{{Short description|Ukrainian politician (born 1982)}} {{redirect|DA!|the Chicago post-punk band|DA! (band)}} {{family name hatnote|Yegorovna|Gaidar|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mariya Gaidar | image = Maria Gaidar miting (cropped).JPG | caption = Gaydar in 2008 | birth_name = Maria Yegorovna Smirnova | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1982|10|21}} | birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = politician | office = Advisor to President of Ukraine | term_start = 28 March 2017 | president = Petro Poroshenko | term_end = 17 May 2019 | office2 = Deputy of the Odesa Oblast of the council | term_start2 = 30 May 2015 | term_end2 = 11 June 2018 | office3 = Vice-Governor of Odesa Oblast | term_start3 = 17 July 2015 | term_end3 = 10 May 2016 | governor3 = Mikheil Saakashvili | president3 = Petro Poroshenko | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | office4 = Deputy governor of Kirov Oblast | term_start4 = 23 July 2009 | term_end4 = 8 June 2011 | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | governor4 = Nikita Belykh | president4 = Dmitry Medvedev | parents = Yegor Gaidar<br />Irina Smirnova | children = | website = | alma_mater = Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration <br /> Kutafin Moscow State Law University | module = {{Listen |pos = center |embed = yes |filename = Mariya Gajdar voice.oga |title = Mariya Gaidar's voice |type = |description = Gaidar on the Echo of Moscow program, 16 August 2007 |}<br>7}} | native_name_lang = ru | native_name = {{nobold|Мария Гайдар}} }}
'''Maria Yegorovna Gaidar''' ({{langx|uk|Марія Єгорівна Гайдар}}; {{langx|ru|Мария Егоровна Гайдар}}; '''Smirnova''' ({{langx|ru|Смирно́ва}});<ref>{{cite news|script-title=ru:Гайдар, Мария|language=ru|trans-title=Gaidar, Maria|url=http://lenta.ru/lib/14159861/|website=Lenta.ru|access-date=23 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413005835/http://lenta.ru/lib/14159861/|archive-date=13 April 2010}}</ref> born 21 October 1982) is a Ukrainian politician and a Russian opposition figure whose father Yegor Gaidar served as Russia's first post-Soviet Prime Minister.
Gaidar served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kirov region of Russia.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Биографии членов правительства {{!}} Гайдар Мария Егоровна|language=ru|trans-title=Biographies of government members {{!}} Gaidar Maria Egorovna|url=http://www.ako.kirov.ru/power/government/bio/gaidar.php|publisher=Government of the Kirov region|access-date=23 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930231128/http://www.ako.kirov.ru/power/government/bio/gaidar.php|archive-date=30 September 2011}}</ref>
She founded the Social Assistance and Population Support Foundation, "Social Request".<ref>{{cite news|date=19 October 2014|script-title=ru:Полиция Москвы сорвала автопробег за бесплатные парковки|language=ru|trans-title=Moscow Police dispupted the rally for free Parking|url=https://www.rbc.ru/society/19/10/2014/5443c388cbb20fd3846836b7|publisher=RBC|url-status=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722214151/https://www.rbc.ru/society/19/10/2014/5443c388cbb20fd3846836b7|archive-date=22 July 2015}}</ref>
She has served as Advisor to the Chairman of the Odesa regional state administration in social protection and health, the Deputy head of administration of Odesa region on social issues and Deputy of the Odesa regional council and external adviser to the President of Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web|work=РИА Новости |date=5 April 2017|script-title=ru:Мария Гайдар стала советником Петра Порошенко|language=ru|trans-title=Maria Gaidar became an adviser to Poroshenko|url=https://ria.ru/world/20170405/1491518708.html|agency=RIA Novosti|access-date=23 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170612173755/https://ria.ru/world/20170405/1491518708.html|archive-date=12 June 2017}}</ref>
==Early life== Maria Gaidar was born in Moscow to a prominent political and literary Russian family. She is the daughter of former Russian Prime Minister, Yegor Gaidar.<ref>{{cite web|last=Franchetti|first=Mark|date=7 August 2005|title=Daughters of two Putin opponents take on Kremlin|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article552610.ece|newspaper=The Sunday Times|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123002111/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article552610.ece|archive-date=23 November 2008}}</ref> On her paternal side, she is a granddaughter of Soviet admiral Timur Gaidar, daughter of Leah Lazarevna Solomyanskaya and a great-granddaughter of famous Soviet writers Arkady Gaidar and Pavel Bazhov. Through Arkady Gaidar, she is a descendant of Russian aristocratic Salkova family. Through the Salkova family, she is a descendant of Mikhail Lermontov. She is step-daughter of the daughter of writer Arkady Strugatsky. Her parents divorced in 1985, when she was three years old. She stayed with her mother, Irina Smirnova. In 1991 the family moved to Toronto, Canada, where they lived for five years. In 1996 she returned to Moscow.
