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 national history; headed the department until 1990. Until August 1991 she was a member of the CPSU.

In 1992, she defended her studies at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 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 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 executive power 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 Yurievich 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 and enjoys breeding indoor plants, plays the accordion.

Awards: Honored Lawyer 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.”

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Our correspondent Oleg Baryshnikov met with deputy Elena Mizulina at the State Duma and was able to ask her several questions.

Elena Mizulina in last days is especially popular among journalists. This is due to the fact that she is practically the main initiator of the law banning the promotion of homosexuality. This law caused a storm of indignation due to its vague interpretations and invasion of privacy.

Moreover, it turned out that Mizulina’s son Nikolai works in Belgium, in a company closely associated with the LGBT community. Many bloggers saw this as the main reason that Mizulina is so vehemently opposed to non-traditional sexual relationships. Elena Mizulina also proposed that oral sex be classified as non-traditional sexual relationships and accused many well-known politicians and businessmen of belonging to the pedophile lobby.

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Corr. Elena Borisovna, you are now perhaps the most discussed and condemned deputy by many. The LGBT community simply hates you, forgive me for being harsh. Bloggers write about you every day and also in a negative way. And you just add fuel to the fire and say that oral sex and the Bible should be banned because of the mentions of Sodom and Gomorrah...

Elena Mizulina- Stop. Where have you read or heard that I propose to ban oral sex? I see you have a tablet, so let’s now show me my own words. Can you?

Corr. Information about this went through all agencies.

EAT. It's great that it passed. Who is the source of information? I'll tell you who. This lie came from Rosbalt. But I won't let them increase their popularity at the expense of me. Every cricket knows its nest. They have already been warned that if there is no refutation, I will proceed with the libel case.

Corr. That is, you didn’t say such words at all?

EAT. No, of course not. This is an attack on me, bullying. They want to make me look like a medieval fool, to undermine my credibility, that’s their main goal. They turn everything upside down and compromise all my legislative initiatives in the eyes of people. But I am guided only by concern for the country and people. I have no other motive. And they have it. Homosexuality, in addition to being a deviation, is also a business. Very, very profitable. And we are blocking the channels of this vicious business, that’s why there is such hysteria.

Corr. Pardon my question, have you ever had oral sex?

EAT. Forgive my answer. You don’t keep your word, we previously agreed that I could record the conversation, and you would not ask questions of this kind.

Corr. Journalists and bloggers are inclined to believe that you put something personal into the law banning homosexual propaganda. It’s no secret that your son Nikolai works for a company that funds sexual minority organizations. And many suggested that your son works there for a reason and you are not happy with this situation. Hence the activity in this direction.

EAT. Let us still take as a basis what I have already said - all my bills and bills written together with my colleagues have only one goal - improving the moral and demographic climate in the country. This climate has suffered seriously; the permissiveness and licentiousness we inherited from the 90s have recently eclipsed everything. But I repeat – this is a business. And pedophilia business. This is money. They will fight for them, they will lobby, they will humiliate us. They will stop at nothing. As for Nikolai, this is just nonsense. My son is not gay and never has been. If Kolokoltsev fights criminals, then is his son a criminal? All these interpretations were invented in order to discredit us, and people like Bakushinskaya and Koch contribute to this, if they are not members of these homo and pedolobbies at all.

Corr. Judging by your mood, it seems that you will not calm down and should be expected to continue. This is true?

EAT. Now our entire policy is aimed at restoring those pillars that were broken in the 90s. As for the propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships, we have dealt with this for now, this law satisfies us and there is no need to throw a tantrum about this. So far no one is going to introduce criminal liability for homosexuality.

Corr. You said "bye". Is this really possible in the future?

EAT. If this minority stops behaving aggressively towards the majority, stops flaunting its bad inclinations, then there will be no repressive measures.

Corr. What about the Bible? Sodom, Gomorrah and so on. Children are reading.

EAT. I am a non-believer, for me the Bible is valuable historical heritage, not a religious book. If any group of people turns to experts about the Bible’s compliance with Russian legislation, then it will be necessary to conduct such an examination. As the experts decide, so it will be. Deputies have nothing to do with it.

Corr. Banning the Bible?

EAT. I didn't say anything about the ban. The Bible is the same literature from a legal-formal point of view, like other books.

Corr. Just recently you mentioned that it is planned to introduce a tax on divorce. And the next day Vladimir got divorced. Apparently, he cannot afford the planned tax. What is the future divorce tax amount?

