The phrase “woman in politics” has long ceased to cause confusion. In the modern world, not only great men, but also emancipated ladies are concerned about the fate of people. They believe that a woman’s destiny is not only in giving birth to children and household chores, and they actively participate in their homeland on an equal basis with men.
Elena Mizulina is a prominent representative of women's Russia. They talk about her quite a lot and in quite a variety of ways. Her position evokes approval, irony, and obvious condemnation. However, this woman is trying with all her might to legitimize which, in the light of recent world trends, is being turned upside down. Mizulina Elena Borisovna is a member of the United Russia party. She is the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children.
A woman politician has the authority to consider problems and introduce bills on the topic of family. Her latest author and co-author bills and initiatives have caused considerable public outcry. Among them are the active fight against swearing on the Internet, gay propaganda, family divorces and the adoption of Russian orphans by foreign parents.
Mizulina Elena Borisovna was born on December 9, 1954. The birthplace of the famous politician is the city of Bui, Kostroma region. The girl developed an interest in politics quite early. Elena Mizulina's father, Boris Mikhailovich Dmitriev, after a shell shock received at the front, headed a department of the district committee of the CPSU. The father's political style largely left an imprint on the professional character of his daughter. While studying at school, Mizulina dreamed of a career as a diplomat and was preparing to enter MGIMO. However, her dreams were not destined to come true, and as fate would have it, in 1972 she became a student at Yaroslavl State University. It was in this educational institution that Elena Borisovna met with her future husband Mikhail Mizulin. In the fourth year of study, a couple of young lawyers were legally married.
Mizulina’s career developed quite rapidly. After graduating from the university in 1977, she began working as a laboratory assistant at the department of theory and law in her native university. In the same year, Elena Borisovna received the position of consultant at the regional court in the city of Yaroslavl, while continuing her correspondence studies at Kazan State University as a graduate student. Some time later, in 1983, her dissertation was defended. As a result, Elena Mizulina became a candidate of legal sciences, received a promotion and was appointed senior consultant.
After working in the Yaroslavl Regional Court for 8 years, she moved to serve as an assistant at the State Pedagogical Institute named after K. D. Ushinsky in the same city. Already in 1987, Mizulina began heading the department of national history. She held this position until 1990, being a member of the CPSU.
In 1992, Elena Mizulina defended her doctoral dissertation at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The topic of her work - “Criminal trial: the concept of self-restraint of the state” - aroused great interest among colleagues. In 1995, Mizulina became a professor at the State University of Yaroslavl.
Elena Borisovna's political career developed quite rapidly. In 1993, she joined the 1st composition of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the “Choice of Russia” bloc. She served on the Committee that considered constitutional legislation, as well as judicial and legal issues, as vice-chairman. Mizulina also joined the Commission on Rules and Procedures of Parliament.
In 1995, Mizulina joined the Yabloko faction and the Reforms - New Course movement. In the same year, she was elected head of the regional public organization “Balance” in Yaroslavl.
Since December 1995, Elena Mizulina has been a deputy of the 2nd convocation from the Yabloko faction, representing the interests of the Kirov District. Due to these circumstances, she had to refuse membership in the Federation Council. As part of the State Duma of the 2nd convocation, she began to chair the Committee on Legislation and Reforms in the Judicial Sphere. She also served on the subcommittee dealing with issues of nation-building, as well as the constitutional rights of citizens, as vice-chairman. In 1999, Mizulina was involved in organizing the impeachment against Yeltsin as a legal consultant.
In December 1999, she again became a deputy of the State Duma of the third convocation from the Yabloko party. July 2000 marked a new stage in Mizulina’s political career. She became the head of the Yaroslavl Union of Democratic Forces. This coalition included members of the Yabloko party and the Union of Right Forces.
At the beginning of 2001, Elena Mizulina made an official statement that she was leaving Yabloko. The deputy motivated her actions with personal discomfort over the fact that the party she belongs to receives no more than five percent of the votes in the elections. Former colleagues at Yabloko assessed her action as a race for political trends.