In 2005 Gaidar graduated summa cum laude from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.<ref>{{cite news|date=28 August 2007|script-title=ru:Гайдар в тройке СПС|language=ru|trans-title=Gaidar in the top three SPS|url=https://www.apn.ru/publications/article17674.htm|agency=APN|access-date=20 July 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722031441/http://www.apn.ru/publications/article17674.htm|archive-date=22 July 2015}}</ref><ref name=rian>{{cite news|work=РИА Новости |date=19 July 2015|script-title=ru:Биография Марии Гайдар|language=ru|trans-title=Biography of Maria Gaidar|url=https://ria.ru/20150719/1136658731.html|agency=RIA Novosti|access-date=20 July 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721195238/http://ria.ru/spravka/20150719/1136658731.html|archive-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>
==Career==
===In Russia=== 250px|thumb|right|Maria Gaidar and Ilya Yashin placing a banner under the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge, 2006 In 2005, Gaidar became founder and coordinator of the pro-democracy social youth movement "Democratic Alternative" ("Da!"). She was one of the leaders of The Other Russia organization and, following in her father's footsteps, the Union of Right Forces party. She has been a fierce critic of Putin's government and has been briefly detained for involvement in dissenters' marches and for hanging a 30ft banner from under a Moscow bridge using mountaineering gear that read "Return the elections to the people, bastards!"<ref>{{cite news|date=29 June 2007|title=Eye on Russia: Guests|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/19/EOR.guests/index.html|publisher=CNN|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028082839/http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/19/EOR.guests/index.html|archive-date=28 October 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Stack|first=Megan K.|date=25 November 2007|title=Kasparov is jailed after Moscow rally|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-25-fg-russprotest25-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Savina|first1=Ekaterina|last2=Kozenko|first2=Andrei|date=16 April 2007|title=Dissenters Crushed|url=http://www.kommersant.com/p759103/Dissenters_March,_Moscow,_Kasparov,_Kasyanov/|newspaper=Kommersant|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519031719/http://www.kommersant.com/p759103/Dissenters_March,_Moscow,_Kasparov,_Kasyanov/|archive-date=19 May 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Mulin|first=Sergei|date=16 July 2011|title=Last samurais without Khakamada|url=http://en.novayagazeta.ru/data/2007/73/06.html|newspaper=Novaya Gazeta|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716055312/http://en.novayagazeta.ru/data/2007/73/06.html|archive-date=16 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=November 27, 2007|title=Putin critics, fans take campaign battle to the internet|url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/putin-critics-fans-take-campaign-battle-to-the-internet-20071127-gdroxo.html|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Baker|first1=Peter|last2=Finn|first2=Peter|date=15 July 2006|title=To Dismay of Some, Bush Takes Gentler Approach Toward Putin|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071401539_pf.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812105608/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071401539_pf.html|archive-date=12 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Skillings|first=Jonathan|date=13 December 2006|title=When computers write obits|url=http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-6143344-7.html|website=CNET}}</ref> During the 2008 Russian presidential election, Gaidar produced numerous video materials in which Vladimir Putin was depicted as the anti-Christ leading the world to a nuclear apocalypse.<ref>{{YouTube|id=FvH4Sb11yMs|Is Putin the Antichrist?}}</ref>
In February 2009, Gaidar became an advisor to the new governor of Kirov Oblast, Nikita Belykh, and on 23 July she was confirmed as a deputy governor in Kirov Oblast.<ref>{{cite news|date=23 July 2009|script-title=ru:Мария Гайдар утверждена заместителем губернатора Кировской области|language=ru|trans-title=Maria Gaidar approved as Deputy Governor of the Kirov Region|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1209041&NodesID=2|newspaper=Kommersant|access-date=28 July 2009}}</ref> In June 2011, Gaidar announced that she would resign as adviser due to her admission to Harvard University.<ref name=LJ201106 /> In December 2012, she became an adviser to Moscow Deputy Major for Social Affairs {{ill|Leonid Pechatnikov|ru|Печатников, Леонид Михайлович|v=sub}}.<ref>{{cite news|date=28 December 2012|script-title=ru:М.