Valentina Tereshkova will run for the State Duma again in the 2026 elections.
88-year-old Valentina Tereshkova will run again for the State Duma in the fall 2026 elections.
If Tereshkova is re-elected, she will become the oldest deputy; by the end of her term, she will already be 93 years old.
Earlier in 2020, Valentina Tereshkova initiated the “zeroing out” of Vladimir Putin's presidential terms, allowing him to run for a new presidential term.