In June 2001, Elena Borisovna joined the Union of Right Forces. In February 2004, her party was defeated in the elections, and Mizulina received a new appointment - a representative of the State Duma in the Constitutional Court. In this position, in 2005, she insisted on the abolition of the procedure for direct gubernatorial elections that existed in the Russian Federation. Elena Borisovna combined her position in the Constitutional Court with the position of acting deputy head of the State Duma apparatus department. The eventful year 2005 was also marked for Mizulina with the successful completion of the Russian Academy of Public Administration, founded under the President of the Russian Federation.
Two years later, in 2007, State Duma deputy Elena Mizulina was elected as a member of the political organization A Just Russia. January 2008 was marked for Elena Borisovna with a new position - in the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children as chairman. Her candidacy was put forward as an alternative to Svetlana Goryacheva. The United Russia party expressed dissatisfaction with the proposed candidacy. Then Elena Borisovna was approved for this position.
In 2011, Elena Mizulina was once again elected to the State Duma as a member of the A Just Russia party. She became the head of the State Duma Committee on the Family.
In October 2013, at the next meeting of A Just Russia, Mizulina announced that she was renouncing membership in the party’s Central Council.
Well-known political scientist Alexander Kynev noted that with her actions Elena Borisovna undermines the image of the party in the eyes of urban voters.
One of the most famous projects in the development of which Elena Mizulina was directly involved was Federal Law No. 139-F3. It was adopted on July 28, 2012. It received the trivial name in public circles of the “blacklist law” and “Internet censorship law.” Elena Borisovna is also directly related to another project, which is often confused with the above. This is the project “On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development.”
Elena Mizulina, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, publicly stated in July 2012 that it was necessary to check whether the strike of the Russian Wikipedia against the positions of bill No. 139-F3 was not a “pedophile lobby.” This phrase becomes a persistent expression and is the calling card of a female politician. Some public figures and journalists claim that Elena Borisovna awards this label to all people who are personally displeasing to her.
In November 2012, she made a public conclusion: Project 139-F3 achieved its preventive goal. With the help of it, a safe one was organized. Also, Elena Mizulina banned at the state level the viewing of sites with links to Internet pages from the register of prohibited ones. One of the portals that countered the “blacklist” position was rublacklist.net. The founders of this site were the Russian Pirate Party.
A year later, Elena Mizulina proposed making part of the preamble to the Constitution of the Russian Federation the phrase that for Russia Orthodoxy is the basis of cultural and national identity. However, this proposal was rejected. The refusal is motivated by the fact that the Russian Federation is constitutionally proclaimed a secular state.
Elena Mizulina demanded the restriction of free abortions. She proposes allowing a woman to have a free abortion only for serious medical reasons or as a result of rape.
Under other circumstances, abortions must be paid. It was also proposed to introduce the following points into this bill:
Another interesting bill on the topic of abortion was proposed by Elena Mizulina. The State Duma considered an amendment to the Code of Administrative Offenses regarding a fine imposed on a medical institution that does not provide a woman with time to think before carrying out appropriate medical procedures. The amount of this monetary compensation was proposed in the form of 1 million rubles. Mizulina indicated that it is worth levying a fine on the women themselves who ignore the doctor’s offer of the opportunity to reconsider their decision to have an abortion. The fine for them is 3000-5000 rubles.
Elena Borisovna speaks rather harshly about the issue of adoption of orphans from Russia by American parents. She noted that our state has never protected its interests at the expense of children.
Later, Elena Mizulina proposed banning such American guardianship at the legal level. In June 2013, the politician presented a project called “Concepts of state family policy until 2025.” It contains the following provisions:
This bill was intended to strengthen the institution of family in the Russian Federation.
Mizulina is known in political and public circles as an ardent opponent of same-sex marriage and is of the opinion that the phrase “Gays are people too” contains a hidden extremist meaning. She advocates removing children from same-sex families.
However, in 2013, the famous publicist wrote in his article that Elena Mizulina’s son, who lives in Belgium, works for a fairly large law firm, Mayer Brown. This firm actively defends LGBT rights. The sharp difference in views on the issue of homosexuality between mother and son was ironically noted. In response to this sarcasm, Mizulina declared Koch a representative of the notorious “pedophile lobby.”
In November 2013, Mizulina spoke out about the need to ban surrogacy at the state level, considering it an unnatural phenomenon. To all this, Elena Borisovna added that it is necessary in every possible way to form in society a negative attitude towards this method of giving birth to a child.
