Andriy Turchak, secretary of the general council of United Russia, a party that supports President Vladimir Putin, called for the resignation of Kursk Regional Duma deputy Maksym Vasiliev after he sent a video message with New Year’s wishes from Mexico, the independent The newspaper reports. Moscow Times. He also offered his wife Svitlana Vasylieva, who works in Kursk City Hall, to resign.

Turchak said that at a time when Russia is at war with Ukraine and residents of the Kursk border are under threat of shelling, “some people’s deputies can afford to warm their asses in hot resorts abroad, drink beer and shoot inappropriate videos.” .

The secretary of the General Council of “United Russia” called the gesture of the Russian deputy “the height of cynicism and inhumanity.”

What this “tourist” couple should do after returning from sunny Mexico is to voluntarily give up their parliamentary mandate. I don’t know what will push Vasiliev to this decision – whether Wagner’s sledgehammer, or Starovoit’s shot (the governor of the Kursk region, no), or the realization of their insignificance, but I hope that after the New Year holidays, the ranks of Kursk deputies will thin out,” Turchak said.

The governor of the Kursk region is outraged by the deputy’s message

Earlier, Kursk Oblast Governor Roman Starovoyt expressed indignation at the actions of the Vasyliv deputies.

“We live in a border region, and this imposes additional requirements on the activity and behavior of all government bodies, and even more so on elected representatives,” he said.

According to Starovoyt, Vasiliev was elected as an independent deputy, therefore “disciplinary measures” cannot be applied to him based on party grounds, but “the ethicality of his behavior will be evaluated by the competent committee of the Regional Duma.” as a member of United Russia, he will answer to the party, the governor added.

Vasiliev told the publication “Podyem” that he does not plan to resign after criticism from the governor of the Kursk region and Turchak.

The Russian deputy clarified that he recorded the video as a joke when he was visiting his brother-in-law, who lives in Mexico, and the pictures allegedly fell into the hands of a Ukrainian with whom he was friends before the war, in order to publish them later on the Internet.

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