relative of Nina Panova, or to her long-time business partners Mikhail Markevich, Andrei Mironov and Eduard Nikitin. Legislative work Animal Bills In 2013, the secretary of the local branch of "United Russia" and deputy chairman of the Legislative Assembly, Alexander Tabachnikov instructed Panov to engage in the development of local zoo protection legislation. As a result, in 2015, the deputies adopted in the second final reading the law "On Neglected Animals" developed by Panov, which provided for the replacement of traditional irretrievable catch [] by an innovative OVSV method according to the Indian pattern: after sterilization dogs were released on the streets of Nizhny Novgorod for free living. The implementation of this method in practice caused a number of conflict situations related to the attack of sterilized dogs on citizens and the repeated occurrence of foci of rabies in the city in 2016. References 1975 births Living people Mayors of Nizhny Novgorod United Russia politicians Seventh convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)