Quite often Mizulina is criticized. Evil tongues sneer at her active initiatives, and political scientists accuse her of overly openly invading the privacy of citizens and influencing people’s freedom of choice. Perhaps there is some inflection in Elena Borisovna’s bills, but it is impossible to accuse this woman of indifference to the life of her people.
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Recently she has been known as the author and co-author of high-profile initiatives and bills that have caused controversial public reactions and are often accompanied by scandals. Among them is the fight against gay propaganda, online swearing, divorce and foreign adoptive parents of Russian orphans.
Yaroslavl
Elena Mizulina was born on December 9, 1954 in the city of Buye, Kostroma region (formerly Yaroslavl region). Her father, Boris Mikhailovich Dmitriev, a front-line soldier, was shell-shocked, after the war he headed a department in the district committee of the CPSU.
At school, she dreamed of entering MGIMO, preparing herself for a “career as a diplomat,” but in 1972 she entered the Faculty of History and Law at Yaroslavl State University. She studied in the same group with her future husband Mikhail Mizulin; after the fourth year I married him. In 1977 she graduated from the university, qualifying as a lawyer. She was assigned as a laboratory assistant to the university department of theory and law.
In 1977-1984, she first worked as a consultant, then, in 1984-1985, as a senior consultant at the Yaroslavl Regional Court. At the same time, she studied in correspondence graduate school at Kazan State University; in 1983 she defended her dissertation on the topic “The nature of supervisory proceedings in criminal proceedings (based on materials from the Yaroslavl Regional Court)” for the degree of candidate of legal sciences.
In 1985, she began working as an assistant at the Yaroslavl State Pedagogical Institute named after. K. D. Ushinsky. According to Mizulina’s husband, he, being the head of the ideological sector of the regional committee of the CPSU of the Yaroslavl region, “pushed” for Elena a position as a senior researcher at the institute. In 1987, Mizulina received the position of head of the department of national history; headed the department until 1990. Until August 1991 she was a member of the CPSU.
In 1992, at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic “Criminal trial: the concept of self-restraint of the state.” According to Mizulina, her dissertation became a discovery, a new direction in science: “It turned out that what I wrote was unique, that I was truly a scientist from God.” In 1992-1995 - associate professor, then professor at Yaroslavl State University.
"Yabloko" and "Union of Right Forces"
In 1993, from the “Choice of Russia” bloc, she was elected to the first composition of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, where she was deputy chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and Judicial and Legal Issues, and a member of the Commission on Rules and Parliamentary Procedures. In 1995, she joined the Yabloko association and the Reforms - New Course movement. Since 1995, she has headed the Yaroslavl regional public organization “Balance”.
In December 1995, Mizulina was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the 2nd convocation in the Kirov single-mandate district (Yaroslavl) from Yabloko, and therefore in January 1996 she prematurely resigned as a deputy of the Federation Council. In the State Duma of the 2nd convocation, she was a member of the Yabloko faction, was the deputy chairman of the committee on legislation and judicial reform, and deputy of the subcommittee on issues of state building and constitutional rights of citizens. Carried out legal registration of the failed impeachment of President Yeltsin in 1999.
In December 1999, she was elected to the State Duma of the third convocation from Yabloko. In July 2000, she headed the Yaroslavl Union of Democratic Forces, which included representatives of Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces. In February 2001, she stated that she was not going to confirm her membership in Yabloko. In June of the same year she joined the Union of Right Forces. Mizulina explained her departure from Yabloko by saying that she was “personally ashamed to be in a party that gets only 5% in the elections. This became a moral problem for me.” Former comrades of E. B. Mizulina in Yabloko and SPS, Sergei Mitrokhin and Leonid Gozman, explain Mizulina’s repeated changes of political parties by the fact that she follows political trends.
In February 2004, Mizulina was approved as a representative of the State Duma in the Constitutional Court. Mizulina herself did not rule out that she received this appointment due to the loss of the Union of Right Forces in the elections: “I don’t know to what extent this is connected, but perhaps this can be regarded as my intentional employment.” As a representative of the State Duma in the Constitutional Court, in 2005 she defended the legality of the decision to abolish direct gubernatorial elections in Russia. She combined her work in the Constitutional Court with her duties as deputy head of the legal department of the State Duma apparatus. In 2005 she graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.