EAT. I think that Vladimir Vladimirovich would have found money for the divorce. As for the specifics, this is only a project and it is too early to discuss the amount of this tax.

Corr. How do you feel about the fact of the president’s divorce?

EAT. Vladimir Vladimirovich and his wife have been married for 30 years. They have two children. Even if there is a divorce, this marriage cannot be considered unsuccessful.

Corr. Thank you for your time.

Elena Borisovna Mizulina is a parliamentarian who gained fame in last years thanks to a number of high-profile and controversial legislative initiatives.

Childhood and family of Elena Mizulina

The future politician was born into the family of a district committee employee communist party in the city of Bui, Kostroma region.

After studying at school, she entered Yaroslavl State University, from which she graduated in 1972, 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 Russian history of this university. In 1992 she was awarded academic degree Doctor of Law.

Elena Mizulina - politician

In 1993, with the support of her husband, Mikhail Yuryevich, who helped her in organizing the election campaign, Mizulina was elected to the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, where she served as deputy chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and Judicial and Legal Issues. From 1995 to 2003 – deputy of the State Duma of the 2nd and 3rd convocations from Yabloko. In 2001 she joined the Union of Right Forces.

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.

Legislation by Elena Mizulina

Mizulina’s most famous Duma initiative was normative act from 07/28/2012 No. 139-FZ “On amendments to the Federal Law “On the Protection of Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development” and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation on the issue of restricting access to illegal information on the Internet.” He legalized the creation of a list of sites with prohibited information and the legality of their non-judicial blocking.

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.

Elena Mizulina represents the A Just Russia party

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.

Criticism of surrogacy

In his statements on the most acute and current problems has repeatedly spoken out against the promotion of surrogacy. The deputy is convinced of the need to create a negative attitude among Russians towards this reproductive technology. She seeks its strict regulation, but does not demand a ban at the legal level.

Elena Mizulina is against abortion

As a supporter of repressive laws, Elena Mizulina considers it necessary to limit the access and rights of citizens to terminate a pregnancy. She is confident in the advisability of abortion only in exceptional cases: when pregnancy occurs after rape or for medical reasons. In her opinion, abortions should be paid, and the free sale of medications for abortion is prohibited. The politician also spoke out in favor of adopting, as a restrictive measure, the requirement to obtain prior permission to carry out this operation: for women - from their husbands, for minor girls - from their parents.

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.

Elena Mizulina about adoption

The deputy advocated for a ban on Americans adopting Russian orphans, which was subsequently introduced by the law of December 28, 2012 No. 272-FZ “On measures of influence on persons involved in violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms, the rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation.”

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.

Personal life of Elena Mizulina

She got married while studying at the institute (before the fifth year). With her future husband, with whom, according to Elena Borisovna, all the girls in their faculty were in love, they studied in the same institute group. Today Mikhail Yuryevich is an associate professor of the department of political science and political management of the Russian Academy of Civil Service under the President of the Russian Federation.

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, is a partner in the law firm Mayer Brown, 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).

There are many prominent personalities in the Russian political arena. Sometimes their image, statements and slogans become even more famous than the authors themselves.

Elena Mizulina has achieved considerable heights in her life: Doctor of Law, State Duma deputy, member of the Legislative Assembly, and also chairman of the Committee on Family, Women and Children. But a wide audience of Russians knows her as the author of a number of scandalous laws that have caused varying assessments among society, including downright negative ones.

Biography

Elena Borisovna Mizulina was born on December 9, 1954 in the small town of Buye, Kostroma Region. Father was an active member of the CPSU and after the Great Patriotic War even headed the party department in the city of Buoy. Perhaps it was the ideals and views that reigned in the house that influenced the girl’s upbringing. Since childhood, Elena has already strived to realize her ambitious plans and, while still at school, prepared herself for a career as a diplomat.

However, by the will of fate, she ended up at the Faculty of Law of Yaroslavl State University. It was there, on her own course, that Elena Mizulina met her future husband, and soon the lovers got married.

Even during her studies, the girl showed herself to be an extraordinary person and was a leader in the group. And after graduation I was able to enter Kazan University as a correspondence student. At the same time, she worked first as a laboratory assistant at the department of her own institute, and later as a consultant in the regional Yaroslavl court. Based on the materials of her observations and scientific experiments, Mizulina defended her dissertation in 1983.

