Elena Mizulina leaves the Just Russia party. She announced this on her Twitter, without explaining the reasons for the decision. Mizulina was a member of the State Duma for 15 years and during this time became a co-author of several high-profile bills that caused a mixed reaction in society. The main ones are in the RBC review

Member of the Federation Council ​Elena Mizulina (Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin/Kommersant)

Elena Mizulina from 1995 to 2015 was a member of four convocations of the State Duma, since September 2015 she represents the Omsk region in the Federation Council. According to data on the website of the State Duma, she was the initiator of the adoption of 142 bills, the first of which was submitted to the lower house of parliament on June 18, 1996, and the last on November 14, 2016.

Until 2001, Mizulina was a member of the Yabloko party, until 2003 - the Union of Right Forces, in 2007 she joined A Just Russia. Mizulina's most striking and conservative proposals came at the time of the last, sixth convocation. During this time, Mizulina signed ten bills, which eventually became laws. Many of the initiatives of Mizulina and the committee on family, women and children, which she headed, provoked violent protests from part of the public.

Register of banned sites

In July 2012, a law was passed restricting children's access to illegal information on the Internet, for the implementation of which a register of prohibited sites was created. Mizulina was one of the authors of the project. According to the law, Roskomnadzor received the right to block pages and sites containing materials with pornographic images of minors, information about methods of committing suicide, places of purchase and methods of making and using drugs. The main criticism of the bill was caused by giving regulators ample opportunity to block content on the Internet.

“I personally think that Wikipedia is a cover, like terrorists. They always, like a human shield, hide behind children or women. This is a cover, since Wikipedia itself is unlikely to be in danger. I use Wikipedia. And, pay attention, only the Russian-language version is closed. Therefore, this is an attempt to blackmail Russian parliamentarians. There is a lobby behind them, and there are very high suspicions that this is a pedophile lobby.” Elena Mizulina, July 2012.

Insulting the feelings of believers

In June 2013, Mizulina's proposed law "On insulting the feelings of believers" was adopted, which introduced criminal liability for insulting the religious feelings of believers - up to three years in prison.

A clergyman during a picket against Article 148 of the Russian Criminal Code. November 2016 (Photo: Roman Pimenov/Interpress/TASS)

Illegal abortions

Mizulina advocated restricting women's rights to abortion. In 2013, she became one of the initiators of the adopted law, which introduced administrative liability for medical workers for carrying out illegal abortions. Among Mizulina's latest proposals on the issue of abortion are their licensing, a ban on the free circulation of abortion drugs, allowing abortions to be performed only in state medical institutions, and removing abortions from the compulsory health insurance system and private clinics.

“We ourselves checked more than once: you call the clinic, you say: “you need to have an abortion at the 15th week without medical indications.” In response - "come, the price is such and such." Elena Mizulina, September 2013

Decriminalization of family beatings

Mizulina was one of the initiators of the decriminalization of family beatings. On January 11, the State Duma approved in the first reading a bill that transfers beatings against close relatives from the category of criminal offenses to administrative offenses in cases where such an offense was committed for the first time. Today, beatings committed outside the family and not resulting in serious bodily harm are punished as an administrative offense, and in relation to “relatives” - immediately under the Criminal Code (Article 116) and up to two years in prison. According to Mizulina, according to the adopted law, the actions of relatives who applied “light educational measures in the form of a slap on a child” are “more socially dangerous than the behavior of an outsider who beat him on the street.”

“Since a criminal case can now be initiated for any reason - an abrasion, a bruise on a child will be a good reason to come to the family with a check and even initiate a criminal case against the parents. All this will result in unpredictable law enforcement practices related to the unjustified removal of children from the family. It will cause irreparable harm family relations". Elena Mizulina, June 2016.

Baby box ban

In June 2016, Mizulina proposed to ban the creation of baby boxes for the anonymous abandonment of children and to punish with a fine of up to 5 million rubles. for violating this rule. The bill was rejected by the government because "suspension of the activities of a legal entity may lead to the inability of citizens to receive medical care, as well as social and educational services for orphans and children left without parental care."

