Tatjana Ždanoka

Tatjana Ždanoka or Tatyana Zhdanok (Russian: Татьяна Аркадьевна Жданок, tr. Tatyana Arkadyevna Zhdanok; born 8 May 1950) is a Latvian politician and a former member of the European Parliament. She is co-chairwoman of the Latvian Russian Union and its predecessor parties (Equal Rights and For Human Rights in a United Latvia) since 1993. In 2024, leaked emails revealed her to being a Russian intelligence agent since at least 2004.

From 1988 to 1989 she was one of the leaders of the Interfront, a united front opposing Latvia's independence from the Soviet Union and rapid market reforms. She remained active in the Communist Party of Latvia after January 1991, when the party leadership opposed the restoration of Latvian independence and called for a coup d'état against the government of Latvia. In 1997, Ždanoka was elected to Riga municipal council, but was deprived of the mandate in the Council in 1999 and is prohibited from further nomination for election to the Latvian Parliament or local councils under Latvian law due to her former allegiance with the Communist Party after January 1991. Together with Alfrēds Rubiks, she is in the peculiar position of being restricted to European Parliament elections only. Leaked Russian government documents from 2024 linked her to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).