Republic of Lugansk in Ukraine

Irina Filatova has been given the ministerial position in the region of eastern Ukraine where Russian nationalists are trying to forge states independent of Kiev.
Irina Filatova ,the newly appointed foreign minister of the self-proclaimed Republic of Lugansk

Irina Filatova's appointment follows on from Natalia Voronina, who was recently declared the new Minister of Culture of Donetsk People's Republic, another self-proclaimed state in eastern Ukraine

Scarcely a day goes by without new pictures appearing of Irina Filatova from her life before her rise to the political heights of the new state.