Top truant deputies of the State Duma – 2023

The State Duma in early November with a scandal deprived of mandates for deputies’ absenteeism Vasily Vlasov And Vadim Belousov. However, as the Agency’s analysis showed, there are other hard-core shirkers in the lower house of the Russian parliament. Deputies have not participated in any voting since the summer of 2022 Adam Delimkhanov And Evgeniy Marchenko. However, the leadership of the State Duma does not notice these absenteeism.

Evgeniy Marchenko

Details. The Agency’s analysis of data from the State Duma voting system showed that Marchenko and Delimkhanov have not taken part in a single vote in the State Duma since July 2022. The press service of the lower chamber in October explained Marchenko’s absence at the autumn session as due to his vacation. There was no comment from the press service on the situation with Delimkhanov in the Vedomosti material.

Marchenko is known for the fact that a month and a half after the State Duma elections in 2021, his expelled from United Russia (*aggressor country) for voting against the federal budget. Now on parliament website he is called a deputy who is not part of a faction.

Having stopped voting in the State Duma, Marchenko continued to participate in public events. For example, a month after the last vote he Meets with Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Barsanuphius. In February he visited the temple museum in St. Petersburg, where he promised to take away the church building from the Baptists in favor of the Russian Orthodox Church. In July in interview with St. Petersburg “Fashion Radio” he criticized the dependence of the State Duma on the executive branch, announced plans to be elected for a new term and create his own political force.

Marchenko ignored the Agency’s question in the messenger about why he has not voted in the State Duma for more than a year.

Delimkhanov, who has not voted in the State Duma for more than a year, according to the Telegram channel Ramzan Kadyrov, in September 2022 he returned to the war in Ukraine, where he had already been in the spring of the same year. The deputy posted videos from Ukraine on his Telegram channel until January 2023, then he published videos mainly from Chechnya. June 14, 2023 Ukrainian journalist Kirill Sazonov reportedthat Delimkhanov was killed during shelling in the Zaporozhye region. To refute his death, Kadyrov posted several probably old videos and photos.

However, later, clearly relevant videos appeared with the participation of a relative of the head of Chechnya. In November 2023, Delimkhanov attended at least four events with Kadyrov, and also took him son of Adam for awards in Kabardino-Balkaria And Karachay-Cherkessia.

The “Agency” was unable to reach Delimkhanov: using the number that, according to Hemotest leaks, he used in 2022, an unknown man said with an accent: “You have the wrong number.”

I haven’t voted at State Duma meetings for over a year and Arthur Chilingarov. However, he has a good reason – the 84-year-old deputy is sick. In October 2022, Chilingarov ended up in intensive care due to complications after covid. This fall, Chilingarov was still on sick leave, the parliamentary press service reported.

Arthur Chilingarov

Context. On November 1, State Duma deputies deprived Vadim Belousov and Vasily Vlasov of their mandates for absenteeism. Belousov has not voted since June 2022. Two months later, the Moscow City Court sentenced him to 10 years in prison and a fine of 500 million rubles for accepting a bribe of more than 3 billion rubles, after which he stopped communicating even with his lawyers. According to the border servicehe’s still in the country.

Vasily Vlasov

In the State Duma, Vlasov was accused of not attending meetings of the rules commission, of which he is a member, for more than 40 days. According to the deputy, the reason for deprivation of his mandate was his appeal to the State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin with a proposal to find out where two deputies were who had not visited the State Duma for more than 7 months. In 2018, the State Duma revealed the size of the deputies’ salaries – then they received about 350 thousand rubles. According to leaks from the Tax Service, Delimkhanov received an income of 5.3 million rubles in the State Duma in 2021, Marchenko – 5 million.

Six State Duma deputies have never come to plenary sessions since the beginning of the session

Khizri Abakarov

Six deputies of the State Duma have not participated in a single meeting since the beginning of autumn, Vedomosti found out, having analyzed the attendance of meetings by deputies based on data on their voting. The average rate of participation of deputies in plenary sessions from September 19 (the first meeting of the autumn session) to October 11 is the highest the lowest is for the faction “A Just Russia (*aggressor country) – For Truth” (SRZP) – almost 83%, the highest is for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism): almost 99%. United Russia (*aggressor country) (UR) deputies attended an average of 91% of meetings.

The analysis showed that among United Russia (*aggressor country) members, Khizri Abakarov (member of the Youth Committee) did not vote at any meeting since the beginning of the session. politicselected from Dagestan), Adam Delimkhanov (first deputy head of the security committee, from Chechnya), Alexander Polyakov (committee on agrarian issues, from the Tambov region), Arthur Chilingarov (Committee on International Affairs, from Tuva, Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk Territory).

Alexander Polyakov

The State Duma explained that Chilingarov and Abakarov are on sick leave. Judging by the messages in the Telegram channel of Adam Delimkhanov, he worked in the region in September and October. SRZP deputy Vadim Belousov (committee for protection of competition, his regions – Udmurtia, Kirov and Tambov) did not appear at the meetings in this period. region) and deputy Evgeniy Marchenko (youth committee) expelled from the United Russia (*aggressor country) faction politicsfrom St. Petersburg), who, according to the State Duma, is on vacation.

Vedomosti’s interlocutors in the State Duma note that many deputies from different factions are not present at plenary sessions, but their colleagues vote for them – they have not yet abandoned this practice, although this is prohibited by the rules of the lower house of parliament.

October 11, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin At the meeting, I decided to remind the deputies in what cases their powers are terminated, and read out the norm of the law. According to it, powers can be terminated in case of failure to fulfill the duties of a deputy for 30 or more calendar days.