Panina Elena Vladimirovna: biography, political activity

State Duma deputy Elena Panina, whose biography is inseparably linked with political activities, successfully heads the Moscow Confederation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs for several years.

Stages of the life journey

The birthplace of the future politician is the Smolensk region. She was born on 29.04.1948 in the small town of Roslavl.

After graduating from school, Elena became a student of the Moscow Financial Institute, graduating diploma which she received in 1970.

As a young specialist, she came to work in the Control and Revision Office of the Ministry of Finance. Since 1975, she began to work in the construction complex of the capital.

Since 1978, she was appointed deputy general director for 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 social and 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 up the post of Director General of the Directorate for New Forms of Cooperation in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Soviet Union.

The beginning of the nineties

Since November 1991, Panin was placed at the head of the Center for International Business Projects. In 1995 she put forward her candidacy for the elections to the State Duma. After the election, Panina Elena Vladimirovna joined the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation, which dealt with the problems of the Federation and the 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.

During the same period, Elena Panina took up vice-presidential positions in the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, as well as in the Russian Union of Producers.

Return to the deputy seat

In June 1997 Panina won a victory in the by-elections to the State Duma in the Pavlovsky single-mandate electoral district No. 76. These additional elections in the Voronezh region were organized due to the fact that Alexander Merkulov, a deputy of the State Duma elected in this district in late 1995, was employed by the Voronezh regional administration.

Panin in this election was supported by the Russian Zemstvo movement and the People's Patriotic Union of Russia. She managed to collect about 140 thousand votes, while for the candidate who was in the second place, a little more than 28 thousand votes were given.

In the State Duma, Panina joined the parliamentary group "People's Power" headed by Nikolai Ryzhkov.

In the autumn of 1999, she, Stepan Sulakshin and Gennady Raikov created a group called "People's Deputy", in which independent non-party deputies from different regions joined together.

Political activities in the 2000s

In the spring of 2000 Panina led a delegation of the Zemsky movement at the time of the visit to the Chechen Republic. The delegation delivered several tons of humanitarian aid to the liberated Grozny, including food, textbooks, threads, etc. A number of meetings were held with urban and rural residents, as well as representatives of army units.

In the summer of 2002 Panina took over the post of chairman of the Russian United Industrial Corporation. This industrial party was established in 1995. Until 1997 V. Shcherbakov directed it, then he was replaced by Arthur Chilingarov. Since 2000, Yu. Sakharnov was at the head of the party.

In December 2003, Panina again won the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, holding her candidacy in the Lublin single-mandate constituency No. 195 in Moscow. In the Duma from the faction of "United Russia" she joined the Committee, responsible for economic policy, business and tourism, where she took the post of deputy chairman.

At the next parliamentary election campaign in December 2007, she went to the RF deputies 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 deputy's salary was waiting for Panin even after the elections to the Russian parliament in December 2011.

In the State Duma of the IV convocation, she joined the Committee, which was in charge of economic policy, innovative development and entrepreneurship.

During the same period, she took up the chairmanship of the Expert Council, which examines antimonopoly, price and tariff policies.

As deputy chairman, she joined the Duma Commission, which oversees the construction of buildings for the Parliamentary Center.

Later, she became a leader in the factional group of the Duma faction of United Russia. She was nominated to the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Eurasian Economic Community for the post of Chairman in the permanent delegation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

She also acted as the coordinator of a group of deputies, who is in contact with Slovenian parliamentarians.

Achievements and awards

The salary of the deputy was not the only source of income for Panina. Its activity is rather multifaceted.

From her pen came publications relating to various aspects of economic development, state building, social and labor relations and the formation of public civil institutions.

In 2008, Panina was awarded the Order of Friendship. She is also awarded several medals.

In 2002 she received the National Award "Olimpia", which is celebrated for Russian women who received public recognition.

From the day of creation in 1993 and until 2004, Panina served as the chairman of the Russian Zemsky 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 a new Russian Constitution was being drafted. Elena Vladimirovna upheld the principle of equality of all federal subjects. In local self-government, she was a supporter of the principles inherent in the Zemsky Reform, conducted by Alexander II.

At that time, the system of local Soviets was destroyed, Panina was the initiator of the organization of the socio-political structure called the "Russian Zemsky movement."

3.11.1993 passed the constituent congress of this association, it was officially registered on 8.12.1993.

The main task 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 for the revival of spirituality and morality in Russian society, the restoration of traditional Russian local and centralized management, and participation in the development of decisions of powerful state bodies and local structures.

The founders 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 Writers 'Foundation of Slavs, the chairman of the Russian Writers' Union VN Ganichev, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Cyril (now - His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia), Belgorod Governor Savchenko ES and many others.

Results of Zemsky movement activities

Active joint activities carried out by the Russian Zemstvo movement and the Union of Russian Cities led to a broad discussion in the state about ways to implement the principles of local self-government.

In the spring of 1995, to study these problems, the All-Russian Conference was held, where methods for implementing the constitutional provision on local self-government and organization of state power in each constituent entity of the Russian Federation were considered. Somewhat later, the adoption of the Federal Law No. 154, where general principles for the implementation of local self-government in our country were prescribed. This law was in effect until 2009.

In the spring of 2014, the Russian Zemsky movement took part in the All-Russian scientific conference held in the capital of our state, dedicated to the Russian zemstvos of the late nineteenth century - the beginning of the twentieth and its comparison with modern local self-government.

The conference was timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Second Emperor Alexander the Great Zemstvo reform.