 13 July 2007 – 28 May 2010
Succeeded by
Shadow Cabinet positions Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport In office 20 May 2013 – 10 May 2015 Preceded by Lavrentiy Pudovkin Succeeded by Yevelina Lazutina Shadow Minister for National Security In office 16 May 2010 – 20 May 2013 Preceded by Cheslav Barishnikov Succeeded by Leonid Sonkin Shadow State Secretary for National Security In office 14 July 2007 – 16 May 2010 Preceded by Yuriy Sotnikov Succeeded by Oleg Temirkanov
Deputy of the State Duma
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 May 2005
Personal details
Born	Yelizaveta Petrovna Dubnikova neé Kutuzova Елизавета Петровна Дубникова Elizaveta Petrovna Dubnikova 5 January 1980 (age 44) Elektrostal, Chelyabinsk-Shishmarevo oblast, Seredinia
Nationality	Seredinian
Political party	Social Democrats
Spouse	Ioakim Danilovich Dubnikov (m. 2008)
Children	Pavel Tamara
Alma mater	State University of Belogorodka (B.A. Business Administration) State University of Zolodolina (M.A. Business Administration)
Profession	Politician
Website	mbis.gov.su

Yelizaveta Petrovna Dubnikova (Velik: Елизавета Петровна Дубникова, tr. Elizaveta Petrovna Dubnikova; b. 5 January 1980) is a Seredinian politician currently serving as Minister of Business, Innovation and Skills. She has previously served as Minister for Culture, Media and Sport as well as on the Business Select Committee and Shadow Minister for National Security. Ideologically, she is a member of the Social Democratic left-wing, adhering closely to the faction of Party Chair and former leader Nikita Kamensky.

Dubnikova was born in the city of Elektrostal and attended first the State University of Belogorodka, then the State University of Zolodolina. She joined the Young Socialists youth organization, affiliated with the Social Democrats as a student wing, while at Belogorodka. After graduating with her M.A. in Business Administration in 2004, Dubnikova campaigned within the Young Socialists as well as the SDP to be added to the electoral list for the 2005 general election. She was officially added to the open list for Chelyabinsk-Shishmarevo oblast, and to the national list, in January 2005. While she was not elected to Chelyabinsk-Shishmarevo's multi-member district, she was elected to the national list, and has remained in the State Duma through the 2010 and 2015 elections.

Dubnikova has served as an intermediary between Prime Minister Nadezhda Vyrubova's centrist wing and the leftist Nikita Kamensky faction of the SDP, earning her plaudits from both sides. While ideologically she is self-described as a member of the Kamenskites, she has a close personal relationship with Vyrubova and was slated to serve as her personal private secretary before being named to the cabinet. She has been chosen by numerous other SDP deputies and members as a possible future Foreign or Interior secretary, and the likely successor to Kamensky as the post prominent leftist in the party.