Scientific activity

U young specialist A strong character began to emerge more and more, but at the end of the 80s she still did not think about a political career, although she remained an exemplary member of the CPSU until 1991.

In these last years before perestroika, Elena Mizulina was actively engaged in scientific activities. Her husband at that time was a prominent party figure, was a member of the regional committee and was responsible for ideological issues, so he easily managed to “knock out” a position for his wife as a senior researcher at the Yaroslavl State Pedagogical Institute. Elena Borisovna did not stop halfway here either, and for three years she headed the department of history.

She didn’t give up either scientific activity Thus, in 1992, Mizulina defended another dissertation, which, according to colleagues, made a great impression at the Institute of State and Law and became a real discovery in the scientific world.

Beginning of political activity

But the difficult 90s were already approaching; the history of Russia during this period is directly related to politics and only to it. New reality left no one indifferent, and such an activist as Elena Borisovna Mizulina, due to her character and mental orientation, simply could not help but be caught up in this whirlwind of the fierce struggle between the old and new worlds.

As in everything, in politics the future deputy continued to move only towards success. And I tried to use everything for this possible options. Elena Mizulina is one of the few in Russian politics who is difficult to classify with complete confidence as a member of any particular party. There was an opinion about her as a defector from one group to another, and indeed in 20 years she managed to change more than one party.

And Mizulina began as a member of the CPSU, and her husband was also an active member there. The acquired party connections once again helped Elena Borisovna climb the career ladder, this time to the Federation Council. Her candidacy was approved by all residents of the Yaroslavl region, and Mizulina became deputy chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and Judicial and Legal Issues.

"Apple"

In 1995, a sharp turn in her life took place. Realizing the futility of the Communist Party during this period, Mizulina joined the party of absolutely leftist views - “Yabloko”, which at that time was already represented in the State Duma by its own faction.

Perhaps such a drastic change was associated with changes in life and political views, but, according to observers, this is just another convenient way to get into power. Elena Mizulina, whose biography will continue to contain similar actions, showed that she does not strive to affirm someone else’s ideals, but to formulate her own.

As a member of this party, in 1995 she became a deputy of the State Duma of the 2nd convocation. Already at this time, Mizulina sometimes began to make very radical calls. So, she was one of those who wanted to arrange impeachment proceedings against President Boris Yeltsin, dealt with legal issues, the materials of the commission’s conclusion totaled more than 40 volumes.

In addition to legislative activities, Elena Mizulina has been a member of the OSCE Human Rights Committee since 1994. She repeatedly participates in all meetings and campaign events of Yabloko. And in 1999 she was re-elected to the State Duma of the 3rd convocation from the same party. However, the ambitions of State Duma deputy Elena Mizulina went beyond the not very popular center-left party, and two years later Elena Borisovna announced her decision not to confirm her membership in Yabloko, later saying that she was ashamed to be in a party that gains a small percentage in elections. Her former comrades responded to this by calling Mizulina a follower of fashion trends.

"Union of Right Forces" and "A Just Russia"

She decided to continue her career in the young liberal party “Union of Right Forces,” whose founders included Boris Nemtsov, Irina Khakamada and Sergei Kiriyenko. But the Union of Right Forces failed to overcome the required threshold of votes; they failed in the elections, which did not prevent Mizulina from receiving an invitation to work in the Constitutional Court. In this position, she was remembered for challenging the legality of abolishing direct elections for regional governors. In 2005, Elena Borisovna completed her studies at the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of Russia.

The next party that became dear to Mizulina was A Just Russia. The elections turned out to be more or less successful for SR. And again Elena Mizulina is a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

A significant event was the nomination of her candidacy for the post of chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children. This work becomes her life’s work, and much of her legislative activity is connected precisely with this area of ​​social problems.

Legislative activity

Deputy Elena Mizulina and her work in the State Duma received mixed reviews among colleagues and the rest of Russian society. Many call her manner of actions only a personal PR tool to advance her political career. Indeed, its decisions and calls are sometimes quite radical.

The general public started talking about it in 2012, when the Duma adopted a number of regulations: “On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development,” the so-called Internet censorship law. Elena Mizulina took an active part in the development of ideas and their further promotion. The bills gave law enforcement agencies the right to block and close websites with questionable content without trial.

This initiative was harshly received by human rights activists and active Internet users. Someone considered it a weapon to combat unwanted people and organizations, some accused the famous deputy of infringing on freedom of speech, to which Elena Mizulina reacted ambiguously, declaring these defenders accomplices of pedophilia.

