SIMFEROPOL, 18 Sep. Natalya Poklonskaya, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, said that there is no common sense in the appeal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine not to recognize the legitimacy of the new convocation of the State Duma of the Russian Federation because of Crimea. image of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, as well as to increase pressure on Russia and expand sanctions. «The calls of the Ukrainian authorities not to recognize the State Duma of the new convocation are an excuse for the crimes of their predecessors in 2014 on the collapse and sale of Ukraine and have no common sense,» Poklonskaya told RIA Novosti. In her opinion, the Kiev authorities, before making such statements, should return to the events of 2013-2014 in their own country, as a result of which the constitutional order was illegally changed and a number of criminal political decisions were adopted.
Volodin responded to Kuleba's threats «to spoil the life of Poklonskaya.» Voting in the Duma and other elections on a single voting day takes place this year from 17 to 19 September. The State Duma is elected for a five-year term under a mixed electoral system: 225 deputies are elected from party lists, another 225 — from single-mandate constituencies in one round.
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