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Conservative, lobbyist, lightning rod

Elena Mizulina may lose the post of senator. But not because of the ridiculous words on the air

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TV channel "Russia 1". Talk show by Vladimir Solovyov dedicated to the tragedy in Kemerovo. An elderly well-dressed lady receives the floor and expresses her condolences to... President Vladimir Putin.

“I would like to express my condolences and support to our leader Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. For him, this is a stab in the back, this is a terrible shock! .. Because what he is doing for Russia today is incredible things, defending Russia on the external arena, carrying out reforms of incredible strength inside ... And suddenly - so mediocre! Behind him! And he has no time to constantly look back at how they finish what he, breaking through the walls, decides. He is our spiritual warrior, strong. But he also needs our support!” the woman says. This is Senator Elena Mizulina.

The statement of the already odious politician caused a flurry of indignation in social networks. The next morning, Sverdlovsk lawyer Roman Lukichev posted on the website Change.org calling on Senator Elena Mizulina to step down as a member of the Federation Council because of her statement regarding the tragedy in Kemerovo.

“Mizulina Elena Borisovna, when discussing the national tragedy, expressed her condolences not to the people who lost their relatives and friends, but to the president. She did not say a word about human grief, about dead children, did not offer anything as help to the victims, did not put forward ideas about preventing this in the future. On the ashes of the dead, on true grief, she praised only one face. It's inhuman, horrible and vile. In pursuit of servility, the desire to curry favor, Elena Borisovna crossed all human boundaries. I think that this is a man without a soul and heart. And such an act of this person is incompatible with the status of a member of the Federation Council, ”Lukichev believes.

For her part, Mizulina wrote on her Facebook page that a piece of broadcast on social networks was cut off and her words of condolence to the Kemerovo residents were not included in it.

Here is what Mizulina said before condoling to the president:

“I would like to express my condolences to the relatives, and first of all to the parents of those whose relatives, friends, adults or small children died in this shopping center. This is their grief. I remember very well when my brother died and my mother was alive, we went to the cemetery, my mother got into a hearse with my brother (her son) and said: “I want to be here alone.” Naturally, as a daughter, I wanted to be near her, she was at an advanced age. But she told me: “Lena, don’t, this is my grief, my mother’s grief.” Indeed, no one can ever make up for this loss. And we must understand this. But what can we do? We can sympathize and ease this test for families, this is a huge test, this is a grief that they will not only have to endure, but carry in their hearts for the rest of their lives. But with our kind participation, not with gossip and provocations, but with a kind, even kind word, a good word, a look, we can alleviate this suffering for them. In addition to words of condolence and support, I would like to turn to the Russians, to the residents of the Kemerovo region and say what is required of you in this situation: do not succumb to provocations, gossip and rumors. Do not discuss these rumors, especially in the presence of those who have suffered. You are making their problem worse. Help investigate these criminal cases. What do you need? We need honest, truthful testimony of eyewitnesses. Those who know, please go and tell us, no matter who, whoever is guilty or suspected in this situation, was Mizulina's preamble before her speech in defense of the president. Users of social networks were not convinced by this: Mizulina was asked why it was impossible to dwell on condolences to the residents.

year 2000. Elena Mizulina is still an oppositionist and liberal, a member of Yabloko Vladimir Fedorenko/RIA Novosti

Elena Mizulina is one of the representatives of the so-called ultra-conservative wing in Russian politics. It was she who became one of the initiators of laws banning gay propaganda in the media and pre-trial blocking of sites that post information about how to make drugs or how to commit suicide. The last law, covered with good intentions, brought the situation to the point of absurdity: the media lost the opportunity to talk, for example, about those who hanged themselves in the police station. Mizulina also managed to lobby for the decriminalization of domestic violence. The senator advocates raising the age limit for those who have sexual relations from 16 to 18 years old, calls for a ban on surrogacy and baby boxes in Russia. However, she is against the introduction of criminal liability for polygamy. Mizulina also advocates the removal of children, including relatives, from same-sex families. Mizulina also had an exotic initiative for a total ban on swearing on the Internet, but the matter has not yet gone further than talk.

