Damed off -lineism

About 30 State Duma deputies divorced their wives before submitting income declarations, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to a source in the lower house of parliament. So far, this information has not been officially confirmed. "We do not have data on the changes in civilian condition of deputies compared to last year. Each situation is individual, we cannot understand each case," said Andrei Andreev, deputy chairman of the Duma commission on ethics.

At the same time, Andreev does not exclude cases of fictitious divorces in order to conceal information about income.

According to Socialist -Revolutionaries, Ilya Ponomarev, the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky fictitiously divorced, in particular. "Vladimir Volfovich grossly violates the law. If they really divorced, then there would be a division of property. Since this did not happen, it means that we are dealing with a fictitious divorce necessary to conceal our property status," Ponomarev said.

On the eve of Zhirinovsky, to the question of journalists regarding his family status, he replied that he had a church marriage, which does not imply any additional documents. He emphasized that the claims of declarations are “for marriages registered with the registry office, and a civil marriage or church marriage has nothing to do with it.”

At the beginning of the year, several State Duma deputies from United Russia abandoned the mandates in connection with information about their entrepreneurial activity. The first to refuse the mandate was Vladimir Pekhtin. He resigned the authority of the deputy due to accusations of the presence of ownership abroad. Pekhtin emphasized that claims against him are unfounded. "I decided to resign the authority of the State Duma deputy. I do not want the shadow of unreasonable accusations to fall into our party, and I will not let me use my name to discredit the title of a people's chosen one," said Uneneros.

Later, the State Duma ahead of schedule terminated the powers of another deputy of the unorosa Vasily Tolstopyatov, also at his own request. According to the version voiced by the colleagues of the ex-deputy, Tolstopyatov voluntarily passed the mandate to avoid checks and scandal related to the fact that the deputy combines deputy and entrepreneurial activity.

Later, Anatoly Lomakin announced the addition of authority.