Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin instructed the head of the Novosibirsk department of the department to check the tweet of the deputy of the city council of deputies Helga Pirogova about the volunteers who died in the war with Ukraine. This is stated on the website of the department.
“Deputies from the Novosibirsk Region have applied to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia with a statement to prosecute Deputy Pirogova in connection with her comment on the social network about the dead Russian servicemen,” the press release emphasizes.
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Pirogova commented on the Mediazona text about the dead volunteers on Twitter. Relatives of the military said that they went to fight for ideological reasons. The mother of one of the victims noted that the district administration arranged a “worthy” funeral: “The soldiers fired, they brought lunch from the military unit, we had 110 people at the dinner! It's just incredible!
Now Pirogova's tweet has been deleted, but Andrey Panferov, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Novosibirsk Region, quoted it in his address to the mayor and the council of deputies: “It's simply inexpressible, I want to revive them all, hit them hard on the cheeks and let them go back to the graves go. And then in vain, or something, they arranged such a luxurious funeral.
Pirogova was elected to the City Council of Deputies in 2020 with the support of the Smart Voting project founded by Alexei Navalny.