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Gennady Seleznev died
Former speaker of the State Duma Gennady Seleznev has died. The politician was 67 years old.
According to Seleznev's son-in-law Andrey Andreev, he has recently been seriously ill.
“The doctors did everything possible, but tonight Gennady Nikolayevich’s heart stopped,” Andreev added.
- Gennady Seleznev served as chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the second and third convocations.
- Seleznev was a State Duma deputy from 1993 to 2007, was a member of the Communist Party faction until 2002, after which he became an independent deputy.
- From 1980 to 1988, Gennady Seleznev was the editor-in-chief of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.