State Duma Deputy Elena Panina, whose biography is inextricably linked with political activity, has been successfully heading the Moscow Confederation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs for several years.
Stages of life's journey
The birthplace of the future politician is the Smolensk region. She was born on 1948-29-04 in the small town of Roslavl.
After graduating from school, Elena Panina became a student at the Moscow Financial Institute, from which she was awarded a diploma in 1970.
As a young specialist, she came to work in the Control and Auditing Department of the Ministry of Finance. Since 1975, she began to work in the construction complex of the capital.
Since 1978, she was appointed to the position of deputy general director in a large Moscow association of the reinforced concrete industry.
Since 1986, she was elected to the post of secretary for industry in the Lublin district committee of the CPSU, twice she was elected to the district council.
Since 1988, the deputy Panina Elena moved to work as a head of the socio-economic department of the Moscow city committee of the CPSU. Its functions included coordinating the Moscowindustry, the Ministry of Finance and many other ministries.
Since July 1991, Panina Elena Vladimirovna took up the post of Director General of the Directorate for New Forms of Cooperation at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Soviet Union.
Early nineties
Since November 1991, Panina was put in charge of the Center for International Business Projects. In 1995, she put forward her candidacy for elections to the State Duma. After the election, Panina Elena Vladimirovna entered the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, which de alt with the problems of the Federation and the regions. She was also nominated to the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS countries.
In 1992, Panina headed the Moscow Confederation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
A year later she was entrusted with the leadership of the Russian Zemsky Movement.
During the same period, Panina Elena took vice-presidential positions in the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, as well as in the Russian Union of Commodity Producers.
Return to the deputy seat
In June 1997, Panina won the by-elections to the State Duma in the Pavlovsk single-mandate constituency No. 76. These by-elections in the Voronezh region were organized in connection with the fact that Alexander Merkulov, elected in this district at the end of 1995, was hired by the Voronezh regional administration.
Panin in these elections was supported by the Russian Zemstvo movement and the People's Patriotic Union of Russia. She managed to get about 140 thousand electoral votes, while for the second placea little over 28,000 votes were given to the candidate.
In the State Duma, Panina joined the parliamentary group "People's Power", headed by Nikolai Ryzhkov.
In the fall of 1999, she, Stepan Sulakshin and Gennady Raikov created the "People's Deputy" group, which united independent non-party deputies representing various regions.
Political activity in the 2000s
In the spring of 2000, Panina led a delegation of the Zemsky movement during a visit to the Chechen Republic. The delegation delivered several tons of humanitarian aid to the liberated Grozny, including food, textbooks, threads, etc. A number of meetings were held with urban and rural residents, as well as representatives of army units.
In the summer of 2002, Panina took over as chairman of the Russian United Industrial Party. This industrial party has been established since 1995. Until 1997, it was headed by V. Shcherbakov, then he was replaced by Artur Chilingarov. Since 2000, Yuri Sakharnov has been at the head of the party.
In December 2003, Panina again won the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, having put forward her candidacy in the Lublin single-mandate constituency No. 195 of the city of Moscow. In the Duma, from the United Russia faction, she joined the Committee in charge of economic policy, entrepreneurship and tourism, where she took the post of deputy chairman.
At the next parliamentary election campaign in December 2007, she became a deputy of the Russian Federation on federalcandidate list from United Russia. She was also nominated to the Presidium of the General Council of this political party.
Parliamentary work
The salary of the deputy expected Panin after the elections to the Russian parliament in December 2011.
In the State Duma of the IV convocation, she joined the Committee that was in charge of economic policy, innovative development and entrepreneurship.
During the same period, she took the position of Chairman of the Expert Council, which studies antitrust, price and tariff policies.
As deputy chairman, she joined the Duma Commission in charge of the construction of buildings for the Parliamentary Center.
Later she became the head of the intra-factional group of the Duma faction "United Russia". She was nominated to the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Eurasian Economic Community for the post of Chairman of the permanent delegation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
She also acted as coordinator of a group of deputies liaising with Slovenian parliamentarians.
Achievements and awards
The deputy's salary was not Panina's only source of income. Her activities are quite multifaceted.
She penned publications on various aspects of economic development, state building, social and labor relations and the formation of public civil institutions.
In 2008, Panina was awarded the Order of Friendship. She has also been awarded a number of medals.
In 2002In 2009, she received the National Olympia Award, which honors Russian women who have received public recognition.
From the day of its creation in 1993 until 2004, Panina served as chairman of the Russian Zemstvo movement. Later, she chaired the Movement's Council, which handles projects related to philanthropy and education.
Zemskoe movement
In 1993, Panina took part in the Constitutional Conference, where a draft of the new Russian Constitution was being developed. Elena Vladimirovna defended the principle of equality of all federal subjects. In local self-government, she was a supporter of the principles inherent in the Zemstvo reform carried out by Alexander II.
During that period, the system of local Soviets was destroyed, Panina was the initiator of the organization of a socio-political structure called the "Russian Zemstvo Movement".
3.11.1993 the founding congress of this association was held, it was officially registered on 8.12.1993
The main task of the movement was the revival of Zemstvo as a system of local self-government. The charter consisted of the following main requirements: the need to revive spirituality and morality in Russian society, restore traditional Russian local and centralized government, and participate in the development of decisions by government authorities and local structures.
The creators of the zemstvo movement were also well-known public and political figures in the country. Among them one could meet the famous sculptor Klykov V. M., who headed the International Fund for the Writing of the Slavs, the chairman of the Russian Union of Writers Ganichev V. N., Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad (currently His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia), Belgorod Governor Savchenko E. S. and many more.
Results of Zemstvo movement
Active joint activities carried out by the Russian Zemstvo Movement and the Union of Russian Cities led to a broad discussion in the state about ways to implement the principles of local self-government.
In the spring of 1995, an All-Russian conference was held to study these problems, where methods for implementing the constitutional provision on local self-government and organizing state power in each subject of the Russian Federation were considered. Somewhat later, the adoption of Federal Law No. 154 took place, where the general principles for the implementation of local self-government in our country were spelled out. This law was in effect until 2009
In the spring of 2014, the Russian Zemstvo movement took part in the All-Russian Scientific Conference, held in the capital of our state, dedicated to the Russian Zemstvo of the late nineteenth century - early twentieth century and its comparison with modern local self-government.
The conference was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Great Zemstvo Reform by Emperor Alexander II.
