Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Yelena Mizulina" in English language version.
The answer: Yelena Mizulina, the parliamentarian who proposed the law back in July. "Battery carried out toward family members should be an administrative offense," she said at the time, adding, "You don't want people to be imprisoned for two years and labeled a criminal for the rest of their lives for a slap." This came after an amendment in June that made domestic violence in the home criminal, and therefore equal to hooliganism and hate crimes. Mizulina, also the sponsor of the "gay propaganda" law that renders it illegal to spread material equating gay and straight relationships or on gay rights, as well as the head of the Duma Committee on Family, Women, and Children's Affairs, felt that this amendment was "anti-family."
