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Volgograd governor Sergei Bozhenov must be punished for a trip to Italy, said the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. “Proceeding, at least he needs to be arranged. This is certainly,” Matvienko said on the air of Echo of Moscow.

"Outsonous. I believe that such things must be very seriously punished. And as for the power reaction, I think that it will be in one form or another," the speaker said. “We still have a power vertical,” said Matvienko. She called on Volgograd officials to "not lie" and "honestly" about the goals of a trip to Italy.

On April 5, 46 local officials and deputies led by Bozhenov flew out of Volgograd to Italy. The Italian press wrote about the "grand celebration of the birthday of the governor" in Montekatini. Bozhenov said that the trip was private-business and its result will be an agreement with the Italian side on the creation of a pig farm in the Volgograd region. The press service of the administration of the Volgograd region explained that the purpose of the visit was to establish economic relations in the agricultural sector between the Volgograd region and Tuscany, which is considered one of the most developed agrarian regions of Italy. The delegation members admitted that they combined vacation with a business trip, and also said that despite Catholic Easter and the weekend related to its celebration, they managed to visit enterprises and meet with manufacturers (

VIDEO ). Deputies claim that they paid for a trip from their own pocket and did not spend budget money.