To be fair, Elena Mizulina also has good initiatives. Among the latest is an amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure on mandatory video recording of interrogations of minors and the testimony of applicants under “pedophile” articles.

Elena Mizulina in her political biography changed a lot of parties. IN different years she was a member of Yabloko, then SPS, then Just Russia”, while on the same air with Vladimir Solovyov, she called herself part of the “president’s team”. In Yabloko, her former party colleagues recall Mizulina's attachment to personal comfort - for example, to having a company car, an office, an apartment in Moscow.

As an exponent of ultra-conservative views, Mizulina cooperates with a wide variety of lobbying groups in the field of family policy, protection of motherhood, childhood and partly information policy.

Among its partners are the Safe Internet League, anti-juvenile movements like Sergey Kurginyan's All-Russian Parental Resistance, some security officials from Investigative Committee, anti-pedophile movements, separate groups associated with the Russian Orthodox Church, but not with its highest echelon.

The interlocutor, close to the presidential administration, believes that Mizulina went to the Federation Council from the State Duma "on a political pension."

“She never had great influence of her own, but she accumulated merits over a certain time, and these merits during the administration of Vyacheslav Volodin allowed her to get a seat as a senator after leaving the State Duma,” the source says. - It is not a fact, however, that she will keep it, since she is a representative of the executive branch Omsk region in the upper house of parliament, and her former party member, acting governor of the Omsk region, Alexander Burkov, may have his own plans for the senator's seat. She has no merits before the administration of Sergei Kiriyenko, and she has no obligations to her. Putin has never really singled her out. Perhaps she is worried about whether she will retain her place as a senator after the autumn elections of the governor in the Omsk region, so she makes statements that should remind the authorities about her, ”says the source.

Elena Mizulina website

Another source close to the presidential administration notes that, despite the fact that Mizulina has accumulated a number of thematic lobbies around her, her counterparties do not belong to the highest echelon of Russian power and she is not an irreplaceable heavyweight. However, the source notes, it is not customary in the Russian government to meet the needs of society and campaigns demanding resignation - as, for example, the Kemerovo governor Aman Tuleev is unlikely to be dismissed just when people demand it at rallies and in social networks.

Yevgeny Minchenko, head of the International Institute of Political Expertise, says that Mizulina is a hereditary politician (her father headed a department in the district committee of the CPSU), and at the same time an active person who is convenient for promoting various topics.

“You can’t call Mizulina someone’s permanent ally. At the same time, her odiousness does not really interfere with her, by and large, her role is not to influence public opinion, but in advancing hardware circuits. She promotes topics among officials, and not among the population, while officials are not embarrassed by her odiousness. However, I do not think that it is a necessary element of the system. In my opinion, her future senatorship is not indisputable,” Minchenko said.

The head of the Petersburg Politics Foundation, Mikhail Vinogradov, says that, according to his estimates, Mizulina’s influence is not at its peak now, but the campaign against Mizulina, like the fight against Ukrainian pranksters who have thrown information about “hundreds of victims of the fire,” can be used by the authorities to switch public attention from the tragedy itself.

Political autobiography of a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia Mizulina Elena Borisovna

Mizulina Elena Borisovna was born on December 9, 1954 in the town of Bue, Kostroma Region, in the family of an employee. After graduating from high school in 1972, she entered the Faculty of Law of the Yaroslavl State University and in 1977 completed the full course of the named university, having received the qualification of a lawyer. Fluent German language.

From 1977 to 1985 worked as a consultant and then as a senior consultant Yaroslavl Regional Court.

In November 1983 she defended dissertation on the topic: "The nature of supervisory proceedings in criminal proceedings (based on the materials of the Yaroslavl Regional Court)" for the degree of candidate of legal sciences.