She often spoke negatively about surrogacy, and although she did not insist on the adoption of a banning law, she argued that the promotion of this method of procreation in Russia was not necessary.

In her position as chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, Elena Mizulina proposed tightening the rules for abortion for medical institutions. In particular, she sought the exclusion of this service from the insurance policy, and mandatory fines for violators. The bill has not yet been adopted.

In 2012, Mizulina advocated a ban on adoption for American citizens; the law was later approved. And in 2016, the government supported Elena Borisovna’s initiative to close all baby boxes in the country. The deputy’s main argument was the assumption that this service will only provoke careless mothers to abandon their children to their fate.

One of her latest projects to replace criminal punishment for domestic beatings with an administrative fine caused even more discussion. A real war against innovations broke out on the Internet; the deputy was accused of officially calling for the beating of women.

Public position

As mentioned above, for Mizulina, the priority was not the calls and slogans of her party, but her own opinion. Therefore, her words and actions more than once caused discontent among her colleagues in the State Duma. But that never stopped her from continuing to speak her mind openly.

Everyone knows the attitude of State Duma deputy Elena Mizulina to issues of family and marriage. She zealously fights for the purity and high morality of human relations. She completely denies the practice of surrogacy, prohibits abortion, calls for the birth of three or more children in a family, and introduces a tax on divorce; all her ideas were recorded in the draft “Concepts of State Family Policy until 2025.”

Mizulina is known for her active struggle against the propaganda of homosexuality in Russia. She is the author of a number of bills prohibiting such families from raising children, even their own. From the podium and from TV screens, Elena Borisovna often makes direct claims and insults against the LGBT community.

One of the most bright statements, belonging to Mizulina, is an accusation of some political figures opposing her of belonging to the “pedophile lobby”

Scandals

This is State Duma deputy Elena Mizulina: her work, public position and personal life have long been helpfully taken out by the means mass media to a public court. There are not many female politicians in Russia, and even fewer who are so often at the center of scandals.

All her initiatives often border on radical measures and cause a wave of public discontent. Thus, after the adoption of the bill on Internet censorship, a number of Russian sites (including Wikipedia) went on strike, and Mizulina succinctly spoke out against them, calling the project leaders adherents of the “pedophile lobby.”

In 2013, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation considered the appeal of Elena Mizulina on charges of a number of people supporting the LGBT community in Russia, who, according to the deputy, publicly insulted her. That same year, she and members of her delegation were attacked by advocates of sexual minorities, although the latter never acknowledged this fact.

Criticism

Mizulina is criticized for almost unlawful interference in personal life citizens, political scientists note the subjectivity of her statements: what she doesn’t like is not suitable for the state. Moreover, its initiatives are categorically denied abroad. Elena Borisovna has more than once become the object of harsh criticism from foreign journalists and cultural figures. Thus, the English choreographer Ben Wright refused to cooperate with the Russian side precisely because of the homophobic statements of the deputy, and even called on the sports community to boycott the 2016 Sochi Olympics.

For my political career in 2014, Elena Mizulina became one of those on whom sanctions were imposed by the US and European governments. Later, Switzerland, Canada and Australia joined the countries that prohibit entry into their territory.

Elena Mizulina, whose photos on the Internet are often subject to satirical manipulations and mocking collages are created, is completely calm about all this activity around her. One could even say that public opinion does not influence her political decision-making at all.

Personal life

Her husband, Mikhail Yuryevich, was next to his wife all his life; it was he who actively helped her at the very beginning of her political activity. He devoted himself to scientific work and became a candidate of philosophical sciences and an associate professor of the department of political science at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

The son of Elena Mizulina also built a successful career. After graduating from MGIMO, he went to Europe and now works as a lawyer in a well-known firm. At one time, the media published information about her son’s belonging to LGBT advocates, which infuriated journalists, because Mizulina herself is an ardent supporter of any gay propaganda. Her daughter also does not follow her mother’s precepts and has been living alone for a long time, without children.

The scandalous deputy’s well-known hobby is breeding exotic cats; more than 20 years ago, a scandal was even associated with this fact, when an aspiring politician demanded an increase in her own living space for a more comfortable stay for her pets.

It is very difficult to evaluate the activities of such an amazing character as Elena Mizulina. Some of her initiatives are very controversial; much of her manner of submitting bills is similar to communist methods and is subjective. However, the main ideas are not without meaning and call for the protection of the rights of women and children.