29 Facts About Yelena Mizulina

Yelena Borisovna Mizulina is a Russian politician and lawyer.

Yelena Mizulina served as a member of the State Duma between 1995 and 2003 and again between 2007 and 2015, and has been a member of the Federation Council since 2015.

Yelena Mizulina was Chair of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs between 2011 and 2015.

Yelena Mizulina has changed her political affiliation several times, having served public office on behalf of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the liberal Yabloko and Union of Right Forces parties and went on to represent Omsk Oblast in the Duma as a member of the social democratic A Just Russia party.

Yelena Mizulina has received distinctions in Russia for her work as a lawyer including the Honoured Lawyer of Russia title.

Yelena Borisovna Mizulina was born on December 9,1954, in the city of Buy in Kostroma Oblast, Soviet Union.

Yelena Mizulina graduated in 1977 with a law degree and worked as a research assistant of the same university.

Yelena Mizulina remained a member of the Communist Party until 1991.

In regard to this dissertation Yelena Mizulina has publicly declared the following: "It seemed that what I wrote was unique, and that I was indeed a learned person of God".

Originally A Just Russia put forward another candidate, Svetlana Goryacheva, for this position, which was not well accepted by the United Russia party, and Yelena Mizulina's candidature was offered as a compromise.

In 2010, Yelena Mizulina received a medal from the World Congress of Families.

On March 17,2014, during the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Yelena Mizulina became one of the first seven persons who were put by President Obama under executive sanctions.

Yelena Mizulina was sanctioned by the UK government in 2014 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Yelena Mizulina is among the lead authors of a set of controversial legislative projects including:.

On November 14,2012, Yelena Mizulina Muzilina declared that the 'prophylactic goals' of Internet Restriction Bill of ' acquiring a safe information space on the web without making use of punitive measures' had been accomplished.

Yelena Mizulina disclosed a possible future legislative project that would prevent access to sites previously included in the Russian Internet blacklist.

Yelena Mizulina has publicly spoken out against abortions being carried out in private medical institutions, and in favor of a ban on selling products that result in abortions without a prescription from a physician.

In June 2012, the Duma Committee on matters of Family that Yelena Mizulina presides, rendered public a project entitled "The State Concept of Family Policy until 2025", which proposes amongst other things, several controversial elements including the following:.

Yelena Mizulina is the author of several legislative projects directed against "propaganda of homosexuality" including the infamous Russian LGBT propaganda law.

Yelena Mizulina believes that the phrase "gays are people too" should be considered potentially extremist by the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare.

Yelena Mizulina is in favor of confiscating children from gay parents, including biological parents.

Yelena Mizulina stated she wanted Alexeyev's punishment to be "in the form of compulsory work in a place where he can not proceed with propaganda, for example, driving a hearse".

Representatives of the LGBT community have appealed to the prosecutor's office with a complaint against Yelena Mizulina for inciting hatred against homosexuals and for infringing on the LGBT rights in Russia.

In July 2016, The Moscow Times reported that Senator Yelena Mizulina had proposed amendments to present legislation to downgrade spousal and child abuse from a criminal offense to an administrative misdemeanor offense.

The writer Dmitri Bykov believes that Yelena Mizulina is "constantly providing a legislative form for things that should remain a question of personal choice, which is far more dangerous than any gay pride parade".

Yelena Mizulina's husband Mikhail Muzilin holds a PhD in Philosophy and is a docent at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

Yelena Mizulina was the head of the Yabloko party headquarters in Yaroslavl.

Yelena Mizulina has formerly served as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Yaroslavl State University.

Yelena Mizulina is a strong supporter of Vladimir Putin through her work with the Konstantin Malofeev associated St Basil the Great Foundation and the "Safe Internet League" where she is a director of the Association of Market Participants in the Internet Industry.