After her sporting career she became a politician and became Vice Speaker of the fifth State Duma as part of the ruling United Russia party.

[3] On December 9, 2014, Zhurova was sanctioned by the United Kingdom after she voted in favor of a bill making the Republic of Crimea a federal subject of Russia earlier that year.

[4] Ten days later, Zhurova was placed on the Canadian sanctions list for the Ukrainian crisis.

[5] In 2023, she criticized the Canadian Olympic Committee after its CEO David Shoemaker proposed a requirement that Russian athletes must denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine before they can compete in Olympic events:[6][7] This is not surprising, as the Ukrainian diaspora has a very large influence in Canada.

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