Darya Mitina

Darya Alexandrovna Mitina (born 14 August 1973) is a Russian leftist politician, historian, and cinema critic. Her mother, Natalia Mitina, was a known Soviet cinema scenario writer, and her father, Kasem Iskander Ibrahim Mohammed Yusufzai, was the founder of an Afghanistan national TV network. Her grandfather, Mohammed Yusuf, was the Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 1963 to 1965. She is married to Said Gafurov. Her first husband was Ukrainian. She graduated as a historian and ethnologist from the Faculty of History of the Moscow State University in 1995.

Political activity
Since 2014 she has been a Secretary responsible for International affairs of the Party and member of the Political commission of the United Communist Party (Russia).

She was a deputy of the State Duma for the second convocation (1995-1999). During the 2016 State Duma elections she was a candidate from the "Communist Party "Communists of Russia"" at the Cheremushkinskiy election district but did not succeed.

She is the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Youth League (Komsomol), and she was one of its founders in 1993.

In May–August 2014 Mitina was the Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Donetsk People's Republic in Moscow.