Yelena Mizulina
| Yelena Borisovna Mizulina | |
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Yelena Mizulina in 2012
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| Born |
December 9, 1954 Bui, Kostroma Oblast, RSFSR, USSR |
| Citizenship |
 Soviet Union Russia
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| Education |
Yaroslavl State University Kazan State University The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration |
| Occupation | Politician, lawyer, professor |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Spouse(s) | Mikhail Mizulin |
| Children | Nikolay Mizulin, Ekaterina Mizulina |
Yelena Borisovna Mizulina (Russian: Елена Борисовна Мизулина) is a Russian politician serving as a member of the Russian Parliament between 1995 and 2003 and again since 2007. Since 2012, she has been the center of attention in regard to a set of controversial laws concerning the rights of the LGBT community in Russia and the adoption of Russian orphan children by foreigners. She is currently Chairman of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs. 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 is currently representing the region of Omsk in the Duma as a representative of the social democraticA 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.
Yelena Borisovna Mizulina was born on December 9, 1954, in the city of Buy in Kostroma Oblast, Soviet Union. In 1972 she began studying at the Faculty of Law and History of the Yaroslavl State University where she first met her future husband Mikhail Mizulin. They were married after their fourth year as undergraduates at university. She graduated in 1977 with a law degree and worked as a research assistant of the same university.
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