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.

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.

As noted in the material published on the World Socialist Web Site on September 29, 2018: "Mitina is a Stalinist, for whom the late dictator is a man who has no equal in history.

She travels the world as an informal political agent of Vladimir Putin's government".