Гайдар реализует в системе здравоохранения Москвы кировский опыт|language=ru|trans-title=M. Gaidar implements the Kirov experience in the Moscow healthcare system|url=http://top.rbc.ru/society/28/12/2012/838934.shtml|publisher=RBC|access-date=20 July 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722213048/http://top.rbc.ru/society/28/12/2012/838934.shtml|archive-date=22 July 2015}}</ref> In November 2013, she resigned from the Government of Moscow.<ref>{{cite news|date=5 November 2013|script-title=ru:Мария Гайдар ушла из правительства Москвы|language=ru|trans-title=Maria Gaidar resigned from the Moscow government|url=http://lenta.ru/news/2013/11/05/gaidar/|website=Lenta.ru|access-date=20 July 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721080049/http://lenta.ru/news/2013/11/05/gaidar/|archive-date=21 July 2015}}</ref> On 16 July 2015, Gaidar founded the Social Assistance and Population Support Foundation, "Social Request", a non-profit organization.<ref name=Zapros>{{cite web|script-title=ru:О фонде|language=ru|trans-title=About the Foundation|url=http://www.fondzapros.ru/about/|website=Social Request|access-date=20 July 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721190524/http://www.fondzapros.ru/about/|archive-date=21 July 2015}}</ref> In 2015, she threatened to renounce her Russian citizenship, planning to become an Israeli citizen under the Law of Return and to move to Israel.<ref>{{cite news|script-title=ru:Мария Гайдар отказалась от российского гражданства|language=ru|trans-title=Maria Gaidar renounced Russian citizenship|url=http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/1458159|publisher=NTV|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326051301/http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/1458159|archive-date=26 March 2017}}</ref> However, she subsequently said that she wished to retain her Russian citizenship, and to keep three citizenships – Russian, Ukrainian and Israeli.
===In Ukraine=== On 17 July 2015, Gaidar accepted an offer from Mikheil Saakashvili and became a vice-governor of Odesa Oblast in Ukraine.<ref>{{cite news|date=19 July 2015|url=https://news.yahoo.com/controversial-russian-politician-named-deputy-ukraine-171719833.html|title=Controversial Russian politician named deputy in Ukraine|agency=Agence France-Presse|access-date=14 January 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305104723/http://news.yahoo.com/controversial-russian-politician-named-deputy-ukraine-171719833.html|archive-date=5 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=17 July 2015|script-title=ru:Мария Гайдар стала вице-губернатором Одесской области|language=ru|trans-title=Maria Gaidar becomes vice-governor of the Odesa region|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2771078|newspaper=Kommersant|access-date= 18 July 2015|url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150719221646/http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2771078|archive-date=19 July 2015}}</ref> Her practical work has been as a fixer combating fraud and ensuring that vital social functions run smoothly.<ref name=NYT150905>{{cite news|last=McGrane|first=Sally|date=4 September 2015|title=Maria Gaidar, a Scion of a Famous Russian Family, Switches Loyalty to Ukraine|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/world/europe/maria-gaidar-a-scion-of-a-famous-russian-family-switches-loyalty-to-ukraine.html|newspaper=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|access-date=5 September 2015|quote=Things like an online listing of available kindergarten spots to eliminate the hefty bribes parents now pay, and keeping the electricity running in Soviet-era sanitariums housing disabled refugees from war-torn eastern Ukraine.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905082740/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/world/europe/maria-gaidar-a-scion-of-a-famous-russian-family-switches-loyalty-to-ukraine.html|archive-date=5 September 2015}}</ref> She received Ukrainian citizenship on 4 August 2015.