The Communist Party decided to transfer the mandate of Valery Rashkin to Anastasia Udaltsova, the wife of the coordinator of the «Left Front» Sergei Udaltsov. Party leader Gennady Zyuganov told Interfax about this.
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Udaltsova took part in last year's elections to the State Duma in the single-mandate Nagatinsky district of Moscow as a candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, but did not enter the lower houses of parliament due to the results of electronic voting. Svetlana Razvorotneva from United Russia was ahead of her by more than 10% of the vote.
Rashkin, on the other hand, became a member of the State Duma of the VIII convocation, but in May of this year he was prematurely deprived of his mandate, since his sentence came into force — three years probation — in the case of illegal hunting for elk (paragraph «a» of part 2 of Article 258 of the Criminal Code). The deputy called the accusations politically motivated, because «the scale of the scandal is not proportional to the severity of the act.»
The husband of Anastasia Udaltsova, a left-wing activist known for the 2011 protests, who was sentenced to four and a half years in a penal colony in 2014 according to » marsh business.» After the activist served his term, the court imposed administrative supervision on him and forbade him to participate in mass events. publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />Rashkin in the State Duma. Deprivation of immunity for killing an elk