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 women is not only in the birth of children and household chores, and along with men they are actively involved in the political life of their homeland.
Position in society
A prominent representative of the female political elite of Russia is Elena Mizulina. They talk about it quite a lot and very diverse. Her position provokes approval, and irony, and overt condemnation. However, this woman is trying by all means to legitimize universal values, which, in the light of recent global 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 female politician is to consider problems and introduce bills on the topic of family. Her latest draft and co-sponsored bills and initiatives have caused considerable public outcry. Among them, one can name an active fight against obscene language, 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 politician is the city of Bui, Kostroma region. The girl’s interest in politics developed quite early. The father of Elena Mizulina, Boris Mikhailovich Dmitriev, after the concussion received at the front, led the department of the CPSU district committee. The political style of the father in many respects left an imprint on the professional character of his daughter. While studying at school, Mizulina dreamed about a diplomat’s career and was preparing to enter MGIMO. However, 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 spouse Mikhail Mizulin. In the fourth year of study, a couple of young lawyers were married by law.
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 university’s native walls. In the same year, Elena Borisovna received the post of consultant to the regional court in the city of Yaroslavl, continuing her correspondence studies at Kazan State University as a graduate student. After some time, in 1983, her dissertation was defended. As a result, Elena Mizulina became a candidate of law, was promoted and was appointed senior consultant.
After working for 8 years in the Yaroslavl Regional Court, she went on to serve as an assistant at the K.D.Ushinsky State Pedagogical Institute 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.
Defense of thesis and career growth
In 1992, Elena Mizulina defended her doctoral dissertation at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The theme of her work - “The criminal process: the concept of state self-restraint” - aroused great interest among colleagues. In 1995, Mizulina became a professor at the State University of Yaroslavl.
The political career of Elena Borisovna developed quite rapidly. In 1993, she entered the 1st composition of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the “Choice of Russia” block. She was on the Committee, which considered constitutional legislation, as well as judicial and legal issues, as deputy chairman. Mizulina also entered the Commission on the Rules and Procedures of Parliament.
Political Career Change
In 1995, Mizulina joined the Yabloko faction and the Reforms - New Deal movement. In the same year she was elected the head of the regional public organization "Equilibrium" in Yaroslavl.
Since December 1995, Elena Mizulina has been a deputy of the
State Duma of the second convocation from the Yabloko faction, representing the interests of the Kirov District. In connection with these circumstances, she had to refuse membership in the Federation Council. As part of the State Duma of the second convocation, she began to chair the Committee on Legislation and Reforms in the Judiciary. She also served on the subcommittee on state-building issues, as well as on the constitutional rights of citizens as deputy chairman. In 1999, Mizulina was involved in organizing impeachment against Yeltsin as a legal adviser.
In December 1999, she again became a deputy of the State Duma of the 3rd convocation from the Yabloko party. July 2000 was for Mizulina a new stage in her 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 with personal discomfort over the fact that the party in which she is a member gains no more than five percent of the vote. Former Yabloko colleagues rated her act as a race for political trends.
A new round in his political career
In June 2001, Elena Borisovna joined the Union of Right Forces. In February 2004, her party was defeated in the election, and Mizulina received a new appointment - a representative of the State Duma in the Constitutional Court. In this position, in 2005 she insisted on the abolition of the procedure of direct gubernatorial elections that existed in the Russian Federation. Elena Borisovna combined her position in the Constitutional Court with the post of Acting Deputy Head of the State Duma Administration. 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 Just Russia
Two years later, in 2007, State Duma deputy Elena Mizulina was elected a member of the Just Russia political organization. January 2008 was designated a new position for Elena Borisovna - in the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs as chairman. Her candidacy was nominated 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 as 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 the next meeting of A Just Russia, Mizulina announced that she was refusing membership in the Central Council of the party.
The famous political scientist Alexander Kynev noted that Elena Borisovna undermined the party’s image in the eyes of urban voters with her actions.
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. It has received in public circles the trivial name of the "blacklist law" and the "Internet censorship law." Elena Borisovna is also directly related to another project, which is often confused with the above. This is the project "On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development."
Elena Mizulina, State Duma deputy, publicly stated in July 2012 that it was necessary to check whether the strike of the Russian Wikipedia against the position of bill No. 139-F3 was a “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 this label.
In November 2012, she made a public conclusion: Project 139-F3 achieved its preventive goal. With the help of it, a secure information space is organized . Also, Elena Mizulina banned at the state level the viewing of sites with links to Internet pages from the prohibited registry. One of the portals that opposed the blacklist position was rublacklist.net. The founders of this site was a pirate party in Russia.
A year later, Elena Mizulina proposed making part of the preamble to the Constitution of the Russian Federation a phrase that for Russia Orthodoxy is the basis of cultural and national identity. However, the proposal was rejected. The refusal is motivated by the fact that the constitutionally Russian Federation is proclaimed a secular state.
The Abortion Question
Elena Mizulina made a demand to limit free abortion. She suggests allowing a woman to have a free artificial termination of pregnancy only for serious medical reasons or as a result of rape.
In other circumstances, abortion should be paid. It was also proposed to introduce the following points into this bill:
- The prohibition of abortion in private clinics.
- Sale of medications that provoke abortion is by prescription only.
- Mandatory consent of the spouse to an abortion if the woman is married.
- Mandatory parental permission to terminate the pregnancy of a girl under the age of majority.
Another interesting bill on the subject of abortion was proposed by Elena Mizulina. The State Duma has considered an amendment to the Code of Administrative Offenses on a fine imposed on a medical institution, which does not provide a woman with time to think before carrying out appropriate medical manipulations. The amount of this monetary compensation was proposed in the form of 1 million rubles. Mizulina pointed out that it is worth charging a fine from women themselves who ignore the doctor’s offer to reconsider their abortion decision. The size of the fine for them is 3000-5000 rubles.
Family and Marriage Bills
Elena Borisovna speaks rather sharply about the issue of adoption by Russian parents of orphans from Russia. She noted that our state has never defended its interests at the expense of children.
Later, Elena Mizulina proposed to ban such American guardianship at the level of the law. In June 2013, the politician presented a project entitled "Concepts of state family policy until 2025." It contains the following provisions:
- The introduction of an additional tax for divorcing families.
- Condemnation of the birth of illegitimate children.
- Additional restrictions on abortion.
- A harsh condemnation of homosexuality.
- A proposal to strengthen the role of the church in the discussion and adoption of family laws.
- Increase the number of families where many generations of people live.
- Propaganda of large families.
- A fixed amount of alimony, 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 gay marriage and is of the opinion that the phrase “Gays are also people” contains a hidden extremist connotation. She advocates 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 for the rather large law firm Mayer Brown. This firm actively advocates for LGBT rights. A sharp difference in views on the issue of homosexuality between mother and son was ironically noted. In response to this sarcasm, Mizulin announced Koch a representative of the notorious “pedophile lobby”.
Does society need surrogate motherhood?
In November 2013, Mizulina spoke out that it is necessary to ban surrogacy at the state level, considering this an unnatural phenomenon. To all, Elena Borisovna added that it is necessary in every way to form a negative attitude in society towards this way of the birth of a child.
Quite often Mizulin is criticized. Evil tongues are ironic about her active initiatives, and political scientists accuse her of overly frank invasion of the privacy of citizens and of influencing people's freedom of choice. Perhaps the bills of Elena Borisovna show some excess, but blaming this woman for indifference to the life of her people is impossible.