Deputy of the Lugansk City Council Roman Landik, who is suspected of beating a girl, was expelled from the Party of Regions. The website of the Lugansk party branch says that Landik “compromises the party in the eyes of the public, negatively affects its reputation and authority among voters.”

Members of the council of the Luhansk branch of the PR unanimously decided to expel the deputy from the party for actions “incompatible on moral and ethical grounds with membership in the Party of Regions.”

Landik, who was detained in Russia on July 10, is suspected of beating a 20-year-old girl in the Bakkara restaurant in Lugansk. Surveillance video from the restaurant shows the deputy hitting the girl, who was later diagnosed with a concussion. Landik himself later stated that it was not the girl who was injured, but he.

“I am convinced that any conflict situations cannot be resolved with the help of physical force. And violence against a woman is unworthy of a man,” Sergei Kravchenko, a member of the council of the Luhansk branch of PR, commented on Landik’s act.

Landik is the son of Verkhovna Rada deputy from the PR faction Vladimir Landik. In March 2011, his father's security guard was accused of beating a traffic cop who stopped a deputy's car for speeding.

The deputy who beat the girl was expelled from the Party of Regions