
The journalist of Radio Liberty Daria Komarova announced harassment by the director and State Duma deputy Stanislav Govorukhin. About the incident, which occurred in 2012 in Cheboksary, she told on the Facebook page.
According to Komarova, then she met with a deputy who came to the capital of Chuvashia to take an interview for the local publication Proogorod. "Govorukhin in the process of interview allowed me to offer me a night for the opportunity to star in his film project, asked to shoot pantyhose and walk near him. I replied that his film projects were not interesting, like his suggestions. After which Govorukhin dared to go on blackmail and said that she would not give any interview," Komarova wrote.
When Komarova threatened Govorukhin with a scandal, he nevertheless answered her questions. “To appeal to me, Govorukhin wrote to me his phone, asked me to call me and not tell anyone about his obscene sentences,” the journalist writes. Soon Komarova asked the deputy a comment on the phone. “The most interesting thing is that when I called him (just a couple of weeks after our meeting), he didn’t even remember me. Well, Govorukhin, how many stories had such,” the journalist said.
Govorukhin himself called Komarova's accusations "insolent lies." The deputy told Medusa that he did not remember anything like this and is not sure that he went to Cheboksary in 2012 at all. Meanwhile, an interview with Komarova with Govorukhin was published on the Progorod website.
Govorukhin - State Duma deputy since 1993, Chairman of the Committee on Culture. The director was headed by Vladimir Putin’s election headquarters in the 2012 presidential election. In 2013, Govorukhin was elected the co -chair of the Central headquarters of the All -Russian Popular Front.
On February 22, Rain, citing three journalists who testified on anonymity, reported sexual harassment to them from the chairman of the international affairs committee Leonid Slutsky. The deputy himself called the accusations "nonsense", and the vice speaker of the State Duma from the LDPR Igor Lebedev demanded to deprive the "rain" of accreditation .
Meanwhile, on February 27, Ekaterina Kotrikadze, deputy commander of the RTVI, reported on Slutsky's harassment. She talked about the incident that occurred in 2011, when she arrived in Moscow as a correspondent of Georgian television. Later, the producer of “rain” Daria Zhuk and journalist of the Russian BBC SCA Farid Rustamova service told about such incidents.
On March 7, it became known that the Duma ethics commission demanded explanations from Slutsky in connection with accusations of harassment. Zhirinovtsa sent written requests; He must also answer in writing. The date of the meeting will be scheduled after March 18, when the deputies return from the regional week.