In 1985 she went to work at the Yaroslavl State Pedagogical Institute. K.D. Ushinsky. In 1987 - 1992 was head of department Patriotic history Yaroslavl State Pedagogical Institute. K.D. Ushinsky.

In February 1993 she defended dissertation on the topic: "Criminal process: the concept of self-restraint of the state" for a degree Doctor of Law.

December 12, 1993 was elected by the citizens Yaroslavl region Deputy of the Federation Council Federal Assembly Russian Federation. Since January 15, 1994 - Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and Judicial-Legal Issues of the Federation Council.

In 1994, she actively opposed the war in Chechnya, and then became the initiator of the appeal of the Federation Council with a request to Constitutional Court Russian Federation and was representative Council of the Federation during the consideration of this case in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in June 1995.

In 1994, she was in the center of public attention in connection with the passage through the Federation Council of the project of the Federal constitutional law "On the Constitutional Court Russian Federation". She actively spoke out “against” the Law, believing that the norms of this law infringe on the rights and freedoms of citizens and provide unjustified broad powers Constitutional Court in making decisions.

In June 1994 opposed the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 14, 1994 No. 1226 "On urgent measures to protect the population from banditry and other manifestations of organized crime." However, the proposal to challenge this Decree in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation did not receive the required number of votes.

In the same year, she issued a legal opinion and a position on the illegality of the sole actions of the President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin, connected with the dismissal of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Kazannik.

In 1995, she attracted public attention in connection with the passage through the Federation Council of the Law "On the Procedure for Forming the Federation Council." Supported the development elective model of the Federation Council, preventing the combined powers of a member of the Federation Council and the heads of the executive and legislative authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

December 17, 1995 was elected Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in the Kirov (189) constituency (Yaroslavl).

During the election campaign in State Duma Russian Federation of the II convocation in 1995 represented the interests of the All-Russian Public Association "YABLOKO" in Supreme Court Russian Federation.

Since January 22, 1996 - vice-chairman Committee on Legislation and Judicial - Legal Reform, Deputy Subcommittee on State Building and Constitutional Rights of Citizens. Supervises a block of issues related to amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, with the organization, structure of state authorities, protection of the constitutional rights of citizens. Represents the YABLOKO faction of the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the Parliamentary Assembly of Belarus and Russia. Is an Chairman of the Standing Committee on Draft Proposals and Regulations of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia.

Decree of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of 19.06.98. was included in Special Commission of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to assess compliance with the procedure for the correctness and factual validity of the accusation, brought against the President of the Russian Federation. She was the vice-chairman of this commission. She participated in the development of draft conclusions of this commission, directly conducted and designed the materials of the commission's meetings, which include 41 volumes.

Since April 1994, Mizulina Elena Borisovna has been a member of the Committee on Humanitarian Affairs, Democracy and Human Rights OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.

As an initiator and chairman of the Yaroslavl regional public organization "Equilibrium"(since April 1995) took an active part in election campaigns in support of: Governor of the Yaroslavl region A.I. Lisitsyn (December 1995), Chairman of the State Duma of the Yaroslavl Region S.A. Vakhrukov (February 1996), deputies of the State Duma of the Yaroslavl region: Varnikova E.S., Istomina V.V., Shelgunova V.I. (February 1996).

In February 1996, she contacted Yaroslavl Regional Court complaining about the decision Electoral Commission Yaroslavl Region No. 78 dated February 21, 1996, which restricted the right of public campaigning and freedom of political action as a person and a Federal Deputy. On April 2, 1996, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Yaroslavl Regional Court granted my complaint. The decision of the Electoral Commission was declared illegal. Created judicial precedent on the legal and legislative distinction between "deputy" and "official".

Was one of the organizers First Interregional Congress of the Reform Forces of Russia, held on April 22, 1996 in Yaroslavl. 1201 representatives of socio-political organizations and parties from 26 regions of Russia took part.

In April 1997, on behalf of the Yaroslavl regional public organization "Equilibrium" in Moscow, signed " Charter of Women's Solidarity».

