Back يايلينا ميزولينا ARZ Jelena Mizulinová Czech Jelena Borissowna Misulina German Jelena Mizulina Finnish Elena Mizoulina French Ելենա Միզուլինա HY Yelena Mizulina ID ელენე მიზულინა KA Мизулина, Елена Борисовна Russian Yelena Mizulina SIMPLE
Yelena Mizulina | |
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Елена Мизулина | |
 Mizulina in 2016 | |
| Russian Federation Senator from Omsk Oblast | |
| Assumed office 23 September 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Igor Zuga |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Yevstifeyev |
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| Born | December 9, 1954 Buy, Kostroma Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Spouse | Mikhail Mizulin |
| Children | 2 |
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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 Russia's annexation of Crimea she was sanctioned by Canada and the United States on March 17, 2014.[3]
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- ^ 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.