<ref>{{cite news|date=4 August 2015|script-title=ru:Мария Гайдар получила гражданство Украины|language=ru|trans-title=Maria Gaidar received Ukrainian citizenship|url=https://meduza.io/news/2015/08/04/mariya-gaydar-poluchila-grazhdanstvo-ukrainy|agency=Meduza|access-date=4 August 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927231446/https://meduza.io/news/2015/08/04/mariya-gaydar-poluchila-grazhdanstvo-ukrainy|archive-date=27 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=17 July 2015|script-title=ru:Мария Гайдар попросила предоставить ей украинское гражданство|language=ru|trans-title=Maria Gaidar asked for Ukrainian citizenship|url=http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2015/07/17/n_7385749.shtml|agency=Gazeta|access-date=18 July 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717112122/http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2015/07/17/n_7385749.shtml|archive-date=17 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=18 July 2015|script-title=ru:Мария Гайдар объяснила свой выбор в пользу Украины|language=ru|trans-title=Maria Gaidar explained her choice in favour of Ukraine|url=https://tvrain.tv/news/marija_gajdar_objasnila_svoj_vybor_v_polzu_ukrainy-391193/|agency=TV Rain|access-date=18 July 2015|url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150719020055/http://tvrain.ru/news/marija_gajdar_objasnila_svoj_vybor_v_polzu_ukrainy-391193/|archive-date= 19 July 2015}}</ref> This she described in September 2015 as "It didn't feel good at all....But for me to be here, now, and to be here completely, it's important."<ref name=NYT150905 /> A few days after her appointment Gaidar stated she wants to retain her Russian citizenship, adding "In the future I hope that Russia will be a democratic country and it will be possible to go back and work there." Ukrainian law prohibits dual citizenship and only Ukrainian citizens can serve as appointed public officials. Gaidar has indicated she would be willing to serve on Saakashvili's team as an adviser or volunteer (functions open to foreigners).<ref name=TMT525904>{{cite news|date=20 July 2015|title=Divisions Revealed as Kremlin Critic Moves to Work for Ukraine Government|url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/news/article/525904.html|newspaper=The Moscow Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=20 July 2015|script-title=ru:Памфилова заморозит выделение фонду Марии Гайдар 3 млн рублей|language=ru|trans-title=Pamfilova Freeze Fund Maria Gaidar 3 million rubles|url=http://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/2015/07/20/601272-pamfilova-zamorozit-videlenie-fondu-marii-gaidar-3-mln-rublei|agency=Vedomosti|access-date=20 July 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150807143939/http://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/2015/07/20/601272-pamfilova-zamorozit-videlenie-fondu-marii-gaidar-3-mln-rublei|archive-date=7 August 2015 |newspaper=Ведомости }}</ref>
On 20 July, she believed that annexation of Crimea is illegal, and should be returned to Ukraine, but doesn't know how can it be done.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-07-20 |title=Russian ex-PM's daughter under fire for leaving for Ukraine |url=https://apnews.com/article/--273e2f371e334b4a97110abcd9af3253 |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>
Various Russian public figures criticized Gaidar's decision: Russian politician, Vitaly Milonov, requested an investigation of Maria Gaidar for high treason, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, proposed forbidding Gaidar from returning to Russia,<ref>{{cite news|date=18 July 2015|script-title=ru:Жириновский: Верная дочь Гайдара закончит уборщицей на одесском рынке|language=ru|trans-title=Zhirinovsky: Faithful daughter of Gaidar will end up as a cleaner in the Odesa market|url=http://ren.tv/novosti/2015-07-18/zhirinovskiy-vernaya-doch-gaydara-zakonchit-uborshchicey-na-odesskom-rynke|agency=REN TV|access-date=20 July 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721075029/http://ren.tv/novosti/2015-07-18/zhirinovskiy-vernaya-doch-gaydara-zakonchit-uborshchicey-na-odesskom-rynke|archive-date=21 July 2015}}</ref> while Russia's Commissioner for Human Rights, Ella Pamfilova, announced that the Russian government would freeze grants to Gaidar's charity ''Sotsialny Zapros''. ''Sotsialny Zapros'' itself stated that Gaidar had already stepped down as the organization's head the previous week and that the NGO had voluntarily and formally already refused all government grants.<ref name=TMT525904 /><ref>{{cite news|date=20 July 2015|script-title=ru:Мария Гайдар ушла из фонда «Социальный запрос»|language=ru|trans-title=Maria Gaidar left the "Social Request" Foundation|url=https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/55acc08f9a794729a1132dd8|publisher=RBC|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812104941/https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/55acc08f9a794729a1132dd8|archive-date=12 August 2017}}</ref>