As the chairman of the Yaroslavl regional public organization "Equilibrium" took part in the organization deputy club"Thursdays at Rem", a joint Russian-French seminar"Woman and Politics" (March 1999).

In October 1997, she became one of the initiators of the creation of the Yaroslavl regional public organization "Party YABLOKO". Presided over its First Founding Conference.

As a member of the Yaroslavl regional public organization "Party YABLOKO" took part:

• 01/24/98, at the second regional conference of the Yaroslavl regional public organization "Party YABLOKO";
• 05/30/98, in the third regional conference of the Yaroslavl regional public organization "Party YABLOKO". At the conference, she was recommended to the Extraordinary All-Russian Congress of the Yabloko Association as a candidate for deputies in the Kirov constituency No. 189 in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation in December 1999;
• 27 - 29.05.98, in the administrative - political seminar - workshop "The program and actions of political forces in the Yaroslavl region."
• 5-6.12.98, in the fourth regional conference of the Yaroslavl regional public organization "Party YABLOKO". By the decision of the Conference, it was recommended to the 7th All-Russian Congress of the Yabloko Association for inclusion in the central part of the electoral list during the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation in December 1999.

February 4, 1997 Mizulna Elena Borisovna joined the Council of the Yabloko faction State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, in December 1998 she was elected Chairman of the Legal Commission All-Russian socio-political organization "Association" YABLOKO ".

In autumn 1998 she was representative of the State Duma when considering the request of the Saratov Regional Duma in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on constitutionality federal law"On the election of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation". The decision was made in favor of the State Duma. Then she acted as a representative in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation at the request of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on the interpretation of the Constitution of the Russian Federation in the part relating to the possibility of the current President of the Russian Federation to run for a third term. The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation ruled that for the third term the President of the Russian Federation Yeltsin B.N. cannot run.

In January 1999, according to the informal center for political research ("Northern Territory", regional political newspaper 1999, 18.03.) became " number one politician» Yaroslavl region for political professionalism.

In January 1999, according to the Center for Public Opinion Research "Voice of the People" ("Literaturnaya Gazeta", 1999, 17.02) entered the list of 100 influential politicians in Russia (86th position).

On December 19, 1999, she was elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the third convocation on the federal list. Member of the State Duma Committee on Legislation. He heads the commission on state-legal issues and constitutional rights of citizens of the Yabloko faction. Member of the Faction Council.

Our correspondent Oleg Baryshnikov met within the walls of the State Duma with deputy Elena Mizulina and was able to ask her a few questions.

Elena Mizulina in last days is very popular with journalists. This is due to the fact that she is practically the main initiator of the law banning propaganda of homosexuality. This law caused a flurry of indignation because of its vague interpretations and invasion of privacy.

Moreover, it turned out that Mizulina's son, Nikolay, 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 relations. Also, Elena Mizulina suggested that oral sex be attributed to non-traditional sexual relations 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, sorry for being harsh. Bloggers write about you daily and also in a negative way. And you only add fuel to the fire and say that oral sex and the Bible should be banned because of the references to Sodom and Gomorrah ...

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

Corr. Information about this went through all the 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 my expense. Every cricket know your hearth. They have already been warned that if there is no refutation, then I will proceed with the libel case.

Corr. That is, you did not 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, undermine my credibility, that's their the main objective. They turn everything upside down and compromise in the eyes of the people all my legislative initiatives. But I am guided only by concern for the country and people. I have no other motive. And they have. Homosexuality, in addition to being a deviation, is also a business. Very, very profitable. And we block the channels of this vicious business, that's why such hysteria.

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

EAT. Pardon my answer. You do not keep your word, we previously agreed that I would be able to 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 finances organizations of sexual minorities. And many suggested that your son works there for a reason and this situation does not suit you. Hence the activity in this direction.