"A Just Russia"
In 2007, she was elected to the State Duma of the fifth convocation and joined the A Just Russia faction. In January 2008, she became chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children. At the same time, A Just Russia initially nominated Svetlana Goryacheva for this post, which caused discontent among United Russia; Mizulina headed the committee as a compromise figure.
In 2011, she was elected to the State Duma of the sixth convocation, a member of the “A Just Russia” faction, and since December 21, 2011 - Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children. At the A Just Russia congress, held in October 2013, she resigned from her position as a member of the party’s central council.
According to political scientist Alexander Kynev, Elena Mizulina’s activities in the State Duma cause significant damage to the party’s image in the eyes of its target educated urban voter.
He is one of the authors of Federal Law No. 139-FZ of July 28, 2012 (formerly Draft Law No. 89417-6), known as the “blacklist law” or “Internet censorship law”, as well as the law adopted in 2010 “On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development,” with which it is often confused.
On July 10, 2012, she stated that she would submit a request to the US Department of Justice in order to check the strike of Russian Wikipedia, since she believes that there is no censorship in bill No. 89417-6; At the same time she suggested that a “pedophile lobby” was behind the protests on the Internet.
On November 14, 2012, Mizulina stated that the preventive goal of Law 139-FZ - to achieve a safe information environment without the use of punishment - had been achieved. She also stated that another bill may be developed that would prohibit access to sites that allow you to view pages included in the unified register of prohibited sites. Among such portals countering the blacklist, rublacklist.net, owned by the Russian pirate party, was named.
On November 22, 2013, she took the initiative to include in the preamble of the Constitution of the Russian Federation the lines that Orthodoxy is the basis of the national and cultural identity of Russia. Nowadays, no religion is mentioned in the constitution and, in accordance with the basic law of the country, Russia is a secular state.
Positions on marriage, family and sexual relations
Attitude towards abortion
Elena Mizulina is a supporter of restricting a woman’s rights to abortion. Mizulina proposes to leave free abortions exclusively for medical reasons or for pregnancies resulting from rape; in other cases, make abortions free of charge. She also spoke out in favor of introducing a ban on abortions in private medical institutions, a ban on the sale of drugs that cause medical abortion without a doctor’s prescription, and that married women must obtain their husband’s permission to have an abortion, and minor girls must obtain parental permission.
In July 2013, Mizulina, as part of a group of deputies, submitted to the State Duma a bill on amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses, providing for the imposition of fines on doctors and medical institutions that do not give women time to think when performing abortions, in the amount of up to 1 million rubles. It is also proposed to fine pregnant women themselves who do not observe the “quiet time” - from 3 to 5 thousand rubles.
Position on family and marriage issues
Mizulina sharply opposed the introduction of a ban on the adoption of Russian children by Americans: “This is simply mean, if not mean. Russia has never protected its interests by using children.” Mizulina later voted for introducing such a ban at the legislative level.
In June 2013, the State Duma Committee on Family Affairs, which is headed by Mizulina, unveiled the draft “Concepts of State Family Policy until 2025,” which proposes introducing an additional tax on divorce, condemning the birth of a child out of wedlock, proposing new restrictions on abortion, and sharply condemning homosexuality. At the same time, it is proposed to strengthen the role of the church in the adoption of family laws, increase the number of “multi-generation” families (families where grandparents, children and grandchildren live together), it is recommended to actively promote large families, and establish a minimum amount of alimony, the payment of which should not depend on the availability or lack of income from the parent. Alexander Nikonov and other opposition journalists suggested that the sensational report about the divorce of Putin and his wife, voiced by them two days after the publication of this bill, is connected with the proposed introduction of a new fine for divorce. Answering a question in an interview with Echo of Moscow about her attitude to Putin’s divorce, Mizulina said: “There is no discrepancy between the behavior of the Putin spouses and the draft concept of state family policy, which I presented at the coordinating council for the implementation of the national strategy of action in the interests of children. ... in my opinion, they set an example of a civilized divorce, respect for each other and maintaining personal obligations and care towards each other, especially if something happens.”
After the publication of the Concept, it turned out that some of its provisions were copied verbatim from one of the abstracts posted on the Internet, which, in turn, was plagiarized from the “Family Studies” course at Tomsk Polytechnic University.
