Ekaterina Mizulina was born in 1984 in Yaroslavl. In 2004, she graduated from the
School of Oriental and African Studies at the
University of London with a degree in art history and Indonesian language, and in 2010 from the
Institute of Asian and African Countries. Even before this, she began working as a Chinese translator as part of official Russian delegations in China. Since 2015, she has worked in the field of charity (in particular, at the St. Basil the Great Foundation). In 2017, she was appointed director of the Association of Internet Industry Market Participants Safe Internet League, in 2018 executive director of the National Monitoring Center for Assistance to Missing and Victimized Children. Coordinates a program to train volunteers involved in the search for missing children. In her activities, Mizulina advocates for
censorship on the Internet, for fines and other sanctions against media and social networks that do not comply with Russian legislation.
Sanctions On January 29, 2024, Mizulina was included in the sanctions list of 27
EU countries for
human rights violations and serious and systematic violations of freedom of expression. == Personal life ==