EAT. Let's still take as a basis what I have already said - all my bills and bills written together with my colleagues have only one goal - to improve the moral and demographic climate in the country. This climate has been seriously affected, the permissiveness and licentiousness that we inherited from the 90s have recently overshadowed 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. And as for Nicholas, it's just nonsense. My son is not gay and never has been. If Kolokoltsev is fighting criminals, is his son a criminal? All these interpretations are invented in order to compromise us, and people like Bakushinskaya and Koch contribute to this, if they are not members of these homo and pedolobbies at all.

Corr. According to your mood, it seems that you will not calm down and you should expect continuation. This is true?

EAT. Now our entire policy is aimed at restoring the pillars that were broken in the 1990s. As for the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations, we have dealt with this so far, this law satisfies us and there is nothing to throw a tantrum about this. So far, no one is going to introduce criminal liability for homosexuality.

Corr. You said "bye". Is this 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 and not a religious book. If some group of people turns to experts about the correspondence of the Bible to Russian legislation, then it will be necessary to conduct such an examination. As the experts decide, so be it. The deputies have nothing to do with it.

Corr. Bible ban?

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. Most recently, you mentioned that there are plans to introduce a tax on divorce. And the next day, Vladimir divorced. Apparently, the planned tax he can not afford. What is the future amount of the divorce tax?

EAT. I think that Vladimir Vladimirovich would have found money for a divorce. As for the specifics, this is only a draft 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 with the fact of a divorce, this marriage cannot be considered unsuccessful.

Corr. Thank you for your time.

The State Duma throughout the entire period of its existence did not enjoy great prestige in Russian society. And from the moment her speaker said that parliament is not a place for discussion, many began to consider domestic lawmakers as participants in some kind of reality show similar to Dom-2.

This attitude is also facilitated by the appearance of a huge number of rather controversial and strange bills, as well as unexpected and shocking statements of deputies.

For mat - state "ban"

From Head of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Elena Mizulina. One of the initiators of the creation of the law on the so-called "black lists of Runet" wants to amend it, which will expand the grounds for blocking websites, as well as blogger accounts in social networks.

As usual, the deputy explained the new initiative by numerous appeals from citizens who are concerned big amount obscene language in Internet publications and social networks, which has a harmful effect on children.

Now, if the new bill is passed, websites, forums and pages in in social networks with obscene posts that are not deleted within a day will be blacklisted and blocked.

Skeptics express doubts about the reality of such a project - the same Roskomnadzor risks drowning in the number of complaints about seditious resources. In addition, innocent citizens may well suffer. Let's say a person went on vacation or simply did not appear on his page for two weeks, and during this time someone just out of hooliganism left an obscene comment on him. Formally, the owner of the page after some time may find that he is blocked as a malicious intruder.

MP from Bui

Interestingly, Elena Mizulina herself, according to her official biography, is a native of the city of Bui in the Kostroma region.

Mizulina began her political career in 1993, being elected from the Yaroslavl region to the first convocation of the Federation Council.

In 1995, Mizulina became a member of the Yabloko party and was elected to the State Duma. After six "apple" years, the deputy remained in the Duma, but already as a member of the Union of Right Forces. In 2003, after the resounding failure of the SPS in the elections, Mizulina became the representative of the State Duma in the Constitutional Court.

In the parliamentary elections of 2007, Elena Mizulina suddenly abruptly changes her political direction - having previously been in the liberal Yabloko and SPS, this time she speaks for the center-left A Just Russia, which positions itself.

The story of the emergence of Elena Mizulina as chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family Affairs, Women and Children is very curious. Initially, in 2008, the Spravorosy proposed for this post Svetlana Goryacheva, however, it caused a strong rejection among the United Russia party. Mizulina was chosen as a compromise, whose tenure in this position continued after 2011.

Mizulina against pedophiles

Wide public interest in the figure of Mizulina appeared in connection with the discussion of the law on the “black lists of Runet”. During a heated discussion between his supporters and opponents, the parliamentarian revealed a “pedophile lobby” among her opponents.