Mizulina advocates raising the age limit for those entering into sexual relations from 16 to 18 years. She also calls for a ban on surrogacy in Russia.
Attitudes towards LGBT
Mizulina is the author of several legislative projects aimed against the propaganda of homosexuality. He believes that the phrase “gays are people too” needs to be checked by Rospotrebnadzor as potentially extremist. Mizulina also advocates the removal of children, including relatives, from same-sex families.
In July 2013, Mizulina and her deputy on the Duma committee, Batalina, filed a criminal complaint with the aim of initiating a criminal case against LGBT human rights activist Nikolai Alekseev. According to Mizulina, Alekseev is the leader of the LGBT community, which organized a campaign to discredit her, which is detrimental to Russia as a whole. Mizulina intends to ask for punishment for Alekseev “in the form of compulsory labor in places where he cannot engage in gay propaganda, for example, on a ‘corpse wagon’.” Representatives of the LGBT community also appealed to the prosecutor's office with a complaint about Mizulina's incitement of hatred towards homosexuals and her infringement of LGBT rights.
In October 2013, Mizulina received the Silver Galosh award for the most dubious achievements of the year in the Mimimi of the Year category. In November of the same year, Mizulina took part in the conference “For the Future of the Family” held in Leipzig. Are the European peoples in danger of extinction?”, among the participants were representatives of marginal German organizations, including pro-fascist and anti-Semitic views. The conference participants were boycotted by German anti-fascists and LGBT activists; Mizulina claimed that in the resulting crush, members of the Russian delegation were injured.
Accusations that opponents belong to the “pedophile lobby”
Elena Mizulina has repeatedly accused her opponents of allegedly belonging to the so-called “pedophile lobby.” So in 2011, during a discussion of amendments to the Criminal Code, she suggested that “in the depths of the United Russia faction there is a ‘pedophile lobby’” that opposes toughening penalties for crimes of a sexual nature against minors. Opponents of the law “On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development,” also, according to Mizulina, express the opinion of the “pedophile lobby.” In particular, commenting on the Russian Wikipedia strike in 2012, Mizulina said:
In June 2013, publicist Alfred Koch published an article that Mizulina’s son, who lives in Belgium, works for a large international law firm, Mayer Brown, which sponsors gay organizations and is one of the top 100 organizations protecting the rights of members of the LGBT community in Belgium, despite the fact that his mother is actively fighting against homosexuals in Russia. In response, Mizulina accused Koch of belonging to the “pedophile lobby.” Journalist Andrei Malgin wrote about this on his blog: “Wonderful: everyone who doesn’t like Mizulina is a pedophile lobby.”
Attitude towards surrogacy
On November 10, 2013, in her speech, she stated the need for a ban on surrogacy, but she does not intend to introduce a ban on surrogacy - an unnatural way of giving birth to children - at the legislative level. Mizulina believes that it is necessary to conduct discussions in society in order to form a negative attitude among people towards surrogacy.
Scandals
In June 2013, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the fact of insulting Mizulina by a group of people. As part of this case, Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Kostyuchenko, gay activist Nikolai Alekseev, Ksenia Sobchak and Alfred Koch were summoned to the Investigative Committee. According to Mizulina’s statement, the matter is that bloggers spread deliberately false information about the deputy - that she proposed to ban oral sex. As part of the investigative measures, Ksenia Sobchak was interrogated; according to her, the investigator talked with her for 15 minutes about oral sex. Alfred Koch was also summoned for interrogation; according to him, for three hours of interrogation, “two lieutenant colonels clarified the details of Mizulina’s “gay-oral phobias” and his attitude towards it.”
November 23, 2013 in Leipzig, where Mizulina arrived to participate in the conference “For the Future of the Family. Are European peoples in danger of extinction?” According to her, she and members of the delegation were attacked by LGBT activists, but they rejected her accusations.
Criticism
According to political scientist Mark Urnov, “the laws initiated by Mizulina are varied. But they have one very specific feature - they sow intolerance. They simply express in legal form that attitude of intolerance and suppression of everything that does not correspond to your personal ideas about what is right and what is wrong.”