In the October 2015 Odesa regional election Gaidar was elected into the Odesa Oblast parliament for Petro Poroshenko Bloc.<ref>{{cite news|script-title=ru:Мария Гайдар попала в список БПП на выборах в Одесский облсовет|language=ru|trans-title=Maria Gaidar was included in the BPP list in the elections to the Odesa Regional Council|url=http://m.liga.net/news/politics/251547-v_spisok_bpp_na_vyborah_v_odesskiy_oblsovet_vkluchili_mariu_gaydar.htm|publisher=LIGA.net|access-date=23 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814055139/http://m.liga.net/news/politics/251547-v_spisok_bpp_na_vyborah_v_odesskiy_oblsovet_vkluchili_mariu_gaydar.htm|archive-date=14 August 2016}}</ref> Gaidar resigned as deputy governor after a new law barring a regional lawmaker being simultaneously a civil servant took effect on 1 May 2016.<ref>{{cite news|date=10 May 2016|title=Gaidar Resigns As Acting Deputy Governor Of Odesa Region|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-gaidar-resigns-odesa-region-deputy-governor/27726414.html|publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|access-date=23 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810223314/https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-gaidar-resigns-odesa-region-deputy-governor/27726414.html|archive-date=10 August 2016}}</ref> Gaidar resigned her seat in Odesa Oblast's legislature on 10 June 2018, the assembly unannounced on June 12 that it had relieved Gaidar of her duties as a lawmaker at her request.<ref>{{cite web|date=12 June 2018|title=Maria Gaidar Resigns As Lawmaker In Ukraine's Odesa Region|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/maria-gaidar-resigns-as-lawmaker-in-ukraine-s-odesa-region/29286919.html|publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|access-date=13 June 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613121345/https://www.rferl.org/a/maria-gaidar-resigns-as-lawmaker-in-ukraine-s-odesa-region/29286919.html|archive-date=13 June 2018}}</ref>
On 5 April 2017 Gaidar was appointed an adviser of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.<ref>{{cite web|date=5 April 2017|title=Ukrainian President Appoints Gaidar As Adviser|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-poroshenko-names-gaidar-adviser/28411958.html|publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|access-date=23 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405125322/http://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-poroshenko-names-gaidar-adviser/28411958.html|archive-date=5 April 2017}}</ref>
==Personal life== Gaidar is fluent in English, German, Spanish and her native Russian.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Мария Гайдар биография, фото|language=ru|trans-title=Maria Gaidar biography, photo|url=https://uznayvse.ru/znamenitosti/biografiya-mariya-gaydar.html|website=Uznay Vse!|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719111128/http://www.uznayvse.ru/znamenitosti/%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80.html|archive-date=19 July 2015|access-date=23 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|script-title=ru:Гайдар, Мария: Российский политик-либерал|language=ru|trans-title=Gaidar, Maria: Russian Liberal Politician|url=http://lenta.ru/lib/14159861/#58|website=Lenta.ru|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413005835/http://lenta.ru/lib/14159861/#58|archive-date=13 April 2010}}</ref> In 2011, she was admitted to Harvard University for a Mid-Career Masters in Public Administration, where she studied for 8 months.<ref name=LJ201106>{{cite web|last=Gaidar|first=Maria|date=8 June 2011|title=Weblog of Maria Gaidar|url=http://m-gaidar.livejournal.com/186624.html#cutid1|website=LiveJournal|access-date=23 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721224428/http://m-gaidar.livejournal.com/186624.html#cutid1|archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref> In 2014 she graduated from Kutafin Moscow State Law University.<ref name=rian />
Gaidar has one daughter. In 2014 she and her daughter moved to Israel because she was afraid that she would lose custody of the child if a criminal investigation into Gaidar were to be launched in Russia.<ref name="Gaidar62513618"/>
After having lived and worked in Ukraine for seven years Gaidar and her daughter relocated to Israel in March 2022 following the 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (via Poland, as part of the stream of refugees following the invasion).<ref name="Gaidar62513618">{{Cite web |last=Konstantin|first=Eggert |date=2022-07-20 |title=Мария Гайдар: "На Рублевке все в большой опасности"|trans-title=Maria Gaidar: "Everything is in great danger on Rublevka"|url=https://www.dw.com/ru/marija-gajdar-na-rublevke-vse-v-bolshoj-opasnosti/a-62513618|access-date=2023-08-20 |website=Deutsche Welle |language=ru}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071109181230/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3996/is_200701/ai_n19432277 "Russians Must Shed Fear" ''Interview with Maria Gaidar by Fredo Arias-King''] 2007, from ''Demokratizatsiya''.
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