This is the presentation of the candidate for the Municipal Council from the Republican Party Tatyana Thulien on her website:

Tatyana Thulien, at-large Republican Mecklenburg County commission candidate

There are many photos on the candidate's website, but none with the Ukrainian flag, unlike, for example, Congresswoman Victoria Spartz. And now you will know why.

Tatyana Thulien strongly supports the annexation of Crimea and Russia's war against Ukraine since 2014!

 At the time of the elections, Tatyana "repainted", apparently - for a short time. Thulien too long worked for the Russian Embassy. This election is the first step - put your foot in the door. Do not think that the plans of the Kremlin and Tatyana end there. The other day, a Russian spy was detained in Norway, who went a long way to the target through Brazil, Canada, in order to be closer to the target.

What is it for?

Let's say more - in the Russian-speaking community, they believe that Tatyana Thulien is an agent of the Kremlin. The recruitment story was published back in 2018

You can read here in Russian:

How "compatriots" were recruited at the Embassy's country house near Washington

Igor Baboshkin: This story begins in 2006 when the US Coordinating Council of Russian Compatriots (KSORS) was organized, and from 2008 to 2014 I was elected chairman of the Council. I often met with Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov and Ambassador S. Kislyak to discuss the Russian language and culture programs in the United States. At the same time, FBI agents who were interested in the activities of the Council and some people from the community met with me informally. Thus, I knew who the special services were interested in.

In 2014, after the start of military operations by Russia against Ukraine, the policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs changed: they were no longer interested in cultural issues. But Kremlin was needed to create a positive image of Russia in the West. Moreover, on March 12, 2015, the BBC published information that the American PR company Ketchum no longer represents Russia in the US and Europe. The contract between the Kremlin and Ketchum was signed in 2006. In 2014, Ketchum had to make excuses in connection with the Ukrainian crisis and the annexation of Crimea. According to media reports, the company received $23 million from Russia over six years for propaganda.

nytimes.com: P.R. Firm for Putin’s Russia Now Walking a Fine Line

On June 12, 2014, I was last at the celebrations at the embassy on the occasion of the Day of Russia. Tatyana Tulien was also invited there. It is unlikely that the embassy was very interested in a simple singer from North Carolina. But then her husband Tim Thulien worked in the US military. It is no coincidence that Tulien and her husband ended up in Kislyak's personal residence at a completely private event on the occasion of the opening of the Sochi Olympics in 2014; it is no coincidence that Ambassador Kislyak arrived at a private meeting with Tulien's husband and politically influential people in a private house in North Carolina, where election issues were discussed.

At the reception on June 12, 2014, two women - T. Tulien and S. Sokolova unexpectedly received a personal invitation from Ambassador S. Kislyak to visit his country residence on Saturday June 13th. In the entire existence of the Council, no one has ever been invited to this residence, which, according to the American authorities, was used to collect intelligence information. Looking ahead, in 2016, access to the country residence so-called “dacha” at the Russian embassy was closed to diplomats.

The two women were taken there together, but they returned separately. When Tatyana Tulien left there and what Tatyana Tulien did there, one can only guess ...

But for the next congress that I organized in New York in August 2014. just two months after that,  T. Tulien arrived without an invitation and passed through the security guard under the arm of Ambassador S. Kislyak. The security guards mistook her for the ambassador's wife.

At the congress, T. Tulina joined a group of other Kremlin agents in order to disrupt the congress and the voting - the Foreign Ministry was no longer interested in cultural figures: they needed agents of influence on public opinion. In the attached photo taken in New York the day after the forum: Tatyana Thulien - in the middle, to her left - Tatiana Smirnova, Chief Councilor of Department for Relations with the Compatriots Abroad of Russian Foreign Ministry, to the right - Olga Zatsepina (NY ) who the FBI assumed was a Russian intelligence agent.

Thus began the active work of Tatyana Thulien to promote the projects of the Kremlin.

In 2014, Thulien begins to collaborate with Olga Tarasova - the publisher of The Russian America newspaper -

The son of O. Tarasova, lawyer Alexei Tarasov, received hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect Yaroshenko and Bout, two criminals convicted in the United States for 20 and 25 years for transporting cocaine and arms trafficking. Yaroshenko recently ended up in Russia as a result of an exchange and was immediately approved by Putin as a member of the "Public Chamber under the President of Russia." It happened last month.

In 2015, Tatyana Thulien is holding events in North Carolina in support of Russia. Photographs of Tatyana Thulien with USSR flags received from the Russian embassy.

Tulien is on the far right

Isn't it true that the photo of Tulien against the background of a sickle and a hammer does not fit well with the election address from her website for the elections in 2022:
 
Traditional values
I stand for the United States Constitution, the Pledge of Allegiance, and for our faith not to be humiliated and abandoned. Having been born and raised in the Soviet Union, I know for sure that socialism does not make everyone equal.
This gives the government total control, and equality manifests itself in the fact that everyone will be equally robbed and left on the brink of bearish survival.