Mizulina is criticized for actively interfering in various areas of citizens’ personal lives. Writer Dmitry Bykov believes that Mizulina constantly proposes to “legislate things that should be a matter of personal choice, and this is much more dangerous than any gay pride parade.” Journalist Masha Gessen considers Mizulina’s initiatives an interference in someone else’s life and sees in them a logical substitution: “same-sex marriage supposedly destroys heterosexual marriages, and if I, say, sleep with a woman, then this prevents Mizulina from sleeping with a man.”
In response to a number of scandalous initiatives and bills by Mizulina, in the summer of 2013, a collection of signatures took place online for her inclusion, along with Vitaly Milonov, on the Magnitsky list and a ban on entry into the United States.
A number of Western stars from the art world protested against the anti-gay law initiated by Mizulina. British choreographer Ben Wright refused to participate in a joint project with the Russian Ministry of Culture. In an open letter, Wright said that he was shocked by the scenes of neo-Nazis dispersing a gay pride parade and the brutal murder of a 23-year-old gay man in Volgograd. “Putin has essentially legitimized deadly prejudice and sanctioned the persecution of gays,” Wright writes. He concluded his letter with a call to boycott the Olympics in Sochi. German playwright Marius von Mayenburg and actor, star of the television series “Escape” Wentworth Miller canceled their trip to the “Territory” festival in Moscow, supporting the protest. “And this is just the beginning... Say thank you to Mizulina,” director Kirill Serebrennikov comments on the current situation.
By decree of the President of the United States (Barack Obama) on March 14, 2014, sanctions were imposed “for her status as a State Duma deputy” for “undermining democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; a threat to its peace, security, stability, sovereignty and territorial integrity; and contributing to the misappropriation of assets."
By decision of the Council of the European Union on March 21, 2014, sanctions were imposed on “the developer and co-author of the latest legislative proposals in Russia, allowing regions of other countries to join Russia without the prior consent of their central authorities.”
Personal life
Married, has two adult children.
Husband, Mikhail Yuryevich Mizulin, Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science and Political Management of the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. When Mizulina was a deputy from Yabloko, he headed the party cell in Yaroslavl. He was the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Yaroslavl University.
The son, Nikolai Mizulin, studied at MGIMO, abroad - at Bern and Oxford universities. Now he lives and works as a lawyer (according to some sources, he is a co-owner of a law firm) in the capital of Belgium, Brussels, and is a partner in the law firm Mayer Brown. Two of Mizulina’s grandchildren also live in Brussels. He is married to a Spanish citizen, the daughter of a famous Spanish writer.
Daughter Ekaterina also lives separately from her mother, and she has no children. Mizulina’s daughter heads the Moscow Foundation for Social and Legal Initiatives “Legal Capital”, which is engaged in financial intermediation, publishing and advertising activities. According to press reports, the fund belongs to Elena Mizulina.
In the draft law “Concepts of State Family Policy until 2025” proposed by Elena Mizulina, she defines marriage as the “state ideal of the family” “for the purpose of giving birth and raising three or more children together,” and also proposes in this law to help ensure that several generations of Russian parents, children and grandchildren lived in the same living space. In an interview with Echo of Moscow, Mizulina explained her personal inconsistency with the “state ideal of the family” proclaimed by her as follows: “I wanted three. Misha, my husband, and I wanted three. But it happened the way it happened. Fate has given us two.”
Mizulina is a lover of exotic breeds of cats. In 1994, a scandal erupted in connection with Mizulina’s demand to increase the area of her service apartment in order to organize the provision of obstetric care for her cat. In addition to cats, Mizulina enjoys growing indoor plants and playing the accordion.
Awards
The image of Elena Mizulina in popular culture
MIZULINA Elena Borisovna - Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in 1993 - 1995. and since September 23, 2015, deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in 1995 - 2007 and from 2011 - 2015, professor at Yaroslavl State University in 1994 - 1995.
Born on December 9, 1954 in the city of Buye, Kostroma Region. Her father Boris Mikhailovich Dmitriev, a front-line soldier, was shell-shocked, after the war he headed a department in the district committee of the CPSU. At school I dreamed of entering MGIMO, but in 1972 I entered the Faculty of History and Law at Yaroslavl State University. She studied in the same group with her future husband Mikhail Mizulin; after the fourth year I married him. In 1977 she graduated from the university, qualifying as a lawyer. She was assigned as a laboratory assistant to the university department of theory and law.
