In 2003, she also got a degree from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

In 1989, Svyatenko began working at the Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy where she later became a docent.

Svyatenko campaigned for the Unity party, becoming Secretary of its Moscow branch's Expert Council, responsible for socio-political affairs.

She successfully ran for a seat on the Moscow City Duma in 2001, upon the Unity party's merger into United Russia.

In February 2022, she effectively voted to recognise the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics from Ukraine, for which she was placed under sanctions by the United States, Canada, the European Union, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and Ukraine itself.