[8] In 2007 Vasilieva finished a study at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

[5] Her appointing was interpreted as a favour to the patriotic and minoritarian part of the governing elite, due to the fact that Vasileva was a conservative and a patriarchate-friendly loyalist.

She accused her predecessor Dmitry Livanov to be an "apolitical and liberal-minded technocrat who did too little to promote values such as love for the Motherland".

[9] On 15 January 2020, she was part of the cabinet resignation after President Vladimir Putin delivered the Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly, in which he proposed several amendments to the constitution.

Their conflict is said to be the reason of a high-profile 'Rakova case', resulted in the arrest of rectors Sergey Zuev and Vladimir Mau.