In 1977-1984 she worked as a consultant, in 1984-1985 as a senior consultant at the Yaroslavl Regional Court. At the same time, she studied in correspondence graduate school at Kazan State University; in 1983 she defended her dissertation on the topic “The nature of supervisory proceedings in criminal proceedings (based on materials from the Yaroslavl Regional Court)” for the degree of candidate of legal sciences.
In 1985, she began working as an assistant at the Yaroslavl State Pedagogical Institute named after. K. D. Ushinsky. According to Mizulina’s husband, he, being the head of the ideological sector of the Yaroslavl Regional Committee of the CPSU, “punched” for Elena Borisovna a position as a senior researcher at the institute. In 1987, Mizulina received the position of head of the department of national history; headed the department until 1990. Until August 1991 she was a member of the CPSU.
In 1992, at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic “Criminal trial: the concept of self-restraint of the state.” In 1992-1995 - associate professor, then professor at Yaroslavl State University.
In 1993, from the “Choice of Russia” bloc, she was elected to the first composition of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, where she was deputy chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and Judicial and Legal Issues, and a member of the Commission on Rules and Parliamentary Procedures. In 1995, she joined the Yabloko association and the Reforms - New Course movement. Since 1995, she has headed the Yaroslavl regional public organization “Balance”.
In December 1995, Mizulina was elected to the State Duma of the 2nd convocation in the Kirov single-mandate constituency No. 189 from Yabloko. In the elections, 83,175 voters voted for her (second place winner V. G. Varukhin received half as many votes - 39,266 votes). In connection with her election as a State Duma deputy, Mizulina resigned early as a deputy of the Federation Council in January 1996. In the State Duma of the 2nd convocation, she was a member of the Yabloko faction, was deputy chairman of the committee on legislation and judicial reform, and deputy chairman of the subcommittee on issues of state building and constitutional rights of citizens. Carried out legal registration of the failed impeachment of President Yeltsin in 1999.
In December 1999, she participated in the elections of deputies to the State Duma of the third convocation from Yabloko, both in the Kirov single-mandate constituency No. 189 and on the party list. In the district she received only 33,027 votes (8.99%) and took 4th place (following S. I. Zagidullin - 23.56%, A. I. Tsvetkov - 18.44% and S. I. Zamoraev - 9.5%), but entered the State Duma on the Yabloko list.
In July 2000, she headed the Yaroslavl Union of Democratic Forces, which included representatives of Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces. In February 2001, she stated that she was not going to confirm her membership in Yabloko. In June of the same year she joined the Union of Right Forces. Mizulina explained her departure from Yabloko by saying that she was “personally ashamed to be in a party that gets only 5% in the elections.”
In the December 2003 elections, the Union of Right Forces was unable to send its deputies to the State Duma. But E. B. Mizulina was not left without a position: in February 2004 she was approved as a representative of the Duma in the Constitutional Court. As a representative of the State Duma in the Constitutional Court, in 2005 she defended the legality of the decision to abolish direct gubernatorial elections in Russia. She combined her work in the Constitutional Court with her duties as deputy head of the legal department of the State Duma apparatus. In 2005 she graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.
In 2007, she was elected to the State Duma of the fifth convocation and joined the A Just Russia faction. In January 2008, she became the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children. At the same time, A Just Russia initially nominated Svetlana Goryacheva to this post, which caused discontent among United Russia; Mizulina headed the committee as a compromise figure.
In 2011, she was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the sixth convocation, a member of the “A Just Russia” faction, and since December 21, 2011 - Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children. At the Just Russia congress, held in October 2013, she resigned from her position as a member of the party’s central council.
On September 23, 2015, E. B. Mizulina became a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the executive branch of the Omsk region. In this regard, her powers as a deputy of the State Duma were terminated. E. B. Mizulina will serve as a member of the Federation Council until September 2020.
E. B. Mizulina’s husband, Mikhail Yuryevich Mizulin, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science and Political Management at RANEPA. When Mizulina was a deputy from Yabloko, he headed the party cell in Yaroslavl. He was the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Yaroslavl State University named after P. G. Demidov.