When in July 2012 the Russian Wikipedia announced a one-day strike in protest against the new law, Mizulina announced her intention to apply to the US Department of Justice with a request to check "where such actions and speeches come from." The deputy expressed confidence that Wikipedia was being manipulated by the “pedophile lobby” at that moment.

In August 2012, Mizulina connected the Headhunters organization to the development of the anti-pedophile law. The parliamentarian asked the activists to develop an automated system for tracking pedophiles on the Internet. After the discovery of certain phrases in the correspondence of a person, it was supposed to be taken under strict supervision with the possibility of further involvement of law enforcement agencies.

The topic of the "pedophile lobby" surfaced in an exchange of harsh remarks between Mizulina and Alfred Koch in June 2013. Koch, known for his scandalous speeches, said that. In response, Mizulina noticed that interest in her personal life proves that her opponents simply have no other arguments, and Koch, speaking about her son, may himself be a representative of the “pedophile lobby”. Koch replied that he reserves the right to be a representative of any lobby, even cannibalistic ones.

Mizulina against gays

Elena Mizulina stirred up not only Russia, but also Europe, becoming the initiator of a law banning gay propaganda among minors. However, the bill was passed.

Not limited to the first "anti-gay" law, Mizulina initiated the second, which involves a ban on the adoption of Russian orphans by foreign same-sex couples, as well as citizens of those countries in which same-sex marriages are legalized.

In May 2013, Mizulina got the 2 × 2 channel, which played cartoons for adults all day on May holidays. But the worst thing is that, according to Mizulina, these cartoons contained hidden, unobtrusive propaganda of homosexuality. In what specific cartoons it was contained, the deputy did not specify.

Gay activists responded by lashing out at Mizulina's son, Nikolai, who lives and works in Belgium, where same-sex marriage has been legal for many years. Moreover, Nikolai Mizulin works for the law firm Mayer Brown, which is called one of the largest donors to the European LGBT community.

Deputy Mizulina said in response that in Belgium her son must obey local rules and “be tolerant.”

Mizulina and family values

In the shadow of swearing, gays and pedophiles, the project “Concepts of the state family policy of the Russian Federation for the period until 2025” developed by Mizulina remained. Meanwhile, it contains many interesting moments.

Already in the introductory part, the Russian family is declared neither more nor less than a “small church”. According to the document, only one in which there are three children will be considered a full-fledged family. It is a boon, based on the concept, that three or more generations of a family live under one roof.

Other great ideas include restricting abortions, prescription-only contraceptives, a federal divorce tax, and many, many other such measures.

Another revolutionary moment of the “Concept” is that, according to it, a wedding in a church can become the basis for state registration of marriage. That is, in fact, the registry office, a state institution, is invited to recognize the church document, despite the fact that the church in Russia is officially separated from the state.

In an interview with reporters, Mizulina explained that the emergence of such an initiative is due to the fact that at present there is a tendency for a young man and a girl who want to live together to get married without entering into a legal marriage.

To the great misfortune, corrosive journalists immediately interviewed the priests, who unanimously declared that they had not noticed such a trend. Moreover, the priests are quite satisfied with the current scheme, in which the wedding is carried out after the presentation of a document from the registry office.

Mizulina's communication with journalists in general infuriates the parliamentarian, and she even threatened to appeal to law enforcement agencies because of the "juggling" of her words.

The reason for the dissatisfaction was Mizulina's conversation with journalist of Ren-TV channel Marianna Maksimovskaya, in which the deputy explained what could and could not be shown in connection with the adoption of a law banning propaganda of homosexuality among children and adolescents.

The rather complex and ornate reasoning of Mizulina forced journalists to conclude that from now on, not only homosexual relationships will become seditious, but also, for example, heterosexual. Outraged, Mizulina said that this was not about a ban on oral sex and its other forms, but only about limiting information about it.

However, while Mizulina was explaining that her words were “distorted”, Runet launched into cheerful discussions about how the “new reality” would look like, and even broke out into the song of an unknown author “I call you my Mizulina”.