The phrase "woman in politics" has long ceased to cause bewilderment. In the modern world, not only great men are concerned about the fate of people, but also emancipated ladies. They believe that the fate of a woman is not only in the birth of children and household chores, and, along with men, actively participate in the political life of their homeland.
Position in society
Elena Mizulina is a prominent representative of Russia's female political elite. They talk about it quite a lot and very diversely. Her position causes both approval, and irony, and obvious condemnation. However, this woman is trying with all her might to legitimize universal human values, which, in the light of the latest world trends, are turned upside down. Mizulina Elena Borisovna is a member of the United Russia party. She is the chairman of the Committee on Family, Women and Children of the State Duma.
The power of a woman politician is to consider problems and introduce bills on the topic of the family. Her latest author's and co-author's bills and initiatives have caused considerable public outcry. Amongthey can be called an active fight against obscenities on the net, gay propaganda, family divorces and the adoption of Russian orphans by foreign parents.
She dreamed of becoming a politician since childhood
Mizulina Elena Borisovna was born on December 9, 1954. The birthplace of the famous political figure 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, led the department of the district committee of the CPSU. The political style of the father in many ways left its mark 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, the dreams were not destined to come true, and by the will of fate 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 their fourth year of study, a couple of young lawyers were legally married.
The beginning of a political career
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 the native walls of the university. In the same year, Elena Borisovna received a position as a consultant to the regional court in the city of Yaroslavl, continuing her correspondence studies at Kazan State University as a graduate student. Some time later, in 1983, her thesis was defended. As a result, Elena Mizulina became a candidate of legal sciences, received a promotion and was appointed seniorconsultant.
After working in the Yaroslavl Regional Court for 8 years, she moved to serve as an assistant at the State Pedagogical Institute named after KD Ushinsky in the same city. Already in 1987, Mizulina began to lead the department of national history. She held this position until 1990, being a member of the CPSU.
Dissertation defense and career growth
In 1992, Elena Mizulina defended her doctoral thesis at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The theme of her work - "Criminal process: 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 entered the 1st composition of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Russia's Choice bloc. She was a member of the Committee, which considered constitutional legislation, as well as judicial and legal issues, as deputy chairman. Mizulina also joined the Commission on Rules and Procedures of Parliament.
Change in political career
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 "Equilibrium" in Yaroslavl.
Since December 1995, Elena Mizulina has been a deputy of the State Duma of the 2nd convocation from the Yabloko faction, representing the interests of the Kirov District. In connection with these circumstances, from membership in the CouncilFederation she had to refuse. As part of the State Duma of the 2nd convocation, she began to chair the Committee on Legislation and Reforms in the Judicial-Legal Sphere. She also served on the subcommittee dealing with issues of state building, as well as the constitutional rights of citizens in the position of deputy 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 3rd convocation from the Yabloko party. July 2000 was 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.
Leaving Apple
In early 2001, Elena Mizulina made an official statement that she was leaving Yabloko. The deputy motivated her actions by personal discomfort over the fact that the party in which she is a member is gaining no more than five percent of the vote in the elections. Former colleagues at Yabloko rated her act as a race for political trends.
A new round in political career
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 - the 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 actingduties of the Deputy Head of the Department of the State Duma Apparatus. The eventful year 2005 was also marked for Mizulina by the successful completion of the Russian Academy of Public Administration, founded under the President of the Russian Federation.
Membership in A Just Russia
Two years later, in 2007, State Duma deputy Elena Mizulina was elected a member of the political organization A Just Russia. January 2008 was designated for Elena Borisovna a new position - in the State Duma Committee on Family Affairs, 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, being a member of the Just Russia party. She became the head of the State Duma Committee in the field of family.
In October 2013, at a regular meeting of A Just Russia, Mizulina announced that she was refusing membership in the Central Council of the party.
A well-known political scientist Alexander Kynev noted that by her actions Elena Borisovna undermines the image of the party in the eyes of city voters.
Her famous bills
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. In public circles, it received the trivial name of the "blacklist law" andInternet censorship law. Elena Borisovna is also directly related to another project, which is often confused with the above. This is a project “On protecting children from information that is harmful to their he alth and development.”
Elena Mizulina, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, in July 2012 publicly stated that it was necessary to check whether the strike of the Russian Wikipedia was against the positions bill No. 139-F3 "pedophile lobby". This phrase becomes a persistent expression and is the hallmark of a woman politician. Some public figures and journalists claim that Elena Borisovna rewards all persons who are personally objectionable to her with this label.
In November 2012, she made a public conclusion: the 139-F3 project achieved its preventive goal. With the help of it, a secure information space is organized. Elena Mizulina also 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 opposed the position of the "black list" was rublacklist.net. The founders of this website were the Pirate Party of Russia.
A year later, Elena Mizulina suggested 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 constitutionally the Russian Federation is proclaimed a secular state.
Attitudes towards abortion
Elena Mizulina spoke out with a demand to limit free abortions. She offers to let the womanperform free artificial termination of pregnancy only for serious medical reasons or as a result of rape.
Under other circumstances, abortions should be paid. It was also proposed to introduce the following points into this bill:
- Prohibition of abortions in private clinics.
- Sale of abortion-inducing drugs by prescription only.
- Mandatory spouse consent to an abortion if the woman is married.
- Indispensable parental permission to terminate a pregnancy for a girl who has not reached the age of majority.
Another interesting bill on abortion was proposed by Elena Mizulina. The State Duma considered an amendment to the Code of Administrative Offenses on a fine imposed on a medical institution that does not provide a woman with time to think before performing appropriate medical procedures. The amount of this monetary compensation was proposed in the form of 1 million rubles. Mizulina pointed out that it is worth levying a fine on the women themselves, who ignore the doctor's suggestion that they have the opportunity to reconsider their decision to have an abortion. The fine for them is 3000-5000 rubles.
Family and Marriage Bills
Elena Borisovna speaks quite harshly about the 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 to ban such American guardianship onthe level of the law. In June 2013, the politician presented a project called "Concepts of the state family policy until 2025". It contains the following provisions:
- Introduction of additional tax for divorced families.
- Condemning the birth of illegitimate children.
- Additional restrictions on abortions.
- Sharp condemnation of homosexuality.
- Proposal to strengthen the role of the church in the discussion and adoption of family laws.
- Increase the number of multigenerational families.
- Promotion of large families.
- A fixed amount of child support, regardless of whether the parent has a source of income.
This bill was intended to strengthen the institution of the family in the Russian Federation.
Her opinion on LGBT
Mizulina is known in political and public circles as an ardent opponent of same-sex marriage and has the opinion that the phrase "Gays are people too" contains a hidden extremist meaning. She advocates for the removal of children from same-sex families.
However, in 2013, the famous publicist Alfred Koch wrote in his article that the son of Elena Mizulina, who lives in Belgium, works in a fairly large law firm, Mayer Brown. This firm actively advocates for 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 announced Koch as a representative of the notorious "pedophile lobby".
Does society need surrogacy?
In November 2013 Mizulinaspoke out about the need to ban surrogate motherhood at the state level, considering it an unnatural phenomenon. In addition, Elena Borisovna added that it is necessary to form in every possible way in society a negative attitude towards this way of giving birth to a child.
Quite often Mizulina is criticized. Evil tongues are ironic about her active initiatives, and political scientists accuse her of being too frank intrusion into the privacy of citizens and influencing the freedom of choice of people. It is possible that there is some excess in Elena Borisovna's bills, but it is impossible to accuse this woman of indifference to the life of her people.
