Back يايلينا ميزولينا ARZ Jelena Mizulinová Czech Jelena Borissowna Misulina German Elena Mizoulina French Ելենա Միզուլինա Armenian Yelena Mizulina ID ელენე მიზულინა Georgian Мизулина, Елена Борисовна Russian Yelena Mizulina SIMPLE Мізуліна Олена Борисівна Ukrainian
Yelena Borisovna Mizulina | |
|---|---|
 Yelena Mizulina in 2016 | |
| Russian Federation Senator from Omsk Oblast | |
| Assumed office 23 September 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Igor Zuga |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Yevstifeyev |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 9, 1954 Buy, Kostroma Oblast, RSFSR, USSR |
| Citizenship |  Soviet Union Russia |
| Spouse | Mikhail Mizulin |
| Children | Nikolay Mizulin, Ekaterina Mizulina |
| Education | Yaroslavl State University Kazan State University The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration |
| Occupation | Politician, lawyer, professor |
Yelena Borisovna Mizulina (Russian: Елена Борисовна Мизулина, born December 9, 1954) is a Russian politician and lawyer. She 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.
Mizulina came to prominence in 2012 over the drafting of controversial laws concerning the rights of the LGBT community in Russia and the adoption of Russian orphan children by foreigners. She was Chair of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs between 2011 and 2015. She 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[1][2] A Just Russia party.
She holds a doctoral degree in law. She has received distinctions in Russia for her work as a lawyer including the Honoured Lawyer of Russia title.
Due to the Crimean crisis, she was sanctioned by Canada and the United States on March 17, 2014.[3]
- ^ March, Luke (26 September 2011). "Just Russia—From "Second Leg" to "Footnote"?". Russian Analytical Digest (102): 7–10. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2011). "Parties and Elections in Europe: Russia". parties-and-elections.eu. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ Reserved., . All Rights (2014-04-29). "Punishing Putin over Ukraine: Just who are the targets of Canada's Russia sanctions?". canada.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2017-02-09.
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