Yelena Mizulina: " if today we want to resolve the demographic crisis, we need to, excuse me, tighten the belt on certain moral values and information, so that giving birth and raising children become fully valued "

Yelena Mizulina

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Yelena Mizulina 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 pro-democratic Yabloko andUnion of Right Forces parties and is currently representing the region of Omsk in theDuma as a representative of the pro-government 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.

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• 1 Biography
  • 1.1 Yaroslavl
  • 1.2 Member of Yabloko
  • 1.3 Member in Union of Right Forces
  • 1.4 Membership in A Just Russia
• 2 Legislative work
• 3 Views on marriage, family and sexual relations
  • 3.1 Position on abortion
  • 3.2 Position on family and marriage
  • 3.3 Position on LGBT
  • 3.4 Accusation of political opponents of belonging to a "pedophile lobby"
• 4 Scandals
• 5 Criticism
• 6 Personal life
• 7 References