The son, Nikolai Mizulin, studied at MGIMO and abroad at Bern and Oxford universities. Now he lives and works as a lawyer (according to some sources, he is a co-owner of a law firm) in the capital of Belgium, Brussels, and is a partner in the law firm Mayer Brown. Two of Mizulina’s grandchildren also live in Brussels. He is married to Spanish citizen Patricia Gonzalez Antón-Pacheco, daughter of a famous Spanish writer.
Daughter Ekaterina also lives separately from her mother, heads the Moscow Foundation for Social and Legal Initiatives “Legal Capital”, which is engaged in financial intermediation, publishing and advertising activities. According to press reports, the fund belongs to Elena Mizulina.
E.B. Mizulina is a lover of exotic breeds of cats, enjoys growing indoor plants, and plays the button accordion.
Awards: Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation; medal “In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow”; Order of Honor (2012); laureate of the National Award for Public Recognition of Women's Achievements "Olympia" (2001); medal of the World Congress of Families (2010); Imperial Order of the Holy Great Martyr Anastasia (2013, Russian Imperial House) - “ in reward of services to the Fatherland and the Russian IMPERIAL HOUSE and as evidence of OUR special favor.”
Elena Borisovna Mizulina is a parliamentarian who has gained fame in recent years thanks to a number of high-profile and controversial legislative initiatives.After studying at school, she entered Yaroslavl State University in 1972, from which she graduated five years later, receiving a degree in law. Until 1984, she worked at the Yaroslavl regional court as a consultant. Then she went to work at the local pedagogical institute. K.D. Ushinsky as assistant.
Elena Borisovna’s husband, being at that time the head of the regional committee of the CPSU, facilitated her transition to the position of senior researcher at the mentioned educational institution (according to him). Since 1987, the future politician held the position of head of the department of Russian history at this university. In 1992 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Law.
In 2004, she was appointed to the post of State Duma representative in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. She combined her activities in the judiciary with the work of deputy head of the legal department of the State Duma apparatus. In 2007, she was elected to the State Duma of the fifth convocation.
From 2011 to the present, Elena Mizulina has been a deputy of the State Duma of the VI convocation, heads the Committee on Family, Women and Children, and a member of the left-wing political party “A Just Russia”.
Some political scientists (for example, Alexander Kynev) believe that her work in the State Duma causes enormous harm to the image of this political force in the public opinion of its target - cultural and enlightened - voter.
The adoption of the document caused a lot of criticism from representatives of the Runet and human rights activists. In their opinion, it can provoke abuses by officials when compiling a “black list” of sites, and will be used to put pressure on resources that are undesirable to the authorities. The Russian-language Wikipedia stopped its work for a day as a sign of disagreement. Her protest was joined by the social network VKontakte, LiveJournal, and the search engine Yandex. Mizulina responded to the opposition of the Internet community with a statement that a certain “pedophile lobby” was behind it.
Mizulina's openly discriminatory, in the opinion of opponents, legislative proposals to combat the formation of a positive image of homosexuality and speeches on the removal of children from non-traditional families were also the subject of public outrage. Among them, Mizulina triumphantly brought to approval a project that enshrined in the administrative code punishment in the form of monetary penalties for “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors.” The document caused such a resonance in the world that it posed a real threat to the prospect of holding the Sochi Winter Olympics.
To implement these norms, Mizulina, as part of a group of deputies sharing her beliefs, proposed for consideration by the State Duma draft laws on amending the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, providing for the imposition of penalties on women, doctors, and medical institutions for violating the conditions and terms of abortions.
The “Concept of State Family Policy until 2025”, proposed by the Committee headed by Mizulina, was also approved. It proposed the introduction of an additional state duty for divorce, established restrictive requirements for abortion, made proposals to strengthen the role of the church in family policy, and recommended the promotion of large families.
The couple has two adult children. Daughter Ekaterina (born 1984) runs the Legal Capital Foundation for social and legal initiatives, lives in Moscow separately from her parents, and has no children. Son Nikolai (born 1978) is a successful lawyer, lives and works in Brussels, a partner in the Mayer Brown law firm, is married to a Spanish citizen, and has two children.
For her outstanding services, Mizulina was awarded a number of state awards, the latest of which were the medal “For Assistance to Drug Control Agencies” (2013) and the medal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation “For the Return of Crimea” (2014).
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