State Duma deputy Elena Panina, whose biography is inextricably linked with political activity, has successfully led the Moscow Confederation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs for several years.
Life Stages
The birthplace of the future politician is the Smolensk region. She was born on 04/29/1948 in the small town of Roslavl.
After leaving school, Panina Elena became a student at the Moscow Financial Institute, whose graduation diploma was awarded to her in 1970.
As a young specialist, she came to work in the Audit Office of the Ministry of Finance. Since 1975, she began working in the construction complex of the capital.
Since 1978, she was appointed to the post of deputy general director of a large Moscow association of reinforced concrete industry.
Since 1986, she was elected to the post of secretary for industry in the Lublin District Committee of the CPSU, twice she was elected to the district council.
Since 1988, deputy Panina Elena has moved to work as a leader in the socio-economic department of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU. Its functions included the coordination of Moscow industry, the Ministry of Finance and many other ministries.
Since July 1991, Panina Elena Vladimirovna took the post of Director General of the Directorate for New Forms of Cooperation at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Soviet Union.
Early nineties
Since November 1991, Panin was placed at the head of the Center for International Business Projects. In 1995, she nominated for the State Duma elections. After the election of Panin, Elena Vladimirovna joined the State Duma Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, which dealt with the problems of the Federation and regions. She was also nominated to the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS countries.
In 1992, Panina was headed by the Moscow Confederation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
A year later, she was entrusted with the leadership of the Russian Zemstvo Movement.
In the same period, Panina Elena took vice-presidency in the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, as well as in the Russian Union of Manufacturers.
Return to the deputy chair
In June 1997, Panina won the by-election at the State Duma in Pavlovsky single-mandate constituency No. 76. These additional elections in the Voronezh region were organized due to the fact that the deputy of the State Duma Alexander Merkulov elected in this constituency at the end of 1995 was hired by the Voronezh regional administration.
Panin in these elections was supported by the Russian Zemstvo movement and the People's Patriotic Union of Russia. She managed to get about 140 thousand votes, while a little more than 28 thousand votes were cast for the candidate who came in second.
In the State Duma, Panina joined the parliamentary group "Democracy", led by Nikolai Ryzhkov.
In the fall of 1999, she, Stepan Sulakshin and Gennady Raikov created the People's Deputy group, which united independent non-partisan deputies representing various regions.
Political Activities in the 2000s
In the spring of 2000, Panina headed the delegation of the Zemsky movement at the time of the visit to the Chechen Republic. The delegation delivered several tons of humanitarian aid to freed Grozny, including food, textbooks, threads, etc. A series of meetings were held with city and rural residents, as well as representatives of army units.
In the summer of 2002, Panina took over as chairman of the Russian United Industrial Party. This industrial batch has been established since 1995. Until 1997, V. Shcherbakov led it, then it was replaced by Arthur Chilingarov. Since 2000, the party was headed by Yu. Sakharnov.
In December 2003, Panina again won the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, having run for the Lublin single-mandate constituency No. 195 of the city of Moscow. In the Duma, from the United Russia faction, she joined the Committee in charge of economic policy, entrepreneurship, and tourism, where she took the post of deputy chairman.
At the next parliamentary election campaign in December 2007, she went to the deputies of the Russian Federation on the federal candidate list from United Russia. She was also nominated to the Presidium of the General Council of this political party.
Parliamentary work
The salary of the deputy was also awaiting Panin after the elections to the Russian parliament in December 2011.
In the State Duma of the fourth convocation, she entered the Committee, which was in charge of economic policy, innovative development and entrepreneurship.
In the same period, she took the chair of the Expert Council, which studies antitrust, pricing and tariff policies.
As deputy chairman, she joined the Duma Commission, which oversees the construction of buildings for the Parliamentary Center.
Later, she became the leader in the intra-factional group of the Duma faction of United Russia. She was nominated to the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Eurasian Economic Community for Chairperson in the Permanent Delegation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
She also acted as the coordinator of the group of deputies, who liaises with the parliamentarians of Slovenia.
Achievements and rewards
The salary of the deputy was not Panina's sole source of income. Her activities are quite multifaceted.
From her pen came publications relating to various aspects of economic development, state building, social and labor relations and the formation of public civic institutions.
In 2008, Panina was awarded the Order of Friendship. She is also awarded a number of medals.
In 2002, she received the Olympia National Prize, which celebrates Russian women who have received public recognition.
From the day of its foundation in 1993 to 2004, Panina served as chairman of the Russian Zemstvo movement. Later, she headed the Council of this movement, engaged in projects related to charity and education.
Zemsky movement
In 1993, Panina took part in the Constitutional Conference, where a draft of the new Russian Constitution was being developed. Elena Vladimirovna defended the principle of equality of all federal entities. In local government, she was a supporter of the principles inherent in Zemsky reform, carried out by Alexander the Second.
At that time, the system of local Soviets was destroyed. Panina was the initiator of the organization of a socio-political structure called the "Russian Zemstvo Movement".
The constituent congress of this association was held on November 3, 1993; it was officially registered on December 8, 1993.
The main objective of the movement was the revival of the zemstvo as a system of local self-government. The charter consisted of the following basic requirements: the need to revive spirituality and morality in Russian society, restore traditional Russian local and centralized governance, and participate in the development of decisions of government bodies and local structures.
The creators of the Zemstvo movement were also well-known public and political figures in the country. Among them, one could meet the famous sculptor V. Klykov, who headed the International Slavic Writing Fund, the chairman of the Russian Union of Writers V. N. Ganichev, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensky and Kaliningrad (currently His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia), Belgorod Governor Savchenko E. S. and many others.
